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7.35 C. P. E.Bach
Symphony in E (Wq 182 No 6)
ENGLISH CONCERT/PINNOCK
7.44 Grieg How Fair Is Thy Face (Four Psalms, Op 74 No 1)
HAKAN HAGEGARD (bar) OSLO CATHEDRAL CHOIR/ TERJEKVAM
7.50 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor GIDON KREMER (violin) ORPHEUS CO
8.12 Shostakovich Symphonic poem: October, Op 131 GOTHENBURG SO/
NEEME JARVI. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
P. E.Bach
Unknown:
Hakan Hagegard
Violin:
Gidon Kremer

NORTHERN SINFONIA led by iain KING conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
MARTIN ROSCOE (piano)
Gretry Overture: Cephale et Procris
Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
Faure Ballade for piano and orchestra
Poulenc Sinfonietta

Contributors

Unknown:
Iain King
Conducted By:
Steuart Bedford
Piano:
Martin Roscoe
Unknown:
Faure Ballade

with Richard Osborne. Record Review
Building a Library:
Schumann's Scenes from Childhood with David Murray.
Peter Paul Nash reviews 20th-century releases including music by Stravinsky, Gubaidulina and Femeyhough.
10.40 Record Release
Schoenberg Song of the Wood Dove (Gurrelieder) JARD VAN NES (mezzo)
SCHOENBERG ENSEMBLE/ REINBERT DE LEEUW
10.55 Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy
HOUSTON SO/STOKOWSKI
11.16 Pfitzner In Danzig,
Op 22 No 1; Der verspatete Wanderer, Op 41 No 2
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone); WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano)
11.24 Schoenberg Five
Orchestral Pieces, Op 16 CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
11.44 Shostakovich Symphony No 15
GOTHENBURG SO/JARVI
12.28 Weill September Song; My Ship
UTE LEMPER (singer)
JURGEN KNIEPER (piano)
12.36 Poul Ruders
Manhattan Abstraction DANISH SO/SCHONWANDT
Records. Producers ANTHONY CHEEVERS and JAMES JOLLY

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
David Murray.
Unknown:
Peter Paul Nash
Baritone:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Piano:
Jurgen Knieper
Producers:
Anthony Cheevers

Music for the Palaces on the Grand Canal
A programme of chamber music from Venice given at St James's, Piccadilly, as part of the Lufthansa
Festival of Baroque Music. Music by Monteverdi, Galeazzo Sabbatini ,
Camillo Orlandi , Bassano and Rognoni.
LAN HONEYMAN (tenor) JOHN POTTER (tenor)
RICHARD WISTREICH (bass) TRAGICOMEDIA directed by Stephen Stubbs (chittarone) Erin Headley
(viola da gamba)
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
2.05 Edinburgh Festival FRENCH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA (RADIO FRANCE) conducted by MAREK JANOWSKI
DMITRY SITKOVETSKY (vioUn) Lalo Overture: Le Roi d'Ys Dutilleux Violin Concerto (L'Arbre des songes)
Messiaen L'Ascension Ravel La Valse
(Given on 29 August in the Usher Hall in association with Amerada Hess Ltd)

Contributors

Unknown:
Galeazzo Sabbatini
Bassano:
Camillo Orlandi
Tenor:
John Potter
Directed By:
Stephen Stubbs
Viola:
Erin Headley
Conducted By:
Marek Janowski
Conducted By:
Dmitry Sitkovetsky

MATTHEW STANLEY and BERENDINA COOK (piano) Beethoven Eight
Variations on a Theme by Baron Waldstein Berg , arr Apostel
Variations on a Theme from 'Lulu'
Berkeley Sonatina Saint-Saens
Wedding-cake: caprice waltz
Warlock TheXDld Codger

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Stanley
Unknown:
Baron Waldstein Berg

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Richard Cork (in the chair) talks with Nigel Andrews ,
Margaret Forster and John Peter. This week's subjects:
Stephen Poliakoff s She's Been Away, directed by Peter Hall on BBC1;
Another Time by Ronald Harwood at Wyndham's Theatre, London; a retrospective of portraits by Tom Phillips at the National Portrait Gallery; Kenneth Branagh 's film Henry V;
Foucault's Pendulum, a novel by Umberto Eco . Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Margaret Forster
Unknown:
John Peter.
Unknown:
Stephen Poliakoff
Directed By:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
Tom Phillips
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Novel By:
Umberto Eco
Producer:
Philip French

The first instalment of GOTZ FRIEDRICH 'S production of Wagner's Ring cycle live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, (sung in German)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK Act
6.30 Gotz Friedrich and Antony Peattie discuss this production, and Barry Millington talks of Rings around the world.
7.15 Act 2
8.45 Nicholas Kenyon investigates the progress of the Garden Venture, launched by the Royal
Opera this May with the premieres of seven new chamber operas, and Gotz Friedrich talks with Antony Peattie about the relationships between the music and text of the opera and between the director and conductor.
9.30 Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Gotz Friedrich
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Gotz Friedrich
Unknown:
Antony Peattie
Talks:
Barry Millington
Unknown:
Nicholas Kenyon
Talks:
Gotz Friedrich
Unknown:
Antony Peattie
Mortals: Hunding, a huntsman:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Sieglinde, his wife:
Gabriele Schnaut (sop)
Siegmund, her twin brother:
René Kollo (tenor)
Gods: Wotan:
James Morris (bass)
Fricka, his wife:
Helga Dernesch (mezzo)
The Valkyries, Wotan's daughters: Brünnhilde:
Gwyneth Jones (soprano)
Helmwige:
Penelope Daner (soprano)
Gerhilde:
Phyllis Cannan (soprano)
Ortlinde:
Christine Teare (soprano)
Waltraute:
Anne Mason (mezzo)
Siegrune:
Jane Turner (soprano)
Grimgerde:
Gillian Knight (mezzo)
Schwertleite:
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
Rossweisse:
Anne Marie Owens (mezzo)

by GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI. With and 'Mr Vee, who is a famous painter, has kindly consented to paint Daddy's portrait and mine. But he has asked that all of you be here as well.'
Harpsichord improvisations MIKE STEER Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Josipovici.
Unknown:
Mike Steer
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Rachel Mayor:
Maureen O'Brien
Peter Mayor:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Michael Esterly:
Peter Pacey
Mr Vee:
Clive Merrison
Susan:
Jo Kendall
Andrew:
Simon Cuff
Naomi:
Joanna MacKie
Sarah:
Cara Kelly
Ruth:
Zelah Clarke
Rebeka:
Melinda Walker
Esther:
Joan Walker

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