The Romantic Poets
Prokofiev New Year's Eve Ball (War and Peace) SNO/NEEME JARVI
7.06 Borodin Scherzo in A flat: MARGARET FINGERHUT (piano)
7.09 Debussy Poeme danse: Jeux
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
ORCHESTRA/JEAN MARTINON
7.35 Boccherini Cello Concerto in G
MAURICE GENDRON (cello) LSO/RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.55 Louis Glass Suite: The Hill of the Elves
ODENSE SO/SCHMIDT. Records
with Malcolm Ruthven Producer PETER BERG
led by RICHARD STUDT conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
WISSAM BOUSTANY (flute) IEUAN JONES (harp)
Mozart Concerto for flute and harp (K 299)
Stravinsky Suite:
Pulcinella. BBC Bristol
with Richard Osbome. Record Review
Building a Library:
Mozart's Piano Concerto in c minor (K 491) by Nicholas Kenyon.
John Steane on new opera releases: Mozart's La finta semplice; Bizet's Djamileh and Strauss's Elektra.
10.40 Record Release
Wagner Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort
(Brunnhilde's Immolation: Gotterdammerung, Act 3) (Mono: 1948)
KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (sop) PHILHARMONIA/
ISSAY DOBROWEN
11.00 Britten Ballet:
The Prince of the Pagodas (Act 1)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE. COVENT
GARDEN/THE COMPOSER
11.34 Delius Paris - The Song of a Great City (Mono: 1934)
LPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
11.58 Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale
LONDON SINFONIETTA/ KENT NAGANO
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
A discussion chaired by Robert Hewison
CATHERINE BOTT (soprano) DAVID STAFF
(natural trumpet)
NEW LONDON CONSORT directed by PHILIP PICKETT (recorder) A. Scarlatti Sinfonia di concerto grosso No 3 in D minor
Frescobaldi Aria di Romanesca
Carissimi Il lamento in morte di Maria Stuarda A. Scarlatti Sinfonia di concerto grosso No 2 in D
Britten Quartet No 1 in D Brahms Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2 BBC Manchester (R)
The sixth of ten programmes introduced by Martin Cotton .
Sibelius The Oceanides
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Mono: 1936)
Moeran Symphony in G minor
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
(1973 recording)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3
SOLOMON (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Mono: 1944) Records
Elgar Enigma Variations CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurling (in the chair) talks with Ronald Hayman Gillian Reynolds and John Wilders.
This week's subjects: a television version of David Hare 's Knuckle on BBC2; Ghetto by Joshua Sobol at the National Theatre; a retrospective exhibition of sculpture by F. E. McWilliam at the Tate Gallery, London;
Alan Parker 's film Mississippi Burning; What Am I Doing Here by Bruce Chatwin.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH Mono
In the last of five programmes,
PETER DONOHOE (piano) plays Sonata No 8 in B flat, Op 84
Series producer JILUAN WHITE BBC Bristol
Franz Schmidt 's romantic opera (1914) after
VICTOR HUGO 'S novel The
Hunchback of Notre Dame. (sung in German)
Esmeralda, a gypsy girl
GWYNETH JONES (soprano) (tenor) (bass) (baritone) (baritone)
(mezzo-soprano)
ST HEDWIG 'S CATHEDRAL
CHOIR, BERLIN
RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR
BERLIN RSO /
CHRISTOF PERICK Act 1
8.15
Beasts and Beauties
Peter Conrad reflects on how opera can transform physical deformity.
8.25 Act 2
conducted by DAVID HONEYBALL
Henze Sonata for eight brass instruments
Richard Bissill Suite in Tension
(first broadcasts) BBC Scotland
with Robyn Archer (vocals/guitars).
In a programme of songs on modern life, love, the poll tax and cruise missiles, one of Australia's most original talents defiantly re-invents the tradition of European cabaret. TREVOR ALLAN
(keyboards/vocals/ accordion)
LINDSAY COOPER (bassoon/sax)
ALEXANDER BALANESCU (violin)
0 See David Gillard , left
Chris Parker introduces the third of four recordings from the jazz festival held last
September in the Hawth Theatre, Crawley.
It features the American trio MINIATURE:
Tim Beme (alto saxophone) Hank Roberts (cello) Joey Baron (drums) Berne Texas Blues;
Hong Kong Sad Song
Roberts Ethiopian Boxer Baron Aspetta
Berne The Plank; Sanctuary
