Delius Sleigh Ride
NORTHERN SINFONIA OF ENGLAND/
RICHARD HICKOX
7.12* Bernstein Who Am I?; Never-Land (Peter Pan)
ROBERTA ALEXANDER (soprano) TAN CRONE (piano)
7.17* Leopold Mozart Symphony in c (Toy)
STUTTGART CO/KARL MUNCHINGER
7.23* Chopin Variations on a theme from Rossini's 'La Cenerentola'
MAXENCE LARRIEU (flute)
SUSANNA MILDONIAN (harp)
7.28* Tchaikovsky Suite:
Swan Lake ISRAEL POIZUBIN MEHTA
8.00 World Service News
8.10 Coates Cinderella Phantasy
RLPO/CHARLES GROVES
8.25* Massenet Que mes soeurs sont heureuses (Cendrillon)
FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-soprano)
PHILHARMONIA,JUUUS RUDEL
8.33* Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals
PITTSBURGH SO/ANDRÉ PREVIN Records

4: The Procession and Mass of St Stephen as it might have been celebrated in the Palace of Westminster in 1529. Plainchant from the Sarum rite with polyphony by Nicholas Ludford
BBC SINGERS/STEPHEN CLEOBURY (R)

Critics' Choice 1987
Nicholas Kenyon ,
Rodney Milnes , Richard Osborne and John Warrack discuss with Paul Vaughan their selection of the year's outstanding issues. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Tchaikovsky Ballet:
The Nutcracker, Act 2
LSO/CHARLES MACKERRAS
Shostakovich Seven Romances on poems of Alexander Blok
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) MEMBERS OF THE FITZWILLIAM
STRING QUARTET
George Benjamin A Mind of Winter
PENELOPE WALMSLEY CLARK (soprano)
LONDON SINFONIETT A/THE COMPOSER Records

In this final concert from the EBU competition held last autumn at the Mozarteum, all the ensembles played and took part in relays in a performance of the Mendelssohn Octet. Mozart Quartet in c (K 465) Berg Quartet, Op 3
1.50* Interval Reading
1.55* Mozart Quartet in G (K 156) Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit
Mendelssohn Octet , Op 20 ROTH. CARMINA. STAMITZ.
ROSAMONDE. NASDALA and SPOHR QUARTETS
(Austrian Radio recording)

led by THOMAS BANGBALA conducted by VALERY GERGIEV MAXIM VENGEROV (violin) EVGENY KISSIN (piano)
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
... two amazing young prodigies of the Moscow Conservatoire in their first performance in this country.
BIRMINGHAM POST
BBC Manchester (R)

Outstanding performances from the 1987 Proms
Britten Choral Dances (Gloriana)
Robert Saxton I Will Awake the Dawn conducted by JOHN POOLE (R) Stravinsky Les Noces (sung in Russian)
LUDMILLA ANDREW (soprano)
FELICITY PALMER (mezzo-soprano) IAN CALEY (tenor)
NEIL HOWLETT (baritone)
DAVID NETTLE. RICHARD MARKHAM ROBERT BRIDGE. JONATHAN MGGINS (pianos)
ENDYMION ENSEMBLE (percussion) conducted by SIMON JOLY (R)

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A special edition on the arts in 1987, with Christopher Cook in the Chair; Nigel Andrews and Margaret Walters on films; Christopher Dunkley and John Naughton on television; William Feaver and Marina Vaizey on the visual arts;
Paul Bailey and Peter Kemp on fiction: Blake Morrison and Peter Porter on poetry; Michael Billington and Jim Hiley on the theatre. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

led by JAMES CLARK conducted by TADAAKI OTAKA HELEN FIELD (soprano)
Mahler Symphony No 4 (R)
Aperformance to savour, full of good things.
SOUTH WALES ECHO

A memoir by John Wells of Douglas Cleverdon (1903-87), the man who brought Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk Wood,
Henry Reed 's Hilda Tablet and David Jones 's In Parenthesis to radio.

Songs (1):
Germination
Ballade de la reine; Un grand sommeil noir; Sainte;
Chanson du rouet; Si morne;
Deux epigrammes de Clement Marot ; Manteau de fleurs; Noeldesjouets
ANJA VAN WIJK (mezzo-soprano) RUUD VAN DER MEER (baritone) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)

led byBELA DEKANY conducted by GUNTER WAND Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor (K 550)
9.05* Interval Reading
9.10* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) (R) The rapport was electrifying ... An evening of rare distinction.
FINANCIAL TIMES

by MARTIN CRIMP
Millie and Frank have moved to a new home in the quiet of the country and have a Dutch au pair girl to look after them. They speak about their family and friends to a relative stranger who calls upon them. The visitor is you, the audience! Compulsive listening
FINANCIAL TIMES
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (R)

A sampler of the series of concerts given in July at the South Bank Centre, London: music from China, Zaire, Mali, Burma. Rajasthan, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Tibet and Xinjiang.
Introduced by William Robson (In association with the South Bank Board) (R)
As an exercise in dislodging the complacency of our own Western musical culture, 'Music of the Royal Courts would be hard to better' - Financial Times.