Poetry: The Radical 1790s

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Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny; LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.08* Grieg Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt)
ELLY AMELING (soprano)
SAN FRANCISCO SO/EDO DE WAART
7.15* Delius Fantasy Overture: Over the Hills and Far Away
RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
7.30 News
7.35 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
LSO/GEORGSOLTI
7.41* Liszt Petrarch Sonnet
No 123 (Annees de pèlerinage: Italie): JORGE BOLET (piano)
7.48* Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet CHICAGO SO/GEORG SOLTl. Records

Presented by Jon Curie
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE

Angela Malsbury (clarinet) Rohan de Saram (cello) David Pettit (piano)
Archduke Rudolph of Austria
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Zemlinsky Trio in D minor, Op 3 BBC Bristol (R)

Introduced by Richard Osborn. Record Review
Building a Library:
Puccini's Madama Butterfly by John Steane.
Stephen Johnson reviews new releases of Russian music.
10.40 Record Release
Scriabin Sonata No 3, Op 23
JEAN LOUIS STEUERMANN (piano)
11.01* Shostakovich String Quartet No 4 in D
COULL STRING QUARTET
11.28*
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op 34. Mono LSO/HERMANN SCHERCHEN
11.46* Verdi Pace, pace, mio Dw (La forza del destino: Act 4) JOSEPHINE BARSTOW (soprano) ENO ORCHESTRA/MARK ELDER
A conversation with Josephine Barstow about her recording projects with Karajan. Verdi Una macchia e qui tutt'ora (Macbeth: Act 4)
JOSEPHINE BARSTOW (soprano) JOHN CONNELL (bass)
SALLY BURGESS (mezzo-soprano) ENO ORCHESTRA MARK ELDER
12.22* Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in c minor EVGENY KISSIN (piano) LSO/VALERY GERGIEV
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS ('Record Review ' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)

Paul Barker talks to people at the centre of current controversies in the arts world.

(piano)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in E (Bwv 878) (The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 2)
Busoni Elegies Nos 1, 4 and 7 Liszt Fantasia and Fugue on BACH
BBC Northern Ireland

String Quintet in G, Op 111 GABRIELI QUARTET
KENNETH ESSEX (Viola) (R)

ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER (violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by PETER EOTVOS and WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Liszt Tasso: Lamento e trionfo Witold Lutoslawski Chain 2 conducted by THE COMPOSER

3.30* Witold Lutoslawski Musique funebre conducted by THE COMPOSER
Bartok Concerto for orchestra (R)

BRYN TERFEL (baritone)
MALCOLM MARTINEAU (piano) Schubert Schwanengesang (D957):No8DerAtlas; No 9 Ihr Bild;
No 10 Das Fischermadchen;
No 14 Die Taubenpost (D 965a) Ibert Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte
Dilys Elwyn Edwards Cloths of Heaven
Bradwen Jones Mab yr ystorm BBC Wales

Introduced by Peter Clayton

Anthony Thwaite (in the chair) talks with Michael Billington , Peter Porter and Margaret Walters.
This week's subjects:
The Firm by Al Hunter on BBC2; David Mamet 's film
Things Change; retrospective exhibitions of work by Francis Danby and Jacques-Laurent Agasse at the Tate Gallery,
London; the Red Shift touring production of Timon of Athens at Watermans, Brentford,
Middlesex; and Any Old Iron, a novel by Anthony Burgess. Producer PHILIP FRENCH. Mono

Michael Kennedy introduces Strauss's two one-act operas to texts by JOSEF GREGOR. Friedenstag
(Day of Peace)
The action takes place in the citadel of a beleaguered town on 24 October 1648. (Sung in German) (bass) (tenor) (tenor) (bass) (bass) (bass)(bass) (baritone) (tenor) (bass) (baritone) (soprano) (soprano)
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Bavarian Radio recording from the 1988 Munich Opera Festival)
8.05* Michael Kennedy recalls the origins and early history of these two operas.
8.10* Daphne
The scene is a pastoral landscape at the foot of Mount Olympus. (Sung in German) (baritone) (tenor) (bass) (bass) (soprano) (tenor) (contralto) (soprano)(soprano) (bass) (tenor)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK Records

A second chance to hear the young Derry composer's
Concertino, commissioned by the BBC in 1985. AQUARIUS conducted by NICHOLAS CLEOBURY (R)

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

This individual and inventive pianist, born in Algeria, made one of his rare appearances at the Bath Festival last summer. Charles Fox introduces a recording of the second half of the concert he gave in the Guildhall Banqueting Room, Bath.