Mendelssohn String Symphony No 6 in E flat
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURTMASUR
7.17* Mozart, arr Frans Vester Andante fur eine Orgelwalze (K 616)
ALBiION ENSEMBLE
7.20* Schumann Widmung ; Der Nussbaum (Myrthen, Op 25) (Mono)
RICHARD TAUBER (tenor) PERCY KAHN (piano)
7.25* Faure Piano Quartet No 1 in c minor: DOMUS
8.00 News
8.05 Françaix Six danses exotiques: GENEVlÈVE joy and JACQUELINE ROBIN-BONNEAU (pianos)
8.12* Paganini Terzetto in D JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) ALAN LOVEDAY (violin)
AMARYLLIS FLEMING (cello)
8.31* Walton Suite: Facade CBSO/LOUIS FREMAUX Records
Maurice Ravel
My music is always in a state of evolution, not revolution.
The Introduction and Allegro, the Violin Sonata, and the Mallarme settings for voice and chamber group. Records
9: The Pontifical High Mass of St Sylvester as it might have been celebrated in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, in 1613. Plainchant from the Tridentine rite with polyphony by Soriano, based on Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli.
WILLIAM BYRD CHOIR/ GAVIN TURNER (R)
Record, 'Mass of St Sylvester' (REGLiCD 572) from retailers
Piano Trio in D major, Op 22
BORODIN TRIO
for young people
LONDON CHAMBER SYMPHONY led by SOPHIE LANGDON conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, who also introduces the programme with Michael Berkeley
Copland Estribillo (Three Latin-American Sketches) Ginastera Variaciones concertantes
Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira No 2
(Presented by the BBC on SDecember at the Royal Festival Hall, London)
Sonata in B flat minor (1856/7); Intermezzo; Scherzo in B minor The first of two programmes played by ANGELA BROWNRIDGE
Operetta in three acts
Text by VICTOR LEON and LEO STEIN Music by Franz Lehar
(sung in German): Records
PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/LOVRO VON MATACIC
LOWRI BLAKE (cello)
PETER BUCKOKE (double-bass)
Pleyel Theme and Variations David Collins Three Fantasias Rossini Duetto (R)
Herbert von Karajan's role in musical centres from La Scala to Vienna, Berlin and Salzburg, has earned him the nickname General Music Director of Europe.
David Wheeler assesses his career with the help of Hugh Bean, James Galway ,
Elizabeth Harwood , Gareth Morris ,
Michel Schwalbe ,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Basil Tschaikov and Karajan himself.
Producer CATHY WEARING (R)
Wagner Overture:
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Record
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, Op 56a; Symphony No 1 in c minor, Op 68
(RIAS Berlin recording)
NATIONAL YOUTH WIND ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN conducted by HARRY LEGGE
Dominic Muldowney Suite: 1984 Nigel Hess East Coast Pictures BBC Manchester (R)
Schubert Quartet-Movement in c minor (d 703)
Verdi Quartet in E minor
Beethoven Quartet in E flat, Op 127. BBC Bristol (R)
Songs (4):
Simplicity and Sophistication
Melodies hebraiques; Trois chansons;
Ronsard a son ame;
Chansons madécasses; Reves; Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
ANJA VAN WIJK (mezzo-soprano) RUUD VAN DER MEER (baritone) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano) GRAHAM MAYGER (flute) UONEL HANDY (cello)
A portrait of the Montparnasse brasserie La Closerie des Lilas in words and music, researched and compiled by SANDA MILLER
Translations from the French by MARIE AGATHE ROGERS read by Victoria Carling
Simon Cuff , Michael Deacon and Brian Hewlett , with the voices of those who eat, drink and work in the brasserie today.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Darius Milhaud 's ballet, which the composer considered a 'merry, unpretentious divertissement', was sensationalised by Cocteau and gave its name to the most chic night club in Paris.
CHAMPS ELYSEES THEATRE ORCHESTRA, THE COMPOSER. Record
Op 37: No 1 in G minor; No 2 in G Op 48: No 1 in C minor; No 2 in F sharp minor
A musical reconstruction of the medieval festivities, performed by the NEW LONDON CONSORT directed by PHILIP PICKETT with ROBERT STEPHENS (narrator) A degree of licence was tolerated by the church authorities, and the minor orders, abetted by the townsfolk, sought relief from the year's onerous duties in a burlesque of the familiar sacred rituals.
(Given in October 1986 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)
