■American Conversations:
Noam Chomsky
Presented by Anthony Burton.
Holbrooke The Birds of Rhiannon
7.16 Dufay Supremum est mortalibus bonum
7.25 Haydn Sonata in E flat (H XVI 52)
7.47 Krenek Potpourri
8.05 Dowland The Lady
Leightons Almone ; A Dream (Lady Leighton's Paven); Galliard
8.15 Alkan Sonatine
8.35 Strauss Don Juan
Tchaikovsky's Piano
Concerto No 1 in B flat minor by Edward Greenfield. Stephen Dodgson on new Mozart releases including two new recordings of the Requiem.
Revised repeat tomorrow
11.15pm
Mozart Masonic Cantata:
Laut verkunde unsre Freude
(K623)
Vladimir Dolezal (tenor) Viktor Bycek (tenor)
Miloslav Podskalsky (bass) Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Prague CO, conductor Pavel Kuhn
10.30 Mozart Symphony No 11 in D (K84) Northern CO, conductor Nicholas Ward
10.42 Mozart Ascanio in Alba (excerpt)
Paris-Sorbonne University Choir
Lorna Windsor (soprano) Michael Chance
(countertenor)
Concerto Armonico
(Budapest), conductor Jacques Grimbert
Stephen Johnson has been listening to the Hollywood String Quartet with the pianist Victor Aller in Brahms and Schumann and the Capet Quartet in Mozart and Beethoven. Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
Dennis Marks , director of the English National Opera, talks to Michael Berkeley and chooses music by Mahler, Janacek and Noël Coward.
A Ladbroke Radio production
Petrushka
Against the background of Stravinsky's ballet music, Tony Robinson tells a contemporary version of the tale that inspired the composer.
A Ladbroke Radio production
Quartetto Italiano
The first of three programmes in which Richard Wigmore explores the art of Italy's finest postwar chamber ensemble.
Boccherini Quartet in E flat, (G167)
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A (K581)
Antoine de Bavier (clarinet) Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 (Fifths)
Beethoven Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5
Producer Nick Morgan Discs
Royal College of Music Junior Department Chamber Orchestra
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for four violins, Op 3 No 10 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Richard Harwood (cello) conductor Richard Dickins
Dominic Muldowney
Sonata for four violins and strings conducted by the Composer Strauss Metamorphosen conductor Jonathan Del Mar
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord)
Weckmann Toccata in E minor; Canzona in C
Buxtehude Suite in E minor
(BuxWV 236) Rpt
With Geoffrey Smith.
(Discs)
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In the first programme of the new season, Ivan Hewett celebrates the reopening of the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool, looks at the symphonies of Vaughan
Williams, and investigates the strange and tragic story of the death of Webern. Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow at 12.15pm
Rivka Golani (viola)
John Lenehan (piano)
Mendelssohn Sonata in C minor
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
Rpt
From the Royal
Albert Hall , London. The culmination of the celebrations marking the centenary season, presented by Richard Baker. Tasmin Little (violin)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
John Harle (saxophone) Paul Clarvis (drummer) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Andrew Davis Berlioz Overture:
Le Corsaire
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Zemllnsky Psalm 23
Mahler Rheinlegendchen;
Das irdische Leben; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes
(Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Strauss Waltz Sequence No 1 (Der Rosenkavalier) SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST WITH BBC2
[continued]
The Service of True Genius
Adrian Mourby discovers the remarkable lengths to which some composers' wives will go.
9.10 Dukas Fanfare (La Peri) - Birtwistle Panic (BBC commission; first performance)
Boccherini, arr Berio Ritirata notturna di Madrid
Purcell, arr Stokowski Dido's Lament (Dido and Aeneas)
Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D
Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne Rule, Britannia!
Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem
(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC1)
By John Fleming , Radio 3's contribution to BBC Radio's
1995 Young Writers' Festival. A young Irishman in Paris hangs around tourist traps. When asked by sightseers to take their photo, he runs off with their cameras. Until a beautiful model proffers hers....
Other parts played by Paul Timson. Stephen Critchlow. Patience
Tomlinson, Andrew Branch , Roger May , John Hartley ,
Geoffrey Whitehead , Paul Jenkins , Sandra James Young , Tessa Worsley , Tracy Wiles , John Turner , Jilly Bond , Jonathan Keeble and Becky Hindley
Director Peter Kavanagh
Ian Carr introduces a recording of a solo concert given by the pianist in 1991 at the Royal Festival Hall.
