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Verdi Overture: the Sicilian Vespers: LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.10* Monteverdi Ballo: Ecce pur ch'a voi ritomo (Orfeo)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) LAWRENCE DALE (tenor) ALAN WOODROW (tenor)
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN EUOT GARDINER
7.16* Mozart Divertimento inF(Kl38)
SALZBURG CAMERATA/SANDOR VEGH
7.30 News
7.35 Mendelssohn Rondo brillant in E flat, Op 29 CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA/
MOSHEATZMON
7.47* Beethoven March in D (WoO 24)
WINDS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
7.55* Anthony Holbome Pavan: Paradizo: FRETWORK
7.59* Elgar Three Bavarian Dances, Op 27
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/ NORMAN DEL MAR. Records

Presented by Peter Barker Producer PETER BERG

led by JACK MAGUIRE conducted by JEAN BERNARD POMMIER (piano) Poulenc Sinfonietta
Mozart Piano Concerto No 11 in F (K 413) BBC Bristol

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann. Record Review
Building a Library: Beethoven's Missa solemnis by Richard Osborne.
Christopher Headington reviews new piano discs.

Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in b flat minor, Op 35 MTTSUKO UCHIDA
11.46* Schumann Introduction and Allegro appassionato ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
VIENNA PO/CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
12.02* Beethoven DiabeUi Variations
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Jonathan Steinberg talks to people involved at the centre of current controversies in the arts world.

City of London Festival
The second of five concerts given by MUSICA ANTIQUA, COLOGNE Reinhard Goebel, Manfred Kramer ,
Florian Deuter (violins); Phoebe Caprai (cello);
Thierry Maeder (harpsichord) Johann Pachelbel Partie in F sharp minor
Carolus Hacquart Sonata in D Johann Schmelzer Sonata in D Giovanni Legrenzi Sonata (sesta) in c minor
Johann Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in (Given on 12 July 1988 in St Bride
Fleet Street. London, in association with National Westminster Bank pic)

Sonata in E flat, Op 7 JULIE ADAM (piano) (R)

The first of 13 programmes. Verdi Requiem
JULIA VARADY (soprano)
DOLORA zajic (mezzo-soprano) DENNIS O'NEILL (tenor)
YEVGENY NESTERENKO (bass) BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS director GARETH MORRELL BACH CHOIR director
DAVID WILLCOCKS LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR director RICHARD COOKE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD (Given on 22 July 1988 in the Royal Albert Hall , London) (R)
... a performance of stability and weight THE INDEPENDENT

JANET HORVATH (cello) ARTHUR rowe (piano)
Mendelssohn Variations concertantes, Op 17
Hindemith Sonata, Op 11 No 3

Introduced by Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Christopher Cook (in the Chair) talks with Paul Bailey ,
Paul Barker and Helen McNeil. This week's subjects:
A Kind ofArden by Martin Crimp on Radio 3;
Jack Clayton 's film The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ;
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega at the National Theatre; new paintings by Eric Fischl at the Waddington Galleries, 34 Cork Street, London Wl; and Anne Tyler 's novel Breathing Lessons.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH . Mono

Carl Maria von Weber 's singspiel in three acts, with libretto by Johann Friedrich Kind.
A huntsman sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for magic bullets, but has to forfeit his life at a specified time unless a substitute victim can be found. Andrew Clark introduces
Achim Freyer 's production, given last season at the Grand Theatre, Geneva. (tenor) (tenor) (bass) (bass-baritone) (soprano) (soprano) (spoken role) (soprano)(soprano)(mezzo-soprano) (mezzo-soprano)(baritone) (bass)
CHORUS OF THE GRAND THEATRE.
GENEVA
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN (Swiss Radio recording)

Preludes
MARIE PAUL SIRUGUET (piano)

The Annunciation by GRAHAM CHAlNEY.
Performed by Daniel Massey.
'The world must hear the truth - that I am a murderer, an adulterer, a necrophiliac, a liar and, above all, a coward. I demand to suffer the proper penalty.'
An earthquake devastates a town and a man performs heroic deeds - but what really happened?
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Mono
(Postponed from 17 December 1988)

ALEXANDER BALANESCU (violin/viola)
ROGER HEATON (clarinet)
DAVE SMITH (tenor horn/piano) GAVIN BRYARS
(double-bass/piano) ANDY BILHAM and JAMIE MCCARTHY (percussion) With LESLIE HOWARD and MARTIN JONES (pianos)
Gavin Bryars The Old Tower of Lobenicht; Out of Zaleski's Gazebo; The Cross-Channel
Ferry (all first UK broadcasts)

French cabaret songs presented by Richard Mayne. 2: After the Liberation
With Patachou, Maurice Chevalier , Suzy Delair ,
Jacqueline Francois ,
Charles Trenet , Georges Ulmer , Bourvil, Edith Piaf , Yves Montand , Les Freres Jacques , Juliette Greco and Boris Vian. Records