Arts: The Rational Amusement

Vaughan Williams
Suite for viola and small orchestra:
Frederick Riddle ; Bournemouth
Sinfonietta/Norman del Mar
7.30 am News
7.35 Albinoni Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2
David Reichenberg (oboe) English Concert/Pinnock
7.46 Debussy Sonata for flute, violin and harp Melos Ensemble
8.02 Haydn Symphony No 93 in D
Orchestra of the 18th
Century/Briiggen. Records

Purcell Suite in G
London Baroque
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Bflat
Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford/ Simon Preston
My Beloved Spake
Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Academy of St Martin/Philip Ledger Pavan a 4 in G minor
London Baroque
Rejoice in the Lord Alway Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Academy of St Martin/Philip Ledger Three Parts on a Ground in D: London Baroque Blessed Are They That Fear the Lord: Choir of King's College; Academy of St Martin. Records

with Susan Sharpe.
Haydn Symphony No 80 in D minor: Philharmonia
Hungarica/Antal Dorati
9.57 Satie Gnossiennes , Nos 1 and Pascal Roge (piano) 10.04 Vaughan
Williams Flos Campi Nobuko Imai (viola) Corydon Singers
ECO/Matthew Best
10.27 Satie Gnossiennes , Nos 3 and 4 10.34 Chopin Piano Trio in G minor, Op 8 Trio Fontenay
11.05 Gliere Ballet: The
Red Poppy: Bolshoi
Theatre Orch/Yuri Fayer
11.40 Gurney Sleep Martyn Hill (tenor)
Clifford Benson (piano)
11.45 Satie Gnossiennes , Nos 5 and 6. Records

The Nat West Trophy
Semi-finals: Reports and commentary on both matches. including at
12.50pm News

conductor Takuo Yuasa David Home (piano) Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3 in C Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1945 version)

Second of six programmes. Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5 Aeolian Quartet Mozart String Quartet in D minor (K 421) Alban Berg Quartet Records

conductor David Atherton Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture Vaughan Williams A London Symphony

Igor Markevitch conducts: Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella (excerpts) (mono) Divertimento (mono) French National Radio Orchestra Le Sacre du Printemps Philharmonia Orchestra Records: 1954/59

recorded at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Responses: Holmes 'for Trebles'; Psalm 73 (Crotch, Ouseley); First Lesson: Job 16, v 1 to 17, v 2; Canticles: Service on Plainsong Tones (Wills); Second Lesson: Mark 4, w 1-20; Anthem: Ascribe unto the Lord (S S Wesley); Organ voluntary: Dankpsalm (Reger). Organist and Director of Music John Scott Sub organist Andrew Lucas

The first of two programmes of traditional Latvian dance tunes introduced, played and sung by the Jumprava Folk Band from Riga. Producer John Thomley

with Peter Paul Nash. Producer Clive Portbury

live from the Royal Albert Hall London. , John Lill (piano) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Libor Pesek Dutilleux Mystère de l'instant Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
7.55 Tchaikovsky and Fate: John Warrack traces the course of an obsession which haunted the composer and his music. Reader Garard Green.
8.15 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathétique)

For some 30 years historians have taken the view that the Middle Ages had no concept of childhood. Professor
Jeffrey Richards suggests a new interpretation.
Producer Rosemary Hart

Concerto in G for four violins, unaccompanied Simon Standage , Micaela Comberti , Miles Golding , Andrew Manze (violins) Oboe Concerto in E minor Hans-Peter Westermann Camerata Koln

live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir, conductor Valery Polyansky
Rachmaninov Vespers , Op 37

Sonata for Strings No 1 in G: Camerata Bem/ Thomas Furi. Record

Mendelssohn Overture:
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage; Fugue, Op 81 No 4; Capriccio in F sharp minor, Op 5; String Quintet in A, Op 18