An Enlightened Historian: Edward Gibbon

Rossini Overture:
The Thieving Magpie National PO/
Riccardo Chailly
7.10 Chausson Soir de
Fete: Belgian RSO/ Jose Serebrier
7.30am News
7.35 Donizetti Ballet music: The Martyrs Philharmonia/
Antonio De Almeida
7.50 Chopin Andante , Spianato and Grande Polonaise , Op 22
Malcolm Frager (piano)
8.03 Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite, Oplla
Chicago SO/Georg Solti Records

leader Cynthia Fleming conductor
Barry Wordsworth Ruriko Tsukahara
(violin)
Sibelius Valse lyrique, Op 96 No 1
Stenhammar Two
Sentimental Romances Bruch Swedish Dances, Op 63 Set 2 (Nos 8-15) Sinding Suite in A minor
Grieg Homage March (Sigurd Jorsolfar)

with Edward Greenfield.
Record Review
Building a Library:
Corelli's Concerti Grossi , Op 6, with Nicholas Anderson ; David Nice reviews orchestral discs.
10.40 Record Release
Weber Overture: Oberon
London Classical
Players/Norrington
10.50 Vaughan Williams Job - a Masque for Dancing
Philharmonia/
Barry Wordsworth
11.40
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Louis Lortie (piano) Montreal SO/
Charles Dutoit
11.56 Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman London Classical
Players/Norrington
12.10 Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor
RPO/Andrew Litton
Producer Anthony Cheevers ('Record Review' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)

Four reflections on language by the writer Gabriel Josipovici 3: Abuse
Producer Michel Petheram

James Gourlay (tuba) Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band conductor
Geoffrey Brand
Martin Dalby Music for Brass Band
Joseph Horovitz Tuba Concerto
(first broadcast)
Penderecki Capriccio for tuba
Vaughan Williams Variations
(Given last November in the Queen Elizabeth Hall )

Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata: Correa nel seno amato
Emma Kirkby (soprano) London Baroque: Ingrid Seifert and Richard Gwilt (violins) Charles Medlam (cello) William Hunt (violone) John Toll
(harpsichord/organ) (R)

Herbert von Karajan (1908-89)
Seven programmes presented by Richard Osbome , with contributions from musicians, producers and critics.
5: Two Austrian Romantics
Mahler Ruckert Lieder Christa Ludwig (contralto)
Bruckner Symphony No 9
Berlin PO. Records

Reger String Quartet play pieces from the collection published by Belaiev whose famous musical soirees, held on Fridays at his home in St Petersburg during the 1890s, were attended by figures such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Glazunov and Lyadov. Records

Musorgsky's epic opera, in the famous production by Andrei Tarkovsky , comes live by satellite from the Kirov in Leningrad with Robert Lloyd in the title-role, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Producer John Evans
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BROADCAST with BBC2 See page 27 for details

Owen Dudley Edwards (in the chair) talks with Gilbert Adair John Higgins and Sarah Kent.
This week's subjects:
John McTieman 's film The Hunt for Red
October; Beggar on Horseback by Robert Carver (R3); Paintings by Suzanne Treisler at the Edward Totah Gallery, 13 Old
Burlington Street,
London Wl; Sheridan's School for Scandal at the National Theatre; The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, edited by Frank Muir.
Producer Philip French. Mono

(fortepiano)
Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
Rondo in G, Op 51 No 2 BBC Pebble Mill

Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, Op 132 Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra conductor Colin Davis (Bavarian Radio recording)

by Martin Crimp.
With Patricia Routledge as Mrs Tighe
Rob Edwards as Max and Amanda Royle as Poppy.
Mrs Tighe suns herself beside the pool on an island paradise and a young honeymoon couple splash in the water. But is everything as perfect as it seems? What, for instance, is wrong with Mrs Tighe's husband exactly?
Director Matthew Walters (R)

with Peter Clayton