followed by News Headlines

by J.S. Bach
2: Und in waren Hirten in derselben Gegend . . .

RUTH HOLTON (soprano)
NANCY ARGENTA (soprano) ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) (mezzo-soprano)
HANS PETER BLOCHWITz (tenor) OLAF BAR (baritone)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
(Record)

(Third cantata tomorrow 7.00am)

Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA;
ERNEST ANSERMET
7.51* Canteloube Bailero: Oi, Ayai; La Delaissado (Chants d'Auvergne)
FREDERtCA VON STADE (SOprano) RPO; ANTOMO DE ALMEIDA
8.06* Poulenc Organ Concerto MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (Organ)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA;
JEAN MARTINON records

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) Overture di ballo - RLPO/Charles Groves

I Would! Were a King - David Wilson Johnson (baritone) Antony Saunders (piano)

Duo concertante - David Smith (Cello) John Parry (piano)

Incidental music: The Tempest - CBSO/Vivian Dunn

(Records)

Sir John Barbirolli, Conductor. Cellist and Raconteur
With EVELYN BARBtROLU (oboe) JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) JACQUEUNE DU PRE (Cello) RUTH FERMOY (piano) HALLE ORCHESTRA
NEW PHILHARMONLA ORCHESTRA
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Brahms Academic Festival Overture
9.41 Gounod Little Symphony for wind
10.00* Pergolesi, arr Barbirolli: Concerto for oboe and strings
10.12 Saint-Saens The Swan
10.15 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
10.23 Ravel Sheherazade
10.40 Berlioz Overture Roman Carnival
10.50* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
11.30* Mahler Symphony No 3 in c sharp minor

A repeat of the 1960 recording of John Betjeman reading his autobiographical poem in ten chapters. 1: Be/ore 7974 .Mono

The first of nine concerts of Haydn's late chamber works, given last September in the Wigmore Ha!l, London. RADU Lupu (piano)
MARIE MCLAUGHLIN (soprano) TAKACSQUARTET
Piano Sonata in D (n xv; 37) Original canzonettas: The
Mermaid's Song; Recollection; A Pastoral Song; Despair; Pleasing Pain; Fidelity Piano Sonata in c minor (nxvt 20)

String Quartet in Op 76 No 1 Series producer MISHA DONAT
For an illustrated booklet on this series. send a sae and a cheque/PO for £1 00. payable to BBC Radio to. [address removed]

The annual music quiz that makes the Spanish Inquisition look like the Teddy Bears' Picnic. Grand Inquisitor Bernard Keeffe. On the rack: Gillian Weir, Thomas Allen, John McCabe and Evelyn Barbirolli.

The second of four programmes from this year's Aberdeen
International Youth Festival.
MIDLAND YOUTH ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LANGLEY
Arnold Four Scottish Dances Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) Walton Suite; Henry V
(Given on 5 August !n Me Must'c Hall, A&erdem. m (Msooahon !mtn (ne .Aberdeen C!<!/ Centre Association)

J.C.F. Bach Sonata in c, for flute, harpsichord and violin (R)

(1888.1976)
Alan BIyth recalls the art of the German-born soprano, with excerpts from some of her most "Mtous rotes, including E)sa.
MMaeiaandAgathe.
"Oducer PETER TANNER. Mono (R)

(Piano)

Tchaikovsky Romance in F, Op 51 No 5
September; June; August (The Seasons)

Liszt Apres une lecture du Dante

Beethoven Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)

(Given on 3 June at Christ Church, Bath, in association with IBM, as part of this year's Bath Festival)

BBC Bristol

by Christopher Hope
'"fee historical travesties based on the principle that behind every great man is an even greater woman.
1: Husband Herman
'I'm the one who was left to look after the kids. I mean, your Socratic dialogues, your theory of terms, your "good and true and beautiful" are all very well on a sunny morning in the market place but they don't put bread on the table. Really, there "ere times when my husband could be so stupid!'
With Patricia Routledge as Xanthippe Socrates and Derek Fowlds as Plato. Directed by ROSEMARY HART

KARITA MATTTLA (soprano) ALFREDA HODGSON
(mezzo-soprano)
''ERRY HADLEY (tenor) ROBERT HOLL (bass)
°"C SYMPHONY CHORUS chorusmaster GARETH MORRELL LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
VIENNA WIND SOLOISTS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by cLAUDio ABBADO
Mozart Serenade in E Hat (K 375) Beethoven Symphony No 9 fp minor (Choral)
(Given in s<'p«'moer 1987 at <ne Ro!/o< Albert Hall. as part of the 1987 Proms)

adapted by MiKE STEER from THOMAS CORYATE S Crudt<!M.
Keyboard music of the countries and period is Played by MIKE STEER.
'Todueer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

(Piano)
Mendelssohn Rondo capriccioso in E, Op 14
Franck Prelude, Choral et Fugue
Bellini, transc Liszt
Reminiscences de Norma

(South German Radio recording)

Excursions in poetry and prose 2: Son</!
(Part 3 on WednMdai/ot 10.20pm)

Schubert