Classical Mythology: Keats

D'Indy Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais (Symphonie cevenole) MICHEL BLOCK (piano) BERNE SO /PETER MAAG
7.30am News
7.35 Nielsen
Flute Concerto
AURELE NICOLET (flute) LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS
ORCHESTRA/KURT MASUR
7.55 Schumann Sonata No 1 in A minor, Op 105 GIDON KREMER (violin)
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano)
8.12 Suk Fantastic Scherzo: PRAGUE so ;
JIRI BELOHLAVEK. Records

The second of four programmes.
FRANKL/PAUKJKIRSHBAUM TRIO Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp minor (H xv 26) Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost) (R)

Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence: I MUSICI DE
MONTREAL/YULI TUROVSKY
10.10 Rossi Poi che manco speranza: PAUL ELLIOTT , ANDREW KING (tenors) LONDON EARLY MUSIC
GROUP/JAMES TYLER
10.17 Vivaldi Sopranino Recorder Concerto in c (RV 443)
PIERS ADAMS (recorder) MUSICA DA CAMERA
10.28 B. Strozzi Voglio morire
GLENDA SIMPSON (mezzo) CAMERATA OF LONDON
10.37 Paganini Violin Concerto No 1 in D MIDORI (violin)
LSO/LEONARD SLATKIN
11.12 Verdi Ella giammi m'amo (Don Carlo) JAMES MORRIS (bass)
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA,
RALF WEIKERT
11.23 Strauss Aus Italien SNO/NEEME JARVI
Producer JAMES JOLLY

Third of six programmes, including the set of string quartets composed by the 17-year-old Mozart in Vienna in 1773. SALOMON STRING QUARTET Quartet in D minor (K 173) Quintet in D (K 593) with JAN SCHLAPP (viola)

HAMISH MILNE and PHILIP JENKINS (two pianos)
Grieg Variations, Op 51 Niels Viggo Bentzon
Sonata for two pianos, Op 51

Simon Boccanegra (1881 version)
Opera in a prologue and three acts, with music by Verdi and libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE and ARRIGO BOITO. (sung in Italian)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
THE TEATRO ALLA SCALA .
MILAN/ CLAUDIO ABBADO Records: 1977
Claudio Abbado is the architect of a performance which combines nobility with an intensity hard to parallel among modem Verdi conductors ... I cannot imagine this set will be quickly rivalled.
LORD HAREWOOD

CLARE MACFARLANE (violin)
AMANDA HURTON (piano) Bach Partita No 3 in E (BWV 1006)
Schoenberg Phantasy , Op 47

with Peter Clayton

Is Eliot a soloist, there all the time? Or a composer, silent himself among the sounds he elicits, none of them in itself original but common property?
Denis Donoghue ,
Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, explores the territory of T. S. Eliot 's poem with contributions from
A. Alvarez , Donald Davie , Christopher Hope , Patrick Garland , Lyndall Gordon , Prabhu Guptara , David Moody , Peter Porter and Anne Ridler.
With extracts from
The Waste Land read by ALEC GUINNESS and T. S. ELIOT.
Producer ROSEMARY HART (R)

Anthony Burton introduces the third of five programmes from last year's tour, conducted by JOHN POOLE. Britten Sacred and Profane, Op 91
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs
Ligeti Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Holderlin

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Viktoria Mullova (violin) BBC Singers (ladies' voices) chorusmaster Simon Joly
BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Rodney Friend, conducted by David Atherton

Stravinsky Scherzo a la russe

Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor

8.05 Eyes of Sightless Heaven
Prose and poetry on the theme of celestial bodies, compiled by Patric Dickinson.
Readers Jill Balcon, Hugh Dickson and John Samson

A tragic love story by Pippa Corner.
The third of four plays from Radio 4's 1988 Young Playwrights' Festival. With
The boy is fascinated by Sarah - she is an exciting artist, the perfect embodiment of sensuality in the older woman. But when he discovers that she has fallen in love with him his fantasy is shattered. She becomes merely ordinary - and who wants that?

FINE ARTS QUARTET
Rachmaninov String Quartet movements
Franck String Quartet

by JUDAH WATEN.
Read by Denis Lill (R)

The fourth of six programmes presented by Chris Parker. Featuring
ED JONES QUINTET