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Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night: SNO/NEEME JARVI
7.09* Debussy L'Isle joyeuse KATHRYN STOTT (piano)
7.15* Saint-Saens Havanaise , Op 83: KYUNG WHA CHUNG (violin) RPO/CH ARLES DUTOIT
7.30 News
7.35 Grieg Prelude (Incidental music: Peer Gynt, Act 1)
SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART
7.40* Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2 RADU LUPU (piano)
7.46* Prokofiev Two Pushkin Waltzes, Op 120 SNO NEEME JARVI
7.54* Serrano Coplas (La Reina Mora) TERESA BERGANZA (mezzo-soprano)
ECO/ENRIQUE GARCIA ASENSIO
8.00* Dionisio Aguado Polonaise, Op 2 No 2 JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
8.05* Respighi Brazilian
Impressions: PHILHARMONIA/ GEOFFREY SIMON. Records

Contributors

Piano:
Kathryn Stott
Piano:
Saint-Saens Havanaise
Unknown:
Brahms Rhapsody
Piano:
Radu Lupu
Mezzo-Soprano:
Teresa Berganza
Unknown:
Enrique Garcia Asensio
Unknown:
Geoffrey Simon.

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann Record Review
Building a Library:
Sibelius's Fourth Symphony by Stephen Walsh.
Roger Nichols reviews recent releases of French vocal music, including two operas: Auber's La Muette de Portici and Magnard's Guercoeur.
10.40* Record Release
Ravel Cantata: Alcyone
MARIANA NICOLESCO (soprano)
NADINE DENIZE (mezzo-soprano) HEIN MEENS (tenor)
BAMBERG SO HUBERT SOUDANT
11.08* Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor ISABELLE VAN KEULEN LSO/COLIN DAVIS
11.39* Ravel Fascination; Sur l'herbe
Louis Durey Le Bestiaire STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
11.54* Gabriel Pierne Ramuntcho: Suite No 2
LORRAINE PO/JACQUES HOUTMANN
12.10* Alan Blyth talks to the young East German baritone Olaf Bar, who sings Brahms Vier Lieder, Op 96 with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
12.39* Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor CYPRIEN KA TSARIS
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/ KURTMASUR
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
('Record Review ' is re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2. 00pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Stephen Walsh.
Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Mezzo-Soprano:
Nadine Denize
Unknown:
Hubert Soudant
Unknown:
Isabelle van Keulen

NORTHERN SINFONIA WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by DAVID HASLAM
Mozart Divertimento in B flat (K270)
John Woolrich Vaucanson 's Machine (Northern Sinfonia commission: first broadcast) Parry Nonet. BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conducted By:
David Haslam
Conducted By:
Mozart Divertimento
Unknown:
John Woolrich Vaucanson

(piano) (1902-88)
The second of two programmes He had this wonderful gift.... of absorbing himself into a composer so that he was like a medium and the music flowed through him. SIR NEVILLE CARDUS Brahms Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel
2.45* Chopin Ballade in F minor
2.55* Beethoven Sonata in c minor, Op 111
3.22* Mozart Piano Concerto in B Hat (K 450)
PHILHARMONIA/OTTO ACKERMANN
3.48* Liszt Au bord d'une source (Annees de pelerinage: Premiere annee)
Debussy La Fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)
3.58* Schumann Carnaval
4.28* Tchaikovsky Piano
Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
PHILHARMONlA/ISSAY DOBROWEN Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Chopin Ballade
Unknown:
Schumann Carnaval

Anthony Thwaite (in the Chair) talks with Owen Dudley Edwards, Helen McNeil and John Wilders.
The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault at the National
Theatre, London; a two-part TV version of J. G. Farrell 's
Troubles (ITV, 1 and 8 May); a retrospective exhibition of sculpture by Michael Sandle at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Juzo Itami 's film Tampopo; The Politics of Paradise, a vindication of Lord Byron by Michael Foot. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite
Unknown:
Owen Dudley
Unknown:
Helen McNeil
Unknown:
John Wilders.
Unknown:
Dion Boucicault
Unknown:
J. G. Farrell
Unknown:
Michael Sandle
Unknown:
Juzo Itami
Unknown:
Michael Foot.

conducted by JOHN POOLE
The last of four programmes
Josquin des Pres De profundis clamavi a 5 Lukas Foss De profundis (first UK broadcast) Byrd Rorate coeli
Thea Musgrave Rorate coeli
(Danish Radio recording from the 1987 Vendsyssel Festival)
Series producer ANTHONY BURTON

Contributors

Conducted By:
John Poole
Unknown:
Byrd Rorate
Unknown:
Thea Musgrave Rorate
Producer:
Anthony Burton

Hans Werner Henze 's early opera (1951) - an updated version of the story of Manon Lescaut - to a German text by GRETE weil (first broadcast)
EPALINGES CHILDREN'S CHORUS
CHORUS OF THE MUNICIPAL THEATHE. LAUSANNE. ORCHESTRA OF THE RENCONTRES MUSICALES conducted by IVAN ANGUELOV (Swiss Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Werner Henze
Unknown:
Grete Weil
Conducted By:
Ivan Anguelov
Manon Lescaut:
Elena Vassilieva (soprano)
Lescaut, her brother:
Carl-Johan Falkman (baritone)
Armand des Grieux:
Jerome Pruett (tenor)
Francis:
Jean-Marc Salzmann (bar)
Lilaque pere:
Bruce Brewer (ten)
Lilaque fils:
Daniel Ottevaere (bar)

Is it possible for a country in a state of crisis and decay to have a living theatre?
Sam Jacobs discusses contemporary Israeli theatre with playwrights, directors, actors and the Chairman of the Board of Censors.
Programme consultant ERAN BANIEL Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
0 FEATURE: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Jacobs
Unknown:
Eran Baniel
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Charles Fox introduces eight recordings from the 1987 festival.
4: The Mike Gibbs Band
Mike Gibbs studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston. He now lives in London, mainly scoring films, composing ballets and sometimes getting a band together to play his music. On this occasion the band included musicians from Britain, America, Sweden and Brazil, and they played Almost Ev'ryday, Kosasa, Pride Aside, For Mosher, Watershed and Fanfare.

Contributors

Introduces:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Mike Gibbs

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