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Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25 THE COMPOSER (piano) RPO'ADRIAN BOULT
7.23* Bach Fugue II
(Preludes and Fugues, Book 1)
SIGURD RASCHER SAXOPHONE QUARTET
7.30 News
7.35 Alfven Midsummer Watch , Op 19
STOCKHOLM PO NEEMEJARVI
7.48* Sibelius Sigh, Sedges, Sigh: The Diamond on the March Snow (Op 36) (sung in Finnish) jussi BJORLING (tenor)
ROY ALOPERA ORCHESTRA,
STOCKHOLM/NILS GREVILLIUS
7.54* Crusell Clarinet Concerto No 2 in F minor
KARL LEISTER
LAHTI SO/OSMO VANSKA
8.17* Saint-Saens Le Rouet d'Omphale
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Records
Stravinsky Persephone accepts as her destiny the role of bringing love and pity to the underworld. A Christian interpretation thus becomes possible; the whole latter part of the work is a veritable Russian Easter
ROBERT CRAFT
Melodrama in three parts: Persephone
VERA ZORINA (speaker) MICHELE MOLESE (tenor)
ITHACA COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR
FORT WORTH BOYS' CHOIR
GREG SMITH SINGERS
COLUMBIA SO/THE COMPOSER Record
An die Heimat; Der Abend (Op 64): Four quartets,
Op 92, for mixed voices and piano; Sehnsucht; Nachtens (Op 112)
ANDREAS ROTHKOPF (piano) STUTTGART CHAMBER CHOIR conducted by FRIEDER BERNIUS
An Englishman in Paris
The last of four programmes of little-known and recently-discovered works written by Sir Lennox Berkeley when he was at Oxford, and in Paris in the 1920s and 30s studying with Nadia Boulanger. Devised and presented by Peter Dickinson as a tribute to the composer for his 85th birthday.
MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano) ANTHONY LEGGE (piano) SARAH FRANCIS (oboe)
GRAHAM MAYGER (flute)
GORDON STEWART (piano)
Trio for flute, oboe and piano; Five Short Pieces; Lay Your
Sleeping Head, My Love: Night Covers Up the Rigid Land
Britten Night Covers Up the Rigid Land
Berkeley Three Impromptus Series producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill
led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by EDWARD DOWNES GARRICK OHLSSON (piano) Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in c minor
12.00* Interval Reading
12.05*pm Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) (Presented on 23April in Westmorland Hall, Kendal, Cumbria, by the Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Society in association with Provincial Insurance pic) BBC Manchester
live from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol ROTH QUARTET Duncan Riddell (violin) Elizabeth Turnbull (violin) Paul Robson (viola) Martin Thomas (cello) Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark) Vaughan Williams String Quartet No 2 in A minor
BBC Bristol
Opera in four acts Music by Verdi Libretto by PIAVA (sung in Italian) (tenor) (baritone) (bass) (soprano) (soprano) (tenor) (bass) VIENNA VOLKSOPER CHORUS SOFIA VOCAL ENSEMBLE BREGENZ FESTIVAL CHORUS VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PINCHAS STEINBERG Acts 1 and 2
3.30* Julian Budden talks about the background to Emani. (R)
3.35* Acts 3 and 4
played by NOBUKO imai Hindemith Sonata, Op 11 No 5, for solo viola
Presented by Roger Nichols Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
TREDEGAR BAND conducted by NIGEL WEEKS Gilbert Vinter Spectrum
Merfyn Burtch Wind in the Willows BBC Wales
Michael Hall in conversation with Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by Lionel FRIEND with JEAN RIGBY (mezzo-soprano) live from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol Parti
Barber Summer Music, for wind quintet
George Crumb An Idyll for the Misbegotten, for flute and drums (1985)
(first UK public performance) Simon Holt Canciones
Written and presented by Peter Luke , for many years a neighbour of the Lorca family in the Andalucian countryside, and who also translated the poems.
Reader JUNE TOBIN
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBCBristol
Part 2
George Crumb Night of the Four Moons
Ives Piano Trio BBCBristol
by STUART HANNABUSS
Read by George Parsons Producer ED THOMASON
(Another story by Stuart Hannabuss tomorrow at 10.40pm)
CONTINUUM
Ellen Lang (mezzo-soprano) David Krakauer (clarinet) Mia Wu (violin/viola) Cheryl Seltzer (piano) conducted by JOEL SACHS (piano) Stefan Wolpe Second Piece, for solo violin
Roberto Sierra Glosa a la sombra Robert Erickson Two Songs Virko Baley Jurassic Bird
Conlon Nancarrow Prelude and Blues: Study No 15; Sonatina, for piano duet
Virgil Thomson Two Songs of Mary Ann Moore
(first UK broadcasts except for Wolpe)
Sibelius
Symphony No 4 in A minor; Lapping Waters, Op 61 No 2;
Scenes historiques: Suite No 2