Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite: Minneapolis SO/ Antal Dorati
7.21 Musorgsky, arr Rimsky-Korsakov Dance of the Persian
Slaves (Khovanshchina) Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
7.30am News
7.35 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner
7.51 Bach Concerto in A for oboe d'amore and strings (BWV 1055) Heinz Holliger
(oboe d'amore)
Academy of St Martin / lona Brown
8.06 Prokofiev Suite:
Lieutenant Kije
Cleveland Orchestra/ George Szell. Records
Clementi and Hummel Clementi Sonata in G minor, Op 7 No 3
Lamar Crowson (piano) Hummel Mass in E flat,
Op 80
Elisabeth Speiser (sop) Helen Watts (alto) Kurt Equiluz (tenor) Siegmund Nimsgern
(bass); Stuttgart Hymnus Choir; Werner Keltsch
Instrumental Ensemble/
Gerhard Wilhelm. Records
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Duncan McTier
(double-bass)
Barriere Sonata a deux
Vanhal Theme and Variations
Rossini Duetto (R)
conducts Shostakovich
Symphony No 1 in F minor: Czech PO. Record
Four programmes, each featuring a different singer, with lain Burnside (piano). Four Kurpian Songs, Op 58: Book 1 Three Lullabies, Op 48 Songs of a Fairy-tale Princess, Op 31
Lynda Russell (soprano)
conductor
Bryden Thomson
Howard Shelley (piano) Borodin Overture:
Prince Igor Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 4
Othello
Martinu Symphony No 1
Arriaga String Quartet No 3 in E flat
Schumann Quartet No 1 in A minor, Op 41 (R)
Final programme.
Piano Concerto No 3
The Composer (piano) LPO/Leonard Dommett Sun into Darkness: Act 3 BBC Concert Orchestra/
Barry Wordsworth
played by Anne Queffelec. Ravel Miroirs
Dutilleux Sonata (R)
play Renaissance instrumental music.
Dowland Lachrymae
Pavan; Can She Excuse; Go from My Window; Frog Galliard
Peter Phillips Phillips Pavan anon Nutmegs and Ginger; Greensleeves; Dafne Richard Allison Batchelars Delight Johann Schop Lachrymae anon Woodycock; Grimstock; Dafne; Joyne Hands
Final programme. On the Idle Hill of Summer
Gurney The Fields Are Full; All Night under the Moon; An Epitaph;
The Cloths of Heaven Ian Partridge (tenor)
Jennifer Partridge (piano)
Howard Ferguson Song cycle: Discovery, Op 13 Kathleen Ferrier (alto)
Ernest Lush (piano) (Mono) Gurney Song cycle: Ludlow and Teme
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano) Coull String Quartet. Interspersed with readings from some of Ivor Gurney 's poems by David Mahlowe.
Series producer Paul Hindmarsh (R)
with Natalie Wheen Producer David Papp
The Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka talks with Christopher Bigsby. Producer Julian May (R)
The semi-finals.
Twelve young pianists have been chosen from the first round to contest the semi-finals.
This evening: highlights from the solo recitals given by the first four contestants in Leeds
Town Hall yesterday. With Paul Hindmarsh. (In association with Harveys of Bristol)
conductor Andrew Davis
Tippett Ritual Dances
Casken Orion over Fame
Death and the Tango Byron and Jeff are two young men with obsessions: the tango and Renaissance philosophy. Though modern-day Birmingham has little to offer them, they soon find themselves on a journey to end all journeys.
A fantastical comedy by John Fletcher.
Music Vic Gammon Director Nigel Bryant
Frank Martin
Ballade for trombone Six Monologues from 'Jedermann'
Trois chants de Noël
Petite symphonie concertante