Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.12* Mendelssohn Rondo capriccioso, Op 14
MURRAY PERAHLA (piano)
7.19* Brahms Nanie
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SO/ BERNARD HAITINK
7.31* Elgar La Capricieuse, Op 17 PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) MARC NEIKRUG (piano)
7.36* Rameau Dardanus: Acts 2 and 3 (orchestral excerpts) ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
8.00 World Service News
8.10 Rimsky-Korsakov Musical picture: Sadko
ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC CHOIR/ DAVID ZINMAN
8.21* Balakirev Oriental fantasy: Islamey
SHURA CHERKASSKY (piano)
8.30* Mozart Aria: L'amero, saro costante (II re pastore) LUCIA POPP (soprano)
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA/ LEONARD SLATKIN
8.36* Tchaikovsky Italian
Caprice: DALLAS SO/EDUARDO MATA Records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Bruckner's Symphony No 7 by Arnold Whittall.
George Pratt reviews new Bach and Handel releases.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm)
Handel Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 1: PETER HURFORD CONCERTGEBOUW CO JOSHUA RIFKIN Bach Cantata No 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ANN MONOYIOS (soprano)
STEVEN RICKARDS (counter-tenor) EDMUND BROWNLESS (tenor) JAN OPALACH (bass)
BACH ENSEMBLE/JOSHUA RIFKIN Handel Organ Concerto in D minor, Op 7 No 4 PETER HURFORD
CONCERTGEBOUW CO/JOSHUA RIFKIN Records
led by MALCOLM STEWART conducted by LIBOR PESEK JORGE BOLET (piano)
Mozart Symphony No 36 in c (K425)(Linz)
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat
12.10*pm Interval Reading
12.15* Liszt Totentanz (G 126) Dvorak Symphonic poem:
The Golden Spinning Wheel
(Presented by RLPS on 4 February in the Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool, in association with Barclays Bank pic) BBC Manchester
The fourth of seven programmes reflecting a competition organised by Austrian Radio for the EBU, and held last autumn at the Mozarteum.
Shostakovich Quartet No 2
Dvorak Quartet in E flat, Op 51 ROTH QUARTET (Great Britain) (Austrian Radio recording)
Sonata in A (D 959) EDITH VOGEL (piano)
Shostakovich Overture and Farewell (A Year Is Worth a Lifetime)
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH
Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in c minor
BENNO MOISEIWITSCH
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by hugo RIGNOLD Records
Shostakovich Suite: The Gadfly
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VERONIKA DUDAYOVA
(Radio Moscow recording)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Sheridan Morley (in the Chair) talks with Paul Bailey Christopher Frayling and Victoria Glendinning. This week's subjects:
Un zoom de trop by BEATRICE AUDRY , the 1986 Italia Prize-winning play (Radio 3);
J. J. Farr by RONALD HARWOOD at the Phoenix Theatre; Soviet Voices: Russian Posters 1917-45 at the Imperial War Museum;
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH 'S film
Cry Freedom; Beloved, a novel by TON! MORRISON.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
(violin) with JOSEF HALA (piano)
Dvorak Sonata in F, Op 57 MartinuSonataNo2
Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 96 Janacek A Blown-Away Leaf
(On an Overgrown Path, Book 1) Suk Evening Mood Brahms Scherzo
(Given in July 1986 in the Wigmore Hall, London)
Opera in three acts
Libretto by LUIGI ILLICA and GIUSEPPE giacosa , adapted from the play by victorien SARDOU Music by Puccini (sung in Italian) direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus director ROBIN STAPLETON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN led by JOHN BROWN conducted by GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI Act 1: The church of Sant'Andrea della Valle
arranged in two parts by ANTHONY BESCH
Colonel John Henry Mapleson , operatic manager and dynamic impresario, has described his often startling experiences in the mad world of opera with wit, charm, precision and a rueful sense of humour.
1 Sick Tenors and Full Houses Read by Edward de Souza (R) (Part 2 at 9.55*)
Act 2: Palazzo Farnese
2: National Opera House on the Embankment (R)
Act 3: Castel Sant 'Angelo
by ALAN DAVID PRICE
Read by Michael Deacon
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
A dramatic score by Francesco Geminiani , composed for a performance at the Grand Theatre of the Tuileries Palace in 1754. LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA led by ROY GOODMAN directed by DENYS DARLOW (Given on 8 January in the Wigmore Hall, London)
