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Poulenc L'Embarquement pour Cythere: CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK (pianos)
7.02* Delius A Song Before Sunrise: LPO/VERNON HANDLEY
7.08* Mendelssohn Scherzo
(A Midsummer Night's Dream) SERGEI RACHMANINOV (piano)
7.12* Johann Strauss (son)
Tales from the Vienna Woods JOSEF HAUSMANN (zither)
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.30 News
7.35 Faure Berceuse (Dolly Suite) KATIA AND MARIELLE LABEQUE (piano duet)
7.37* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat: ALFRED BRENDEL
LPO/BERNARD H AITINK
8.07* Britten Simple Symphony ECO THE COMPOSER. Records
Chopin
Variations in E on a theme from Rossini's 'La Cenerentola' JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute)
ROBERT VEYRONLACROIX (piano) Fantasy in A on Polish Airs, Op 13: MisHA DICHTER (piano)
PHILHARMONIA/NEVILLE MARRINER Variations in D
VLADIMIR AND VOVKA ASHKENAZY (piano duet)
Polish Songs, Op 74: The Sad River; The Bridegroom;
Lithuanian Song; Leaves Are Falling; The Ring
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (Soprano) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat, Op 22 KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN (piano)
LOS ANGELES PO/CARLO MARIA GIULINI Records
Clarinet Concerto in A (K 622) SUZANNE STEPHENS (clarinet)
BERLIN RSO/KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Record
played by ERICH GRUENBERG with JOHN MCCABE (piano)
Shostakovich Sonata , Op 134
Prokofiev Five Melodies, Op 35b BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Susan Sharpe Suk Fantastic Scherzo
PRAGUE SO'JIIU BELOHLAVEK
Rimsky-Korsakov Pater noster Kastalsky Nunc dimittis CHOIR OF ALEXANDER NEVSKY
CATHEDRAL, PARIS/EUGENE EVETZ Schmidt Quintet in A THEA KING (clarinet)
JOSÉ-LUIS GARCIA (violin) RUSEN GUNES (viola) THOMAS IGLOI (cello)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) (R) Stanford Songs of the Fleet BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY CHORUS
BOURNEMOUTH SO/NORMAN DEL MAR Records
live from the Concert Hall,
Broadcasting House, London HUGH TINNEY (piano)
Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues (Op 87):
No 4 in E minor; No 15 in D flat Chopin Nocturne in c sharp minor, Op 27 No 1;
Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58 (Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW)
(1888-1968)
Lord Harewood introduces records of this great Italian baritone, renowned both for the intensity of his singing and use of words, and for the expressiveness and smoothness of his vocal line.
Music by Mozart, Giordano and Verdi, including excerpts from Stabile's most famous role, Falstaff. Mono
live from
Westminster Cathedral
Celebrant THE REV JOHN ARNOLD Deus in adiutorium (Padilla) Hymn: lesu, nostra redemptio (plainsong, with falsibordone verses by Victoria)
Psalms: 112 (Laudate pueri), 116 (Laudate Dominum) (plainsong)
Canticle: Ap 11, vv 17-18; 12,10b-12a (plainsong)
Reading (JB): Ephesians 2, vv 4-6 Responsory: Ascendit Deus (plainsong)
Homily: THE REV RICHARD JOHNSON Magnificat antiphon: Pater, manifestavi (plainsong)
Magnificat sexti toni (Victoria) Motet: Ascendens Christus in altum (Victoria)
Organ voluntary: Transports de joie (L'Ascension) (Messiaen)
Master of Music JAMES O'DONNELL Assistant Master of Music lAIN SIMCOCK
Organ scholar BRUCE BURBRIDGE
Presented by Graham Fawcett Producer HUGH WARWICK
played by NICOLA HALL
Rodrigo Invocation and Dance Brouwer Elogio de la danza Omar Daniel Momentum Paganini, arr Hall Caprice No 24
(Hungarian Radio recording from the 1987 Esztergom International Guitar Festival)
Taking Issue
Issues of politics and the arts are raised in a discussion chaired by Robert Hewison , with William Burdett-Coutts and Elsbeth King. Producer DAVID PERRY
led by MALCOLM STEWART conducted by MATTHIAS BAMERT CECILE OUSSET (piano) live from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
8.15* David Osmond-Smith considers Luigi Nono 's distinctive position in contemporary music, in the light of an unusual artistic apprenticeship.
8.35* Nono Per
Bastiana Tai-Yang Cheng , for orchestra and tape
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian) BBC Manchester
(bom 12 May 1903)
Three Latin Motets, Op 83 No 1 BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY (R)
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, a six-part diplomatic history of the Lancaster House settlement, Presented by Michael Charlton 4: Goodbye, Mr Smith
Lancaster House marked the end of Ian Smith 's illegal government, and with it his dream of paramountcy for the Anglo-Saxon and Afrikaner, south of the Zambezi.
Ian Smith, Lord Carrington and Pik Botha , South Africa's Foreign Minister, reflect on southern African politics in the 20th century.
Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON
JANE MANNING (soprano) DAVID MASON (piano)
Margaret Sutherland Chez nous
Peggy Granville-Hicks Come Sleep; Profiles from China Alison Bauld Dear Emily; Mad Moll; Banquo's Buried
Karl Goldmark
Suite in E, for violin and piano; Schlage nicht die feuchten
Augen nieder; Der Wald wird dichter; Overture: Penthesilea