Popular Theatre in 16thcentury London
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C (K314)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
BBC Scottish SO, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes
7.23 Busonl, arr Adams Berceuse Elegiaque BBC Welsh Symphony, conductor Andrew Mogrelia
7.33
Svendsen Romeo and Juliet
Fantasy
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jiri Starek
7.47 Smetana Blanik
(Ma Mast)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
8.01 Bridge Oration (Concerto Elegiaco) Moray Welsh (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Atherton
8.30 Dvorak
Symphonic Variations, Op 78
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jiri Starek
Charles Hazlewood presents the last of this season's programmes. Producer Alan Hall
Introduced by Richard Osborne.
Haydn Concerto for
Violin and Harpsichord in F (H XVIII 6)
Rainer Kussmaul (violin) Robert Hill (harpsichord)
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
9.40 Handel
Semele (Act 2 sc 4) John Aler (tenor)
Kathleen Battle (soprano) Marilyn Home (mezzo)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor John Nelson
9.55 Brahms Piano
Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Rudolf Serkin (piano) Busch Quartet
(1938 mono recording)
10.35 Falla Atlàntida:
Prologue and Part 1 Simon Estes (bass)
Teresa Berganza (mezzo) Chorus, Spanish National
Youth Orchestra, conductor
Edmon Colomer
11.04 Bo Linde Pensieri sopra un cantico vecchio Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jun'ichi Hirokami
11.15 Sibelius Symphony No 2 in D
Olso Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons. Discs Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
Period Portrait
The bass David Thomas talks to George Pratt about his career, and introduces his own selection of music.
The third of seven programmes in a complete cycle performed by the Borodin Quartet, in concerts recorded on the South Bank in 1986. String Quartet No 2 in A, Op 68
1.45 Brett Usher reads extracts from Testimony, the memoirs of Shostakovich.
1.50 String Quartet No 12 in D flat, Op 133
Elegy and Polka
Salieri Armonia per un tempio delta notte; Serenata in G
II Gruppo di Roma Discs
Verdi's last opera, a comic swan-song written at the age of eighty, in a performance given at this summer's Salzburg Festival. The central character is the loveable buffoon of Shakespeare's plays, who tries his luck with both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page - to no avail. Sung in Italian.
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
with James Naughtie. Producer David Gallagher
The first of two programmes in which the pianist Leslie Howard introduces and plays rarities by Liszt. Today he is joined by pianist
Ian Munroe in Liszt's Concert
Piece on Mendelssohn's
Song Without Words, and his Concerto Pathétique
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gunter Wand
Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor
8.00 A profile of Gunter Wand by Stephen Johnson.
8.20 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
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Isabelle van Keulen , Rainer Kussmaul ,
Thomas Zehetmair (violins and violas), Barbara Duven (violin) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Thomas Demenga and Boris Pergamenshikov (cellos) Ervin Schulhoff Duo for violin and cello
Lubos Flser Duo for viola and cello
Martlnu Three Madrigals for violin and viola
Hans Werner Henze
Fantasia for String Sextet "Derjunge Torless"
The trumpeter Maynard Ferguson , now in his sixties, is still capable of producing the screaming high notes which made him famous, as he showed in this concert at the 1990 Glasgow Festival with his talented American band.
They played Ellington's In a Mellow Tone,
Joe Zawlnul 's Birdland, and Sonny Rollins 's St Thomas , as well as specially composed pieces. The concert is introduced by Geoffrey Smith , who talks to
Maynard Ferguson in the interval.
