Listings
Offenbach Overture:
Die Rheinnixen
Gulbenkian Orchestra/ Michel Swierczewski
7.07 Debussy
Suite: Children's Corner
Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
7.23 Emile Carrara
Mon amant de
Stjean Lucienne Delyle (singer) Orchestra/Aimé Barelli
Contributors
Unknown:
Michel
Swierczewski
Piano:
Alexis
Weissenberg
Piano:
Emile
Carrara
Singer:
Stjean Lucienne
Delyle
7.35 German
Three Dances (Nell Gwyn) Pro Arte Orchestra/ Malcolm Sargent
7.45 Bartok
Three Rondos on Folk
Tunes: Peter Frankl (piano)
7.53
Daquin Le Coucou : Virginia Black (harpsichord)
7.55 Brahms
Sextet in G, Op 36 Jascha Heifetz and Israel Baker (violins) William Primrose and Virginia Majewski (violas) Gregor Piatigorsky and Gabor Rejto (cellos) Producer John Thornley Records
Contributors
Unknown:
Malcolm
Sargent
Piano:
Peter
Frankl
Piano:
Daquin Le
Coucou
Unknown:
Jascha
Heifetz
Violins:
Israel
Baker
Violins:
William
Primrose
Violas:
Virginia
Majewski
Violas:
Gregor
Piatigorsky
Cellos:
Gabor
Rejto
Producer:
John
Thornley
conductor
Matthias Bamert
Rossini Overture:
Semiramide
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88
Contributors
Conductor:
Matthias
Bamert
with Richard Osborne.
Record Review
Building a Library: Elgar's Falstaff by Jerrold Northrop Moore. Ivan Hewett reviews new discs of contemporary music.
10.40 Record Release Vyacheslav Artyomov Star Wind: Moscow
Contemporary Music Ensemble/
Vladimir Ponkin
10.55 Scarlatti Sonatas: in F minor (Kk 69): in A (Kk 113)
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
11.05 Vaughan Williams Job: A Masque for Dancing Bournemouth SO/ Richard Hickox
11.56 Music by the American singing master William Billings (1746-1800)
His Majesties Clerkes/ Paul Hillier
12.06 Lutoslawski
Piano Concerto
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
BBC SO/The Composer
12.33 Bach
Sonata No 2 in A minor
(BWV 1003)
Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(Record Review is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
Osborne.
Unknown:
Jerrold Northrop
Moore.
Unknown:
Ivan
Hewett
Unknown:
Vyacheslav
Artyomov
Unknown:
Vladimir
Ponkin
Piano:
Joanna
MacGregor
Piano:
Vaughan
Williams
Unknown:
Richard
Hickox
Unknown:
William
Billings
Unknown:
Paul
Hillier
Violin:
Thomas
Zehetmair
Producers:
Nick
Morgan
Producers:
Clive
Portbury
Scientists and mathematicians reveal how a favourite fact about the universe has permanently changed their view of it.
Professor Sir Christopher Zeeman , mathematician, on predicting how war and peace break out.
Producer Matt Thompson
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Christopher
Zeeman
Producer:
Matt
Thompson
Philip Langridge (tenor) Radoslav Kvapil (piano) Elizabeth Harley (mezzo) Alison Wells (soprano) Susan Flannery and Margaret Maguire (mezzo) Dvorak Poetic Tone
Pictures, Op 85 Nos 4, 6 and 12 Janacek The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Contributors
Tenor:
Philip
Langridge
Piano:
Radoslav
Kvapil
Piano:
Elizabeth
Harley
Soprano:
Alison
Wells
Soprano:
Susan
Flannery
Soprano:
Margaret
Maguire
Piano Concerto No 2 in Bflat
Symphony No 4 in E minor Alfred Brendel (piano)
Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado
Contributors
Piano:
Alfred
Brendel
Quintet in Eflat (K452) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Joy Fan-all (clarinet)
Julie Andrews (bassoon) Stephen Bell (horn)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Contributors
Oboe:
Nicholas
Daniel
Bassoon:
Julie
Andrews
Horn:
Stephen
Bell
Piano:
Angela
Hewitt
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott
Contributors
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Smith.
Producer:
Ray
Abbott
Les Troyens
A series of operas connected with the ten-year siege of Troy continues with Berlioz's five-act opera after Virgil, live from the Theatre
Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels.
Sung in French.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie conductor
Sylvain Cambreling Acts 1 and 2 (La Prise de Troie)
6.25 Michael Wood talks about Troy: its location, history and archaeology, particularly in the light of recent discoveries.
6.55 Acts 3 and 4 (Les Troyens a Carthage)
8.35 Kenneth McLeish examines the role of women in myth and legend.
9.05 Act 5
(Les Troyens a Carthage) (The Return of Ulysses is on Tuesday at 6.55pm)
Contributors
Conductor:
Sylvain
Cambreling
Talks:
Michael
Wood
Cassandra:
Francoise
Pollet (sop)
Ascanius:
Deborah
Raymond (sop)
Aeneas:
Ronald
Hamilton (tenor)
Choroebus:
William
Stone (bar)
Dido:
Kathryn
Harries (mezzo)
Anna:
Elzbieta
Ardam (contralto)
Iopas:
Barry
Banks (tenor)
Hylas:
Scot
Weir (tenor)
Narbal:
Reinhard
Hagen (bass)
Pantheus:
Stephen
Rehm (bass)
Ghost of Hector:
Wojciech
Drabowicz (bass)
Priam:
Georg
Paucker (bass)
The week in the arts with Christopher Cook.
Reviews: Wagner's opera Der Fliegende Holländer at the Royal Opera House;
French company NADA in a production of Alfred Jarry 's Ubu; and the new novel from Aldo Busi ,
Sodomies in Elevenpoint. Opinions:
Gilbert Adair , Michelene Wandor. Features:
Image on the Edge, the margins of medieval art; and, 25 years on, is Belle dejour still considered
Luis Bunuel 's masterpiece? Producers Tim Dee and Nick Ware
Contributors
Unknown:
Christopher
Cook.
Unknown:
Alfred
Jarry
Unknown:
Aldo
Busi
Unknown:
Gilbert
Adair
Unknown:
Michelene
Wandor.
Unknown:
Luis
Bunuel
Producers:
Tim
Dee
Producers:
Nick
Ware
The third of four programmes, introduced by Miles Kington , features Danny Thompson 's group Whatever, recorded in the Pavilion, Bath, with Danny Thompson (bass), Paul Dunmall
(saxophones),
Tony Roberts (saxophones and pipes) and John Etheridge (guitar).
Contributors
Introduced By:
Miles
Kington
Unknown:
Danny
Thompson
Bass:
Danny
Thompson
Bass:
Paul
Dunmall
Unknown:
Tony
Roberts
Guitar:
John
Etheridge