Animal Physiology:
Swimming and Flying
Paul Guinery introduces an edition with a strong flavour of eastern Europe, featuring the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC
Singers conducted by John Poole.
7.02 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet
7.20 Tchaikovsky
Cherubic Song; In truth it is meet
7.25 Gullmarrt Organ Symphony No 1
7.45 Lutoslawski Bucolics
7.55 Berlioz Scene d'amour (Romeo et Juliette)
8.10 Tchaikovsky Blessed whom you chose; Now the heavenly powers
8.20 Respighi Pines of Rome Producer Piers Burton Page
Telemann Concerto in D
English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
9.13 Zipoli Elevazione Zagreb Soloists
9.28 Ferenc Erkel
Overture: Hunyadi Laszlo Hungarian State Opera
Orchestra/Janos Kovacs
9.41 Vivaldi Sonata No 6
(RV58) (Il Pastor Fido)
Walter van Hauwe (recorder) Bob van Asperen (h'chord) Frans Robert Berkhout
(bassoon)
9.49
Moeran Serenade in G
Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.04 Artist of the Week: Heather Harper (soprano) Haydn On Mighty Pens (The Creation)
Academy of St Martin , conductor David Willcocks
10.12 Szymanowski Concert Overture
Polish State Philharmonic
Orchestra/Karol Stryja
10.26 Hummel
Septet in D minor, Op 74 Melos Ensemble
10.56 Composer of the Week: Ruggles Toys
Judith Blegen (soprano) Michael Tilson Thomas
(piano)
10.58 Ravel Bolero
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
11.13 Barber Agnus Dei Cambridge University
Chamber Choir, conductor Christopher Brown
11.21 Francaix Cinq portraits dejeunes filles The Composer (piano)
11.40 Sibelius
Symphony No 2
Boston SO/Colin Davis
Producer Edward Blakeman. Discs
From the Bath
Festival 1994, a musical quiz designed to tease, tax and test the wits of two teams of experts and celebrity guests.
Chairman Guy Woolfenden , head of music at the RSC, is joined by regular team captains David Owen Norris and Daryl Runswick , and this week's guests, Toby Jessel MP and actor
Joe Melia.
A Classic Arts production
Tony Robinson narrates modern versions of some of the myths and fairy stories that have inspired the great composers. Today, the travels and misdeeds of the ultimate Bad Boy, Peer Gynt, with the music of Edvard Grieg.
A Ladbroke production
conductor Gunter Wand
Paulus van der Merwe
(oboe)
Haydn Oboe Concerto in C (HVIIgCl)
Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor
Michael Collins (clarinet) Gyorgy Pauk (violin) Ian Brown (piano) Stravinsky Suite :
L'Histoire du soldat
Bartok Rhapsody No 1 Berg Four Pieces, Op 5 Debussy Violin Sonata; Premier rapsodie
Berg Adagio (Chamber Concerto)
Bartok Contrasts.
conductor Heinrich Schiff Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Mendelssohn Overture: Die schone Melusine
Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
Humphrey Carpenter reports from Dartington, Devon, on its Music
Summer School and Arts
Festival.
Producer Mike Greenwood
12 Studies, Op 25
Piers Lane (piano)
Lfrom the Royal Albert Hall London. ,
Barry Douglas (piano)
LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas Berlioz Overture: Roman
Carnival
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
8.20 An American
Monument
Charles Hazlewood explores Copland's Third Symphony in conversation with Leonard Slatkin, Lukas Foss and Michael Tilson Thomas, and with the words of the composer himself.
8.40 Ives From the Steeples and the Mountains
Copland Symphony No 3
by John Spurling. The first in a short season, entitled
Terrible Tyrants, featuring dramas about despotism. The mother of all battles has begun. In a bunker under Baghdad, the president's beautiful mistress soothes him with stories of a legendary
Arabian Nights caliph and the poet who denounced his regime. The story seems to reflect glory on the ruthless president, but will he survive this latest threat?
Director Richard Wortley IRpt)
Brian Wright presents this evening's concert and talks to
David . Atherton Berlioz TeDeum
Philip Langridge (tenor) Monmouth School Choir
BBC Welsh Chorus
London Symphony Chorus BBC National Orchestra of Wales/David Atherton
Messiaen LAscension
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Atherton Producer
Tim Thome
