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Mendelssohn Variations serieuses, Op 54
MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
7.12* StenhammarTwo
Sentimental Romances, Op 28 ARVE TELLEFSEN (violin)
SWEDISH RSO/STIG WESTERBERG
7.30 News
7.35 Rimsky-Korsakov
The Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) SNO/NEEME JARVI
7.39* Glazunov Symphony No 8 in E flat, Op 83
USSR MINISTRY OF CULTURE SO/ GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Records

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann

Record Review
Building a Library: Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Rodney Milnes.
David Murray reviews recent piano discs.

10.40* Record Release
Albeniz Aragon ; Cuba; Castilla (Suite espanola)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)

10.55* Ravel Chansons madecasses (Mono: 1928)
MADELEINE GREY (soprano)
ENSEMBLE THE COMPOSER (piano)

11.07* Barry Fox talks about the American 'No Noise' processing system designed to clean up old recordings. Ravel Bolero (Mono: 1932)
LAMOUREUX CONCERTS ORCHESTRA/THE COMPOSER

11.42* Rachmaninov Etudes tableaux, Op 39
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)

12.18*pm Mussorgsky, orch Rimsky-Korsakov Boris 's Death Scene
(Boris Godunov) (Mono: 1926) FEODOR CHALIAPIN (bass) with orchestra conducted by EUGENE GOOSSENS
Schubert Aufenthalt (Mono: 1914) FEODOR CHALIAPIN (bass) with piano accompaniment

12.35* Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor (D 784): IMOGEN COOPER Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

('Record Review' is re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2.00pm)Â

(FM only from 10.55)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.
Unknown:
David Murray
Unknown:
Albeniz Aragon
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Talks:
Barry Fox
Unknown:
Rimsky-Korsakov Boris
Unknown:
Boris Godunov
Conducted By:
Eugene Goossens
Conducted By:
Schubert Aufenthalt
Unknown:
Imogen Cooper
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

England v West Indies First Comhill Test
Commentary on the third day's play at Trent Bridge by Brian Johnston , Christopher Martin-Jenkins , Tony Cozier with expert comments from
TREVOR BAILEY and ROBIN JACKMAN Scorer BILL FRINDALL
1.05 News
1.10
A View from the Boundary Brian Johnston entertains cricket-loving guests. Today actor Michael Jayston returns to his native Nottingham.
1.30-1.40; 3.45-4.00* County Scoreboard Producer PETER BAXTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Unknown:
Tony Cozier
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
Robin Jackman
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Michael Jayston
Producer:
Peter Baxter

Third of four programmes Edward Greenfield introduces the Australian soprano in a role which she has never sung on stage: Turandot Puccini's opera in three acts (completed by Franco Alfano ) to a libretto by GIUSEPPE ADAMI and RENATO simoni , after the play by CARLO gozzi (sung in Italian) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR LPO/ZUBIN MEHTA. Records: 1972

Contributors

Introduces:
Edward Greenfield
Unknown:
Franco Alfano
Unknown:
Renato Simoni
Unknown:
John Alldis
Mandarin:
Sabin Markov (bar)
Liù MONTSERRAT:
Caballe (sop)
Unknown prince (Calaf):
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Timur:
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
Prince of Persia:
Pier Francesco Poli (tenor)
Ping:
Tom Krause (baritone)
Pong:
Piero de Palma (tenor)
Pang:
Pier Francesco Poli (tenor)
Altoum:
Peter Pears (tenor)
Princess Turandot:
Joan Sutherland (soprano)

Anthony Curtis (in the Chair) talks with Adam Mars-Jones Gillian Reynolds and Marina Vaizey Tumbledown by Charles Wood (BBC1); Lindsay Anderson 's film The Whales of August; French photography at the Barbican Gallery, London; Greenland by Howard Brenton at the Royal Court Theatre, London; William Trevor 's novel The Silence in the Garden. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Curtis
Unknown:
Adam Mars-Jones
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey
Unknown:
Charles Wood
Unknown:
Lindsay Anderson
Unknown:
Howard Brenton
Unknown:
William Trevor

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS in an all-Czech programme live from Wells Cathedral Part 1 Smetana
Ma vlast (three excerpts) p 4 simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 For full details seepage 17
• FEATURE: page 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Davis

arranged by SIONED DAVIES translated by TONY CONRAN
A selection of early Welsh verse that celebrates the victories and laments the demise of Urien, one of the ill-fated kings of sixth-century Britain.
Readers MEREDITH EDWARDS and IOAN MEREDITH
Producer ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales

Contributors

Arranged By:
Sioned Davies
Translated By:
Tony Conran
Producer:
Adrian Mourby

by LYTTON STRACHEY
Read by Benjamin Whitrow
Lytton Strachey spent his first years in a house in West London that expressed the character of the age, and impressed its own character upon him.
Producer PETER KAVANAGH (R)

Contributors

Read By:
Benjamin Whitrow
Read By:
Lytton Strachey
Producer:
Peter Kavanagh

ENDYMION ENSEMBLE conducted by ULF SODERBLOM Crusell Quartet in D, Op 7 with MARK VAN DE WIEL (clarinet) Erik Bergman Silence and Eruptions, Op 91
(first UK broadcast)
10.15* Magnus Lindberg talks with Graham Sheffield.
10.20* Lindberg Zona
With ANSSI KARTTUNEN (Cello) conducted by JOHN WHITFIELD (first UK broadcast)
Merikanto Concerto for violin, clarinet, horn and string sextet (first UK broadcast) with KRYSIA OSOSTOWICZ (violin) MARK VAN DE WIEL (clarinet) STEPHEN STIRLING (horn)
(Given in April 1987 in St John Smith Square, London)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ulf Soderblom
Clarinet:
Erik Bergman
Talks:
Magnus Lindberg
Unknown:
Graham Sheffield.
Unknown:
Lindberg Zona
Conducted By:
John Whitfield
Horn:
Stephen Stirling

Charles Fox introduces the seventh of eight recordings made at last summer's festival featuring a European trio: EVAN PARKER (tenor/soprano saxophones) from Britain, and ALEX VON SCHLIPPENBACH (piano) and PAUL LOVENS (drums) from West Germany. They are leading exponents of free-jazz, and have called their improvisations Fra di noi (Between Ourselves).

Contributors

Introduces:
Charles Fox
Piano:
Alex von Schlippenbach

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