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Rossini Overture:
The Thieving Magpie
NATIONAL PO/RICCARDO CHAILLY
7.10* Chausson Soir de fete BELGIAN RSO/JOSE SEREBRIER
7.30 News
7.35 Beethoven Overture:
The Creatures of Prometheus
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.41* George Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA NORMAN DEL MAR
7.47* Liszt Transcendental Study No 3: Paysage JORGE BOLET (piano)
7.54* Respighi Suite: The Birds SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART Records
Presented by Peter Barker Producer PETER BERG
conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
Dvorak Symphony No 4 in D minor. BBC Scotland
Richard Osborne introduces an edition devoted entirely to new releases.
George Pratt reviews discs of Purcell and Handel, including Dioclesian and Alexander's Feast.
Claudio Abbado 's set of the Schubert symphonies is reviewed by Stephen Dodgson. Stephen Johnson reviews
Rostropovich's recordings of Prokofiev's symphonies and his opera War and Peace.
10.40 Record Release
Purcell Timon of Athens: Overture; Masque; Curtain Tune
LYNNE DAWSON (soprano) GILLIAN FISHER (soprano)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) PAUL ELLIOTT(tenor)
MICHAEL GEORGE (bass) STEPHEN VARCOE (bass) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
11.02* Handel Nisi dominus (HWV238)
DIANA MONTAGUE (Contralto) JOHN MARK AINSLEY (tenor) SIMON BIRCHALL (bass)
CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY
ORCHESTRA/SIMON PRESTON
11.16* Schubert Symphony
No 5 in B flat: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
OF EUROPE/CLAUDIO ABBADO
11.46* Mozart Piano Concerto in c (K 467) (Mono: 1950) DINU LIPATTI (piano)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA/
HERBERT VON KARAJAN
12.18* Prokofiev Symphony No 2 in D minor: FRENCH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA/MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS ('Record Review ' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Richard Mayne talks to people involved at the centre of current controversies in the arts world.
Producer JULIAN HALE
City of London Festival
The third of five concerts given by MUSICA ANTIQU A. COLOGNE Reinhard Goebel , Manfred Krämer ,
Florian Deuter (violins and violas)
Phoebe Carrai (cello)
Thierry Maeder (harpsichord) Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) Suite in A minor (Mensa sonora: part 3)
Sonatas in d, B flat and G
(Fidicinium sacro-profanum) Sonata representatio avium, for solo violin and continuo (The Birds)
Partita No 3 in A minor, for two violins and continuo (Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa)
TIMOTHY HUGH (Cello) BBC SINGERS
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS chorusmaster GARETH MORRELL BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by RODNEY FRIEND conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
Debussy Symphonic Fragments (The Martyrdom of St Sebastian)
Britten Cello Symphony
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Jonathan Lloyd Symphony No 4 a big step forward in the emergence of a highly distinctive talent. OBSERVER Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2
(R) (Given on 26 July 1988 in the Royal Albert Hall , London)
WILLIAM HOWARD (piano) Suk Friendship, Op 36
Dvorak Theme and Variations, Op 36
Chopin Barcarolle, Op 60
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Paul Barker (in the Chair) talks with Peter Conrad , Christopher Cook and Helen McNeil.
This week's subjects: Mike Leigh 's film High Hopes; Imagine Camus Happy, a portrait of Albert Camus on Radio 3; A Man with Connections by Aleksandr Gelman at the Royal Court
Theatre, London: Italian Art in the 20th Century at the Royal Academy, London; Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free by V. S. Pritchett.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH. Mono
Symphony No 7 in D (Le Midi) SAAR RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FERDINAND LEITNER
(Soar Radio recording)
A live relay from the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden, of the re-staging of Johann Strauss 's operetta, performed in JOHN MORTIMER 'S new English version.
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus director ROBIN STAPLETON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN led by HUGH MAGUIRE conducted by ADAM FISCHER Act
7.50*
John Mortimer talks to
Christopher Cook about his translation into English of the libretto.
8.15* Act 2
9.10*
Fritz Spiegl reflects on the Strauss dynasty, Vienna and far beyond....
9.35* Act 3
JANINA FIALKOWSKA (piano) Chopin Mazurkas: in c sharp minor, Op 30 No 4; in c sharp minor, Op 50 No 3; in c, Op 56 No 2; in c minor, Op56No3
Ravel Miroirs (R)
Six collections of French cabaret songs presented by Richard Mayne.
3: The 1950s - America in Paris With Yves Montand.
Josephine Baker , Annie Cordy Claude Nougaro , Brigitte Bardot Boris Vian , Juliette Greco Charles Trenet , Les Frères Jacques
. Sidney Bechet , Marcel Mouloudji , Eddie Constantine and Edith Piaf. Records
