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Dag Wiren
Serenade for strings
ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ-THE-FIELDS/
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.16*
Busoni Divertimento. Op 52: AURELE NICOLET (flute)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURT MASUR
7.30 News
7.35 Smetana Polka; Furiant (The Bartered Bride)
VIENNA PO /JAMES LEVINE
7.42* Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat, Op 11 HERMANN BAUMANN
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURT MASUR
8.00* Bizet Symphony in c
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA;
THOMAS BEECHAM Records

Stravinsky
My idea was to compose a sort of scenic ceremony, using those ritualistic elements so abundantly provided by village customs for centuries in the celebration of Russian marriages. CHRONICLE Concertino (1920)
ALBAN BERG QUARTET Les Noces (final version)
ANNY MORY (soprano)
PATRICIA PARKER (mezzo-soprano) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor) PAUL HUDSON (bass)
ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL CHORUS
MARTHA ARGERICH ,
KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN. CYPRIEN KATSARIS and HOMERO FRANCESCH (pianos)
ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL PERCUSSION/
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Octet
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER
PLAYERS
Sonata (1924)
CHARLES ROSEN (piano)

MITZI MEYERSON (harpsichord)
Louis Couperin Suite in A minor Forqueray La Angrave
La Eynaud; La du Vaucel La Regente; La Morangis (Suite No 3 in D) BBC Pebble Mill

Serenade in B flat (K 361)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC WIND
INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE/
VLADIMIR CERNY Record

WALTER TRAMPLER (viola) GERALD ROBBINS (piano)
Schumann Marchenbilder
Brahms Sonata in F minor (R)

led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by STUART CHALLENDER ALAN FEINBERG (piano)
Beethoven Overture: Fidelio Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in c minor (K 491)
John McLeod Music for strings Don Banks Trilogy BBC Scotland

live from
St David 's Hall, Cardiff
RAPHAEL ENSEMBLE
Dvorak Sextet in A, Op 48. for strings
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20, for strings

Emily Van Evera (soprano) Micaela Comberti (violin)
Lucy Carolan (harpsichord) Richard Boothby (viola da gamba)
Rameau Cantata: Orphee Rebel Sonata for violin and continuo
Monteclair Cantata: Pan et Syrinx

Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 25, for flute, violin and viola
Bartok Contrasts, for violin, clarinet and piano
Carl Vine Cafe Concertino (1984)
Beethoven String Trio in G, Op 9 No

Ballade No 2 in B minor; Scherzo and March played by KUN woo PAIK (R)

Richard Baker presents a selection of music for the early evening.
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT

Traditional songs and dances from the provinces of China. GUO-YUE (bamboo flutes/ ba-wu/sheo) GUO-YI (sheng)
XIE LIE (Chinese percussion) (R)

Writers Talking
Allan Massie talks to
Bernard MacLaverty , author of Cal and Lamb.
Can a writer from Ulster escape religion and politics? Producer NOAH RICHLER
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Opera in three acts by Berthold Goldschmidt Libretto by MARTIN ESSUN after Shelley's dramatic poem The Cenci - a passionate tale of incest and murder. (sung in English)
A recording of the first concert performance of a work that won an Arts Council opera competition for the Festival of Britain in 1951, but remained unperformed for more than 30 years.
Bernard Keeffe introduces the opera and talks to the composer. (soprano) (baritone) (mezzo-soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (baritone) (tenor) (baritone) (tenor) (tenor)
PRO MUSICA CHORUS OF LONDON
LONDON CHAMBER SYMPHONY conducted by ODALINE DE LA MARTINEZ Act
8.10* Act 2
8.45* Act 3
(Given on 16 April in the Queen Elizabeth Halt , London)

Fantasie in c minor; Prelude in E flat; Prelude, Fantasie and Fugue in c; Tombeau sur la mort de M Comte de Logy NIGEL NORTH (baroque lute)

by CARYL PHILLIPS with and An English sea captain, new to the slave trade, finds himself in charge of an overcrowded slave ship to America.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (R)

Sibelius
Pan and Echo; Pelleas and Melisande; Im Feld ein
Madchen singt: Die stille Stadt (Op 50); Nightride and Sunrise