The third of four programmes.
Motet and Mass: Vidi speciosum
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR directed by DAVID HILL Record
The fourth of six programmes. Massenet
Meditation Thais
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER (violin)
BERLIN PO/
HERBERT VON KARAJAN Rameau Pygmalion (excerpts)
RACHEL YAKAR (soprano) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
CHOIR OF LA CHAPELLE
ROYALE. PARIS
LA PETITE BANDE/
GUSTAV LEONHARDT
Delibes Suite: Sylvia NEW PHILHARMONIA/ CHARLES
MACKERRAS Franck Psyche et Eros BERLIN PO;
CARLO MARIA GIULINI
Offenbach Barcarolle
BERLIN PO/
HERBERT VON KARAJAN Records
Pasculli Concerto on Themes from Donizetti's 'La favorita'
MALCOLM MESSITER (oboe) NATIONAL PO/RALPH MACE Schubert Quintet in C ALBAN BERG QUARTET with HEINRICH SCHIFF (cello)
Brahms Sonata No 3 in F minor (Mono)
EDWIN FISCHER (piano)
Arvo Part Symphony No 3 BAMBERG SO/NEEME JARVI Records
with Michael Oliver. Anatomising
Anton John Deathridge reflects on the latest Bruckner research.
Letter from Moscow
Graham Dixon reports on a recent visit.
Tdnchdzak Harold Dennis-Jones discusses the Hungarian folk music revival.
Producers ANDREW LYLE and EDWARD BLAKEMAN
(Repeatedon Monday at 2.00pm)
led by MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by JIRI STAREK PASCAL DEVOYON (piano) Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
Grieg Piano Concerto, Op 16
11.55 Interval Reading
12.00 Svendsen Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak Symphonic Variations, Op 78
TIMOTHY HUGH (cello)
KATHRON STURROCK (piano) Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 69
Kodaly Sonata for cello solo, Op 8
C. H. Sisson reads two of his most recent poems, Taxila and The Begging Bowl, both of which explore the implications of past actions and the imminence of death. Producer KATHY WATSON
Concerto in A minor for two flutes, two oboes, bassoon and strings;
Concerto in D minor for two chalumeaux and strings: Concerto in D for trumpet and strings
MUSICA ANTIQUA, COLOGNE/ REINHARD GOEBEL Records
Allegro in B minor, Op 8 Six Intermezzi, Op 4
The first of nine programmes.
Verdi Requiem
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) LINDA FINNIE (soprano) VINSON COLE (tenor) SAMUEL RAMEY (bass)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO (WFMT recording)
BORODIN STRING QUARTET
Borodin Quartet No 2 in D Shostakovich Quartet No 8 in C minor
Tchaikovsky Quartet No 2 in F
(Hungarian Radio recording)
Joe Mordaunt Crook ,
Professor of Architecture at London University, in the company of Professor Robin Middleton , visits some of the architectural landmarks of pre- and post-Revolutionary Paris: the Rotunde de la Vilette, the Pantheon, the Chambre des Députées, the home of Napoleon and Josephine at Malmaison, the Palais-Royale, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre pyramid.
With a contribution from Professor Robert Rosenblum.
Readers DAVID KING
JOHN MOFFATT and GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (R)
led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF (violin)
Brahms Symphony No 3 in F
7.55 On Foyer Culture
'People taking their seats in the back of the hall could be forgiven for wondering why the party has suddenly stopped.' Pianist Stephen Pruslin reflects on the shopping and entertainment frequently offered nowadays as a prelude to the main event. Mono
8.10 Schoenberg Violin Concerto
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
(Given on 7 October in the Royal Festival Hall, London)
ANNA NOAKES (flute)
DINAH BENNETT (piano) Keith Burston
Legends of Sleep (first broadcast)
Jean-Jacques Werner Nachtstiick
(first broadcast)
Prokofiev Sonata in D, Op 94
A discussion on an issue of the moment. Chaired by Robert Hewison.
Producer JUUAN HALE
Sacred music on the theme of wisdom, recorded in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
In a three-part discourse, Canon Rowan Williams, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, sheds light on the nature of wisdom.
A Song of Wisdom (Stanford)
Organ: Litanies (Alain)
0 Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Boyce) Almighty God , the Fountain of All Wisdom (Tomkins)
Hymn: 0 for a closer walk with God (arr Stanford) CHRIST CHURCH
CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Organist and Master of the Choristers
STEPHEN DARLINGTON Assistant Organist SIMON LAWFORD
Night Music
An evocation of the sounds of the Balkan night by one of the leading Bulgarian composers of the older generation.
SOFIA PO/KONSTANTIN ILIEV Record
