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Poulenc Matelote provençale for 'La guirlande de Campra' PHILHARMONIA GEORGES PRETRE
7.01* Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.12* Bax Symphonic poem: Tintagel: LSO/JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.30 News
7.35 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in C (RV 185): MONICA HUGGETT ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.43* Enesco Romanian
Rhapsody No 1: LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
7.56* Glazunov Symphony No 7 in F: BAMBERG SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA/NEEME JARVI. Records

Introduced by Richard Osborne Record Review Building a Library: Rachmaninov's Second Symphony by Stephen Johnson. Barry Fox talks about the controversy over how long compact discs last. William Mann reviews new Mahler recordings by Abbado and Bernstein.
10.40* Record Release Pfitzner Miracle of the Blossoms; Funeral March (Die Rose vom Liebesgarten) BAVARIAN RSO/ WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
10.55* Bach Concerto in D minor (BWV 1052) GLENN GOULD (piano) AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA DMITRI MITROPOULOS (1958 recording)
11.15* Weber Overture: Oberon NBC SO/ARTURO TOSCANINI (1954recording)
11.35* Mahler Symphony No 9 VIENNA PO'CLAUDIO ABBADO Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS FMonlyfrom 10.25am ('Record Review ' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Osborne
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson.
Talks:
Barry Fox
Unknown:
William Mann
Unknown:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Piano:
Glenn Gould
Unknown:
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Unknown:
Claudio Abbado
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

NatWest Trophy Final
Worcestershire v Middlesex Ball-by-ball commentary from Lord's by BRIAN JOHNSTON. CHRISTOPHER MARTIN JENKINS and HENRY BLOFELD. with comments from NORMAN GIFFORD for Worcestershire and MIKE SELVEY for Middlesex, while DAVID GOWER sees fair play. Scorer PETER BYRNE
12.50 News
12.55 Cricket Forum
Christopher Martin-Jenkins chairs a discussion on some of the issues of the season. Producer PETER BAXTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston.
Unknown:
Christopher Martin Jenkins
Unknown:
Henry Blofeld.
Unknown:
Norman Gifford
Unknown:
Mike Selvey
Unknown:
David Gower
Unknown:
Peter Byrne
Unknown:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Producer:
Peter Baxter

Transcriptions, Paraphrases, Reminiscences (2) Wagner Elsas Brautzug (Lohengrin); Walhall (Der Ring des Nibelungen); Spinnerlied (Der fliegende Hollander ); Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde); Overture: Tannhauser played by MICHELE CAMPANELLA (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wagner Elsas Brautzug
Unknown:
Fliegende Hollander
Played By:
Michele Campanella

ossia L'isola di Circe In Gluck's two-act opera from 1765, Telemachus discovers his father has been turned into a tree by the evil enchantress Circe, to keep him imprisoned on her island. Circe decides to liberate him but Telemachus will not flee without another of her captives, Asteria, the girl he loves. His father Ulysses thinks she will bring about their destruction.... (sung in Italian) (counter-tener) (Soprano) SCHUTZ CHOIR OF LONDON LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS led by JOHN HOLLOWAY JENNIFER WARD CLARKE JOHN TOLL (continuo) conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON Producer CLIVE BENNETT (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Holloway
Unknown:
Jennifer Ward Clarke
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington
Producer:
Clive Bennett
Ulysses:
John Aler(tenor)
Telemachus:
Christopher Robson
Meriones:
Nancy Argenta
Circe:
Eiddwen Harrhy(soprano)
Asteria:
Judith Nelson (soprano)

The first Radio 3 recital by the young Greek violinist LEONIDASKAVAKOS with GORDON BACK (piano) Kreisler Schon Rosmarin Dvorak, arr Kreisler Slavonic Dance No 2 Falla, arr Szigeti The Miller's Dance Sarasate Zapateado Saint-Saens, arr Ysaye Valse caprice William Kroll Banjo and Fiddle Falla, arr Kreisler Spanish Dance No 1 Paganini Le streghe

Contributors

Piano:
Kreisler Schon Rosmarin
Unknown:
Sarasate Zapateado
Unknown:
William Kroll Banjo

Christopher Cook (in the Chair) talks with Peter Kemp Sheridan Morley and Marina Warner. This week's subjects: ScreenPlay: Between the Cracks by Lucy Parker and Lennie James (BBC2 last Wednesday): Bussy D 'Ambois by George Chapman at the Old Vie. London; The Letters of Max Beerbohm edited by Rupert Hart-Davis ; the L.S. Lowry centenary exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London: Chris Menges 'sfilm.A World Apart. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Peter Kemp
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Lucy Parker
Unknown:
Lennie James
Unknown:
George Chapman
Unknown:
Max Beerbohm
Edited By:
Rupert Hart-Davis
Unknown:
L.S. Lowry
Unknown:
Chris Menges

The first of four weekly programmes of music by European as well as American composers, capturing some of the magic and mystery of the American continent. HELEN LAWRENCE (soprano) LONTANO conducted by ODALINE DE LA MARTINEZ Chavez Toccata , for percussion instruments Varese lonisation, for percussion ensemble Ginastera Cantata para America Magica, for soprano and percussion ensemble Series producer ANTHONY BURTON

Contributors

Soprano:
Helen Lawrence
Conducted By:
Odaline De La Martinez
Conducted By:
Chavez Toccata
Producer:
Anthony Burton

live from the Royal Albert Hall , London LYNN HARRELL (cello)
AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA led by VIKTOR LIBERMAN conducted by RICCARDO CHAILLY Johan Wagenaar Overture: Twelfth Night
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2
8.15* Concert Halls and Swimming Pools
A short survey of the present state of musical life in Holland by Gordon Stewart
8.35* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
Viktor Liberman
Conducted By:
Riccardo Chailly
Conducted By:
Johan Wagenaar
Unknown:
Gordon Stewart

NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by lionel FRIEND JONTY HARRISON and ALISTAIR MACDONALD (electronics) Ireland Sextet
Michael Berkeley Clarinet Quintet
Jonty Harrison Farben for eight instruments and live electronics (Festival commission: first performance) (Given in July 1987 at Radley College. Abingdon, Oxfordshire) BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lionel Friend
Conducted By:
Jonty Harrison
Conducted By:
Alistair MacDonald
Clarinet:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Jonty Harrison Farben

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