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Charpentier Incidental music from Circe London Baroque/ Charles Medlam
7.20 Marais
Chaconne in C
Purcel! Quartet
7.35 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
RPO/Andre Previn
7.54 Couperin
L'Apothéose de Corelli William Christie
(harpsichord)
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
8.07 Debussy Jeux
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/
Bernard Haitink. Records Producer Graham Dixon
Lindsay String Quartet: Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Robin Ireland (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Haydn Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (Rider)
Schumann Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3 (R)
with Richard Osborne.
New Releases Edition
Richard Wigmore reviews two sets for the Mozart year from Sony Classical. Jeremy Summerly reviews records of medieval and Renaissance choral music.
Stephen Walsh reviews a new set of Musorgsky's Khovanshchina and the complete quartets of Shostakovich.
Mozart Symphony No 35 'Haffner': Columbia SO/ Bruno Walter
11.01 Victoria
Lamentations for Maundy Thursday. Choir of Trinity College,
Cambridge/Richard Marlow
11.20 Vivaldi
Concerto in C (RV 559) for two oboes, two clarinets and strings King's Consort/ Robert King
11.32 Shostakovich
String Quartet No 4 Brodsky Quartet
11.58 Howard Shelley talks to Christopher Lambton about his piano-playing and recording.
12.24 Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 4
Howard Shelley (piano) SNO/Bryden Thompson Records
Producers Nick Morgan and Kate Bolton
(Record Review is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Two reflections on the public understanding of science, by Professor John Durant.
1: Language of Science (R)
Gyorgy Pauk (violin) Ralf Gothoni (piano) Mozart Sonata in D
(K 306)
Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 96
Symphony No 2 in C minor (The Resurrection)
BBC Scottish SO, leader Geoffrey Trabichoff , conductor Leopold Hager. Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Sarah Walker (mezzo) Edinburgh Festival
Chorus, chorusmaster Arthur Oldham
(In association with the Alexander Consulting Group)
On the day of a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London, Tasmin Little (violin) and Piers Lane (piano) talk to
Chris de Souza about preparing for performance, from programme planning to dress design. They play pieces by Brahms,
Schubert and Respighi in front of an enthusiastic audience.
Producer Sarah Devonald
with Charles Fox
A week in the arts with Christopher Cook
Reviews: Max Ernst exhibition at the Tate
Gallery,
Christopher Hampton 's play White Chameleon at the National Theatre and Joseph Skvorecky 's novel The Miracle Game.
Opinions: Tim Marlow , Lucy Neal.
Features: Fashioning culture for men's magazines. Plus Terry Frost - Portrait of a studio.
Producers John Boundy , Tim Dee
(piano)
Debussy Preludes Book 1 Rachmaninov Four Pieces from Moments Musicaux, Op 16 (R)
Catalani's opera in four acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica (baritone) (mezzo) (mezzo) (tenor) (bantone) (bass)
Vienna Volksoper Chorus, Sofia Chamber Chorus,
Bregenz Festival Chorus, Vienna Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Pinchas Steinberg Acts 1 and 2 8.40 Ivan Hewett considers the strange phenomenon of the operatic ending.
8.55 Acts 3 and 4 Producer Anthony Sellors
A discussion on an issue of the moment, chaired by Robert Hewison.
Producer Mark Savage
leader Dennis Simons conductor
Odaline de la Martinez
Trevor Hold Symphony (1974)
Robin Holloway
Seascape and Harvest
Quartet in C (K 465)
Lindsay String Quartet (R)
