Countdown to Algebra

Presented by Richard Osborne.
Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus (Finale)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.11 Wassenaer Concerto
Armonico No 1 in G
Brandenburg Consort, director Roy Goodman
7.23 Coates Reuben Ranzo
Brian Rayner Cook (bar) Raphael Terroni (piano)
7.27 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act 1)
L'école FACE Children's Choir
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
8.16 Faure Cello Sonata
No 1 in D minor
Steven Doane (cello) Barry Snyder (piano)
8.35 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A, Op
Alfred Brendel (piano)

Introduced by Hugh Keyte. Vasari Singers, conductor Jeremy Backhouse
Anon Swete was the song Trad Veinticinco de diciembre

Building a Library
Weill's Seven Deadly Sins by John Deathridge.
Bernard Keeffe reviews new releases of orchestral music.

10.20 Record Release
Borodin, ed Glazunov Symphony No 3 in A minor - State Symphony Orchestra of Russia/Evgeny Svetlanov

10.40 Saint-Saens Parysatis: Airs de Ballet - London Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Simon

10.50 Danse Macabre - Anthony Roden (tenor) London Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Simon

10.55 Musorgsky, orch Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death - Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi

11.15 Reissues
Roderick Swanston explores some of the recent historical reissues of Grieg, especially the vocal and chamber music.

11.35 Grieg Violin Sonata No 2 in G, Op 13 - Oscar Shumsky (violin) Seymour Lipkin (piano)

(Discs)

George Pratt 's guest Lionel Sawkins unearths some little-known gems of the French Baroque by Delalande, Du Mont,
Marais and Royer. Producer Kate Bolton

Boiling - the Peasant's Cuisine
Leslie Forbes dips into the stock-pot and pulls out some surprises.
Producer Kim Normanton

Cyndia Sieden (soprano) Orchestra of the 18th
Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
Mozart Vorrei spiegarvi oh Dio; Vado, ma dove?; No, no, che non sei capace
Haydn Symphony No 98 in B flat

Ronan O'Hora (piano) John Rowe (narrator)
Strauss Enoch Arden

Strauss in Weimar
Kenneth Birkin ends his series by reconstructing the concert Strauss conducted in Weimar on 15 December
1893, and draws together the threads of what Strauss learned there.
Felix Draeseke
Symphonic Prelude to Calderon's "Life is a Dream"
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly Antonio Bazzlni
Konzertstuck Rudolf Metzmacher (cello) North German Radio
Orchestra, conductor Hans Herbert Joris
Weber Wo berg'ich mich? (Euryanthe) Bernd Weikl (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Heinz Wallberg Locatelli, arr Plattl
Minuetto (Sonata in D) Robert Cohen (cello)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Hans Sommer Des
Mdnches Nachtlied ; Wandern am Rhein
Adrian Thompson (tenor) lain Burnside (piano)
Schumann Wanderlied
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra/Karl Bohm
Series producer David Gallagher

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome Discs

This week, Ivan Hewett discovers forgotten women musicians of the 16th and 17th centuries; and Composers at the Movies looks at the changing role of film music.
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Dvorak's three-act fairy-tale opera
Rusalka, in a new production by Otto Schenk , is the first of this season's broadcasts direct from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. and Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra/John Fiore Act
7.30 John Rockwell talks about the history of opera in America.
7.55 Act 2
8.35 Edward Downes puts listeners' questions to opera buffs John Ardoin , Terrence McNally and Richard Woitach in the Texaco Opera Quiz.
9.05 Act 3
(In association with the Texaco Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network and the EBU)

This American pianist has spent several years in Morocco studying the different musics, particularly that of the Gnaoua. Earlier this year, the Contemporary Music
Network brought the Randy Weston Quintet and Gnaoua musicians to this country for a series of concerts, in which they played the hajouj, the karkba and the tambours.
Geoffrey Smith introduces a recording of their concert at the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, which included two solo piano pieces by Weston - Night in Mbari and High Flying.
During the interval, Randy Weston talks to Geoffrey Smith about his musical education and the influence of George Russell ,
Thelonius Monk and Africa.
Producer Derek Drescher