The sixth of eight programmes Grainger Blithe Bells
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETT A/
KENNETH MONTGOMERY Britten Balulalow
(A Ceremony of Carols) SIONED WILLIAMS (harp)
CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL/
DAVID HILL
Hoist Invocation
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (Cello)
PHILHARMONIA/VERNON HANDLEY anon Ther Is No Rose of Swych Virtu
GOTHIC VOICES/CHRISTOPHER PAGE Ireland Legend
ERIC PARKIN (piano) LPOBRYDEN THOMSON Warlock Balulalow
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE.
CAMBRIDGE/GEORGE GUEST Finzi In terra pax (Christmas Scene)
JANE MANNING (soprano) JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
NEW PHILHARMONIA/VERNON HANDLEY Records

(piano)
The last of six programmes Schubert Piano Sonata in A (D 664) (R)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C (K 503)
VIENNA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA/ STEPHEN SIMON. Record

Purcell Verse anthem: Behold I Bring You Glad Tidings JOHN SCOTT (organ) CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE directed by GEORGE GUEST
Luigini Ballet egyptien, Op 12 LSO/RICHARD BONYNGE Bach Chorale prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (bwv 645) E. POWER BIGGS (organ)
Dvorak Symphony No 6 in D
CZECH POIVACLAV NEUMANN. Records

5: The Mass on the Sunday after Christmas as it might have been celebrated in the Winter Church, Milan in 1128. Plainchant from the Ambrosian rite of Milan
MUSICA SACRA REDIVIVA/EDGAR FLEET (R) (Part Bat 10.50pm)

directed by ULF FORSBERG
HAKAN HARDENBERGER (trumpet) Another chance to hear one of the most outstanding BBC
Lunchtime Concerts of the 1987 season.
Tubin Music for strings
Jolivet Concertino, for trumpet and strings
Nielsen Little Suite, Op 1 Dvorak Waltz in A minor, Op 54 No 2 (R)

Aldeburgh Festival
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in c, Op 54 No 2 Britten Quartet No 1 in D, Op 25 Beethoven Quartet in c,
Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky)
(Given on 23 June in Orford Church. An Aldeburgh Festival promotion in association with Berger Britain)

led by JOHN HOLLOWAY conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON MELVYN TAN (fortepiano) Part 1 Beethoven
Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus; Piano Concerto No 1 in c
There are few limits to their eloquence.
OBSERVER

The industrial historian
John Sparry reflects on some aspects of language and how we use it.

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) (R)

(piano) Parti
Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat, Op 61
Scriabin Four Preludes, Op 22; Two Poems, Op 32; Sonata No 5, Op 53

In 1834, Schumann considered marrying Ernestine von
Fricken: their correspondence was conducted through Madame Henriette Voigt.
Reader ANTHONY FINIGAN

Part 2 Schumann
Etudes symphoniques, Op 13 (Given in association with Harris,
Marrian and Company Ltd, as part of the 1986 Belfast Festival at Queen 's) BBC Northern Ireland

by NIGEL BALDWIN
In this tale of revenge, the idealistic young daughter of a successful capitalist finds herself caught up in an irrevocable tragedy. Worse still, her life is about to be filmed....
A very stylish and assured piece of work LISTENER Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (R)

led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK ROMAN JABLONSKI (cello) Lutoslawski Chain III; Cello Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No 1 A stunning display of contemporary music. GLASGOW HERALD BBC Scotland (R)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Hartmut Holl (piano)

Wolf Morike Lieder: Der Genesene an die Hoffnung; In der Fruhe; Fussreise;
Neue Liebe; Denk' es, o Seele!; Der Feuerreite; An den Schlaf; Urn Mitternacht; Jagerlied; Storchenbotschaft

8.25* Interval Reading

8.30* Im Fruhling; Auf einer Wanderung; An die Geliebte; Peregrina 1; Peregrina II;
Begegnung; Der Jager; Bei einer Trauung; Zur Warnung; Abschied (R)

"The sensation that this singer still imparts - of a total and unstinting penetration into Wolf's artistic vision - is unlike any other." - Financial Times

The Survival of the Symphony Stand Up and Be Misunderstood The last of six talks by Alexander Goehr

As a pendant to the last Reith Lecture, music by Luciano Berio and a pre-echo of post-modernism from Charles Ives. Ives Decoration Day
NYPO LEONARD BERNSTEIN Berio Sinfonia (1969) NEW SWINGLE SINGERS
ORCHESTRE NATIONALE DE FRANCE/ PIERRE BOULEZ. Records
Series producer STEPHEN PLAISTOW

6: The Mass of St John the Evangelist as it might have been celebrated in the Imperial Chapel,
Innsbruck, in 1509. Plainchant from the Passau rite with polyphony by Senfl and Isaac Celebrant
MICHAEL GEORGE (bass) MARGARET PHILIPS (organ) LONDON LASSUS ENSEMBLE,
CLIVE WEARING (R)