The Romantic Poets
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Verdi Overture: La forza del destino: Philharmonia/Sinopoli
7.08* Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux) Vladimir Ashkenazy
7.30 News
7.35 Vivaldi Concerto in c (RV537)
Maurice Andrew (trumpet)
Bernard Soustrot (trumpet)
Academy of St Martin In The Fields
Neville Marriner
7.42* Mozart Symphony No 36 inc (K425)(Linz)
Academy of St Martin In The Fields
Neville Marriner
8.15* Ravel Introduction and Allegro: Osian Ellis (harp) Melos Ensemble. Records Producer Gwawr Owen
The Scarlatti Family
Alessandro and Domenico For more than a century, members of the family were noted musicians. While
Alessandro concentrated on operas and cantatas in Naples, his son was a tireless provider of keyboard music for the courts of Iberia.
Orchestral music and cantatas of a martial and pastoral nature by Alessandro are interspersed with related keyboard sonatas by Domenico.
The programme also includes one of Alessandro's cantatas for Christmas, together with a work in a similar vein by Domenico. Producer GRAHAM DIXON
Piano Rag Music: MICHEL BEROFF Concertino for string quartet ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN The King of the Stars
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY CHORUS
AND SO/RICCARDO CHAILLY. Records
led by JAMES CLARK conducted by ANDREW LITTON Mozart Symphony No 33 in B flat (K 319)
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45. BBC Wales
Comhill Test
England v Sri Lanka Commentary from Lord's on the fourth day's play.
1.05 News
1.10 Talking Point
Ron Jones examines a current cricketing topic.
1.30-1.40*; 3.45-4.00* County Scoreboard
live from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh JORMA HYNNINEN (baritone) HALF GOTHONI (piano) Songs by Sibelius and Wolf and folk songs from Finland. Parti
From the Edinburgh Film Festival Christopher Cook talks to Peter Greenaway about his new film Drowning by Numbers. A contemporary comedy, it stars Joan Plowright , Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson , as three generations of the same woman, who drown their husbands. Producer RACHEL YORKE
Part 2 BBC Scotland
The last of six programmes Haydn Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5 Beethoven Quartet in B flat. Op 18 No 6 GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET Series producer JEREMY HAYES BBC Pebble Mill
Two early 19th-century sonatas played on instruments of the period by KEITH puddy and KENNETH MOBBS Danzi Sonata in F, Op 62, for basset-horn and piano Dussek Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 61
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Stephen Hough (piano) Roberta Alexander (soprano) English Chamber Orchestra, led by Jose-Luis Garcia, conducted by Jeffrey Tate
Leonard Bernstein Overture: Candide
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A (K 488)
3.35* Jeffrey Tate talks to Stephen Johnson about the American music in this afternoon's concert.
3.55* Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock)
The Art ofNicolai Gedda Nigel Douglas pays tribute to a fellow tenor. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (R)
played by MARGARET PHILLIPS in Peterborough Cathedral Rheinberger Sonata No 7 in F minor, Op 127
Bairstow Sonata in E flat BBC Pebble Mill
Opera in two acts. Libretto and music by Leoncavallo
(sung in Italian): Records (bantone) (tenor) (tenor) (tenor) (soprano) (baritone)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
TEATRO ALLA SCALA. MILAN/KARAJ AN
live from the Royal Albert Hall , London
JOHN Williams (guitar) and the NATIONAL
YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA. conducted by BILL ASHTON and PAUL HART. play works by Paul Higgs , Jack Long and Jimmy Deuchar , as well as the Concerto for guitar and jazz orchestra by Paul Hart. (The appearance of the National
Youth Jazz Orchestra has been made possible by support from C and A) * HEAR THIS! page 15
A Life in the Cinema
The Irish actor arrived in Hollywood in 1947, and in the second of two conversations with Philip French he talks about the changing face of the movie colony and one of the high points of his career - appearing in John Huston 's final film, The Dead.
No 3 in G minor (Bwv 808) MELVYN TAN (harpsichord)
(Fourth suite tomorrow at 10.30pm)
Dvorak (1841-1904)
The Last Czech Years
The Water Goblin, Op 107 String Quartet in G, Op 106