Shakespeare History Plays
Suppe Overture: Light Cavalry
Philharmonia/Karajan
7.07 Mahler Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen Lucia Popp (soprano) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernstein
7.16 Johann Strauss
(son) Waltz: Artist's Life Vienna PO/Carlos Kleiber
7.30am News
7.35 Schubert Symphony No 3 in D. RPO/Beecham
7.58 Wolf Italian Serenade
Ana Bela Chaves (viola)
Paris Orchestra/Barenboim
8.06 Brahms Die
Mainacht: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
8.10 Beethoven Overture-.
Leonora No 3: Dresden
State Orch/Haitink. Records
8.30am News
Fourth of six programmes. W F Bach Sinfonia in D Concerto Cologne
Weiss Largo and Fugue in D minor: Nigel North (lute) Lotti La vita caduca
Consort of Musicke/Rooley Zelenka Lamentations of Jeremiah: Sixth Setting
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/ Rene Jacobs (alto)
Fourth of six programmes. Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 60
Isaac Stern (violin), Jaime Laredo (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) Prokofiev Violin
Concerto No I in D
Isaac Stern (violin)
NYPO/Mitropoulos. Records
welcomes a new awards ceremony for music, looks at how musicians should be rewarded, and talks to composer Andrzej Panufnik. Producer Jane Walker
Delores Ziegler (mezzo) BBC PO/Edward Downes Bach , orch Elgar Fantasy and Fugue in C minor
Wagner Wesendoncklieder
11.30 Interval Reading
11.35 Elgar
Symphony No 2
with Philip French. This week:
Max Beerbohm on W B Yeats. (First broadcast in /954)
with Paul Guinery.
Elgar Overture: In the South: LPO/Georg Solti
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D (BWV 874)
Andras Schiff (piano) Dittersdorf String Quartet No 3 in G
Franz Schubert Quartet Copland Three Old
American Songs: Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) (Mono) Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Alicia de Larrocha (piano) LPO/Frubeck de Burgos
Records. Producer Michael Emery
(Winter's Journey)
Cycle of 24 songs by Schubert, to poems by Wilhelm Muller
Robert Holl (bass)
Andras Schiff (piano)
conductor John Lubbock Novak Slovak Suite
Janacek Moravian Dances
Martinu Sinfonietta: La Jolla (R)
Michael Oliver delves into the world of Charles Garnier 's Paris Opera. Producer Edward Blakeman
Choir of the Institute of the Arts, Voronezh, in a meditation led by Fr Sergei Hackel. With prayers, readings and poetry by Irina Ratushinskaya.
Archangelsky 0 Lord,
Hear My Prayer (Ps 102) Stravinsky Pater Noster Chesnokov Let Us Now
Approach the Mother of God
Archangelsky /
Contemplate the Day of Judgement
Berezovsky Do Not Cast Me Off in the Time of Old Age (Psalm 71)
Bortnyansky / Lift Mine Eyes Unto the Hills (Ps 121) Director Oleg Shepel Readers Polly March and Christopher Good
Second of two programmes. Geminiani Concerto grosso in Bflat, Op 7 No 6 Academy of St Martin/ lona Brown. Records
Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett.
Set in Prague, 27 Batcliffe Drive and Heaven,
Kafka's Dick not only examines the relationship between life and art, but asks some rather less
(or more) fundamental questions. Did W H Auden wear underpants?
And what exactly was Kafka's embarrassing little problem?
Music arranged and performed by Nicholas Kok Director Gordon House (First broadcast on the BBC World Service)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany conductor Lionel Friend Brahms Serenade No 1
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1
Christopher Hope 's short story is about Nicodemus - a strange little man in a small South African town.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith .
Producer Duncan Minshull. Mono
Music by three generations of the Couperin family for three Kings named Louis. Francois Couperin Sonate 'La Sultane'
Louis Couperin Three
Symphonies for violin and two basses de viole; Suite in C for harpsichord Francois Couperin Sonate 'La Francoise'
11.10 A reading from a letter written by the 18th-century traveller Tobias Smollett , describing
Parisian life of the period.
11.15
Francois Couperin Concert No 13 for two bass viols
Armand-Louis Couperin Sonata, Op 3 No 3
Francois Couperin
Concert Royal No 3 in A (In association with Simpson Curtis , Solicitors)
