Calculus: What Is a Function?
followed by News Headlines
Mozart: Cassation No 2 in b flat (K 99) - VIENNA MOZART ENSEMBLE/WILLI BOSKOVSKY
7.30 News
7.35 Quilter: Children's Overture - LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA/
VIVIAN DUNN
7.46* Elgar: Dream Children - PETER PETTINGER (piano)
7.52* Adam: Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' - EDITA GRUBEROVA (soprano), STUTTGART RSO/KURT EICHHORN
7.58* Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song - ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano),
CHICAGO SO/GEORG SOLTI.
Records
No 168: Thue Rechnung! Donnerwort
No 33: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
NANCY ARGENTA (SOpranO)
MARGARET CABLE (contralto) RICHARD MORTON (tenor) MICHAEL GEORGE (bass)
LONDON BACH SOCIETY CHOIR
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS led by SIMON STANDAGE conducted by PAUL STEINITZ
Simon Milner looks ahead to the highlights of the coming week's broadcasting on Radio 3. Producer PETER BERG
Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann Record Review
Building a Library:
Schumann's Violin Sonatas by Christopher Headington.
Rodney Milnes reviews recent opera releases: Strauss's
Arabella conducted by Jeffrey Tate , and recital discs from
Carol Vaness , Ghena Dimitrova and Maria Callas.
10.40* Record Release
Bellini Oh, s'io potessi.... Col sorriso d'innocenza
(II pirata, Act 1) (Mono: 1959) MARIA CALLAS (soprano)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/NICOLA RESCIGNO
11.00* Strauss Suite:
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ECO/JEFFREY TATE
11.38* Verdi Tu che le vanita conoscesti del mondo (Don Carlos , Act 5)
CAROL VANESS (soprano)
BRITISH CONCERT ORCHESTRA/ FRANK RENTON
12.15*pm Tchaikovsky Suite No 1 in D minor, Op 43
USSR ACADEMIC SO EVGENY SVETLANOV Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
('Record Review ' is re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2. 00pm)
with Robert Hewison Producer JULIAN HALE
Sonatina in A minor (D 385), for violin and piano
Piano Trios: in B flat (D 898) in E flat (D 897) (Nottumo) ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) YUKO SHIOKAWA (violin) CLEMENS HAGEN (cello)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1987 Hohenems Schubertiade)
OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by STIG NILSSON conducted by MARISS YANSONS
Shostakovich Symphony No 6 in B minor
3.15* Interval Reading
3.20* Strauss Symphonic poem: Ein Heldenleben (R)
CAROL SMITH (soprano)
MALCOLM MARTINEAU (piano) Mozart A Little German Cantata (K 619)
Strauss Nichts ; Die Nacht
(Lieder aus letzte Blatter, Op 10) Berg Seven Early Songs
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with Paul Barker , Gillian Tindall and Alexander Walker. This week's subjects: Shadow on the Earth by David Kane on BBC2;
The Tutor by Reinhold Lenz at the Old Vic, London; Krzysztof Kieslowski 's film
No End; Exhibition Road:
20th-Century Painters from the Royal College of Art in the Royal College's Galleries, Kensington Gore, London; A Far Cry from Kensington, a novel by Muriel Spark. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
Second of two programmes ALLAN SCHILLER (piano)
Bach Partita No 1 in B flat (bwv 825)
Bach, arr Brahms Presto
(Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001) Brahms Four Pieces, Op 119 BBC Wales
An account by BRAM STOKER (of Dracula fame) of an unusual performance by Sir Henry Irving as Shylock, given 100 years ago today.
Read by Peter Barker
ELIZABETH GALE (soprano) KRiszTiNA LAKI (soprano)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) KEITH LEWIS (tenor)
THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) CHORUS AND ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS led by JONATHAN REES conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Parti
Ravel Suite: Ma mere l'oye Charpentier Te Deum
A selection of poetry chosen and introduced by John Mole and read by the poets themselves, with contributions from PATRICIA BEER, ROY FULLER. KATHLEEN JAMIE.
BERNARD O'DONOGHUE. LAWRENCE SAIL.
PETER SCUPHAM and MARTIN STOKES Producer ANTHONY THWAITE (R)
Part 2 Bach
Magnificat in D (bwv 243) (In association with Citicorp)
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Will the Conservatives' privatisation policy end in as much disillusionment as Labour's nationalisation schemes?
Professor Leslie Hannah ,
Director of the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics, reflects on the Government's proposals for privatising electricity.
BRODSKY STRING QUARTET
Britten Quartet No 2 in c, Op 36 Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6. BBC Bristol (R)
with GARETH STUART (electronics) Tim Souster Equalisation , for brass quintet and electronics David Bedford For Tess (first performance)
Marcel Landowski Blanc et feu (first UK performance)
Andre Louvier Cinq Pieces John Wallace Moose Dances Beach Boys, arr Tim Souster 'All Summer Long'
(Given on 15 July in the Pittvtlle
Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the 1987 Cheltenham Festival) BBC Pebble Mill
Walton Five Bagatelles
JULIAN BREAM (guitar). Record
