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Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A (K581)
Jack Brymer (clarinet) Medici Quartet 7.36 Arnold
Suite: Hobson Choice
LSO/Richard Hickox
7.54 Ligeti Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
8.07 Gade Symphony No 3 in A minor
Collegium Musicum, Copenhagen/
Michael Schonwandt
8.37 Purcell Frost Scene
(King Arthur)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) Choir of the English Concert English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock

Contributors

Introduces:
Paul Guinery
Clarinet:
Jack Brymer
Unknown:
Michael Schonwandt
Soprano:
Nancy Argenta
Bass:
Brian Bannatyne-Scott
Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock

9.05 Record Review continues with Richard Osborne.
Building a Library:
Dvorak's Symphony No 6' by Edward Seckerson.
Philippe Oboussier with chamber music from
Baroque England, France and Germany. Roxanna Panufnik compares the film and concert music of Nino Rota.
10.35 Record Release
Thomas Linley Violin Sonata in A
Locatelli Trio
10.48 Erlebach
Trio Sonata in E minor
Trio Sonnerie
10.59 Leclair
Sonata in A, Op 9 No 4 Simon Standage (violin)
Ulrik Mortensen (h'chord)
11.15 Rota
Suite: La Strada
Monte Carlo PO/
Gianluigi Gelmetti
11.44 Richard Wigmore reflects on the art of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as DG launch their re-issue of his Licder recordings, ending with a selection by Schubert.
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury (9.05-10.35 repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Unknown:
Philippe Oboussier
Unknown:
Germany. Roxanna
Unknown:
Nino Rota.
Violin:
Thomas Linley
Violin:
Ulrik Mortensen
Unknown:
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Unknown:
Richard Wigmore
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Producers:
Nick Morgan
Producers:
Clive Portbury

Seven programmes looking back over the career of Sir
Georg Solti , now in his 80th year. Presented by Natalie Wheen in conversation with Sir Georg himself, and including interviews with Sir John Tooley , Sir Edward Downes , Josephine Veasey and members of the ROH
Orchestra, as well as material from the BBC archives.
2: The Covent Garden
Decade: 1961-1971
Extracts from Strauss's
Der Rosenkavalier,
Gluck's Orfeo edEuridice, Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin , Strauss's Ekktra and Die Frau dime
Schatten, Verdi's Otello and Don Carlos (final act). Carlo Bergonzi , Renata Tebaldi , Grace Bumbry , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Nicolai Ghiaurov , Martti Talvela ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden

Contributors

Unknown:
Georg Solti
Presented By:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Sir John Tooley
Unknown:
Sir Edward Downes
Unknown:
Josephine Veasey
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin
Unknown:
Don Carlos
Unknown:
Carlo Bergonzi
Unknown:
Renata Tebaldi
Unknown:
Grace Bumbry
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Unknown:
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Unknown:
Martti Talvela

Donizetti's opera, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott , live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Metropolitan Opera
Chorus and Orchestra conductor Marcello Panni
Act
6.45 The Metropolitan Opera Quiz
Listeners challenge the opera experts.
•Send your questions for future Metropolitan Opera Quizzes by airmail to: Texaco Opera Quiz. 101 Park Avenue. Suite 1812. New York. NY 10178
7.15 Act 2
8.00 Architects and Critics: An American View
Historian and critic
Professor Vincent Scully of Yale University talks to Joe Mordaunt Crook ,
Professor of Architectural
History at the University of London, about the development of architecture since 1945.
8.20 Act 3
(An EBU presentation in association with the Texaco
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network)

Contributors

Novel By:
Sir Walter Scott
Conductor:
Marcello Panni
Unknown:
Professor Vincent Scully
Unknown:
Joe Mordaunt Crook
Ltlda:
June Anderson(sop)
Edgardo:
Richard Leech(tenor)
Enrico:
Juan Pons(bar)
Ratmondo:
Paul Pushka(bass)
Arturo:
Paul Groves(tenor)

by Paul Allen.
In Greenland in the late
15th century, Ingolf tries to give his brother a Christian burial. Now the last
Norseman of the settlement founded 500 years before by Eirik the Red , he considers his fate and his options: escape to Iceland; joining the Inuit; or staying put and waiting for death. The saga of Ingolf the Indecisive, with Nigel Anthony as The Last Viking.
Director Julian May

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen.
Unknown:
Eirik The Red
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Shaman:
Steve Hodson
Eyvind:
Eric Allan
Eirik the Red:
John Church
Young Eirik:
James Telfer
Gudrun:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Norse Greenlanders:
Sandra James-Young
Norse Greenlanders:
David Thorpe

Christopher Cook chairs a discussion focusing on the pick of the week's theatre, including Shakespeare's Richard III, directed by Barrie Rutter; Jonathan Miller's production of The Double Dealer by Congreve; and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel at the Royal National Theatre, London. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Brian Morton focuses on Canada, which has produced pianist Oscar Peterson, the Shuffle Demons and guitarist and composer Tim Brady. More recently Jane Bunnett (soprano saxophone and flute) has been making a name for herself, working with Don Pullen and Dewey Redman. During a recent London visit, she talked about her career.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Morton
Interviewee:
Jane Bunnett
Producer:
Derek Drescher

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