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Offenbach Overture: La belle Helene PHILHARMONIA
/NEVTLLE MARRINER
7.08* Ravel La Valse MARTHA ARGERICH and NELSON FREIRE (pianos)
7.20* Bax Dance of Wild Irravel (Four Orchestral Sketches) LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
7.30 News
7.35 Kodaly Dances of Galanta BUDAPEST SO/GYORGY LEHEL
7.53* Brahms Romance in F, Op 118 No 5: RADU LUPU (piano)
8.00* Borodin Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens; Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
BAVARIAN RSO AND CHORUS/
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN. Records
Presented by Elaine Padmore. Producer PETER BERG
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) LONDON BAROQUE directed by CHARLES MEDLAM Corelli Concerto grosso in D, Op 6 No 4
Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op 6 No 9
Cantata: Armida abbandonata Scarlatti Sinfonia No 7 in c BBC Manchester (R)
Record Review
Critics' Choice 1988: Richard Osborne chairs a discussion with Michael Kennedy , Nicholas Kenyon and John Warrack.
11.00* Record Release includes music from their choice of the year's best releases. Elgar Enigma Variations (Mono: 1935) BBC SO ARTURO TOSCANINI
11.30* Purcell, real and orch Britten Suite songs from Orpheus Brittanicus NEIL MACKIE (tenor)
SCOTTISH CO/STEUART BEDFORD
11.43* String Quartet in c. Op 54 No 2: ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
12.03* Gounod Seigneur, daignez permettre (Faust: Act 4) (Mono: 1925) trad Night (Nochenka)
(Mono: 1910) FEODOR CHALIAPIN (bass) FLORENCE AUSTRAL (soprano) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/
ALBERT COATES
12.17* Schubert Sonata in A
(D 959) MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano) Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
('Record Review' repeated Wed 2.30pm)
(cello and piano)
Beethoven, arr Isserlis
Variations in D (WoO 44 No 2) Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2
Liszt La lugubre gondola
Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op 68
BBCBristol(R)
conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN achoenberg Verklarte Nacht
2.35* The Price of Perfection David Wheeler discusses the Personality, career and peculiar skills of Herbert von Karajan.
2.55* Brahms Symphony No 1 in c minor
(R) (Given on 6 October 1988 in the Royal Festival Hall, London)
The fervent atmosphere of faith at the court of Philip II was exposed in his patronage of serious sacred music. But the Popular English view of the Armada was rather different, as two contemporary ballads show. TALUS SCHOLARS directed by PETER PHILLIPS JOHN POTTER (tenor) (R)
Introduced by Peter Clayton.
Christopher Cook (in the Chair) talks with Michael Billington , Richard Cork ,
Christopher Dunkley and Gillian Reynolds. In a special retrospective edition, five regular contributors to the programme have selected for discussion the British novel, television series, film, exhibition, radio play and stage play of the past year that have, in their view, shown the greatest originality and ambition in dealing with the relationship between private hves and public events in contemporary society. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
(Piano)
Bach Three-part inventions Scriabin Sonata No 9
Oliver Knussen Sonya's Lullaby
BBC Manchester (R)
Jeffrey Richards examines the life and work of Frank Richards , creator of Billy Bunter and the most prolific author of the 20th century, in the light of Mary Cadogan s new biography. (R)
Mozart's penultimate opera, conducted by RICCARDO MUTI a. this year's Salzburg Festival, celebrates the clemency of the Roman Emperor in AD 79.
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Act
9.15*Act2
(Austrian Radio recording)
From space, the planet is blue. From space, the planet is the tenitory,
NoTofhumans, but of the whale. Roy Hutchins performs Heathcote Williams's passionate poem in defence ot the whale.
Directed by NED CHAILLET (R)
Weber Invitation to the Dance ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano)
Strauss Die Fledermaus Act 2 Finale: LUCIA popp (soprano) EVA LIND (soprano)
ULRIKE STEINSKY (soprano)
AGNES BALTSA (mezzo-soprano) PETER SEFFERT (tenor)
WOLFGANG BRENDEL (baritone) KURT RYDL (bass)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA PLACIDO DOMINGO
Schumann Papillons
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Prokofiev Cinderella Act 3 Finale: CLEVELAND
ORCHESTRA/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY Records
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Blumengruss BARRY MCDANIEL (baritone) ROBERT SPILMAN (piano) (R)
