Hazlitt as Literary Critic
Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione) ORPHEUS CO
7.25 Verdi
Prelude: Macbeth BERLIN PO/KARAJAN
7.30am News
7.35 Stenhammar Two Sentimental Romances ARVE TELLEFSEN (violin) SWEDISH RSO'WESTERBERG
7.47 Niels Gade
Symphony No 2 in E
STOCKHOLM SINFONIETTA/ NEEME JARVI. Records
with Simon Milner Producer PETER BERG
led by JAMES CLARK conducted by ANDREW LITTON
Stravinsky Apollo
Mozart Symphony No 33 in B Hat (K 319) BBC Wales
with Richard Osborne. Record Review
Building a Library:
Britten's Cello Symphony by Arnold Whittall.
Alan Blyth reviews choral releases including
Masses by Donizetti and Cherubini and Handel's Jephtha.
10.40 Record Release Handel Jephtha: Act 2
ALASTAIR ROSS (harpsichord)
PAUL NICHOLSON (organ) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
11.41 Janacek Otcenas (The Lord's Prayer)
ARTHUR DAVIES (tenor) OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
STEPHEN LAYTON (organ) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE/CLEOBURY
11.57 An interview with Stephen Cleobury.
Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore (K 339)
LYNNE DAWSON (soprano) DAVID JAMES (alto)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (ten) PAUL HILLIER (bass)
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE.
CAMBRIDGE
STEPHEN LAYTON (organ) CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL
PLAYERS/CLEOBURY
12.43 Beethoven
String Quartet in F after the Piano Sonata in E, Op 14 No 1
LA SALLE QUARTET
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS ('Record Review' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Robert Hewison talks with people at the centre of current controversies in the arts world.
(cello)
PETER EVANS (piano) Bach Suite No 3 in c for unaccompanied cello (BWV 1009)
Brahms Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38
2.15 Interval Reading
2.20 Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 Martinu Sonata No 2 (R)
Martin Cotton introduces a studio recording made by the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in 1958. Williamson Overture: Santiago de Espada
Paganini Violin Concerto in D
RUGGIERO RICCI (violin) Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
Tippett Symphony No 2 Mono
Chamber music by Francois Couperin , Marin Marais and J. B. de Boismortier.
LA FONTEGARA AMSTERDAM Peter Holtslag , Han Tol and Saskia Coolen (recorders) with RICHARD BOOTHBY (bass viol) and TIMOTHY ROBERTS (harpsichord) (R)
with Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Richard Mayne (in the chair) talks with Marilyn Butler , Ronald Hayman and John Spurling.
This week's subjects:
Fred Schepisi 's film A Cry in the Dark;
Michael Frayn 's Benefactors on BBC2; The Tempest at the Barbican Theatre, London; Shadow of the Guillotine at the British Museum; Citizens: A chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH. Mono
(oboe)
JOHN LENEHAN (piano) Robert Saxton Arias Elisabeth Lutyens
Presages for oboe solo
Richard Rodney Bennett After Syrinx I (R)
A cautionary tale by SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
(1826-89), dramatised by JACK WINTER.
With Edward De Souza as Saltykov.
By nature the carp is a peace-loving, idealistic creature. No one suspects it of being politically unreliable.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS (R)
live from.St David 's Hall, Cardiff.
SUSAN DUNN (soprano) DOLORA ZAJIC
(mezzo-soprano)
DENNIS O'NEILL (tenor) FERRUCCIO FURLANETTO (bass)
ARDWYN SINGERS chorusmaster
HELENA BRAITHWAITE
BBC WELSH CHORUS chorusmaster
JOHN HUGH THOMAS
CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR chorusmaster
RICHARD ELFYN JONES
BBC WELSH SO led by JAMES CLARK conducted by JAMES CONLON
(In association with Eurocommercials Ltd)
Stewart Conn introduces and reads new poems and work from his collection In the Kibble Palace. BBC Scotland
led by JOHN TUNNELL conducted by PETER MAXWELL DAVIES ERNST KOVACIC (violin) GEORGE MCILWHAM (bagpipes)
Mozart Overture:
The Marriage of Figaro Peter Maxwell Davies Violin Concerto
Mozart Symphony No 41 in c (K 551) (Jupiter)
Peter Maxwell Davies Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
(Given in March 1988 in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, in association with Standard Life Assurance Company) BBC Scotland
JOHN BINGHAM (piano)
Pour les cinq doigts; Pour les tierces; Pour les quartes; Pour les sixtes;
Pour les octaves; Pour les huit doigts; Pour les degres chromatiques;
Pour les agrements; Pour les notes repetees; Pour les sonorites opposees; Pour les arpeges; Pour les accords (R)