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Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins and orchestra (bwv 1043) ANNE SOPHIE MUTTER (violin) SALVATORE ACCARDO (violin) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
7.17* Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
NORTHERN SINFONIA/RICHARD HICKOX
7.30 News
7.35 Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman
PHILHARMONIA/OTTO KLEMPERER
7.46* Albeniz Jerez (Iberia) ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
7.56* Berlioz La Belle Voyageuse
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) LSO/COLIN DAVIS
8.02* Dvorak Romance, Op 11 ST PAUL co directed by PINCHA ZUKERMAN (violin)
8.15* Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela, Op 22 No 3
LENINGRAD PO/EVGENY MRAVINSKY Records. Producer MARTIN COTTON

Contributors

Violin:
Salvatore Accardo
Directed By:
Pincha Zukerman

Alban Berg (1885-1935)
They have done Berg a serious injustice. He is a dramatist of astounding vitality, of profound truth. Every note has been dipped in blood. JANACEK, 1928 Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1907 setting)
MARGARET MARSHALL (soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) String Quartet, Op 3 LASALLE QUARTET
Walter Levin (violin) Henry Meyer (violin)
Peter Kamnitzer (viola) Jack Kirstein (cello) Four Songs, Op 2
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
ARIBERT REIMANN (piano) Four Pieces, Op 5
ANTONY PAY (clarinet)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Seven Early Songs
KARI LÖVAAS (soprano) NORTH GERMAN RSO/
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
Records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Alban Berg
Soprano:
Margaret Marshall
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Violin:
Walter Levin
Violin:
Henry Meyer
Viola:
Peter Kamnitzer
Cello:
Jack Kirstein
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Herbert Blomstedt
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

... that cuts thrice a year
GEORGE HERBERT :
Jacula Prudentum
A morning sequence of French music
Faure Pieces breves, Op 84 Nos 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
KEITH SWALLOW (piano) Pleurs d'or, Op 72
ALISON BARLOW (soprano) MARTIN HINDMARSH (tenor) KEITH SWALLOW (piano) Madrigal, Op 35
KEITH SWALLOW (piano), BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS
Le Ruisseau, Op 22
KEITH SWALLOW (piano)/LADIES OF THE BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS
10.00* Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
NORTHERN siNFONiA directed by JAN PASCAL TORTELIER (violin) Grimace A l'arme, a l'arme Cuvelier Lorques Arthus
Borlet He, tres doulz roussignol
NEW LONDON CONSORT
10.30* Milhaud Sonatina , Op 76 PHILIPPA DA VIES (flute)
JULIAN JACOBSON (piano)
Durufle Trois danses. Op 6
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Poulenc Improvisations Nos 4, 5,7,8,9: KEITH SWALLOW (piano) Sept Chansons
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS
11.13* Franck Piano Quintet in F minor: LINDSAY STRING QUARTET with CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW (piano) Producer MARK ROWUNSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
George Herbert
Soprano:
Alison Barlow
Conducted By:
John Alldis
Conducted By:
John Alldis
Conducted By:
Rondo Capriccioso
Violin:
Jan Pascal Tortelier
Unknown:
Milhaud Sonatina
Piano:
Julian Jacobson
Piano:
Durufle Trois
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Conducted By:
John Alldis
Piano:
Christian Blackshaw

live from St John 's,
Smith Square, London MAURICE BOURGUE (oboe) BRITTEN QUARTET
Britten Phantasy Quartet, Op 2 Haydn String Quartet in A, Op 20 No 6
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F (K 370)
(Tickets £3.00. availablefrom 11.00am today, or in advance from the Box Office: [number removed])

Contributors

Unknown:
St John

The second of three programmes recalling some of the performances at this recent biennial event.
Introduced by Gareth Walters LEONARDO DE ANGEUS (guitar) TIMO KORHONEN (guitar) XANGAY (singer/guitar) tata GUINES (drums) FUSION (guitar trio) REY GUERRA (guitar)
ORCHESTRA OF MANTANZAS conducted by GUIDO LOPEZ GAVILAN Francis Cutting Pavana ; Gallarda
Regino Sainz de la Maza Rondena
Sor Caprice: Le Calme, Op 50
Xangay Que qui tu tem canario; Cocoroco
Ardisher Farah Reng
Brouwer Concerto Elegiaco (Guitar Concerto No 3)
(Given in May at the National Theatre, Havana, in association with Egrem)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gareth Walters
Conducted By:
Guido Lopez Gavilan
Conducted By:
Francis Cutting Pavana

Marina Warner talks to the Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker about her play The Love of the Nightingale which opens at the RSC this week, her critically-acclaimed adaptation of a Thomas Keneally novel, Our Country's Good, which is now on at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and her radio drama.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Marina Warner
Interviewee:
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Producer:
Rachel Yorke

The four songs, Op 27, that
Richard Strauss composed in 1894 for his new wife, sung by MARGARET PRICE (soprano) with WOLFGANG SAWALLlSCH (piano) , Ruhe meine Seele ; Cacilie; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Strauss
Sung By:
Margaret Price
Piano:
Wolfgang Sawalllsch
Piano:
Ruhe Meine Seele

Played by the NASH ENSEMBLE Marcia Crayford and Jeremy Williams (violins) Koger Chase and Yuko Inoue (violas)
Christopher van Kampen and Moray Welsh (cellos) Ive from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , as part of the South Bank Centre's Schoenberg cycle,
The Reluctant Revolutionary'. Strauss Prelude: Capriccio Brahms String Quartet in G minor, Op 111
8.30* The Air from Other Planets
Frank Whitford considers Schoenberg the painter.
8.50* Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht

Contributors

Violins:
Jeremy Williams
Violins:
Koger Chase
Violas:
Yuko Inoue
Violas:
Christopher van Kampen
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
Frank Whitford

The second of two programmes about nuclear winter.
In 1983, Carl Sagan ruffled scientific feathers by predicting that nuclear war would cause climatic changes so severe that the human race could become extinct. Other scientists felt that 'nuclear winter' was so tentative that he should have kept quiet. Colin Tudge stands back to watch a clash of scientific styles.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Sagan
Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Nicholas Morgan

English Catholics were cruelly persecuted during the reign of Elizabeth I: William Byrd 's motets of 1589 are the prayers of a community whose very existence was threatened.
Readings from contemporary accounts of their sufferings provide a background for performances of motets by the NONSUCH CONSORT OF VOICES directed by JOHN milsom. Tribulationes civitatum;
Ne irascaris; Vigilate; Domine secundum multitudinem;
0 quam gloriosum est regnum Producer GRAHAM DIXON

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Directed By:
John Milsom.
Producer:
Graham Dixon

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