Into the Open: The First Hurdle

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Poulenc Three Novelettes GABRIEL TACCHINO (piano)
7.07* Stanford Irish Rhapsody No 4 (The Fisherman of Loch Neagh and What He Saw) LPO/NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE
7.30 News
7.35 Bach Cantata No 116: Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ MARKUS HUBER (treble) PAUL ESSWOOD (alto) KURT equiluz (tenor)
THOMAS THOMASCHKE (bass)
TOLZ BOYS' CHOIR
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
7.49* Beethoven Rondo in c. Op 51 No 1
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
7.54* Corelli Concerto Grosso in F. Op 6 No 2
LA PETITE BANDESIGISWALD KUIJKEN
8.04* Poulenc Piano Concerto FRANCOIS-RENE DUCHABLE (piano) ROTTERDAM PO, JAMES CONLON
Records. Producer DAVID GALLAGHER

Hector Berlioz (1803-69)
Overture: Le Corsaire, Op 21 RPO THOMAS BEECHAM Les Nuits d'ete, Op 7
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) JOSEPHINE VEASEY (mezzo-soprano)
FRANK PATTERSON (tenor) JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bass) LSO/COLIN
DAVIS Romeo seul; Grande fete chez les Capulets (Romeo et Juliette, Op 17)
LSO/COLlN DAVIS
Records. Producer JEREMY HAYES

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free. IGOR STRAVINSKY A morning sequence of Russian music
Shostakovich Preludes Nos 17-24, Op 34
ALLAN SCHILLER (piano)
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57 FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET with ALLAN SCHILLER (piano)
10.15* Tchaikovsky Fantasy after Dante: Francesca da Rimini, Op 32
OSLO POIMARI SS
JANSONS Khachaturian Sonata-fantasia RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (cello)
10.50* Arensky Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 35 RAPHAEL ENSEMBLE
11.20* Stravinsky Petrushka RICHARD MARKHAM and DAVID NETTLE (piano duet) Producer MARK ROWUNSON BBC Manchester

led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by GEORGE HURST
Boyce Symphony No 1 in B flat Brahms Symphony No 2 in D BBC Scotland

live from St John 's,
Smith Square, London HAGEN QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)
Beethoven Quartet in f, Op 135
(Tickets, p.OO, available from 11.00am today, or in advance from the box office. [number removed])

conducted by GEORG SOLTI
Mozart Mass in c minor (K 427) MARVIS MARTIN (soprano) ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER (mezzo-soprano)
JERRY HADLEY (tenor) MALCOLM KING (bass)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS (WFMT recording) (R)

(died 24 August 1988) Missade Gloria played by JOHN BIRCH (organ) in the Town Hall, Huddersfield BBC Manchester (R)

Bach Sonata in B minor (BWV 1030)
Handel Sonata in E minor, Op 1 No la
Couperin Concert No 7 in G minor (Les Gouts reunis) BARTHOLD KUIJKEN (flute)
BOB VAN ASPEREN (harpsichord) WIELAND KUIJKEN (viola da gamba)
(Radio Bremen recording)

Presented by Michael Berkeley Producer NIGEL WILKINSON

Michael Billington talks to the director Stephen Unwin. whose Production of Manfred Karge 's The Conquest of the South Pole was much praised at Edinburgh and opens this week at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Producer NED CHAILLET

live from Brussels
OCTOPHORUS conducted by PAUL DOMBRECHT attrib Mozart Divertimento in c (K 187)
Spohr Notturno in c. Op 34
8.25*'Respected Sirs....' A short story by GRAEME FIFE April 1827: the Philharmonic Society Committee in London holds an emergency meeting, after the news of Beethoven s death on 26 March: only five months earlier they had donated £100 to the composer at his urgent request.
Read by Edward de Souza Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
8.45* Rossler Partita in F (For the Hunt)
Beethoven Wellington's Victory, Op 91 (in the composer's own arrangement for wind and percussion)

played on the traditional instruments of Japan by the SAWAI KOTO ENSEMBLE, a 15-piece ensemble led by TADAO AND KAZUE SAWAI.
Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614-85) Midare for solo koto
Minezaki Kohto (1781-1800)
Zangetsu for voice, shamisen and koto
Isao Matsushita Azusayumi (1987)
10.10* Interval Reading
10.15* Masanori Fujita Nagi II (1987)
Tadao Sawai Sanka (1978) for koto solo; Homura (1979) BBC Manchester (R)

Mozart - annus mirabilis: 1788 Overture: Don Giovanni Piano Trio in E (K 542)
Piano Concerto No 26 in D (K 537) (Coronation)