The second of four programmes.
Missa Ave Maris Stella
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR directed by DAVID HILL
The third of six programmes.
Auber Overture: Fra Diavolo
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN / NEVILLE MARRINER
Rameau Suite: Dardanus ORCHESTRA OF THE 18TH CENTURY/ FRANS BRÜGGEN
Offenbach Ballet music: Orpheus in the Underworld
PHILHARMONIA/
ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA Records
Bach Cantata: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde (BWV83)
KURT EQUILUZ (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR CHORUS VIENNENSIS CONCENTUS MUSICUS OF VIENNA/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Mozart Quintet in E flat (K 452)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
Kiinneke Dance Suite BERLIN PO/
THE COMPOSER
Hindemith Symphony: Die Harmonie der Welt LENINGRAD PO/
YEVGENY MRAVINSKY Records
with Michael Oliver.
What Difference Does a Conductor Make?
Nicholas Kenyon analyses the chemistry of the conductor-orchestra-audience relationship. Letter from Warsaw:
Adrian Thomas reports on a recent visit. Tristan Triangles:
Charles Bodman Rae pursues some unlikely connections.
Producers ANDREW LYLE and EDWARD BLAKEMAN
led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK
Mussorgsky Prelude to Khovanshchina;
A Night on the Bare Mountain
(original version)
Rachmaninov Symphony No 3
BBC Scotland
(piano)
BeethovenSonata in F, Op 54
Schoenberg Five Pieces, Op 23
Beethoven Variations in E flat, Op 35 (Eroica)
First of two programmes. ENGLISH CONCERT led by SIMON STANDAGE directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
Handel Concerto in B flat (a due cori)
Telemann Ouverture in G minor
C. H. Sisson reads from his own translation of Lucretius' great nature poem
De rerum natura and explains the attraction of that poet's pessimistic view of religion.
Producer KATHY WATSON
played by KRZYSZTOF SMIETANA and IAN MUNRO. Martinu Madrigal Stanzas Dvorak Sonatina in G Janacek Sonata BBC Manchester (R)
conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor
(RL4S Berlin recording from 1988189 season in the Philharmonie)
Second of two programmes. DAVID REICHENBERG (oboe) SOPHIA MCKENNA (oboe) PAUL GOODWIN (oboe) MILES GOLDING (violin) GRAHAM CRACKNELL (violin)
ENGLISH CONCERT led by SIMON STANDAGE directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
Telemann Concerto in B flat for three oboes, three violins and continuo
Concerto in G for violin and string orchestra Ouverture in B flat (Musique de table: production 3)
PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Schubert
Schwanengesang (D 957): Songs to poems by Rellstab: Liebesbotschaft; Kriegers Ahnung;
Friihlingssehnsucht;
Standchen; Aufenthalt; In der Feme; Abschied Songs to poems by Heine: Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermadchen ; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelganger
5.30 Schubert Goethe-Lieder:
Songs to poems by Goethe: Rastlose Liebe; Schafers Klagelied;
Geheimes; Ganymed;
Three Songs of the Harper (Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre); Wanderers Nachtlied (Uber alien
Gipfeln); Der Musensohn (R)
(1910-89)
Shortly before his death in June, Sir Alfred Ayer , one of the most influential philosophers of the century, spoke with Ted Honderich , Grote
Professor of Philosophy at University College, London, about his life and work.
Producer david PERRY (R)
conducted by MAXWELL DA VIES
WILLIAM CONWAY (cello) Beethoven Overture:
Prometheus Maxwell Davies Cello Concerto
(Strathclyde Concerto No 2) (first broadcast)
Schubert Symphony No 6 inC
MARTIN ROSCOE (piano)
Chopin Nocturnes, Op 48: No 1 in C minor;
No 2 in F sharp minor Szymanowski Masques
Op 34: No 1 (Sheherazade); No 2 (Tantris Ie Bouffon); No 3 (Serenade de Don Juan )
Chopin Polonaises, Op 26: No 1 in C sharp minor; No 2 in E flat minor BBC Bristol (R)
With DAVID MATTINSON (baritone)
Elgar Quartet in E minor, Op 83
George Butterworth Love Blows as the Wind Blows Barber Dover Beach Dvorak Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
(Given on 14 May in St Mary 's Church, Kintbury, as part of the Newbury Festival in association with the Royal Over-Seas League) BBC Bristol
A setting of the Russian
Orthodox liturgy by Pavel Grigor 'yevich Chesnokov Sung by the CHOIR OF THE STATE INSTITUTE OF THE
ARTS. VORONEZH. USSR in the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, London.
Celebrant Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Deacon
The Rev Peter Scorer Conductors
PROFESSOR OLEG SHEPEL and SERGEI NIKOLAYEV