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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 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)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
Arnold Whittall.
Unknown:
Alan Blyth
Harpsichord:
Alastair Ross
Harpsichord:
Paul Nicholson
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soloists:
Janacek Otcenas
Tenor:
Arthur Davies
Harp:
Osian Ellis
Harp:
Stephen Layton
Unknown:
Stephen Cleobury.
Unknown:
Mozart Vesperae
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers
Jephtha:
Nigel Robson (ten)
Iphis:
Lynne Dawson (sop)
Storge:
Anne Sofie von Otter (alto)
Hamor:
Michael Chance (counter-Tenor)
Zebul:
Stephen Varcoe (bar)

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

Contributors

Introduces:
Martin Cotton
Violin:
Ruggiero Ricci

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)

Contributors

Music By:
Francois Couperin
Unknown:
Peter Holtslag
Unknown:
Han Tol
Unknown:
Saskia Coolen
Bass:
Richard Boothby
Bass:
Timothy Roberts

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Unknown:
Marilyn Butler
Unknown:
Ronald Hayman
Unknown:
John Spurling.
Unknown:
Fred Schepisi
Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Unknown:
Simon Schama.

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)

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Jack Winter.
Directed By:
Matthew Walters
Carp:
George Parsons
Gremille:
John Church
Pike:
Manning Wilson
Chub:
Susie Brann

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)

Contributors

Unknown:
St David
Tenor:
Dennis O'Neill
Bass:
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Unknown:
Helena Braithwaite
Unknown:
John Hugh Thomas
Unknown:
James Clark
Conducted By:
James Conlon

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

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tunnell
Conducted By:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Violin:
Ernst Kovacic
Violin:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies

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)

Contributors

Piano:
John Bingham

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More