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Barber Serenade for String Orchestra
LOS ANGELES CO/GERARD SCHWARZ
7.10* Franck Symphonic Variations
JEAN PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano) TOULOUSE CAPITOLE ORCHESTRAl
MICHEL PLASSON
7.30 News
7.35 Mussorgsky Scherzo in B flat
LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.39* Harty Three Pieces SARAH FRANCIS (oboe)
PETER DICKINSON (piano)
7.52* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in c minor (Little Russian) OSLO PO/MARISS JANSONS Records

HAKAN HARDENBERGER (trumpet) BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW HORTON conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH Haydn Symphony No 92 in G, Op 30 No 3 (Oxford)
Birtwistle Endless Parade
11.50* Elgar Howarth and Hakan Hardenberger discuss Birtwistle's Endless Parade.
11.55* Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Hakan Hardenberger
Unknown:
Andrew Horton
Conducted By:
Elgar Howarth
Unknown:
Elgar Howarth
Unknown:
Hakan Hardenberger

ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano) AURELE NICOLET (flute) EDWARD BECKETT (flute) YUUKO SHIOKAWA (violin) STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello)
TAKACS QUARTET
Capriccio in G for piano
Trios for two flutes and cello: No 4 in G; No 2 in G (London) Piano Trio in E flat minor (HXV31)

Contributors

Piano:
Andras Schiff
Flute:
Edward Beckett
Cello:
Steven Isserlis

Roger Nichols introduces a stage production he devised for last year's Exeter Festival, which included the first revival of the young Poulenc's 1921 comic music-theatre piece Le Gendarme incompris. MARK CURTIS (tenor)
RICHARD LLOYD MORGAN (baritone) With DANIEL MITCHELL and DEBRA ROBINSON
NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by LIONEL FRIEND
Stravinsky L'Histoire du soldat
5.03* Roger Nichols on how he tracked down and revised Le Gendarme incompris.
5.10* Poulenc Le Gendarme incompris (first UK broadcast) (Given in June 1987 at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, as part of the Exeter Festival in association with the Post Office) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger Nichols
Baritone:
Lloyd Morgan
Unknown:
Daniel Mitchell
Unknown:
Debra Robinson
Conducted By:
Lionel Friend
Unknown:
Roger Nichols

4 Life in the Cinema
In the first of two conversations With Philip French, the Irish film actor talks about working in England with Carol Reed on Odd Man Out, in Hollywood
With Orson Welles on Macbeth, and in Mexico with Luis Bunuel On Robinson Crusoe.
(R) (Part 2 tomorrow at 7. 05pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Reed
Unknown:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Luis Bunuel
Unknown:
Robinson Crusoe.

The last of three programmes Jf the piano quartets of Mendelssohn and Brahms.
Mendelssohn Piano Quartet No 2 in k minor, Op 2 Elizabeth Maconchy nccola Musica
8.15* Denis Matthews talks about the Brahms piano quartets.
8.20* Brahms Piano Quartet No 3 in c minor, Op 60
(Given on 15 July in the Pittville
Pump Room, Cheltenham. as part of the 1988 Cheltenham Festival)

Contributors

Talks:
Denis Matthews

BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY
Messiaen's Cinq rechants for 12 voices, preceded by some of the chansons from Claude Le Jeune 's Le Printemps of 1603, which provided Messiaen with a model in rhythm and form.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Simon Joly
Unknown:
Claude Le Jeune

Derek Bailey introduces a sequence of improvisations
Performed by himself on guitar with PHILIP WACHSMANN (violin) GAVIN BRYARS (double-bass) ALEX WARD (clarinet)
MiCK BECK (tenor saxophone) CYRO BAPTISTA (percussion).
The musicians work in duos, trios and, in only one improvisation, as a sextet.

Contributors

Introduces:
Derek Bailey
Violin:
Philip Wachsmann
Double-Bass:
Gavin Bryars
Tenor:
Mick Beck

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