An MEP in action

Presented by Anthony Burton. Nielsen Saga-drom (Dream of Gunnar)
Danish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra/
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
7.15 Haydn Symphony
No 44 in E minor (Trauer)
Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood
7.45 Dufay Gloria (Missa Ecce ancilla Domini)
Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Dominique Vellard
7.53 Arvo Part Summa
Bournemouth Sinfonietta. conductor Richard Studt
8.00 Florent Schmitt Rêves
Monte Carlo PO. conductor
David Robertson
8.12 Mozart Serenade
No 9 in D (K320) (Posthom) Bavarian Radio SO. conductor Colin Davis

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake by Jonathan Swain. Gordon Stewart on new releases of lieder.

Six canciones castellanas
Della Jones (mezzo)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

In Praise of Woman
Ethel Smyth Possession Rebecca Clarke
The Aspidistra: Shy One Madeleine Dring
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Liza Lehmann
Ah. moon of my delight
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)

Rob Cowan has been listening to reissues of recordings by the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay.

Paganini Variations. Op 26 RIAS Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ferenc Fricsay Producers Patnck Lambert and Clive Portbury Discs

The Baroque theatre at
Drottningholm in Sweden reached its peak during the late 18th century then fell into disuse before being rediscovered virtually unchanged in the 1920s. George Pratt talks to
Elisabeth Soderstrom.
Nicholas McGegan and Barbro Stribolt about the theatrical "sleeping beauty'. Producer Kate Bolton

The Half-Said Thing
Stephen Henry Gill considers the delicate bridge between early Irish and early
Japanese poetry. with Togo Igawa and Jim Norton. Producer Piers Plownght

Shura Cherkassky (piano)
Rameau Gavotte variee
Haydn Sonata in E minor (H XVI 34)
Hindemith Sonata No 3 in B flat

1.55 Piers Burton-Page reads two letters by Chopin, written during the composer's visit to Britain in 1848.

2.00 Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47; Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op 48 No 2; Mazurkas in F sharp minor, Op 59 No 3; G minor, Op 67 No 2; G, Op 67 No 1
Berkeley Preludes, Op 23 Nos 5 and 6; Polka, Op 5
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor

Feuennann Remembered
Annette Morreau investigates the life and recordings of the great Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann
. who died in 1942 at the age of 39. This first of four programmes includes rare archive interviews with George Szell. Artur Rubinstein.
Szymon Goldberg and Gerald Moore with contemporary comment from Janos Starker. relatives and students.
Chopin
Polonaise Brilliant (1939)
Franz Rupp (piano) Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen (1927) Michael Taube (piano)
Popper
Hungarian Rhapsody (1932) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Paul Kletzki
Beethoven Serenade. Op 8 (1934) Szymon Goldberg (violin) Paul Hindemith (viola)
Hindemith Scherzo for viola and cello (1934)
Paul Hindemith (viola) Haydn Concerto in D (H Vllb 2) (1935)
Symphony Orchestra. conductor Malcolm Sargent Schubert
Arpeggione Sonata (1937) Gerald Moore (piano) Reger Suite in G for unaccompanied cello (1939) A Morreau production

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Dtscs
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In the second programme of the new series. Ivan Hewett
reports from this year's Performing Arts Lab. He also investigates the huge festival of German
Romanticism at London's
South Bank Centre, and talks to the composer Hans Werner Henze.
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Alan Gampel (piano) Mozart Sonata in B flat (K570)
Chopin Variations on "La ci darem la mano
(Don Giovanni )
Stravinsky, trans Gampel
Infernal Dance (The Firebird)

from the New
Theatre. Cardiff.
Elijah Moshinsky 's new production for Welsh
National Opera of Berlioz's opera, based on Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing. Sung in a new English translation by Moshinsky in collaboration with John Wells. Presented by Andrew Lyle.
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. conductor John Nelson.
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8.30 The James Naughtie Interview
James Naughtie talks with Welsh National Operas new General Director.
Anthony Freud.
8.50 Act 2

A new story written and narrated by Julian Barnes. In his French village hideaway, illustrious composer Leonard Verity looks back on his life - his early days around Europe. friendships with other composers and then. the meeting with Adeline. Producer Duncan Minshull

William Bennett 'flute'
Clifford Benson (piano) Discs

Geoffrey Smith introduces a 60th birthday celebration of Kenny Wheeler with his band.
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