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Delius A Song of Summer LSOJOHNBARBIROLLI
7.12* Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano)
7.18* Josef Strauss Waltz : Spharen-Klange
VIENNA PO WILLI BOSKOVSKY
7.30 News
7.35 Vaughan Williams Romance in D flat, for harmonica, strings and piano TOMMY REILLY (harmonica)
ACADEMY OFSTMARTININTHEFIELDS/
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.42* Bach Concerto in G minor (BWV 1058), for keyboard and string orchestra ENGLISH CONCERT TREVOR PINNOCK
7.56* Glazunov Symphony No 1 in E: BAVARIAN RSO/NEEME JARVI Records

Contributors

Piano:
Vlado Perlemuter
Piano:
Josef Strauss Waltz
Unknown:
Willi Boskovsky
Piano:
Tommy Reilly
Unknown:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock

led by IAIN KING conducted by JORG FAERBER DAVID HASLAM (flute)
GEORGE MACDONALD (clarinet) Mozart Symphony No 13 inF(Kll2)
Danzi Concertante in B flat Haydn Symphony No 80 in D minor
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Iain King
Conducted By:
Jorg Faerber
Flute:
David Haslam
Clarinet:
George MacDonald

Introduced by Richard Osborne Record Review
Building a Library:
Haydn's Nelson Mass by Stephen Dodgson.
David Nice reviews Strauss's opera Die Frau ohne Schatten , conducted by Wolfgang SawaUisch.
Michael Kennedy talks about new releases of music by Britten and Bridge.
10.40* Record Release
Bridge Phantasy in F sharp minor: DARTINGTON PIANO TRIO with PATRICK IRELAND (viola)
10.55*
Britten A.M.D.G. LONDON SINFONIETTA CHORUS;
TERRY EDWARDS
Edward Seekerson talks to Arthur Moorhead, Vice President of the enterprising American label, New World Records.
William Bolcom Symphony No 4 JOAN morris (mezzo-soprano) SAINT LOUIS SO LEONARD SLATKIN
12.03* Haydn Trio in c minor (H xv 13): PATRICK COHEN (piano) ERICH HOBARTH (violin) CHRISTOPHE COIN (cello)
12.26* Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat (K 543) VIENNA PO JAMES LEVINE Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Osborne
Unknown:
Nelson Mass
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson.
Unknown:
Frau Ohne Schatten
Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawauisch.
Talks:
Michael Kennedy
Viola:
Patrick Ireland
Unknown:
Terry Edwards

... a stirring creation, full of charm, wit and beauty
... Mr Adams does for the arpeggio what McDonalds did for the hamburger. NEW YORK TIMES Opera by John Adams to a libretto by ALICE GOODMAN in PETER SELLARS 'S production for the Houston Grand Opera.
Presented by Derek Watson
HOUSTON OPERA CHORUS
SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA led by JOHN DOIG conducted by THE COMPOSER Act
2.50* Act 2
3.50* Act 3
Between the acts John Adams talks to Andrew Porter , music critic of the New Yorker.
(Given last Monday in the Edinburgh Playhouse in association with the Scotsman Festival Fund, as part of the EdinburghInternationalFestival) 0 HEAR THIS! page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Adams
Unknown:
John Adams
Unknown:
Alice Goodman
Unknown:
Peter Sellars
Unknown:
Houston Grand Opera.
Presented By:
Derek Watson
Unknown:
John Doig
Talks:
John Adams
Unknown:
Andrew Porter
Chou En-lai:
Sanford Sylvan (baritone)
Richard Nixon:
James Maddalena (baritone)
Henry Kissinger:
Thomas Hammons (bass)
First secretary:
Mari Opatz (mezzo-Soprano)
Second secretary:
Stephanie Friedman
Third secretary:
Marion Dry (contralto)
Mao Tse-tung:
John Duykers (ten)
Pat Nixon:
Carolann Page (sop)
Chiang Ch'ing:
Trudy Ellen Craney (soprano)

Sheridan Morley (in the Chair) talks with Michael Coveney
Peter Kemp and Marina Warner. The Bite of the Night by Howard Barker at the Pit, Barbican,
London; the Timewatch special Shadow of the Ripper (BBC 2, last Wednesday); new paintings by Howard Hodgkin at the Waddington Galleries, London; Peter Greenaway 's film Drowning by Numbers
The Captain and the Enemy, a novel by Graham Greene. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Michael Coveney
Unknown:
Peter Kemp
Unknown:
Howard Barker
Unknown:
Peter Greenaway
Novel By:
Graham Greene.

The second of four programmes LYNDA RICHARDSON (soprano)
CAPRICORN conducted by SIMON BAINBRIDGE
Milhaud La Creation du monde Ives The Unanswered Question Simon Bainbridge Landscapes and Magic Words
(first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Soprano:
Lynda Richardson
Conducted By:
Simon Bainbridge
Unknown:
Simon Bainbridge Landscapes

live from the Royal Albert Hall , London
BBC SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by GUNTER WAND Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor (K 550)
7.55* The Private Tchaikovsky David Brown uncovers some programmatic elements and borrowings which lie behind the late symphonies.
8.15* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Conducted By:
Gunter Wand
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky David Brown

During the last year, about 300 sufferers from Parkinson's disease have received transplants of cells into their brains. The grafts come either from their own adrenal glands, or from aborted foetuses.
Some surgeons have claimed dramatic improvements in their patients. Others say they have seen no change.
Georgina Ferry examines the scientific evidence, and considers the ethical questions surrounding the introduction of new treatments.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Contributors

Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Directed by CHARLES MEDLAM (cello) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
Georg Muffat Sonata No 5 in G (Armonico tributo)
Buxtehude 0 clemens, 0 mitis; 0 Gottes Stadt (Bux wv 82 and 87) Biber Serenade in c (Nightwatchman)
Handel Quartet in G (arranged from Trio Sonata, Op 5 No 4)
Vivaldi Motet: In furore (rv 626) (Given in September 1987 in the Parish Church of St Nicholas, Arundel, as part of the Arundel Festival)

Contributors

Directed By:
Charles Medlam
Soprano:
Georg Muffat
Soprano:
Biber Serenade

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by GEORGE HURST MORAY WELSH (cello)
Edward Harper Intrada
William Boyce Symphony No 1 in B flat
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor BBCScotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Trabichoff
Conducted By:
George Hurst

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