Artists and Antiquity

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Offenbach Overture:
The Drum Major's Daughter PHILHARMONLA NEVILLE MARRINER
7.07* Shostakovich Suite No 1 for Jazz Band, Op 38 SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE,
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
7.16* Saint-Saens Havanaise ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) NEW YORK PO/ZUBIN MEHTA
7.30 News
7.35 Walton Comedy-Overture: Scapino; LSO ANDRÉ PREVIN
7.44* Liszt Mazeppa
(Transcendental Studies) JORGE BOLET (piano)
7.53* Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (Act III: The Valkyries)
LPO/KARL-ANTON RICKENBACKER
8.00* Johann Strauss Tales from the Vienna Woods
VIENNA PO/WILLI BOSKOVSKY. Records

Presented by Jon Curie Producer PETER BERG

ROBERT COHEN (cello)
ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Beethoven Sonata in c, Op 102 No 1
Prokofiev Sonata, Op 119 (R)

Introduced by Richard Osbome. Record Review
Building a Library: Bartok's Sonata for two pianos and percussion by David Murray. Lionel Salter reviews the Drottningholm Theatre recording of Le nozze di Figaro. Nicholas Anderson reviews music by the Bach family.
10.40 Record Release
J. S. Bach Concerto in D minor (from BWV 1052,1052a, 146 and 188): STANLEY RITCHIE (violin) BACH ENSEMBLE directed by JOSHUA RIFKIN (harpsichord)
11.02* Bach Suite No 3 in D (BWV 1068)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
11.25* C.P.E. Bach Trio Sonata in c minor (Sanguineus and Melancholicus): PURCELL QUARTET
11.41* Vivaldi Concerto in G (Rv 435); USA BEZNOSTUK (flute) ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
11.49* Nicholas Kenyon talks to Reinhard Goebel , Director of Musica Antiqua, Cologne.
Biber Mensa Sonora, Part 4, in B flat: MUSICA ANTIQUA. COLOGNE directed by REINHARD GOEBEL (violin)
12.10* Mozart, arr anon
Arias from Le nozze di Figaro WOLFGANG SCHULZ (flute)
HANSJORG SCHELLENBERGER (oboe)
12.33* Mozart Quintet in c minor (K 406): MELOS QUARTET With FRANZ BEYER (viola)
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS ('Record Review' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)

with Gillian Reynolds

ASTRAEA
Thomas Campion Now hath Flora robbed her bowers anon Jigge Thomas Campion Fain would
I wed a fair young man;
Never weather-beaten sail
Giovanni Coprario Go happy man; While dancing rests anon Bonny sweet Robin Robert Johnson From the famous Peak of Derby; To the old, long life and treasure anon Belle dont les attraits Jean-Baptiste Besard Branles de village
Henry de Bailly Yo soy la locura anon Nos esprits libres et contents
BBC Pebble Mill

TIMOTHY HUGH (cello)
CHI-CHI NWANOKU (double-bass) Rossini Duetto
Kodaly Sonata for solo cello, Op 8. BBC Pebble Mill (R)

MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
JARD VAN NES (mezzo-soprano) SIEGFRIED JERUSALEM (tenor) HENRY HERFORD (baritone) JORGE BOLET (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS chorusmaster
SIMON JOLY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by ASHLEY ARBUCKLE conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
Beethoven Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Weber Konzertstiick in F minor
3.15* Interval Reading
3.20* Mahler Das klagende Lied (complete) (R)

PENELOPE THWAITES (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E, Op 109
Rachmaninov Etudes tableaux: in c, Op 33 No 2; in c sharp minor, Op 33 No 9

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Michael Billington (in the chair) talks with Robert Carver , Anthony Thwaite and Margaret Walters. This week's subjects:
Jonathan Kaplan 's film The Accused; Valued Friends by Stephen Jeffreys at the Hampstead Theatre, London;
Discobolus by John Spurling on Radio 3; La France: Images of Women and Ideas of Nation 1 789-1989 at the Hayward
Gallery, London; and The Facts: a novelist's autobiography by Philip Roth.
Producer philip FRENCH. Mono

HOWARD DAVIS (violin) PETER POPLE (violin) ROGER BEST (viola) DAVID SMITH (cello)
Peter Maxwell Davies String Quartet
Britten String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 25. BBC Scotland (R)

The first instalment of Scottish Opera's new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, recorded at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, on 14 February.
(sung in German)
First, conductor John Mauceri , director Richard Jones and two of the cast, Felicity Palmer and Willard White , talk about the production. Rhinedaughters: (SOpranO) (mezzo-soprano)
(bass-baritone) (mezzo-soprano) (SOpranO) (tenor) (baritone) (mezzo-soprano)
(baritones ) (bass) (tenor)
(bass)(tenor)
SCOTTISH OPERA ORCHESTRA led by ANGUS ANDERSON conducted by JOHN MAUCERI

by PETER REDGROVE. The first in a series of six plays drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Music arranged and realised by STEPHEN ROLLINGS
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol (R)

Charles Fox introduces a recording of the first half of a concert given by this American a cappella group last summer in Clifton Cathedral, Bristol as part of the Bath Festival. (Pamon 11 March)