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Offenbach Overture: La belle Helene
PHILHARMONIA/NEVILLE MARRINER
7.08* Brahms Intermezzo in c sharp minor, Op 117 No 3 RADU LUPU (piano)
7.15* Elgar Serenade in E minor for string orchestra
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS/ NEVILLE MARRINER
7.30 News
7.35 Saint-Saens Omphale's Spinning Wheel, Op 31
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
SELJIOZAWA
7.44* Scott Joplin The Entertainer
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) ANDRE PREVIN (piano)
7.49* Bax Summer Music
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/ BRYDEN THOMSON
7.59* Telemann Concerto in D for trumpet and strings MAURICE ANDRÉ (trumpet) ECO/CHARLES MACKERRAS Records
Presented by Malcolm Ruthven Producer PETER BERG
Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2; Bagatelles, Op 126 EDITH VOGEL (piano)
Introduced by Richard Osbome. Record Review
Building a Library: Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust by Edward Greenfield.
Roger Nichols reviews new releases of French piano music.
10.40 Record Release
Debussy La puerta del vino; Les Fees sont d'exquises danseuses; Bruyeres; General Lavine-eccentric (Preludes:Book 2)
ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGEU (piano)
10.54* Faure Piano Quartet No 2 in G minor (Mono: 1940) MARGUERITE LONG (piano)
MEMBERS OF THE PASQUIER TRIO
11.30* Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecim , Op 12: WARSAW NATIONAL SO/ STANISLAW WISLOCKI
11.54* Ravel L'Enfant et les sortileges: soloists RTFCHOm
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
LORIN MAAZEL
12.39* Ravel Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra MICHEL BEROFF (piano) LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS ('Record Review' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Taking Issue
Richard Mayne talks to people involved at the centre of current controversies in the arts world.
(violin)
Bach Sonata No 3 in c for solo violin (BWV 1005)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1 With BERNARD ROBERTS (piano) (R)
ANNE EVANS (soprano)
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (baritone) BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by BERNHARD KLEE Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) Wagner Siegfried Idyll
3.10* Interval Reading
3.15* Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony (R)
Bernhard Klee 's searing commitment, and the sumptuous playing of the BBC Philharmonic, established an ideal context for the eloquent singing of its two soloists.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
JOHN HARLE (soprano and alto saxophone) JOHN LENEHAN (piano)
David Heath After the Lion Henk Alkema Sonata for soprano saxophone and piano Ryo Noda Improvisation I, for solo alto saxophone
Mike Westbrook Sonnet , for alto saxophone and piano (R)
ELEFTHERIA KOTZIA (guitar) Tippett The Blue Guitar
Maximo Diego-Pujol Three
Preludes: Tnstango; Preludio Triston ; Candombe en mi
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Robert Carver, Robert Cushman and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects: Mike Newell's film Soursweet
The Cheeky Chappie by Dave Simpson on Radio 4 and a 40 Minutes celebration of Max Miller on BBC2; a West End revival of Noel Coward's The Vortex; Photography Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream by Studs Terkel.
Producer RACHEL YORKE. Mono
Piano music from the 1920s and 30s played by LOUIS PHILIPPE PELLETIER
Bartok Improvisations , Op 20 MUhaud Saudades do Brazil: Book 2
Stravinsky Sonata
Schoenberg Two Pieces, Op 33 Gershwin Three Preludes
(The Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart's opera, with a libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE after the play by BEAUMARCHAIS. Nicholas Hytner introduces his new production for the Grand Theatre, Geneva, which opened earlier this month. (sung in Italian) (baritone) (soprano) (bass) (mezzo-soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (baritone) (tenor) (soprano) (bass) (tenor) (soprano)
CHORUS OF THE
GRAND THEATRE. GENEVA
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ARMIN JORDAN (owiss Radio recording)
PetrEben Quartet No 1
Schubert Quartet in E flat (D 87) BBCBristolfR)
This most individual and inventive pianist, born in Algeria, made one of his rare appearances in this country at the Bath Festival last summer. Charles Fox introduces a recording of the first half of the concert he gave in the Guildhall Banqueting Room in Bath.
