Poetry: the Romantic Hero

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Stanford The Bluebird
CAMBRIDGE SINGERS/JOHN RUTTER
7.05* Grainger
A Lincolnshire Posy
LONDON WIND ORCHESTRA/
DENIS WICKS
7.21* Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley
DELME STRING QUARTET
7.30 News
7.35 Jolivet Trumpet Concerto No 2
WYNTON MARSAUS
PHILH ARMONIA/ES PEKKA SALONEN
7.47* Delius A Song of Summer
RPO/ERICFENBY
7.59* Gershwin Three Preludes MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS (piano)
8.07* Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) NEW YORK PO/THE COMPOSER Records

Janacek
Death and Presentiment
I am finishing one work after another as if I were soon to settle my account with life. Janacek, real
Jarmil Burghauser Incidental music to Hauptmann's comedy: Schluck und Jau: SLOVAK PO/LIBOR
PESEK Janacek Skuratov 's monologue (From the House of the Dead, Act 2): IVO ZIDEK (tenor)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA/VACLAV NEUMANN String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
TALICH QUARTET
Petr Messiereur (violin) Jan Kvapil (violin) Jan Talich (viola)
Evzen Rattai (cello) Records

The second of two programmes Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor, Op 19
ARTURO BONUCCI (cello) JOHN BLAKELY (piano)

conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY HEATHER CORBETT (vibraphone) ALAN CUCKSTON (harpsichord) MEREDITH MCCRACKEN (harp)
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden
David Wooldridge Fantasy concertante
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra BBC Scotland

Histoires naturelles
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) PHILIP LEDGER (piano) BBC Manchester (R)

Quartet in A minor, Op 132 BORODIN STRING QUARTET (R)

led by RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by VERNON HANDLEY RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (cello)
Stanford Irish Rhapsody No 3 Symphony No 6 in E flat
(first broadcast performances) BBC Northern Ireland

First of three programmes played by BERNARD ROBERTS (piano) Mozart Sonata in c (K 330) Schubert Sonata in c minor (D 958)
Series producer PAUL SPICER

The second of two programmes eirian JAMES (mezzo-soprano) NANCY HADDEN (flute)
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord) TIMOTHY MASON (cello)
Arne Cymon and Iphigenia James Hook Eccho Song;
The Lass of Richmond Hill; The Blackbird
Handel Pensieri notturni di Filli; La solitudine; Mi palpita il cor. BBC Wales

A sequence of musical butterflies, including keyboard music by Couperin, Massenet, Martinu and Grieg; songs by Prokofiev, Faure, and Chausson; and Moths and Butterflies from Elgar's Wand of Youth. Records

Symphony No 6 in A
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GUNTHER HERBIG BBC Manchester (R)

The first of three programmes played by JAMES DALTON (organ) Bach Sonata No 1 in E flat (bwv 525)
Krebs Chorale prelude:
Ach Gott! erhor mein Seufzen Bach Sonata No 2 in c minor (bwv 526)
Series producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill

Fritz Spiegl takes a closer look at 18th-century lexicographer, ABC Dario Musico. and his pointed comments on the composers of his day.
Extracts read by GARARD GREEN ProducerJUDITH ROLES

The blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson died in his 20s, stabbed in a Mississippi juke joint on 16 August 1938.
Remembered with awe by his contemporaries, admired and copied by succeeding generations throughout the world, he is for many the greatest of all blues artists - and the most mysterious.
In the first of two programmes, Tony Russell searches for Johnson among myths, memories and his music. Mono

with 5: Sea Fight in the Great Harbour, 413BC
The Syracusans realise the overriding need to defeat the Athenian fleet, and they win the first sea battle. Both sides prepare for the final decisive clash. Nicias exhorts his troops to stand firm 'for they are all that is now left of the state and the great name of Athens. Readers MANNING WILSON.
PETER HOWELL and ERIC STOVELL

live from the Royal Albert Hall , London ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by PETER EÖTVÖS and WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Liszt Tasso: lamento e trionfo Witold Lutoslawski Chain 2 conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.10* Witold Lutoslawski talks with Nicholas Kenyon.
8.30* Witold Lutoslawski Musique funebre conducted by THE COMPOSER
Bartok Concerto for orchestra

(The Hostage) by BRENDAN BEHAN translated from the Irish by LORCAN O'TREASAIGH adapted by JEREMY HOWE with as and The first production in English of Behan's Irish tragedy - the play that formed the basis of Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop hit of the 1960s.
In 1958 the IRA are preparing a safe house in a Dublin brothel in which to hold hostage a British soldier.
Narrator MICHAEL BAGULEY
Bagpipes played by BRIAN kidd Directed by JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland

Schumann Kinderszenen , Op 15
Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)