Musical Life in Restoration England

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Poulenc Three Novelettes PASCAL ROGE (piano)
7.07* Chausson Poeme AUGUSTIN DUMAY (violin)
MONTE CARLO PO MANUEL
ROSENTHAL
7.24* Sousa Washington Post
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE/
ELGARHOWARTH
7.30 News
7.35 Vivaldi Concerto in A (RV159)
ENGLISH CONCERT TREVOR PINNOCK
7.40* Purcell Suite No 8 in F COLIN TILNEY (harpsichord)
7.46* Zelenka Capriccio No 3 in F
CAMERATA BERN;
ALEXANDER VAN WIJNKOOP
8.03* Boccherini Sinfonia in D minor, Op 12 No 4 NEW PHILHARMONIA/
RAYMOND LEPPARD Records

Grieg
Six Norwegian Mountain Melodies
EVA KNARDAHL (piano) Five Songs, Op 60
ELLEN WESTBERG ANDERSEN (soprano)
JENS HARALD BRATLIE (piano) Slatter, Op 72
EVA KNARDAHL (piano) Records

The new Orpheus of our time
ANGELO BERARDI , 1689
The third of six programmes Trio Sonata in A, Op 1 No 3 Sonata in B flat, Op 5 No 2, for violin and continuo Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 6
L'ÉCOLE D'ORPHÉE directed by JOHN HOLLOWAY (violin)
(Fourth programme tomorrow at9.35am)

Seven Songs, Op 6, for women's voices and piano
Seven Part Songs, Op 71 JOHN ALLEY (piano) BBC SINGERS conducted by JOHN POOLE

REYKJAVIK WIND ENSEMBLE
Bernhardur Wilkinson (flute) Dadi Kolbeinsson (oboe)
Einar Johannesson (clarinet) Joseph Ognibene (horn) Hafsteinn Gudmundsson (bassoon)
Ferenc Farkas Old Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century Thorkell Sigurbjornsson Scramble
Jacques Ibert Trois pieces breves
BBC Wales

conducted by RUDOLF BARSHAI MISHA DICHTER (piano)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor
BBC Bristol (R)

from the University of Wales The tenth of 12 programmes BERLIN PIANO TRIO
Mozart Divertimento in B flat (K254)
Schumann Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63
2.00* Wild Wales
J.O. Roberts reads from
GEORGE BORROW.
2.05* Brahms Trio No 2 in c, Op 87
(In association with University College. Cardiff) BBC Wales

Music of the Risorgimento, the movement that led to the unification of Italy, including episodes from operas by Rossini and Verdi, and some of their instrumental music. Records

Natalie Wheen presents a selection of music for the early evening.
Producer PHILIP TAGNEY

Pieces for two traditional Japanese instruments KINUKO SHIRANE (koto)
YOSHIKAZU IWAMOTO (shakuhachi) Shinichi Yueze Shin-sen -cho Bukyoku
Tezo Matsumura Shikyoku (R)

Bridget Riley , one of Britain's foremost abstract painters, talks to Julian Spalding ,
Director of the City Art Gallery, Manchester.
Producer HANS PIETSCH (R)

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, led by James Clark, conducted by James Loughran

Berlioz Overture: King Lear

William Mathias Piano Concerto No 3

8.15* Shaw on Elgar
'Edward Elgar, the figurehead of music in England, is a composer whose rank it is neither prudent nor indeed possible to determine. Either it is one so high that only time and prosperity can confer it, or else he is one of the Seven Humbugs of Christendom.'
Timothy West reads a Shavian tribute to Sir Edward Elgar, published in 1920.

8.35* Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat

The last of nine plays about Church and State under the Roman Empire by JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D'ARCY with Roshan Seth as Paul of Tarsus
Anne Jameson as Oenothea Jill Bennett as Eutropia Michael N. Harbour as Constantine and Elizabeth Spriggs as Kybele Hypothesis
'Am I therefore to subordinate my sovereignty upon earth, now, to the rule of Christ, he who will be imposing himself over me once I am dead?' Was Constantine's embracing of Christianity another political act or a true commitment, a revelation?
With JONATHAN TAFLER
ALAN DUDLEY and ZELAH CLARK
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN BOXER Performed by the CONCHORD ENSEMBLE. LONDON VOICES and TRINITY BOYS' CHOIR Technical presentation by CAROL MCSHANE. DAVID BLOUNT and ROSAMUND MASON
Directed by RONALD MASON and PENNY LEICESTER
Executive producer RONALD MASON

The Scarlatti Family
Domenico at the Portuguese Court
From 1719, Scarlatti worked alongside a native Portuguese composer, Carlos de Seixas, at the court of John V in Lisbon. This programme includes sonatas by Scarlatti and Seixas, and an early setting of the Stabat mater by Scarlatti.