Europe: Views from the Boardroom

Rossini Overture: Semiramide
BBC Scottish SO/ Matthias Bamert
7.13 Butterworth
Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence
7.25 Rachmaninov
The Rock
BBC Scottish SO/ Ronald Zollman
7.41 Chopin Piano
Concerto No 2 in F minor
Artur Pizarro (piano) BBC Scottish SO/ Jerzy Maksymiuk
8.12 Musorgsky Scherzo in Bflat
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence
8.17 Dvorak
Symphony No 8 in G BBC Scottish SO/ Matthias Bamert

Suppe Overture: Light Cavalry
9.13 Handel
Air and Variations: The
Harmonious Blacksmith
9.18 Tchaikovsky Gopak (Mazeppa)
9.24 Schumann
Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra, Op 86
9.43 Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No 1
9.52 Artist of the Week: Simon Preston (organ) Widor Toccata (Organ Symphony No 5)
9.59 Puccini
Gloria (Messa di Gloria)
10.20
Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro
10.27 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
(orchestral version)
10.39 Composer of the Week preview:
Hummel Octet-Partita in Eflat
10.53 Rebel
Les Elemens (excerpts)
11.07 Mozart Fantasia in F minor (K608)
11.20 Brahms
Violin Concerto in D. Discs

with Christopher Page. Andrew Parrott looks back over twenty years as director of the Taverner Choir and Players and introduces a selection of their recordings, including music by Bach,
Machaut, Monteverdi and Purcell.
Producer Kate Bolton

"I'm sorry, there are some things I will do in the course of duty - but eat a pigeon's head? No." Alan Brown , in Hong Kong, talks to British expatriates and Chinese residents of the colony about the relative merits of each other's cooking.
Producer Elizabeth Burke

The third of four concerts given last month in the Barbican Hall, London.
Faye Robinson (soprano) Mikhail Rudy (piano) BBC Symphony
Orchestra/Andrew Davis Tippett The Wolf Trap Fanfare
Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 3 in C minor
Tippett Symphony No 3

The second of two recitals by Stephen Coombs and Ian Munro (pianos)
Arensky Suite No 3, Op 33 (Theme and Variations)
Gliere Six Pieces, Op 41: Nos 4-6
Arensky
Suite No 4, Op 62

Dmitri Alexeev (piano) Szymanowski String Quartet No 1 in C
Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola was preoccupied with the theme of liberty, subject of his opera The Prisoner and the choral Songs of Imprisonment, both dating from the Second World
War. In conversation with Dallapiccola's widow Laura and colleague Pierluigi Petrobelli ,
Graham Fawcett traces the composer's musical devotion to the issues of freedom and the loss of it which surrounded him in the 30s and 40s. With Dallapiccola's music, archive recordings of his voice and readings from an autobiographical fragment.
('The Prisoner' tomorrow, 'Ulisse on Wednesday, 7.30pm)

Schubert's song cycle of tragic love performed by Thomas Allen (baritone) and Roger Vignoles (piano).

Shakespeare's "Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy" in a co-production between Radio 3 and the Renaissance Theatre Company, using the full text of the play. With Citizens, musicians and members of the Watch played by Sean Barrett, Patti Holloway, Alex Lowe, Shaun Prendergast and members of the cast.
Music by Patrick Doyle, realised by the composer and John Powell
Renaissance Romeo SEE FEATURE page 28

Symphony No 3 in Eflat (Rhenish)
Berlin RSO/Frans Briiggen

presented by Peter Paul Nash.
Susan Bickley (mezzo)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Birmingham
Contemporary Music Group/Elgar Howarth Peter Paul Nash In a Walled Garden
Gordon McPherson Heh! Voltaire!
John Hopkins
Cantata (BBC commission - first performance)