Smetana Dance of the Comedians
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA,
VACLAV NEUMANN
7.11* Barber Adagio for strings MONTE CARLO PO LAWRENCE FOSTER
7.19* Gershwin Variations on 'I Got Rhythm'
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
BERLIN PO SEIJI OZAWA
7.27* Giorgio Mainerio Schiarazula marazula;
Tedescha saltarello; Ungaresca KONRAD RAGOSSNIG (lute)
ULSAMER COLLEGIUM JOSEF ULSAMER
7.31* Dvorak Mazurka in E minor
SERGIU LUCA (violin)
ST LOUIS SO LEONARD SLATKIN
7.37* Ibert Divertissement
ACADEMY OF ST MARTTN-IN THE FIELDS;
NEVILLE MARRINER
8.00 World Service News
8.10 Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique, Op 3
MONTREAL SO CHARLES DUTOIT
8.22* Mendelssohn Variations serieuses, Op 54
MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
8.34*
Mozart Das Traumbild (K 530);
Die kleine Spinnerin (K 539) ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
8.37* Villa-Lobos Choros No 1 TURIBIO SANTOS (guitar)
8.40* Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Snow Maiden
ROBERTA ALEXANDER (soprano) PHILHARMONIC 'TOONKUNST' CHOIR, ROTTERDAM (women's voices)
ROTTERDAM PO/DAVIDZINMAN Records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Vaughan Williams 's 'London' Symphony by Michael Kennedy.
Edward Seckerson reviews recent releases of orchestral music, including symphonies by Martinu, Nielsen,
Shostakovich and Sibelius. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Stravinsky Le Chant du rossignol
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
Sibelius Symphonic fantasia: Pohjola's Daughter
Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Stravinsky Four studies
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
Martinu Symphony No 3
Bamberg SO/Neeme Jarvi
(Records)
led by JAMES CLARK conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES BBC WELSH CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS
ARDWYN SINGERS
CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) DAVID MALIS (baritone)
Elgar Overture: In the South; Sea Pictures
Walton Belshazzar's Feast
(Given on 29 November in St David Hall. Cardiff as part of this year's Cardiff Festival)
The sixth of seven programmes reflecting a competition organised by Austrian Radio for the EBU and held last autumn at the Mozarteum. Janacek Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 STAMITZ QUARTET
(Czechoslovakia)
(Austrian Radio recording)
(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux);
Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3
2.45* Interval Reading
2.50* Liszt Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este; Sonetto 104 del Petrarca; Apres une lecture du
Dante (Annees de pelerinage) (Austrian Radio recording from this year's Hohenems Schubertiade)
EMILY VAN EVERA (soprano) ELIZABETH PRIDA (soprano)
DAVID HURLEY (counter-tenor) WILLIAM KENDALL (tenor) SIMON KEENLEYSIDE (bass)
WINCHESTER BAROQUE ENSEMBLE directed by ROY GOODMAN
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR
WAYNFLETE SINGERS
TIMOTHY BYRAM WIGFIELD (organ) conducted by MARTIN NEARY Scheidt In dulci jubilo; Wie schbn leuchtet der Morgenstern Bach Cantata No 140: Wachet auf. ruft uns die Stimme
(Given on 12 December in Winchester Cathedral, in association with J. Sainsbury pic) BBC Bristol
Haydn Symphony No 93 in u AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA
Reger A Ballet Suite
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. Records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Christopher Dunkley
(in the Chair) talks with Paul Bailey
William Feaver and Victoria Glendinning. This week's subjects:
The Marksman, a three-part serial by Ron Hutchinson (BBC1); the Beatrix Potter exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London;
John Huston 's film The Dead; Countrymania by Goldoni at the National Theatre, London; The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. producer PHILIP FRENCH
Moments musicaux (D 780) EDITH VOGEL (piano)
Opera in four acts
Text by HENRI MEILHAC and ludovic halevy after the novel by PROSPER MERIMEE Music by Bizet
(sung in NELL AND JOHN MOODY S English translation)
The Opera North production direct from the Grand Theatre, Leeds
CHORUS OF OPERA NORTH chorusmaster ANTHONY JENNER ENGLISH NORTHERN PHILHARMONIA led by DAVID GREED conducted by ALEXANDER RAHBARI Acts 1 and 2 8.45* Carmen in Rehearsal
In the early stages of rehearsal, producer Richard Jones , conductor Alexander Rahbari , singers Cynthia Buchan and Dennis O'Neill , with other members of the cast and production team, talk about their plans for Opera North's Carmen, and about what the opera means to them.
9.05* Acts 3 and 4 (Opera North production in association with Barclays Bank pic)
AUCIA DE LARROCHA playS piano music by Albeniz. Records
The first of four programmes Suite in G minor (BWV 995) NIGEL NORTH (baroque lute) Series producer CHRIS SAYERS (R)
Overture: Coriolan; Violin Concerto in D ERNST KOVACIC (violin) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by GEORGE hurst BBC Scotland
Third Test:
Pakistan v England
Commentary from Karachi on the fourth day's play. MW only from 6.55
