The second of eight programmes Ireland Lyric piece: The Cherry Tree (Green ways) ERIC PARKIN (piano) Butterworth Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad HALLE JOHN BARBIROLLI Butterworth On the Idle Hill of Summer (Bredon Hill and Other Songs) GRAHAM TREW (baritone) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Howells Fantasy String Quartet, Op 25 RICHARDS ENSEMBLE Nona Liddell (violin) Marilyn Taylor (violin) Jean Stewart (viola) Bernard Richards (cello) Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge: ROBERT TEAR (tenor) CBSO/SIMON RATTLE . Records
(piano) Bartok 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs Schubert Impromptu in E flat, (1)899 No 2) (R) Mozart Piano Concerto No 18 in B flat (K 456): BOSTON so, PIERRE MONTEUX. Mono record
Handel Anthem for the Foundling Hospital CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL. OXFORD ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC conducted by SIMON PRESTON Schumann Fantasie in c, Op 17 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) Haydn La fedelta premiata: Act 1 finale LUCIA VALENTINI (contralto) TONNY LANDY (tenor) FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-soprano) ALAN TITUS (baritone) ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano) LUIGI ALVA (tenor) MAURIZIO MAZZIERI (baritone) SUISSE ROMANDE RADIO CHORUS LAUSANNE CO/ANTAL DORATI Malcolm Arnold Overture: Peterloo CBSO/THE COMPOSER. Records
Presented by Michael Oliver Avant l'après-midi: Richard Langham-Smith explains the literary and musical origins of Debussy's Prélude a I 'apres-midi d 'un faune. A conversation with members of the Chilingirian String Quartet. With Machete and Metronome: Michael Round on the performance problems of Villa-Lobos's orchestral music. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(piano) Bach English Suite No 3 in G minor (bwv 808) Tchaikovsky Sonata in G, Op 37 (A re-broadcast of last Monday BBC Lunchtime Concert) MW joins at 11.35*
Dr Mark Elvin , Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. reflects on some aspects of language and how we use it.
led by JAMES CLARK conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX GILLIAN WEIR (organ)
Richard Elfyn Jones Brangwyn Festival Overture
Saint-Saens Fantasy in E flat Poulenc Organ Concerto in G minor
1.05* Interval Reading
1.10* Joseph Jongen
Symphonie Concertante, Op 81 (Given on 21 October in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, in association with Barclays Bank as part of this year's Swansea Festival) BBC Wales
Bayreuth Festival Tannhauser
Opera in three acts
Text and music by Wagner (sung in German)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI Act
2.50* Interval Reading
2.55* Act 2
4.10* Interval Reading
4.15* Act 3
(Bavarian Radio recording)
(1919-87)
The Jewish Italian writer Primo Levi , chronicler of Auschwitz and the chaos of post-war turope, died earlier this year.
The novelist Paul Bailey reflects on Levi's achievement, with STUART WOOLF , JEAN SAMUEL and AHARON APPELFELD. producer DAVID PERRY (R)
direct from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge Advent Prose
Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
First lesson: Ezekiel 36, vv 22-28 Carols: The Linden Tree (arr Jacques); Mary walked in a wood of thorn (Gerald Near) second lesson: Romans 13, W8-14
Carols: Adam lay ybounden (Ord); Awake were they only wrCaradog Roberts)
Third lesson: Isaiah 9, vv 2-7
Carol: There is no rose of such virtue (Joubert)
Fourth lesson: Luke 4, vv 14-21 Hymn: 0 come, 0 come
Emmanuel Carol : The holy son of God (AlunHoddinott)
Fifth lesson: Mark 8, vv 31-38
Carols: When came in flesh the incarnate word (arr Guest); King Jesus hath a garden (arr Wood)
Sixth lesson: Philippians 2, vv 5-13
Hymn: Wake, 0 wake! With tidings thrilling
Carols: Of a rose, a lovely rose (Gerald Near); Ding, dong, merrily on high (arr Wood) Seventh lesson: Isaiah 40, vv l-io
Magnificat: Plainsong (Tonus Peregrinus)
Eighth lesson: John 1, vv 19-29 Chorale: Break forth,
0 beauteous heavenly light (harmonised Bach)
Hymn: 0 little town of Bethlehem
Organ voluntary: Chorale Prelude: Wachet auf! (Bach, BWV 645)
Organist and Director of Music DR GEORGE GUEST Organ student
ROBERT HUW MORGAN
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN
Janacek Rhapsody : Taras Bulba Dvorak Symphony No 5 in F (Bavarian Radio recording)
(piano)
Prokofiev Sonata No 8 Barber Nocturne
The Secular Music of Renaissance Italy
Although his name is invariably given in an Italianate form, Cipriano de Rore was another of the Netherlanders who contributed to the early madrigal. Even
Monteverdi, some 50 years later, saw Rore as crucial in the development of an expressive style. HILLIARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER
The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by the composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.
2: An Orchid in the Land of Technology
The huge availability of recorded music may make the live performance an exotic bloom, but recorded music could provide remedies for current dilemmas, financial and artistic.
The second of six musical complements to the Reith
Lectures, including Schnabel and Perahia playing Beethoven piano music, Boulez conducting music by himself and Varese, and an inquiry by James Burnett and Stephen Plaistow into the way microphones and their masters alter our perception of music and what a piece of music is, not necessarily to its disadvantage.
directed by REINHARD GOEBEL (violin)
Scheidt Paduan in A minor (Cantus V)
Biber Partita No 3 in A major
(Harmonia artificiosa - anosa) KriegerCiaconiainF
Handel Quartet in G, Op 5 No 4 (version of trio-sonata)
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D (bwv 1054)
Pachelbel Air BBC Bristol (R)
First Test
Pakistan v England
Commentary from Lahore on the final day's play. MWonlyfrom 6.55
