ⓢ A weekly programme of recent records
by ISRAELA MARGALIT
A request programme of gramophone records
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
Record Review: contributed by Joan Chissell, Trevor Harvey and Charles Osborne
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN BARROW (baritone)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR
Obbligati Mary Murdoch and Sarah Francis (oboe d'amore and cor anglais)
Continuo
Derek Stevens (chamber organ) Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Olga Hegedus (cello)
Adrian Cruft (double-bass)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Leader, Kelly Isaacs
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Cantata No. 86: Wahrlich. wahrlich, ich sage euch
Motet: Ich lasse dich nicht. du segnest mich denn attrib. Johann Christoph Bach Chorus: Sei Lob und Preis mit
Ehren
12.28' Cantata No. 87: Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen
Conducted by GEORGE SZELL gramophone records
Tossy SPIVAKOVSKY (violin)
PETER GELLHORN (piano) with added accompaniment by the composer
No. 24. in A minor
Opera in four acts
Music by Verdi
Libretto by TEMISTOCLE SOLERA
English translation by NORMAN TUCKER and TOM HAMMOND
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master, David Sutton
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader. Raymond Ovens
Conducted by BRYAN BALKWILL
Produced by Michael Geliot
ACT 1 Jerusalem
3.28* Act 2 The Blaspheny
4.3* Act 3 The Prophecy
4.30* act 4 The Broken Idol
A Welsh National Opera production at the Odeon Theatre. Llandudno Broadcast on October 26. 1967
Second of three weekly programmes following the careers of composers who studied with Schoenberg in the 1920s
Skalkottas
Sonata for violin (1925)
5.15* String Trio (1935)
5.30' Songs from the set of sixteen (1942)
Sikia (The tig tree) Monaxia (Solitude) Vradhi (Evening)
Kalamies (Bamboos)
To traghoudi ton arghaliou (Song of tiie loom)
5.43* Duo for violin and viola
(1940)
5.50* Little Suite No. 2, for violin and piano (1949)
ALICE GABBAI (mezzo-soprano) CHRISTIAN IVALDI (piano)
MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin) ERNEST LusH (piano)
OROMONTE STRING TRIO
* Broadcast on April 6. 1966
Eisler: May 29
by DR. JOHN TAYLOR
Department of Physics,
Queen Mary College, London
Science has always addressed itself to the problem of explaining the mysteries-nature of life, heredity. structure of matter and so on— and has been moderately successful up to now, but will it always be able to cope with mysteries? Ur. Taylor suggests it won't.
Second broadcast
0 CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE
Conducted by PETER LE HURAY with the JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS
A study of Thomas Hood (1799-1845) with Carleton Hobbs
Written and narrated by PATRIC DICKINSON with CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD. CAROL MARSH DUNCAN McINTYRE , WILFRID CARTER MARJORIE WESTBURY, RALPH TRUMAN and PAULINE LETTS
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON
A new production of the programme first broadcast on October 8. 1957
Dorothea Braus (piano)
BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra Leader. Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
GERALD ABRAHAM assesses Rimsky-Korsakov's contribution to
Russian opera and offers a critical evaluation of his achievement in this field
The Golden Cockerel by Rimsky-Korsakov: Monday, 80 p.m.
0 Variations on a theme of Beethoven
BRACHA EDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR (two pianos) gramophone record