Gershwin Overture: Strike Up the Band BUFFALO PO/MICH AEL TILSON THOMAS
7.12* Martinu The frescoes of Piero della Francesca PRAGUE RSO/CHARLES MACKERRAS
7.29* Vorisek Variations in B flat, Op 19
RADOSLAV KVAPIL (piano)
7.38* Copland Clarinet Concerto
BENNY GOODMAN
COLUMBIA SO/THE COMPOSER
8.00 News
8.05 Mendelssohn Overture:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 21
LSO/ ANDRÉ PREVIN
8.15* Handel Suite in A ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
8.26* Tchaikovsky Serenade for strings, Op 48
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN Records

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Act 2
COLLEGIUM VOCALE. GENT LA PETITE BANDE/
SIGISWALD KUIJKEN. Record Eight Klopstock songs
NANCY ARGENTA (soprano)
PAUL NICHOLSON (harpsichord)

MAUREEN SMITH and IAN BROWN
Schubert Sonatina in G minor (D 408)
Elgar Sonata in E minor, Op 82 BBC Wales

The first of two programmes
Suite: Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este
ORCHESTRE DE PARIS/
JEAN-PIERRE JACQUILLAT
Ciboulette: Act 1, Finale
SOLOISTS. CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
OF LE THEATRE DES CHAMPS ELYSEES/
PAULBONNEAU
Also included in the programme: Reynaldo Hahn singing some of his own songs Mono records

BOCHMANN STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4 William Alwyn Quartet No 3 (1984). BBC Pebble Mill (R)

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN NIGEL KENNEDY (violin)
Part 1 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op 35

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55 (Eroica)
(Given on 21 September in St Asaph Cathedral) BBC Wales

played by FREDERIC ZIGANTE
Bach Suite in A minor (BWV 997) Villa-Lobos Preludes: No 4 in E minor; No 1 in E minor (R)

The second of two programmes includes two commissions from British composers, and a British guest soloist. Rubbra Sinfonietta for strings
(first performance) conducted by JULIUS HEGYI John Corigliano Piano
Concerto: with JOHN MCCABE conducted by JULIUS HEGYI (Albany Symphony recordings)
George Lloyd Symphony No 11 conducted by THE COMPOSER. Record

FIONA CAMERON (soprano) DAVID MASON (piano)
Debussy Ariettes oubliees
Villa-Lobos Viola; Cancao do
Marinheiro: Modinha: Evocacao

Presented by Geoffrey Norris Producer JEREMY HAYES BBC Pebble Mill

First of two programmes
Songs by Johannes Ockeghem and Alexander Agricola
MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON/
PETER AND TIMOTHY DAVIES

led by Dennis Simons conducted by Luciano Berio direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
Berio Formazioni
(first UK performance)
8.00* David Osmond-Smith, Robert Saxton and Roger Marsh compare impressions of Berio's Formazioni, and their reactions to this evening's performance.
8.15* Haydn
Symphony No 90 in c
8.40* In conversation with David Osmond-Smith, Luciano Berio reflects on the way his approach to the orchestra has developed over the years.
8.55* Berio
Concerto for two pianos

by STEVE GOOCH withand
In 1974 four friends vow to give up 'sitting in dope-filled rooms plotting the overthrow of the universe' and to live a healthier life. By the 80s, they are riding, somewhat unwillingly, on the crest of a wave. Health has become big business.
Directed by PENNY GOLD

STEVEN ISSERUS (Cello) PETER EVANS (piano)
Bach, transc Siloti Adagio in A minor (Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, bwv 564)
Bach, arr Schumann Suite No 3 in c (BWV 1009) ,
Bach, arr Isserlis Three Chorale Preludes: Herzlich tut mich verlangen (bwv 727); Das alte Jahrvergangenist(Bwv614);
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Chnst (BWV 639)
BBC Pebble Mill

David Nokes assesses The New Inn by BEN JONSON , at the RSC s Swan Theatre, Stratford.

Quartet No 7 in E
JEAN-JACQUES KANTOROW (Violin) SIMON ROWLAND-JONES (viola) ALEXANDER BAILLJE (cello)
ANTHEA GIFFORD (guitar) (R)