The third of five programmes of recordings by MICHALA PETRI Handel Concerto in F
ACADEMY OFSTMARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/
IONA BROWN
Telemann Sonata in c
MICHALA PETRI TRIO.
Telemann Concerto in F
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN-THE-
FIELDS/KENNETH SILUTO. Records
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 570) ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in c minor: ARTUR SCHNABEL
LPO/MALCOLM SARGENT. Records
Vaughan Williams Cantata: Dona nobis pacem
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LPO/ADRIANBOULT
Karlowicz Violin Concerto in A
WANDA WILKOMIRSKA WARSAW NATIONAL PO/
WITOLD ROWICKI
Chaminade Concert study:
Automne: JOHN OGDON (piano) Berkeley Guitar Concerto JULIAN BREAM
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Gustave Charpentier Impressions d'ltalie
OPÉRA-COMIQUE ORCHESTRA/ PIERRE DERVAUX. Records
Presented by Michael Oliver The Female Muse:
Nicola LeFanu waves the distaff for women composers. John Warrack reviews
ALAN TYSON 'S recent book on Mozart manuscripts.
Schnabel's Beethoven: A critical survey by Bryce Morrison. Late Thoughts:
Bayan Northcott reflects on the notion of'late' compositions. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 00pm)
led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano)
John McCabe Notturni ed Alba Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances BBC Manchester
The playwright
James Saunders reflects on language. (Re-broadcast Thursday 9.35pm)
Beethoven Quartet in c minor, Op 18 No 4
Sibelius Quartet in D minor, Op 56 (Voces intimae)
(A re-broadcast of last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert)
Paul Bailey talks to novelist and art historian Anita Brookner.
Opera in two acts
The second of four broadcasts marking the bicentenary of the librettist FELICE ROMAM (born 31 January 1788) Music by Donizetti
(sung in Italian): Records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
FLORENCE MAGGIO MUSICALE/ GABRIELE FERRO Act
2.55* Love and Haste
The second of four readings from EMILIA ROMANI 'S biography of her husband Felice,
Donizetti's librettist for L 'elisir d amore.
Translated from the Italian by GRAHAM FAWCETT
Read by Diana Olsson
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
3.00* Act 2
(Mayr's 'Medea in Corinto' tomorrow at 7.30pm)
JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO (piano) Falla Pieces espagnoles;
Vals-Capricho; Pour Ie tombeau de Paul Dukas ; Fantasia Baetica
4.50* Interval Reading
5.00* Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales; Alborada del Gracioso (Miroirs); Gaspard de la nuit
(Given on 15 July in the Stationers' Hall, London, in association with Iberia Airlines of Spain as part of the 1987 City of London Festival)
My work is purely autobiographical. It is about myself and my surroundings. It is an attempt at a record. I work from the people that interest me and that I care about and think about, in rooms that I live in and know.
Lucian Freud 's portraits are among the most powerful contemporary images. Frank Whitford , tutor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Royal College of Art, presents a documentary portrait of a very private artist whose work goes on public exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London from Thursday.
With contributions from:
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. LORD GOODMAN, SIR STEPHEN SPENDER
LADY CAROLINE LOWELL. BARON HEINRICH THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA JEFFREY BERNARD. MARK BOXER HARRY DIAMOND. ANNE DUNN and others
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
The Secular Music of Renaissance Italy
As a noble composer, Gesualdo was allowed a measure of liberty not enjoyed by fellow musicians who were dependent on pleasing a patron. The extent of his individualism is made clear in his fifth book of madrigals, published in 1611. CONSORT OF MUSICKE,
ANTHONY ROOLEY. Record
conducted by JEFFREY TATE YO YO MA (cello) direct from the Barbican Hall, London
Part 1 ..
Robert Saxton In the Beginning (first performance)
Walton Cello Concerto
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On the centenary of the death of Edward Lear, John Wells reads a selection of Lear's letters to his good friend Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, in which he talks of his paintings, his nonsense verse, his obsessive need to travel and, for all his wifelessness, his good fortune in friendship...
Part 2 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5
played by JEFFREY JACOB Persichetti Sonata No 12 (Mirror) * George Crumb Gnomic Variations (1982)
Samuel Barber Sonata (1948) BBC Bristol (R)
recorded in St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
Introit: Eternal Power (Jackson)
Responses (Leighton) Psalm 73 (Soaper)
Lessons: Isaiah 30, w 8-12; Matthew 4, v 23 to 5, v 12
Canticles: Wood in E flat. No 1 Anthem: What is this love of thine? (Leighton)
Voluntary: Carillon de Westminster (Vierne)
Organist and Master of the Choristers DENNIS TOWNHILL BBC Scotland
Silvius Leopold Weiss , one of the last lute virtuosi, surprised his contemporaries by his ability to perform polyphony. KONRAD JUNGHANEL plays his Suite in c minor. Record
