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Sullivan Overture: The Mikado
RLPO/CHARLES GROVES
7.07* Ravel Alborada del gracioso
VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano)
7.14* Mendelssohn String Symphony No 2 in D
POLISH CO/JERZY MAKSYMIUK
7.30 News
7.35* Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dances, Op 91 CBSO, CHARLES GROVES
7.44* Handel Concerto in F (Hwv 295)
SIMON PRESTON (organ)
ENGLISH CONCERT TREVOR PINNOCK
7.58* Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
NEW YORK PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock

The third of four weekly sequences of English madrigals Greaves Come Away Sweet Love
Vautor Sweet Suffolk Owl Bateson Sister, Awake
Wilbye Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees
Morley Now Is the Month of Maying
Bennet All Creatures Now
PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES/ GRAYSTON BURGESS. Record

Contributors

Unknown:
Grayston Burgess.

Introduced by Richard Osborne Record Review
An edition devoted entirely to new releases.
Barry Millington on James Levine 's recording of Die Walkiire, the start of a new Ring Cycle.
Jeremy Siepmann reviews new piano discs.
Mark Steyn on releases of Bernstein's Candide,
Sondheim's Pacific Overtures and Kern's Showboat.
10.40* Record Release Liszt Totentanz
KRYSTLAN ZLMERMAN (piano) BOSTON SO/SEIJI OZAWA
10.57* Chopin Preludes, Op 28 JORGE BOLET (piano)
11.40* Gottschalk Le Bananier; La Savane;
Souvenir de Porto Rico RICHARD BURNETT (piano)
11.57* Sondheim
Chrysanthemum Tea; Please, Hello (Pacific Overtures) Soloists and orchestra of ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA/
JAMES HOLMES
12.17* Ives Decoration Day (Holidays Symphony)
CHICAGO SO MICH AEL TILSON THOMAS, who then talks about his work on Ives and other recording projects.
Ives The Unanswered Question CHICAGO SO/MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Beethoven Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LSO/MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Osborne
Unknown:
Barry Millington
Unknown:
James Levine
Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Mark Steyn

Transcriptions, Paraphrases, Reminiscences (8)
Schubert Horch, horch! die
Lerch; Standchen (D 957 No 4); Die junge Nonne; Ave Maria
(d 839); Gretchen am Spinnrade; Der Wanderer; Gute Nacht ; Der Lindenbaum; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Friihlingsglaube; Rastlose Liebe
DAVID OWEN NORRIS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gute Nacht
Unknown:
Rastlose Liebe
Unknown:
David Owen Norris

Vivaldi Concerto in F (rv 97) for viola d'amore, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and continuo
BRUNO GIURANNA (viola d'amore) MEMBERS OF THE DRESDEN STATE
ORCHESTRA VITTORIO NEGRI
Loeffler La Mort de Tintagiles JENNIE HANSEN (viola d'amore) INDIANAPOLIS SO/JOHN NELSON Records

Contributors

Viola:
Jennie Hansen

Bath Festival
VERMEER QUARTET
Beethoven Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3
Peter Schickele American
Dreams (first UK broadcast)
3.55* Interval
4.00* Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 (Given on 2 June at Christ Church, Bath, in association with Midland Bank pic) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Schickele

Nigel Andrews (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork , John Peter and Hilary Spurling.
Dada and Co by Derek Lister on Radio 3; Art in the Making-Rembrandt at the National
Gallery, London; Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Old Vic,
London; Louis Malle 's film Au revoir les enfants; Philip Larkin 's Collected Poems. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
John Peter
Unknown:
Hilary Spurling.
Unknown:
Derek Lister
Unknown:
Louis Malle
Unknown:
Philip Larkin

The second of this year's live relays from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Robert Lloyd introduces a performance of Verdi's opera conducted by JAMES LEVINE with Eva Marton as Leonora Luciano Pavarotti as Manrico Sherrill Milnes as the Count of Luna and Dolora Zajick as Azucena Acts 1 and 2

Contributors

Introduces:
Robert Lloyd
Conducted By:
James Levine
Unknown:
Eva Marton
Unknown:
Leonora Luciano Pavarotti
Unknown:
Manrico Sherrill Milnes

by Eugene O'Neill

The first of four plays about the men of the British tramp steamer SS Glencairn.
The ship is anchored off a West Indian island and an incessant native chant disturbs the men.
A production from Bay Area Radio Drama, Berkeley, California
(For cast see page 54)
('Bound East for Cardiff' tomorrow at 9.30pm)
Hear This! page 29

Contributors

Author:
Eugene O'Neill
Sound Design/Production:
Randy Thom
Director:
Jose Quintero

led by ROLF WILSON conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Handel, ed Mackerras
Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1
Schubert, arr Mahler String Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the Maiden) (2nd movement)
Haydn, ed Robbins Landon Symphony No 83 in G minor (La Poule) (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rolf Wilson
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Robbins Landon

BBC Radio 3

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