Romantic Narrative Poetry
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Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
7.09* Thomas Morley Who Is It That This Dark Night EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
7.17* Jean Francaix Concertino IAN HOBSON (piano)
SINFONIA DA CAMERA OF ILLINOIS
7.30 News
7.35 Glinka Jota aragonesa DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA;
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.44* Britten, arr Stevenson Peter Grimes Fantasy
RONALD STEVENSON (piano)
7.51* Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances
EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE;
FREDERICK FENNELL
8.08* Debussy Printemps BOSTON SO/CHARLES MUNCH Records
Producer MURRAY KHOURI
Brahms
Sonata in F minor, Op 5 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) Two Songs, Op 91
BRIGITTE FASSBAENDER (mezzo-soprano)
THOMAS RIEBL (viola) IRWIN GAGE (piano)
Kleine Hochzeitskantate ;
Tafellied: GERNOT KAHL (piano) NORTH WEST GERMAN RADIO CHOIR/ GUNTER JENA. Records
Producer GORDON STEWART
Diana Cummings (violin) Luciano Iorio (viola)
Geoffrey Thomas (cello)
Schubert String Trio in B flat (D581)
Frederick Lydiate Partita BBC Pebble Mill
MARTIN ROSCOE (piano)
Chopin Nocturnes, Op 48: No 1 in c minor:
No 2 in F sharp minor
Szymanowski Masques, Op 34: No 1 Sheherazade;
No 2 Tantris Ie Bouffon;
No 3 Serenade de Don Juan Chopin Polonaises , Op 26: No 1 in c sharp minor;
No 2 in E flat minor. BBC Bristol
Four pieces for viola played by HARRY DANKS (R)
Erlkonig; Tom der Reimer; Der Schmied auf Helgoland THEO ADAM (bass)
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by GEORGE HURST PETER DONOHOE (piano)
Dvorak Overture: Carnival Faure Fantaisie , Op 111
John McLeod Piano Concerto (first performance)
12.20* Interval Reading
12.25* Beethoven Symphony No 5
(Presentedon18MayintheCityHall,
(Presentedon 18 MayintheCityHall Perth, by Perth Festival of the Arts in association with the Bank of Scotland) BBC Scotland
live from St John 's,
Smith Square, London FINE ARTS QUARTET
Mozart Quartet in G (K 387)
Shostakovich Quartet No 11 in F minor, Op 122
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Tickets £2.50. available from 11.00am today, or in advance from the Box Office - Tel: [number removed])
led by CUVE LANDER conducted by RICHARD HICKOX PETER LAWSON (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 48 in c Robin Holloway Idyll , for chamber orchestra
Martinu Sinfonietta giocosa, for piano and chamber orchestra
BBC Manchester (R)
4.00 Reading
A series of five programmes 1: John Banister s Concerts
Music from the public concerts established at the house of royal violinist John Banister in 1672. CHANDOS BAROQUE PLAYERS with EMILY VAN EVERA (soprano)
John Jenkins Fantasy and Ayre with divisions No 4 in c, for two violins, viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord William Croft Cantata:
Celladon, for soprano, recorder and continuo
Purcell Trio Sonata No 1 in G minor; Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive, for voice and continuo; Sweeter Than Roses, for voice and continuo; Suite in A minor, for harpsichord Giovanni Battista Draghi Where Art Thou, God of Dreams?, for voice and continuo Godfrey Finger Divisions for recorder and continuo
John Banister Divisions for recorder, violin and continuo Purcell 0, Let Me Weep; Hither This Way
Introduced by Fritz Spiegl
First Things First: the State of Israel may be 40 - but the Israel Philharmonic is well past its half-century!
SUSAN LANDALE plays on the organ of Coventry Cathedral Petr Eben Little Chorale
Partita '0 Jesu all' mein Leben' Tournemire Chorale
Improvisation on 'Victimae paschali laudes'
Petr Eben Five Chorale Preludes on the Hymns of Bohemian Brethren. BBC Pebble Mill
This week, art critic
Matthew Collings talks to the sculptor Tony Cragg , this year's British representative at the Venice Biennale.
Producer HANS PIETSCH
A programme of works for piano left hand
LEON FLEISHER (piano)
VERMEER STRING QUARTET
Shmuel Ashkenasi (violin) Pierre Menard (violin) Richard Young (viola) Marc Johnson (cello)
Saint-Saens Bourrie ; Elegie; Gigue (Six Studies for piano left hand, Op 135)
Scriabin Two pieces for the left hand, Op 9
Robert Saxton Chacony (commissioned by Leon Fleisher : first performance)
Bach, transc Brahms Chaconne in D minor
8.20* Interval Reading
8.25* Schmidt Piano Quintet in G BBC Pebble Mill
A sequence sung by EMMA KIRKBY with ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute) and philip PICKETT (recorders) (R)
A sound picture of the landscape of Japan, centred on the forlorn figure of the scarecrow. Compiled and translated by STEPHEN HENRY gill from the poetry and prose of Japanese and foreign writers and actuality recordings. With
Readings by ANTHONY JACKSON EIJI KUSUHARA , MEGUMI SHIMANUKI Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
The third of four concerts from Glasgow's triennial festival MANUEL BARRUECO (guitar)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by MATHIAS BAMERT Toru Takemitsu Day Signal/ Night Signal; To the Edge of Dream
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Stille und Umkehr
James Dillon
Helle Nacht Toru Takemitsu Dreamtime BBC Scotland
Boccherini (1743-1805)
Compositore e virtuoso da camera
Cello Sonatas in A; Trios for two violins and cello in F and B flat
