Mendelssohn Overture:
The Hebrides
Bamberg SO/Flor
7.10 Mahler Wo die sch6nen Trompeten blasen Anne Sofie von Otter
(mezzo-soprano)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
7.17 Waldteufel
The Skaters Waltz
Philharmonia/Karajan
7.30am News
7.35 Bizet L'Arlesienne:
Suite No 2
Ulster Orchestra/Tortelier
7.51 Berio Folk Songs Jard van Nes (mezzo)
Royal Concertgebouw/ Riccardo Chailly
8.12 Ravel La Valse
NYPO/Boulez. Records Producer Peter Tanner
Conductor Bernhard Klee
Gyorgy Pauk (violin) Josef Suk (viola) Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat (K 364) Strauss Symphonic poem: Till Eulenspiegel
with Edward Greenfield.
Record Review
Building a Library:
Schumann's Dichterliebe by Alan Blyth.
Anthony Burton reviews new discs of modern choral and orchestral works.
10.40 Record Release Hartmann Concerto funèbre
Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Moscow Virtuosi
11.00 Beethoven Four
Irish Songs
Felicity Lott (soprano) Ann Murray (mezzo)
Galina Solodchin (violin) Jonathan Williams (cello) Graham Johnson (piano)
11.13 Kokkonen
Symphony No 4
Lahti SO/Osmo Vanska
11.36 Liszt Variations on Bach's 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen'
Alfred Brendel (piano)
11.51 Simon Bainbridge Fantasia for double orch BBC SO/The Composer
12.10 Edward Greenfield talks to
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on her 75th birthday.
12.30 Strauss Four Last
Songs (Mono: 1956)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano); Philharmonia/ Karajan. Records
Producer Nick Morgan
('Record Review' is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
12.55 pm Words Four reflections on language by the composer Hugh Wood. 1: Programme Notes of Times Past
Arditti Quartet
Stravinsky Concertino
Elliott Carter Quartet No 1
The final retrospective with Nicholas Kenyon , in which the composer-conducts.
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 2
Stravinsky Apollo; Three Dances from 'The Firebird'
2.54 Nicholas Kenyon talks to John Drummond.
3.04 Lutoslawski Chain // Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Boulez Le Visage nuptial Series producer Ray Abbott
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Joy Farrall (clarinet) talk to Chris de Souza about both their special musical partnership and their separate solo lives; and with Julius Drake
(piano) they play works by Poulenc, Head, Gilson and Dvorak.
with Charles Fox
with Christopher Cook. Reviews: Debussy's
Pelleas et Mélisande at
ENO; exhibition of Jasper Johns at the Hayward
Gallery; Bertolucci's film of The Sheltering Sky.
Opinions: Rodney Milnes , Christopher Frayling Features: Exhibition catalogues - are they too weighty? Can we write a common European history? Producers John Boundy. Tim Dee
Hagen Quartet
Tabea Zimmerman (viola) Quartet in D (K 499) (Hoffmeister);
Quintet in E flat (K 614)
A young boy puts the existence of God to the test. Written by Rodrigo Rey Rosa.
Reader Jeremy Northam. Translator Paul Bowles Producer Sally Avens
Part 2
Quartet in A (K 464)
by Richard Wagner.
9: Gotterdammemng, Act 2 0 SIMULTANEOUS
BROADCAST with BBC2. For details see page 41
Gordon Fergus
Thompson (piano)
Debussy Les fees sont d'exquises danseuses;
La Terrasse des audiences au clair de lune; Feux d'artifice
(Preludes, Book 2)
Mathias Sonata No 2 (R)
with Robert Hewison
Martinu's one act opera, premiered on radio in 1937, is a light-hearted satire on war, concerning the predicament of a group of people trapped in no-man's land. (soprano) (baritone) (bass) (tenor)(speaker) (speaker)
Brno Janacek Opera Orchestra, conductor Frantisek Jilek. Record
Norman Rodway reads a second short story by Machado de Assis.
Waiting to go to Midnight Mass, a young man is engaged in flirtatious conversation by his host's usually demure wife.
(Third story Friday at 11.10pm)
Timothy Hugh (cello)
Kathron Sturrock (piano) Britten Suite No 3 for solo cello
John Joubert Kontakion ,
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