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Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
7.07* Handel Organ Concerto in F (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) SIMON PRESTON
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.21* Bax Dance in the Sunlight
ECO/JEFFREYTATE
7.30 News
7.35 Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT
7.47* Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42 HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
8.06* Bridge Enter Spring COLOGNE RSO/JOHN CAREWE Records
Tchaikovsky
Piano Pieces, Op 51 Nos 1,3,5 SVIATOSLAV RICHTER
Violin Concerto in D
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN ISRAEL PO/ZUBIN MEHTA Records
The first of three programmes Fibich Piano Trio in F minor
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15
(Given on 27 July in All Saints'
Church, in association with Barclays Bank pic aspartofthe 1987King's Lynn Festival)
Series producer JONATHAN STRACEY BBC Pebble Mill
WILLIAM KENDALL (tenor)
DONALD SWEENEY (baritone) FELIX SCHMIDT (cello)
TIMOTHY BYRAM. WIGFIELD (Organ) WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR conducted by MARTIN NEARY
Weelkes Gloria in excelsis Deo Jonathan Battishill 0 Lord, Look Down from Heaven
John Tavener Love Bade Me Welcome; Angels
Jonathan Harvey Lauds
Britten A Wedding Anthem (Given on 23 July in Winchester Cathedral) BBC Bristol
led by Dennis Simons conducted by Bernhard Klee
Ulf Hoelscher (violin)
Hindemith Violin Concerto
11.45* Interval Reading
11.50* Schubert
Symphony No 9 in C
(Given on 18 March in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
BBC Manchester
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff
Nash Ensemble: Ian Brown (piano), Marcia Crayford (violin), Jeremy Williams (violin), Roger Chase (viola), Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Dvorak: Bagatelles, Op 47
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor
BBC Wales
The second of two programmes Weber Jubel-Overture
BAMBERG SO/THEODOR GUSCHLBAUER Johann Walter Mit Fried und Freud; Wach auf, wach auf PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
CAPELLA FIDICINIA/HANS GRUSS Bach Fantasia in G (bwv 572) DANIEL CHORZEMPA (organ)
Schumann Fugue, Op 72 No 1 PETER FRANKL (piano)
Mozart Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat (K 447): MAX ZIMOLONG DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/
KARL BOHM
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier : Act 3 (excerpts)
Octavian
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/BOHM Daphne (excerpts):
0 wie gerne blieb ich bei dir
(Mono): MARGARETE TESCHEMACHER (soprano)
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/BOHM Final Scene
BAVARIAN RSO/BERNARD HAITINK Records
Six Consolations; Grand Concert Solo: Howard Shelley
(R)
Peter Holtslag and Han Tol play recorder duets by Viviani, Giamberti and Telemann. (R)
(tenor)
A series of recitals from the BBC Archives, presented by Michael Berkeley.
Today, part of a Mozart bicentenary concert, first broadcast in 1956.
Mozart Abendempfindung; Dans un bois solitaire; Sei du mein Trost; An Chloe; Cantata: Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schopfer ehrt
with Benjamin Britten (fortepiano)
(Mono) (R)
Presented by Roger Nichols
Performances of Japanese 'Gagaku' pieces introduced by David Hughes.
(NHK Tokyo recording)
Paul Bailey talks to travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron.
by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
English version by Lianne Aukin from a translation by Boris Isarov
with Frances Barber as Ira, Maureen O'Brien as Svetlana, Caroline Gruber as Tatiana, Elizabeth Spriggs as Fedorovna, Ann Mitchell as Maria and Anthony Jackson as Nikolai
The three girls are not so little and, unlike the three sisters, they are longing to get away from Moscow. They quarrel about their children, their mothers and who's going to mend the roof, and their problems seem more absurd than tragic.
(1890-1987)
A concert of his orchestral music conducted by a former pupil.
Burlesque (Die beiden Klaas) (first UK performance)
A Caledonian Suite (first broadcast) Triptych
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, led by Ben Buurman, conducted by James Lockhart
Alan Walker talks about Liszt's innovative approach to keyboard technique, and examines his claim to be regarded as the founder of modem pianism.
Trois etudes de bravoure, Op 16; Grand duo concertant, Op 21; Marche funebre, Op 26; Marche triomphale, Op 27