The Metaphysical Poets
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Mussorgsky Prelude:
Khovanshchina (Dawn over the Moscow River)
LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.06* Mahler Rheinlegendchen ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (SOpranO) LSO'GEORGE SZELL
7.09* Bizet L'Arlésienne: Suite No 1
RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
7.30 News
7.35 Biber Mystery Sonata No 7 in F (The Scourging of Jesus) FRANZJOSEF MAIER (baroque violin)
MAX ENGEL (baroque cello)
KONRAD JUNGHANEL (theorbo) FRANZ LEHRNDORFER (Organ)
7.45* Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring (Five Shakespeare Settings)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) NEW PHILHARMONIA/
VERNON HANDLEY
8.00* Pizzetti Suite: La Pisanella
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA/
LAMBERTO G ARDELLI
8.14* Beethoven An die feme Geliebte
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
HARTMUT HOLL (piano) Records
Alkan
Trois etudes de bravoure, Op 16; Grand Duo Concertant, Op 21 (both first UK broadcasts) Marche funèbre, Op 26;
Marche triomphale, Op 27 JAMES CLARK (violin) RONALD SMITH (piano) Records
Suite No 2 in B minor
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Record
BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY Ginastera Lamentations of Jeremiah
Brian Chapple
Lamentations of Jeremiah (first performance)
(piano)
Faure Theme and Variations in c sharp minor, Op 73; Nocturne No 7 in c sharp minor, Op 74; Huit pieces breves, Op 84 BBC Bristol (R)
led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GÜNTHER HERBIG GYORGY PAUK (violin) STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello)
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Brahms Concerto in A minor, for violin, cello and orchestra (Given on 16 January in Lancaster University) BBC Manchester
The first of two programmes containing songs to poems by JOHANN MAYRHOFER. ROBERT HOLL (bass)
KONRAD RICHTER (piano)
Sehnsucht (D 516); Am Strome; Beim Winde ; Memnon; Atys; Nachtviolen; Augenlied; Fahrt zum Hades;
Der zurnenden Diana
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1987 Hohenems Schubertiade)
The first of two programmes celebrating the city's musical life, from medieval Minnesingers to the destruction of the Semper Opera House in 1945. Walter von der Vogelweide Unter der Linden
ROSEMARY HARRISON (soprano)
ST GEORGE 'S CANZONA
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (RV 576) (For the King of Saxony) PETER MIRRING (violin) KURT MAHN (oboe)
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/
VITTORIO NEGRI
Schiitz Psalm 137: By the Waters of Babylon
KREUZCHOR OF DRESDEN
CAPELLA FIDICINIA/MARTIN FLAMIG Weber Wolfs Glen Scene (Der Freischutz)
LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS. DRESDEN
STATE ORCHESTRA/CARLOS KLEIBER Wagner Tannhauser Act 2 (excerpts):
Elisabeth's aria (mono)
ELISABETH RETHBERG (soprano) with orchestra
Entry of the Guests
NEW YORK PO/BERNSTEIN Final Scene
DEUTSCHE OPER, BERLIN/OTTO GERDES Schumann Marches: in G minor; in B flat (Op 76): KARL ENGEL (piano) Piano Trio No 1 in D minor
ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER (violin) PABLO CASALS (cello)
MiECZYSLAW HORSzowsKi (piano) Strauss Serenade in E flat, Op 7 NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE; EDO DE WAART Records (R)
Trio in A, Op posth
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON PIANO TRIO Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
Sacred music by Arvo Part Summa (Credo) Missa Sillabica
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
HILUARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL HILLIER
(More music by Arvo Pärt on Good Friday at 4.30pm)
Natalie Wheen presents a sequence of music for the early evening.
Producer ANDREW KUROWSKI
The last of three programmes of Afro-American music presented by Christopher Small.
Music by MAZE. louis JORDAN ELVIS PRESLEY, LITTLE RICHARD and SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK
Writers Talking
Weekly conversations with writers, conducted by Paul Bailey.
This week Alan Bennett , writer for stage and screen. Producer NOAH RICHLER
(Re-broadcast on Easter Day)
by Bach
(sung in German)
Live from Westminster Cathedral.
Evangelist, Martyn Hill (tenor)
Christus, David Thomas (bass)
Anne Dawson (soprano), Christopher Robson (counter-tenor), Mark Tucker (tenor), Michael George (bass)
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
City of London Sinfonia directed by David Hill
During the interval, The Rev Ronald Englund, Pastor of St Anne's Lutheran Church, London, reads part of a sermon by Martin Luther: The Meditation of Christ, His Passion.
The second of two talks taking the long view of divided Britain. Machine Finished
Michael Black , who recently retired as the Cambridge
University publisher, looks at the cultural poverty of modern Britain through the eyes of her greatest social critics.
Piano Piece in A flat (s 189)
Divertimento on a Cavatina by Pacini WILLIAM WRIGHT (piano)
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
by Frederick Bradnum
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is 30 years old this week and this programme, broadcast in October 1957, was the final step on the road which led to its formation. This pioneering work was described then as 'an attempt to convey a new kind of emotional and intellectual experience by means of radiophonic effects'. With Joan Sanderson, Andrew Sachs and Frederick Treves
(R)
The third of six programmes
Fourth word: My God, why hast thou forsaken me? PRIMROSE QUARTET Mono record: 1941
(Fourth programme tomorrow at 10.50pm)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Frage und
Antwort BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano) Record
