The Rise and Fall of Detente
Delius Brigg Fair
RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM Warlock Capriol Suite GUILDHALL STRING
ENSEMBLE/ROBERT SALTER Records
with IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) Ravel Trio for piano and strings in A minor
Szymanowski Romance Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge (R)
Dvorak Overture: My Home
LSO/ISTVAN KERTESZ
S. Wesley Symphony No 5 in A; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CO/JORG FAERBER
Schubert Sonata in G (D 894)
FRIEDRICH WtiRHRER (piano) Ireland A Downland Suite
ECO/DAVID GARFORTH Bliss Piano Concerto
(Mono): SOLOMON (piano) LIVERPOOL PO/
ADRIAN BOULT. Records
with Michael Oliver
Ordeals of Odysseus: John Thornley reflects on Nikos Skalkottas and Greece.
The Undoing of Women:
Elaine Padmore considers the treatment of women in opera.
Singing on the Stage: a discussion between Mike Alfreds , Thomas Hemsley and Norman Platt.
Producers ANDREW LYLE and ANTHONY SELLORS
led by BELA DEKANY conducted by MATTHIAS BAMERT
VLADIMIR OVCHINIKOV (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov Tsar Saltan Suite
Bartok Piano Concerto No 3
Dvorak Symphony No 9
Mozart String Quartet in G (K 387)
Bartok String Quartet Nol
Writers Talking
Christopher Hope talks to novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
plays violin music form South India. (R)
led by BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by JANOS FURST BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto)
Wagner, arr Mottl Wesendonk-Lieder
Mahler Symphony No 7 (Given on 20 October 1988 in the Colston Hall, Bristol, in association with Harveys of Bristol) BBC Bristol
Last of nine programmes. JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
YUUKO SHIOKAWA (violin) STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello) TAKACS QUARTET
Piano Sonata in E flat (H xvi 52)
Piano Trio in c (H xv 27)
5.00 Haydn in Bath
Peter Barker reads from the composer's notebook of 1794-5. 5.05 Canzonettas: The Sailor's Song;
The Wanderer; Sympathy; She Never Told Her Love; Piercing Eyes; Transport of Pleasure; 0 Tuneful
Voice; The Spirit's Song String Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2
Series producer IWSHA DONAT (R)
Five programmes in which John Steane traces the history of opera at
Covent Garden between the two World Wars. 2: The Germans Come First, 1924-8
With the voices of Lotte Lehmann , Elisabeth Schumann , Maria Ivogiin , Frida Leider ,
Friedrich Schorr , Feodor Chaliapin , Giovanni Zenatello and Lauritz Melchior (R)
STEVEN ISSERLIS (cello) PAUL COKER (piano)
Robert Saxton Toccata for solo cello
Cesar Franck Sonata for cello and piano BBC Wales
The third of four concerts.
LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS led by JOHN HOLLOWAY conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON With MELVYN TAN (fortepiano)
Weber Overture: Oberon Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)
(Given on 24 November 1988 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in association with Logica)
0 See David Gillard , left
Fred D'Aguiar 's second collection of poetry recalls his childhood in Guyana. Compiled by FRANCES BYRNES
La Angrave; La Eynaud;
La du Vaucel; La Regente; La Morangis
MITZI MEYERSON (harpsichord)
BBC Pebble Mill (R)
Quartet in c, Op 59 No 3 played by the BOCHMANN STRING QUARTET
BBC Manchester (R)
recorded in Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, Canada.
Chorale prelude (Kenneth Leighton )
Introit: One thing I have desired of the Lord (Richard Kidd )
Hymn: God of this creation Responses (Anthony Piccolo ) Psalm: 119, w 25-40 (Rupert Lang )
First lesson: Leviticus 19, vv 1-2, 9-18
Canticles (Rupert Lang ) Second lesson:
Matthew 5, vv 38-48
Hymn: 0 Holy Spirit, by whose breath
Anthem: I love the Lord (Psalm 116) (Harvey)
Hymn: Glorious things of thee are spoken (Abbot's Leigh)
Final responses (Naylor) Organ voluntary: Lento and Toccata (Rupert Lang ) Choirmaster RUPERT LANG Organist BRYN NIXON
Serenade for Strings, Op 6 CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA led by NICHOLAS WARD conducted by RICHARD HICKOX (R)