Novel-Reading: The Rational Amusement

Resplghi Ballet. La
Boutique Fantasque
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Jacques Delacote
7.42 Faure Suite: Pelleas etMelisande
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Takuo Yuasa
8.01 Bach, arr Respighl
Prelude and Fugue in D (BWV532)
BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra/Tadaaki Otaka
8.12 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gunther Herbig

Looking ahead to this week's concerts from the Royal Albert Hall , Charles Hazlewood talks to
Nicholas Sackman about the premiere of Hawthorn, and to Sian Edwards and Joan Rodgers about the Docklands Sinfonietta's debut Prom.
Producer Alan Hall

Introduced by Richard Osborne.
Mozart Piano Concerto
No 13 in C (K415) Clara Haskil (piano) Lucerne Festival
Strings/Rudolf Baumgartner
9.48 Ockeghem
Intemerata Dei Mater
The Clerks' Group, director Edward Wickham
9.56 Bohm Capriccio in D Gustav Leonhardt (h'chord)
10.03 Rimsky-Korsakov The Tsar's Bride, Act 4 Ekaterina Kudryavchenko, Nina Terentyeva, Vladislav Verestnikov, Pyotr Gluboky Sveshnikov Russian
Academic Choir, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/ Andrey Chistyakov
10.31 Bruckner
String Quintet in F Melos Quartet
Enrique Santiago (cello)
11.16 John Mark Ainsley (tenor) sings lieder by Schubert celebrating rivers and lakes.
Steven Lubin (fortepiano)
11.37 Vlktor Ullmann died in a concentration camp in 1944, but now we can hear his Mahleresque Symphony in D reconstructed by Bernhard Wulff from the Piano
Sonata No 7.
Brno State Philharmonic
Orchestra/Israel Yinon. Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury. Discs

Christopher Page talks about the performance and patronage of medieval music in France.

(piano)
Debussy Pour les octaves (Etudes, Book 1)
Bartok Suite, Op 14
Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58

Mozart's comic opera, based on Beaumarchais's play, in a performance from Geneva.
Count Almaviva has given up his right to deflower all the maidens before their marriage night, but he still has his sights set on his wife's maid, Susanna. (baritone) (soprano) (bass) (soprano) (mezzo) (bass)
Chorus of the Grand
Theatre Geneva
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott

The first of two programmes.
York Piano Trio

Saint-Saens Piano Trio No 1 in F, Op 18

Schumann Piano Trio No 3 in G minor, Op 110

Malcolm Proud and Maggie Cole (harpsichords)
Tregye Festival Players
Couperin Allemande à deux clavecins (Ordre No 9) Bach Concerto in C for
Two Harpsichords (BWV1061)

from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ernst Kovacic (violin)
Holst Singers
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, conductor Christopher Seaman

Shostakovich Festival Overture
Thomas Wilson Violin Concerto

8.05 David Huckvale on "The Music of the Spheres".

8.25 Holst Suite: The Planets

Amidst the naked male bodies by a public bathing pond, Mark, recently retired art historian, meets Harold, a retired psychologist.
Peter Tegel's lyrical study of male desire mixes myth and reality against the ever present backcloth of the water.

Alyn Shipton introduces a recording of the concert the Quartet gave in the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 1987. John Lewis (piano), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (bass) and Connie Kay (drums) have been playing together continuously since 1955, except for one seven-year break.
Ellington Rockin' in Rhythm
Milt Jackson Echoes
John Lewis The Golden Striker; Three Windows; Milano; The Kansas City Breaks; Sacha's March
11.20 During the interval, part of the conversation Charles Fox had with Milt
Jackson in 1975 about the early days of the Quartet

Reunion Blues
Bemlce Petkere
Lullaby of the Leaves Percy Heath
The Watergate Blues John Lewis Valeria
Sigmund Romberg Softly as in a Morning Sunrise John Lewis
Encounter in Cagnes
West Indian Stomp