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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

Contributors

Unknown:
Seigneur Leon
Directed By:
Peter Davies
Directed By:
Timothy Davies

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

Contributors

Piano:
Malcolm Binns
Unknown:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Patrick Thomas
Conducted By:
Parti Haydn

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)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Read By:
Elaine Claxton
Read By:
Denys Hawthorne
Read By:
Martin Jarvis

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)

Contributors

Singers:
Janacek Vyhruzka
Unknown:
Phaedri Fabulae
Unknown:
Bardos Rapzodia

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)

Contributors

Piano:
Paul Crossley
Bassoon:
Stephen Reay
Unknown:
Harry Cawood
Conducted By:
Jacek Kasprzyk

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

Contributors

Directed By:
Martin How
Organist:
David Briggs

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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Contributors

Unknown:
Alban Berg
Unknown:
Friedrich Cerha
Introduces:
Derek Watson
Producer:
John Cox
Conductor:
John Mauceri.
Unknown:
Angus Anderson
Conducted By:
John Mauceri
Unknown:
Frank Whitford
Unknown:
George Steiner
Unknown:
Martin Esslin
Unknown:
Frank Whitford
Showman:
Roderick Kennedy (bass)
Lulu:
Beverly Morgan (soprano)
Dr Schbn, a newspaper editor, Lulu's protector and lover, and in Act 3 her murderer, Jack the Ripper:
Chester Ludgin (baritone)
Alwa, his son, a composer, who also loves her:
Eduardo Alvares (tenor)
A Professor of Medicine, her first husband, and in Act 3 her first client:
Ian McKinven (baritone)
A painter, her second husband, and in Act 3 her second client:
Justin Lavender (tenor)
Countess Geschwitz, who also loves her:
Delia Wallis (mezzo-Soprano)
Schigolch, an old man, who still loves her:
Roger Bryson (baritone)
An African prince, who loves her/Marquis, a pimp, who blackmails her:
Hugh Hetherington (tenor)
A strongman, who loves her:
Roderick Kennedy
A schoolboy, who loves her:
Fiona Kimm (mezzo-Soprano)
Theatre director/Banker:
David Morrison (bass)
15-year-old girl:
Jane Marie O'Brien (soprano)
Her mother:
Jane Guy (mezzo-Soprano)
Lady artist:
Carol Rowlands (mezzo-Soprano)
Journalist:
Tom McVeigh (baritone)
Manservant:
Graeme Danby (bass)
Police Inspector:
Paul Anwyl (baritone)

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Violin:
Simon Standage
Violin:
Micaela Comberti
Cello:
Anthony Pleeth
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Producer:
Jeremy Hayes

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