with Andrew Lyle. Including:
on Hebrew Themes Borodin Trio
Fairy
Tales, Op 14 Nos 1 and 2 Hamish Milne (piano)
Hypochondtie
Camerata Bern
Piano
Concerto in G
Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli (piano) Philharmonia/
Ettore Gracis. Records
Soprano Felicity Lott talks to Stephen Johnson about the pleasures and difficulties of singing Strauss.
Three Ophelia Songs
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Four Last Songs
Felicity Lott (soprano) Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Arabella (Act 3, excerpt) Peter Seiffert (tenor)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Jeffrey Tate
Plus lieder performed by Lisa Delia Casa ,
Julius Patzak , Edita Gruberova , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Jessye Norman. Records
Geoffrey Bush / had a little nut-tree
Ian Partridge (tenor)
The Composer (piano)
Vaughan Williams The Turtle Dove
Lindsay Heather (baritone) Choir of King's College,
Cambridge/David Willcocks Rameau La Poule
Kenneth Gilbert (h'chord)
Symphony No 2 (The Blackbird)
Helsinki PO/Pertti Pekkanen
Souvenirs de Bayreuth
Suite: Ma mere l'oye Genevievejoy and Jacqueline Robin-Bonneau (piano duet)
The Swan of Tuonela Gothenburg SO/ Neeme Jarvi
Variations on 'PhiUs
Schoon Herderinne '
Michala Petri (recorder)
Piper's
Linn Richard Butler.
(Northumbrian pipes)
414forfour
Wisconsin Youth SO
Percussion Ensemble/ Vicki Jenks
The Princesses' Round
(The Firebird)
LSO/Claudio Abbado
The Triumph of Neptune (excerpts) (Mono)
London Philharmonic/ Thomas Beecham
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the first broadcasts of his Strathclyde Concertos Nos 5 and 6 in a programme which also includes his
Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, a commission by the Boston Pops Orchestra. Jan Albert Ban Vanitas Haydn Overture: L'Isola Disabitata
Maxwell Davies
Strathclyde Concerto No 5 James Clark (violin)
Catherine Marwood (viola) Strathclyde Concerto No 6 David Nicholson (flute)
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
George Macllwham (bagpipes)
A Twentieth-Century Voice
In the third of four programmes, the countertenor talks to Brian Kay about his work within the rich Baroque repertoire, with music by Purcell, Handel and Bach and comment from Robert King, Sir Charles Mackerras and Michael Chance.
Alexander Baillie (cello) Martin Roscoe (piano)
The first of two recitals includes two sets of variations on music from Mozart's Die Zauberflote. Variations on 'Bei Mannern welche Liebe fuhlen', Wo046;
Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen', Op 66; Sonata in A, Op 69
In this final programme on the New Orleans trumpeter Bunk Johnson , Bill Russell tells
Michael Pointon about Bunk's friendship with pianist Don Ewell.
(Mono)
Series producer Derek Drescher
Anthony Burton 's guest is the pianist Robert Levin. Producer Andrew Mussett
live from Studio 1, Birmingham.
David Owen Norris (piano) Walton Valse (Facade)
Debussy Etudes (Book 1) Haydn Fantasia in C (H XVII 4)
Peter Pulzer , Gladstone
Professor of Government and Public Administration at Oxford, asks whether racial violence is politically or ideologically motivated.
Intermezzi, Op 117
Messiaen Quatre Etudes de rhythme
Joni Mitchell , arr
Norris Conversation; Tin Angel; Big Yellow Taxi
Paul Scofield reads a second selection of excerpts from Seneca's letters to Lucilius. The Pleasures of Old Age
Eve Dreams in Paradise
Ameral Gunson (mezzo) Philip Sheffield (tenor)
BBC Philharmonic/Downes
The consort music of Johann Hermann Schein is based on a skilful blend of English and Italian styles. The tenth of 12 programmes includes canzonas and dance suites from his collections Venus Krdntzlein and Banclietto musicale.
The Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman and Mark Caudle
New London
Consort/Philip Pickett
Have historians invented the patriotic myth? Roy Porter sits in judgement. Producer Julian Hale
Scythian Suite, Op 20
Chicago SO/Claudio Abbado The Prodigal Son SNO/Neeme Jarvi Records
