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Handel Arrival of the Queen ofSheba
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.03* Haydn The Mermaid's Song; A Pastoral Song ELLY AMELING (soprano) JÖRG DEMUS (piano)
7.10* Dittersdorf Symphony No 2 in D (The Fall of Phaeton)
CANTILENA/ADRIAN SHEPHERD
7.30 News
7.35 Wagner Overture: Tannhauser
COLUMBIA SO/BRUNO WALTER
8.00* Chausson Poeme rrzHAK PERLMAN (violin)
NEW YORK PO ZUBIN MEHTA
8.16* Francaix Divertissement MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Peter Graeme (oboe)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Records
Shostakovich Early Works
Symphony No 2 (To October) LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
AND ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK The Nose: Act 1
SOLOISTS. CHOIRS AND ENSEMBLE OF
THE MOSCOW MUSICAL THEATRE/
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Preludes, Op 34 Nos 1, 4, 10, 12 LAZAR BERMAN (piano) Records
MALCOLM PROUD (harpsichord) Handel Suite No 8 in F minor (1720)
Haydn Sonata in B flat (H xvi 2)
played by ROHAN AND DRUVI DE SARAM Janacek Pohadka
Stephen Dodgson Partita for solo cello (first UK broadcast)
Sibelius Malinconia. BBC Bristol
led by RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by ROBERT HOULIHAN Glinka Overture; Three Dances (A Life for the Tsar) Kopylov Symphony in c minor, Op 14. BBC Northern Ireland
from the University of Wales JOHN WALLACE (trumpet) SIMON WRIGHT (piano) Tartini, arr Simon Wright Concerto in D Cardew Rhythmic pieces Schmitt Andantino (1927) Peter Maxwell Davies Sonata Georges Enesco Legende (Given on 19 November in association with University College, Bangor) Producer GWYN WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Cantatas from Baroque Italy by Sances, Valentini, Merula and Pesenti. In all the pieces the composers have set themselves the task of writing over a repeated bass line: despite this restriction the effect is musical rather than mechanical. JILL FELDMAN (soprano) ISABELLE POULENARD (soprano) KONRAD JUNGHANEL (theorbo) ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING (harp) ERIN HEADLEY (lirone)
Throughout my artistic life I have striven for one thing only: to serve ... I am not a virtuoso, I am an honest worker - and thus a Czech artist. TAUCH, 1943 The first of six programmes surveying the life and art of the great Czech conductor, presented by Patrick Lambert. Suk Sokol march: Towards a New Life (1 936 recording) Smetana Symphonic poem: Vysehrad (1954 recording) Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor (1937 recording) CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Janacek, arr Talich Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen Suk Symphonic poem: Ripening (1954 recordings) CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Novak Finale (Serenade in D, Op 36) (1952 recording) SLOVAK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Mono records
Natalie Wheen presents a selection of music for the early evening. Producer PHILIP TAGNEY
The second programme of music for Indonesian gong-orchestra, introduced by Neil Sorrell.
Sunda Company from West Java
(R)
2: The Black Week (R)
('Spion Kop' tomorrow at 7.05pm)
Against a background of historically accurate events during the 1536 Anabaptist revolution in Miinster,
Alexander Goehr 's opera examines how Man's ideals are corrupted by his nature. Text by THE COMPOSER and JOHN MCGRATH
Peter Paul Nash introduces the first of four controversial
English-language operas from the 1980s to be broadcast on Radio 3 over the next two weeks.
(baritone)(mezzo-soprano) (soprano) (baritone) (bass) (mezzo-soprano) (tenor) (bass-baritone) (soprano) (bass) (tenor) (bass) (tenor)
TIFFIN BOYS CHOIR chorusmaster NEVILLE CREED BBC SINGERS chorusmaster SIMON JOLY BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD associate conductors SIMON JOLY and RAYMOND HOLDEN Répétiteur JAMES HOLMES
8 35* Act 2
9 15* Peter Paul Nashdiscusses the backgrounds to the operas in this series and the problems faced by contemporary composers who embrace operatic traditionswellconfronting the aesthetic and moral issues of our time 9 25* Act 3 (Michael Nyman's 's opera 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife/or a Hat on Thursday at 3 50pm)
Brahms
Violin Sonata in G with a selection of songs
