Lord Briggs on Victorian Culture

Presented by Paul Guinery , and from 9.05am, Anthony Burton. First, Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
Bruch
Concerto for two pianos Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Semyon Bychkov
7.30 Howells
Phantasy String Quartet Lyric Quartet
7.45 Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
(excerpts)
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonia Orchestra. conductor Libor Pesek
8.09 Trad, arr Britten
Three Traditional Irish
Melodies
Ann Murray (mezzo)
Graham Johnson (piano)
8.19 Mendelssohn
Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Herbert Blomstedt
9.00 News
9.05
Building a Library
Brahms's Piano Concerto
No I by Stephen Dodgson. John Steane reviews new discs of British choral music, including Volume 3 of Hyperion's The English Anthem and the start of a new series of British church music from ASV.
Lyndon Jenkins revels in the delights of Marco Polo 's British Light Music.
10.35
Record Release
Elgar
Give unto the Lord
Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, conductor John Scott
Andrew Lucas (organ)
10.45 Bax
Five Greek Folk Songs Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
10.58 Edward German
Gypsy Suite
Czecho-Slovak Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, conductor
Adrian Leaper
11.14 Howells
Magnificat, Nuncdimittis (Chichester)
Choir of Queen's College, Oxford, conductor Matthew Owens
David Went (organ)
11.25 Mengelberg, Koussevitsky and Stokowski are among the past masters of the podium and studio in Rob Cowan 's batch of reissues, which include rarities like Poe's
The Raven recited to music by Dubensky and conducted by Stokowski.
12.25
Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version) Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski (1937, Mono) Discs
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury

Music for the home, church and court by Purcell and his contemporaries. 3: Best Behaviour Discs

A selection of music on disc.

Rossini's two-act comic opera to a libretto by Felice Romani (after
Caterino Mazzola ). First performed at La Scala, Milan, on 14 August 1814.
The poet Prosdocimo explains to the audience that he is looking for material for a comedy drawn from real life. In a gypsy camp near Naples, he encounters Zaida who, as a slave girl in a Turkish harem, once loved the prince Selim, but was forced to flee after rumours had been spread which had led Selim to sentence her to death. The ensuing action provides the poet with ample material ... An opera full of "double meanings, hypocrisy, smothered anger, forced smiles, and asides through clenched teeth".
Sung in Italian.
Chorus of the Theatre
Municipal, Lausanne Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Maurizio Arena
Act
8.30 Opera News with James Naughtie. Producer David Gallagher
9.15 Act 2
(Suisse Romande Radio recording)

John Sunnan's Brass
Project
John Surman formed the Brass Project with arranger/conductor John Warren in 1981. For their concert in the Lilian Baylis Theatre two weeks ago, the band included Surman on soprano and baritone sax and bass clarinet with Guy Barker , Steve Waterman and Steve Sidwell on trumpets, Malcolm Griffiths and Pete Beachill on trombones, Kenny Hamilton and Richard Edwards on bass trombones,
Chris Lawrence on bass and John Marshall on drums. The recording is introduced by Geoffrey Smith , who talks to John Surman and John
Warren during the interval. Producer Derek Drescher