Modern Art:
Eduardo Paolozzi and Terry Atkinson Interviewed
presented by Paul Guinery.
7.03 Elgar Give unto the Lord Malcolm Hicks (organ) BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson
7.12 Elgar The Wand of Youth (Suite No 2)
BBC SO/Nicholas Cleobury
7.27 Judith Bingham The darkness is no darkness
(first performance) S S
Wesley Thou wilt keep him
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson
7.36 Janacek
Lachian Dances
BBC SO/Nicholas Cleobury
7.56 Bach Concerto No 5 in 0 minor (BWV 596) Peter Hurford (organ)
8.08 Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso. Op 66
BBC SO/Nicholas Cleobury
8.22 Rutti Magnificat
Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) Deborah Miles-Johnson
(mezzo)
Neil Mackenzie (tenor) Simon Birchall (bass)
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson Producer Piers Burton-Page
Composer of the Week:
Peter Maxwell Davies An
Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise George Mcllwham (bagpipes) Scottish Chamber
Orchestra/the Composer
9.16 Handel
Harp Concerto. Op 4 No 6 Marisa Robles (harp) Academy of St Martin , director lona Brown
9.28 Britten Te Deum
Edward Harris (treble) Harry Bickett (organ)
Choir of Christ Church, Oxford/Francis Grier
9.37 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor (D821) Klaus Storck (arpeggione), Alfons Kontarsky (fortepiano)
10.07 Delius Florida Suite
(excerpts)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conductor Richard Hickox
10.26 Saint-Saens Romance
William Bennett (flute)
English Chamber Orchestra conductor Steuart Bedford
10.34 Gershwin impromptu in Two Keys: Three Quarter Blues
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
10.38 Prom Artists of the Week Dresden Staatskapelle Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter) conductor Colin Davis
11.15 Gurney Down by the Salley Gardens
Stephen Roberts (baritone) Clifford Benson (piano)
11.21 Berners The Triumph of Neptune (excerpts)
Christopher Underwood (bar) RLPO/Barry Wordsworth
11.30 Beethoven Bagatelles Nos 2, 3 and 4, Op 126 Alfred Brendel (piano)
11.46 Prokofiev Three
Dances (Eugene Onegin) SNO/Neeme Jarvi
11.53 Wolf Wiegenlied Im Sommer
Rita Streich (soprano) Erik Werber (piano)
11.57 Strauss
Horn Concerto No 2
Denis Brain (horn)
PO/Wolfgang Sawallisch
12.16 Rossini Finale:
(La Cenerentola)
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
12.24 Youmans, arr
Shostakovich Tea for Two
Leningrad PO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Producer Edward Blakeman Discs
from the 1994 Cheltenham
Festival. Guy Woolfenden and team captains David Owen Norris and Daryl Runswick join writers Jilly Cooper and Sue Limb. A Classic Arts production
In the last programme of the series, Tony Robinson tells a contemporary version of A Midsummer
Night's Dream. The story, which revolves around several teenagers with complicated love lives, is set to music by Mendelssohn. A Ladbroke Radio production
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Vernon Handley Peter Watkins (cello) Bax Tintagel
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Elgar Symphony No 2 in Eflat
Mozart String Quartet in B flat (K458) (Hunt)
Giles Swayne String Quartet No 3 (first broadcast)
Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
Including a pre-broadcast talk with Giles Swayne discussing his quartet with Susan Bradshaw.
Though Lassus's short setting of the text
Vinum Bonum looks like a drinking song, there are some elements of piety in the words. The Gabrieli
Consort, director
Paul McCreesh , explore the curious mix of sacred and secular in the Mass and Motet Vinum bonum.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Osmo Vanska
Sibelius Suite: King Christian II: En Saga
Nielsen Symphony No 2
(The Four Temperaments)
Gordon Stewart compares recordings of Faure's song-cycle La bonne chanson.
from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Janice Watson (soprano)
James Bowman (countertenor) Donald Maxwell (baritone) Highcliffe Junior Choir Waynflete Singers
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Bax Overture to a Picaresque Comedy Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No 2
8.15 Ecstasis
To complement the broadcast of Carmina Burana. Peggy Reynolds examines the evolution of ecstasy. With Richard Cork , Helen Chadwick and Natalie Wheen.
8.35 Orff Carmina Burana SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST: with BBC 2
Samuel Beckett 's play about two characters waiting for Godot, who never arrives, broke new ground in the theatre when it opened in Paris in 1953 and then in London in 1955. In this new radio version, all of Beckett's final revisions to his text have been incorporated in order to present listeners with the complete drama.
Director Peter Wood
A Catherine Bailey production
Haydn String Quartet in E flat. Op 33 No 2 (Joke) George Nicholson
String Quartet No 1 Rpt