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Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine
LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.12* Debussy L'Isle joyeuse ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
7.17* Vivaldi Concerto in E flat, Op 8 No 5 (a tempesta di mare) FRANZ LISZT CO/JANOS ROLLA
7.30 News
7.35 Sibelius The Oceanides, Op 73
SNO/ALEXANDER GIBSON
7.45* Schubert Auf dem Wasser zu singen
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) WALTER GIESEKING (piano)
7.51* Grainger Spoon River BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
KENNETH MONTGOMERY
7.57* Liszt Legende No 2: St Francis of Paola
Walking on the Waters GYORGY CZIFFRA (piano)
8.07* Bridge Suite: The Sea ULSTER ORCHESTRA/
VERNON HANDLEY. Records
Howard Ferguson and Gerald Finzi
Finzi Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op 38, for piano and orchestra
PETER KATIN (piano)
NEW PO/VERNON HANDLEY Finzi Lo, the Full, Final
Sacrifice
RICHARD mCKOX SINGERS
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA/
RICHARD
HICKOX Ferguson Concerto for piano and string orchestra, Op 12 HOWARD SHELLEY (piano) CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA/ RICHARD HICKOX. Records
Quintet in C (D 956)
Endellion String Quartet
Andrew Watkinson (violin) James Clark (violin)
Garfield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello)
With STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello) BBC Pebble Mill (R)
Kodaly Symphony in c PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICAI ANTAL DORATI. Records
An evocation of romantic woodlands, followed by the composer of forest scenes par excellence.
Schumann Waldszenen , Op 82 Weber Piano Sonata No 2 in A flat, Op 39
CAROLINE PALMER (piano) (R)
led by BRADLEY CRESWICK conducted by ERICH SCHMID
Mozart Overture: Idomeneo Haydn Symphony No 60 in c (II Distratto)
Richard Strauss Metamorphosen BBC Manchester (R)
live from St George 's Brandon Hill , Bristol
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
John Georgiadis (violin) Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
Britten Three Divertimenti
Dvorak Two Waltzes (arranged from Op 54 for piano)
Dohnanyi Quartet No 2 in D flat, Op 15
(Presented by St George 's Music
Trust. Tickets available at the door) BBC Bristol
BERNARD ROBERTS (piano)
Copland Four Piano Blues; Piano Fantasy. BBC Wales
A concert of music which was performed at the Pleasure
Gardens in Vauxhall, London, during the 18th century. ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK with JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) and WILLIAM KENDAL (tenor)
Chilcot The Choir Awake, Raise the Song
Boyce Symphony No 4 in F
Chilcot Hark, Hark the Lark
(Cymbeline); Orpheus with His Lute (Henry VIII )
Arne Dirge from Cymbeline; Where the Bee Sucks (The Tempest)
Handel Organ Concerto in F, Op4No5
Arne Cantata: The Lover's Recantation
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Arne Jenny,
The Sycamore Shade; Damon and Phyllis J.C. Bach Grand Overture in D, Op 18 No 4
Hook The Lass of Richmond Hill
J.C. Bach Midst Silent Shades Russell The British Soldier (R)
Poulenc Sonata
Stravinsky Duo concertant PAUL BARRITT (violin)
WILLIAM HOWARD (piano)
Brian Kay muses on the voice and verse of a Blest Pair of Sirens and includes as well some songs without words. Producer JUDITH ROLES
BESSES O' TH' BARN BAND conducted by SANDY BLAIR Walton The First Shoot Elgar Severn Suite BBC Manchester
live from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow Derek Watson introduces Scottish Opera's new production of this three-act opera, with words and music by Michael Tippett.
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorusmaster DAVID DRUMMOND
SCOTTISH OPERA ORCHESTRA led by ANGUS ANDERSON conducted by JOHN PRYCE-JONES Act
8.15* Valentine Cunningham considers some of the literary sources of Tippett's opera.
8.25* Act 2
9.00* Peter Conrad examines the workings of operatic marriages
9.20* Act 3
'It was almost like living in a museum - but the museum had fine cliffs for climbing, and talking exhibits.'
The Isle of Lewis is the common ground in a selection of poems presented, and translated from his own Gaelic, by Derek Thomson.
Producer FRASER STEEL (R)
Handel
Water Music: Suite No 2 in D Passacaglia: SuiteNo 7 in Gminor (1720)
Esther: Overture: Tune Your rPs; Scene
