17th-Century Portraiture (1)

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Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
LPO/VERNON HANDLEY
7.10* Granados The Beauty and the Nightingale (Goyescas) ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
7.17* Bax The Happy Forest
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/ BRYDEN THOMSON
7.30 News
7.35 Delius Brigg Fair RPO.THOMAS BEECHAM
7.51* Fernando Sor Fantasia on a favourite Scottish Air, Op 40 (Ye banks and braes)
GORAN SOLLSCHER (guitar)
7.59* Grainger Green Bushes BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
KENNETH MONTGOMERY
8.08* Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2: ULSTER ORCHESTRAl BRYDEN THOMSON . Records

Josquin
... He is a miracle of nature ... Missa L'homme arme super voces musicales
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA directed by BRUNO TURNER Patemoster/Ave Maria
TAVERNER CONSORT, directed by ANDREW PARROTT . Records

Anthea Gifford (guitar) Keith Swallow (piano)
Weber Divertimento in A minor, Op 38
Diabelli Grande Sonate brillante, Op 102
Moscheles, arr Giuliani Grande Duo Concertante
BBC Pebble Mill

Quartet in B flat (K 458) (Hunt)
Quartet in c (K 465) (Dissonance) ENDELLION STRING QUARTET BBC Pebble Mill (R)

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by JERZY maksymiuk
MARILYN DEBLIECK (mezzo-soprano)
Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op 47
Thomas Wilson The Willow Branches (first broadcast)
Penherski Scottish Chronicles Haydn Symphony No 77 in B flat BBCScotland

with JUAN ANTONIO ALVAREZ PAREJO (piano)
Eduardo Toldra La zagala alegre; Madre, unos ojuelos vi; Mananita de San Juan; Nadie puede ser dichoso; Cantarcillo; Despues que te conoci Jesus Guridi
Alia arriba; Sereno!;
Llamale con el panuelo;
Non quiero tus avellanas; Como quieres que adivine
Granados La maja dolorosa; El majo timido; El majo discreto; El tra la la y el punteado Turina Poema en forma de canciones
(Norwegian Radio recording from the 1987 Bergen International Festival)

Second of three programmes Works by Fontana, Uccellini, Colista, Mannelli and Corelli are performed by ROMANESCA Roy Goodman and Pavlo Beznosiuk (violins)
Nigel North (theorbo/archlute) John Toll (organ)

The first of two programmes to mark the conductor's centenary. In the centre of his being stands the work of Richard Wagner. ... Nobody is more chosen than he to interpret this mystic, mythical, but also gay and idyllic music. WIELAND WAGNER Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
(Gbtterdammerung) VIENNA PO (1956)
Johann Strauss Polka: Leichtes Blut: VIENNA PO (Mono 1940) Liszt Les Preludes BERLIN PO (Mono 1942)
Wagner Flower Maidens' Scene (Parsifal, Act 2)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS and ORCHESTRA (1962)
Beethoven Prison scene: Gott! welch dunkel hier (Fidelio, Act 2)
JAN PEERCE (tenor)
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA (1961)
Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor (Wagner Symphony) VIENNA PO (Mono 1954)
Wagner Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music (Die Walkure, Act 3): GEORGE LONDON (baritone) VIENNA PO (1958) Records

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JONATHAN STRACEY BBC Pebble Mill

First of three programmes of Afro-American music presented by Christopher Small including the COUNT BASIE
ORCHESTRA. ARETHA FRANKLIN,
MUDDY WATERS. BILLY GENTRY

This week Paul Bailey talks to Muriel Spark, whose novel A Far Cry From Kensington is published this month. Producer NOAH RICHLER

by ALEXANDER OSTROVSKY (1823-86) translated by DAVID LEVEAUX and HANIF KUREISHI , with and In this comedy of theatrical life in a provincial town,
Ostrovsky, the most significant Russian playwright before Chekhov, explores the tribulations of a young actress beset with importunate but unsatisfactory admirers.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS (R)

led by JOHN TUNNELL directed by JAIME LAREDO JOSEPH KALICHSTEIN (piano)
Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik (K 525) Mendelssohn Piano Concertos: No 1 in G minor; No 2 in D minor Mozart Symphony No 35 in D (K385)(Haffner)
(Given on 11 November in the Queen Hall, Edinburgh, in association with Ivory and Simeplc)

First of three programmes of mass settings by three British composers.
Paul Patterson Missa Brevis BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN POOLE
Series producer ANTHONY BURTON

Busoni
Turandots Frauengemach; Sonatina No 2; Rondo Arlecchinesco, Op 46; Sonatina
No 5 (In Homage to the Great Johann Sebastian ); Fantasia Contrappuntistica (Mono) Records