Acts, Actions and Meanings
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Wagner Siegfried Idyll
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK
7.18* Bach Motet: Lobet den Herrn, alle
Heiden MONTEVERDI CHOIRI
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
7.30 News
7.35 Handel Organ Concerto in F, Op 4 No 4 SIMON PRESTON
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.48* Chopin Ballade in A flat, Op 47
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
7.55* Mendelssohn Symphony No 1 in c minor, Op 11
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARA JAN Records
The Scarlatti Family Domenico at the Portuguese Court
From 1719, Domenico Scarlatti worked alongside a native
Portuguese composer, Carlos de Seixas, at the court of John V in Lisbon. Both composers were honoured with knighthoods in 1738. The programme includes sonatas by Scarlatti and Seixas, by Scarlatti and an early setting of the Stabat mater. Records
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by JERZY MAKSYMlUK Grieg Holberg Suite, Op 40
Dag Wiren Serenade for strings BBC Scotland (R)
Monica Huggett (violin) Timothy Mason (cello)
Linda Nicholson (fortepiano) Beethoven Allegretto in B flat (WoO 39); Trio in c minor, OplNo3
conducted by RICCARDO MUTI Hindemith Symphony in E flat Berlioz Symphonic fantastique (SF Berlin recording from the 1987 Berlin Festival)
from the University of Wales LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Bartok Quartet No 6 Tippett Quartet No 3 (In association with University College. Cardiff) BBC Wales
Music inspired by the Hungarian Revolution, with traditional dances and songs played by the JANOSI ENSEMBLE and ROBERT MANDEL Bartok Kossuth BUDAPEST SO; ARPAD JOO Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 BEAUX ARTS TRIO With WALTER TRAMPLER (viola) Liszt Hungaria LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/ KURTMASUR Ligeti Horn Trio SASCHKO GAWRILOFF (piano) HERMANN BAUMANN (hom) ECKART BESCH (piano) Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) LSO/ISTVAN KERTESZ. Records
Presented by Peter Paul Nash Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
John Beckett introduces work songs, mostly sung in the robust, intricate polyphony typical of western Georgia. Records
Thomas Keneally talks to
Peter Conrad about Australian writers, the bush and the book. Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
live from the Royal Albert Hall , London
BETTINADENNER
(mezzo-soprano) FRIEDHELM EBERLE (narrator)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA led by CHRISTIAN FUNKE conducted by KURT MASUR
Beethoven Incidental music: Egmont
8.15* Bernard Keeffe traces the remarkable history of the Leipzig Gewandhaus and its orchestra over the last two centuries.
Readers LAWRENCE PAYNE and ZELAH CLARKE Prclucer ARTHUR JOHNSON
8.35* Beethoven Symphony " No 7 in A
Nine plays by JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D'ARCY with and 8: Interrogations
At the Jubilee in Rome. the Emperor Constantine awaits a new vision, as great a vision as the Cross of Light: 'I and I alone can reconcile all these different shapes and sizes of man-Christ and woman-Christ who so conturb the truth of the world.
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by PENNY LEICESTER (R)
No 4inF(BWV809)
MELVYN TAN (harpsichord)
(Fifth suite on Thursday at 10.35pm)
Dvorak
Overture: The Devil and Kate String Quartet in A flat, Op 105
Symphonic poem: The Noonday Witch, Op 108
