Into the Open: The First Hurdle
Martinu Nonet - Dartington Ensemble
7.18 Smetana Polka and Furiant (Bartered Bride) - Vienna PO/James Levine
7.35 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan - Vienna PO/Abbado
7.43 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain - Alicia De Larrocha (piano); Suisse Romande Orch/Sergiu Comissiona
8.08 Roy Harris Symphony No 3 - New York PO/Leonard Bernstein.
(Records)
Allegro in A minor (D 947); Fantasia in F minor (D 940); Rondo in D (D 608); Valses sentimentales (D 779) Nos 1-4,12,13 and 15-17.
Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir (piano duet).
BBC Bristol
(R)
with Edward Greenfield.
Record Review
Building a Library: Britten's song-cycle Les Illuminations with Stephen Walsh.
Rodney Milnes reviews opera releases.
Presenter Natalie Wheen. A chance to discuss your views on the network with John Drummond, Controller of Radio 3.
Lines open from 9.30am
Beethoven Fantasia in C, Op 80 - Daniel Barenboim (piano) John Alldis Choir, New PO/Otto Klemperer
11.42 Richard Osborne talks with conductor Helmuth Rilling about the first recording of the Messa per Rossini.
12.10 Bruckner Symphony No 0 in D minor - Berlin RSO/Riccardo Chailly
with Roy Porter.
Mozart Quartet in B flat (K 589)
Ives Quartet No 2
2.00 Interval Reading
2.05 Dvorak Quartet in A flat, Op 105
BBC Pebble Mill
(R)
CBSO led by Peter Thomas, conducted by Simon Rattle
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
3.05 Interval Reading
3.10 Mahler Symphony No 7
(R)
Barbican Piano Trio
Haydn Trio in E flat (H XV 10)
Bridge Phantasie Trio
with Peter Clayton
Christopher Cook (in the chair) talks with Michael Billington, John Carey and Helen McNeil about: a South Bank Show special on Boris Pasternak (ITV); Philip Saville's film Fellow Traveller; two plays by Howard Barker: Scenes from an Execution (Almeida, Islington) and Seven Lears (Royal Court); the Frans Hals exhibition at the Royal Academy; The State of the Language (ed Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels).
(Mono)
Allan Schiller (piano)
Nielsen Three Pieces for piano, Op 59
Schumann Fantasy in C, Op 17.
BBC Wales
Beethoven's only opera underwent various cuts and changes before becoming Fidelio in 1814. This is the original 1805 version, which includes two numbers not in Fidelio.
Leipzig Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra/Max Pommer
Acts 1 and 2
8.35 David Charlton relates Leonore to the French genre of Rescue Opera.
8.45 Act 3
(East German Radio recording)
Richter's six string quartets are among the earliest to have been written, being contemporary with Haydn's first collection.
Quartet No 5 in G; Quartet No 2 in B flat - Salomon String Quartet
Charles Fox introduces a recording, made in the Lilian Baylis Theatre, London, of this 16-piece group playing Freedom Calls, composed by their founder Tony Haynes. The work is about the struggle for liberty in different parts of the world and has lyrics by Valerie Bloom (Jamaica), John Matshikiza (South Africa) and Vladimir Vega (Chile).
