Nuclear Weapons: The Hydrogen Bomb Controversy
in E minor (RV 279) Simon Standage
English Concert/Pinnock
7.12 Monteverdi Laetatus sum: Monica Meier -
Schmid, Inga Nielson (sops), John Elwes ,
William Kendell (tens)', Cornelius Hauptmann , Adolph Seidel (basses); Stuttgart Baroque Ensemble/Frieder Bernius
7.20 Verdi Overture:
La forza del destino Berlin PO/Karajan
7.30 am News
7.35 Schubert Piano
Sonata in B (D 575) Sviatoslav Richter
8.00 Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor Melos String Quartet
8.08
Mendelssohn Venetianisches Gondellied , Op 5 7 No 5; Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten)
Graham Johnson (piano)
8.10 Bach Concerto in F (BWV 1053): CO of Europe/ Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Producer Kate Bolton. Records
conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Elgar Elegy for Strings Rachmaninov
Symphony No 1
with Richard Osborne.
Record Review
Building a Library:
Mozart's Symphony No 40 by Edward Greenfield.
Michael Stewart reviews new discs of music by Berio, Ligeti, Takemitsu and Peter Maxwell Davies.
10.40 Record Release
Eybler Clarinet Concerto Dieter Ktocker ; ECO
11.04 Takemitsu Litany Roger Woodward (piano)
11.17 Lambert Ballet
Suite: 'Horoscope' English Northern
Philharmonia/Lloyd-Jones
11.46 Ligeti Three
Fantasies after Holderlin Groupe Vocal de France/ Guy Reibel
12.00 Kraft Cello Concerto in C, Op 4
Anner Bylsma ; Tafelmusik Orchestra/Jean Lamon
12.21 Berio Voci
Aldo Bennici (viola) London Sinfonietta/
The Composer. Records Producers Nick Morgan and Kate Bolton
(Record Review is repeated on Wednesday at 2.05pm)
A reflection on language by the philosopher Anthony Grayling. Complexity
(piano)
Mozart Sonata in Bflat (K 333)
Busoni Giga, bolero e variazione
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op 24
conductor Tadaaki Otaki
Gwyneth Jones (soprano) Beethoven Symphony
No inC, Op 21; Concert aria: Ah! perfido, Op 65 Wagner Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March; Brunnhilde's Immolation
(Gotterddmmerung)
Chris de Souza explores the sound of the group called George W Welch. John White , arr
Ian Gardiner Sonata No 109
Erik Satie , arr Ian Gardiner Chapitres tournes en tous sens
Andrew Hugill
Catalogue de grenouilles Ian Gardiner
British Museum
Producer Alan Hall
with Charles Fox
with Christopher Cook.
Reviews: Stephen Berkoffs production of Kafka's The Trial; the film Godfather III; lain
Sinclair's novel Downriver.
Opinions: Maggie Gee and Ranjit Bolt.
Features: Architecture for flying; the role of TV drama.
Producers Tim Dee. John Boundy
Richard Strauss 's three-act opera to a text by Hofmannsthal, live from the Met, New York. With Luciano Pavarotti as the Italian tenor.
Baron Ochs. AAGE HAUGLAND (bass) Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Jiri Kout Act 1
7.45 New York
Streetscapes
Architectural historian
Christopher Gray explores the changing landscape of the city through three New York addresses.
2: Strivers' Row, Harlem
8.10 Act 2
9.05 The Opera Quiz American musicologist Edward Downes with a panel of opera buffs who answer questions sent in by US listeners to these Met relays.
9.30 Act 3
(An EBU presentation in association with the Texaco
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network)
A discussion chaired by Robert Hewison.
English music from before the Civil War by Thomas Lupo ,
Orlando Gibbons , Tomkins. Adson and William Lawes.
Consort of Musicke/ Anthony Rooley
Parley of Instruments/ Peter Holman
Clerkes of Oxenford/ David Wulstan
Choir of St George's Chapel Windsor/
Christopher Robinson Fretwork
