Smetana Tabor (Ma vlast) ISRAEL PO/WALTER WELLER
7.16* Beethoven Variations in F, Op 34: LYDlA ARTYMIW (piano)
7.30* d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Song MICHEL BLOCK (piano) BERNE SO/PETER MAAG
8.00 News
8.05 Thomas Canning Fantasy on a hymn tune by Justin Morgan HOUSTON SO LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
8.16* Haydn Quartet in c, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) ALBAN BERG STRING QUARTET
8.39* Smetana Blanik (Ma vlast) ISRAEL PO/WALTER WELLER. Records
Dufay Late songs, including works on the death of Binchois and recalling the fall of Constantinople. En triumphant de Cruel Dueil; Malheureulx cueur; Les douleurs, dont me sens; 0 tres piteulx; Seigneur Leon ; Mon chier amy; Se la face ay pale MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON directed by PETER DAVIES AND TIMOTHY DAVIES . Records
led by ROLF WILSON conducted by vilem TAUSKY Rossini Overture: La cambiale di matrimonio Dittersdorf Symphony in F: Andromeda's Deliverance by Perseus Strauss Overture and Dance Scene (Ariadne auf Naxos)
played by JUDITH PEARCE With PETER PETTINGER (piano) Lennox Berkeley Sonatina Hindemith Echo Elisabeth Lutyens Variations, Op 38, for solo flute Hindemith Sonata (R)
Mass in G minor; Te Deum in G MARY SEERS (soprano) MICHAEL CHANCE (counfer-tenor) PHILIP SALMON (tenor) JONATHAN BEST (bass) THOMAS TROTTER (organ) CORYDON SINGERS/MATTHEW BEST Records
Quartet in A flat, Op 105 EMERSON STRING QUARTET BBC Pebble Mill (R)
direct from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by PATRICK THOMAS
Parti Haydn Symphony No 77 in B flat
Poulenc Piano Concerto
A sequence of poetry inspired by the title of one of Rudyard Kipling 's collections of short stories and compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON
Read by Elaine Claxton , Denys Hawthorne and Martin Jarvis Producer PIERS PLOWRlGHT (R)
Part 2
Shostakovich Symphony No 6 Rimsky-Korsakov Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)
KINGS SINGERS
Janacek Vyhruzka (A threat); Orani (Ploughing); 0 lasko (Oh love); Coz ta nase briza (Our silver birch tree); Ach voyna (Oh war)
Szollosy Miserere; Phaedri Fabulae
Bardos Rapzodia
(Given on 1 May in association with University College, Swansea)
Overture: Silvana; Piano
Concerto No 1 in c; Andante and Rondo all'Ongarese; Symphony No 1 in c PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)
STEPHEN REAY (baSSOOn) NORTHERN SINFONIA led by HARRY CAWOOD conducted by JACEK KASPRZYK BBC Manchester (R)
recorded in Westminster Abbey, sung by a choir of boys and men drawn from churches, colleges and schools affiliated to the ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC Introit: Thou knowest, Lord (PurceU)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 126, 127, 128 (Turle, Goss, Goss) First lesson (av):
Ecclesiastes 3, vv 1-15
Canticles: Wood in E flat (No 2) Second lesson (AV): John 6, vv 52-71
Anthem: Blest pair of sirens (Parry)
Hymn (AMNS 180): Thou, whose almighty word
Organ voluntary: Chorale
Prelude on'St Thomas (Parry) Choir directed by MARTIN HOW Organist DAVID BRIGGS
Natalie Wheen presents a selection of music for the early evening.
Producer SARAH DEVONALD
Opera in three acts by Alban Berg
Text by THE COMPOSER after WEDEKIND'S Eartnsptnt and Pandora's Box
(sung in ARTHUR JACOBS' English version)
Orchestration of Act 3 completed by FRIEDRICH CERHA Derek Watson introduces Scottish Opera's new production direct from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, in a discussion with the producer John Cox and the conductor John Mauceri.
SCOTTISH OPERA ORCHESTRA led by ANGUS ANDERSON conducted by JOHN MAUCERI
7.15* Act 1
8.15* Sex and morality were all-absorbing topics of conversation in Vienna's cafes around 1900.
Frank Whitford , in conversation with George Steiner , Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Geneva University, discusses the theme of the 'femme fatale' and the appeal of Wedekind's controversial plays to the Viennese imagination.
8.30* Act 2
9.25* Berg and Wedekind were among those who shaped the intellectual and artistic character of fin de siècle
Vienna. In discussion with Martin Esslin , Professor of Drama, Stanford University, California, Frank Whitford asks what light Lulu sheds on the nature of this society.
9.40* Act 3
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The last of four programmes including all of Gluck's trio-sonatas.
Gluck Trio-Sonata No 7 in E
Giovanni Battista Sammartini Trio-Sonata in A, Op 1 No 1 Gluck Trio-Sonata No 8 in f
ENGLISH CONCERT
Simon Standage (violin)
Micaela Comberti (violin) Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Producer JEREMY HAYES BBC Pebble Mill
Bach, transc
Bartok Trio-Sonata in G (Bwv 530) GYORGY SANDOR (piano) (R)