Gibbons Attack on Christianity
Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny
LSO/Claudio Abbado
7.08 Grieg Solveig 's Song (Peer Gynt) Elly Ameling ; San
Francisco SO/de Waart
7.14 Delius Over the Hills and Far Away
RPO/Thomas Beecham
7.30am News
7.35 Beethoven
Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Berlin PO/Karajan
7.41 G Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow Bournemouth
Sinfonietta/del Mar
7.47 Liszt St Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds: Alfred Brendel
7.58 Wagner Daum
Music and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
(Gotterdammerung) National SO/Dorati
8.08 Respighi Suite: The Birds: San Francisco SO/
Edo de Waart. Records
(cello)
Clifford Benson (piano) Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op 70
Shostakovich Sonata, Op 40
Martini Variations on a Theme of Rossini (R)
with Edward Greenfield.
Record Review
Building a Library:
Rachmaninov's Third
Symphony (Edward Seckerson); discs of 20th-century works (Arnold Whittall).
10.40 Record Release
Tippett Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage) Soloists; Chorus of Opera North; English
Northern Philharmonia/
The Composer
11.06 Robert Simpson String Quartet No 3
Delme String Quartet
11.27 Walton A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table
Felicity Palmer (mezzo) John Constable (piano)
11.47 Grainger Suite: In a Nutshell
Martin Jones (piano)
12.08 Britten Cello Suite
No 3: Torleif Thedeen
12.33 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Orpheus CO Goran Sollscher (guitar) Producer Anthony Cheevers ('Record Review' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Reflections by writer Gabriel Josipovici. 2: And, Because, Therefore
Producer Michel Petheram
(1903-89)
Tribute to a respected brass-band composer. Britannia Building Society Band conductor Howard Snell Ball March: Star Lake
Elgar, arr Ball Overture: Froissart
Ball Festival Music; Resurgam. BBC North
Caroline Palmer (piano) Szymanowski
Mazurkas, Op 50 Nos 13, 14, 15, 16 Rachmaninov
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42 BBC Wales (R)
Herbert von Karajan (1908-89)
Seven programmes with Richard Osborne.
4: The Moderns
Debussy La Mer
Schoenberg Variations Sibelius Tapiola
Honegger Symphony No 3 Berlin PO. Records
Pauline Lowbury (violin) Julius Drake (piano)
Enesoo Sonata, Op 6 No 2 Granados, arr Kreisler Danse espagnole
with Peter Clayton
William Feaver (in the chair) talks with Gilbert Adair. Marilyn Butler , Owen Dudley Edwards on: 1953 by Craig Raine (R3); Paul Mazursky 's film Enemies: A Love
Story; Constructions and Installations by Christian Boltanski
(Whitechapel Gallery); Look, Look by Michael Frayn (Aldwych
Theatre); Brian Moore 's novel Lies of Silence.
Producer Philip French. Mono
Ordre No 24 (Book 4) Paul Nicholson
(harpsichord) (R)
by Graeme Fife.
An impromptu serenade from the harvesters to the Master, Giuseppe Verdi. Reader
Edward de Souza. (R)
live from the London Coliseum. The first London stage production, by English National Opera, of the complete 1865 Paris version. Sung in a new English translation by Jeremy Sams.
English National Opera Chorus, chorusmasters
Martin Handley and Harry Bicket
ENO Orchestra leader Barry Griffiths conductor Mark Elder Act
8.20 Conductor Mark Elder and producer
David Pountney talk about Macbeth to James Naughtie.
8.35 Act 2
9.05 Jeremy Beadle considers the difference between Shakespeare's Macbeth and Verdi's.
9.25 Acts 3 and 4 (In assoc. with British Gas pic)
by Heathcote Williams.
With Richard Briers as Tony Hancock.
Tony Hancock died on 25 June 1968. His last half-hour is a solitary affair...
(R)
Gaspard de la nuit
Philip Martin (piano) (R)
