A weekly programme of recent records
DOROTHEA BRAUS (piano)
A request programme of gramophone records
Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
The Music of Franz Berwald by ROBERT LAYTON
Musical Profile: Agnes Giebel by CHARLES OSBORNE
A Monteverdi Companion: book review by STANLEY SADIE Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) JANET COSTER (contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) DAVID READ (bass)
BBC CHORUS
PETER GRAEME (oboe and oboe d'amore obbligato) KEITH HARVEY (cello) ANITA LASKER < cello)
Continuo
Charles Spinks (organ) Martin Gatt (bassoon)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
Cantata No. 165: 0 heil'ges
Geist- und Wasserbad
Cantata No. 132: Bereitet die
Wege, bereitet die Bahn
Cantata No 163: Nur jedem das Seine
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Symphony in C major
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Colin Davis
(gramophone record)
0 Opera in three acts
Music by Purcell
Libretto by NAHUM TATE gramophone record
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR
EIKE FUNK and SONJA PHUNNBAUER (guitars)
Continuo:
Eike Funk , Mathias Siedel
Gerhard Stenzel , Willi Beyer NORTH GERMAN Radio CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Act 1 Dido's court at Carthage
1.48* Act 2
Scene 1 The witches' cave Scene 2 A grove
2.10* Act 3 The harbour at Carthage
B.M.C. CONCERT BAND
Conducted by Imogen Hoist who talks about her father's music for brass
Suite No. 1
2.45' Suite No. 2
Third of six programmes of some of Hoist's less frequently heard music
Five Centuries of Occasional Music
SUSAN LONGFIELD (soprano) JANE MANNING (soprano) MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) MARTIN LANE (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
Men"s voices of THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
DAVID MUNROW, RICHARD LEE and JOHN TURNER (recorders) THEA KING , WILFRED HAMBLFTON and ANTHONY PAY (clarinets)
KEITH HARVEY (cello continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Directed by PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord)
From The Maltings, Snape first performance
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Presented in association with the BBC Music Programme
During the Interval (3.48*-4.8*)
PETER PEARS talks to JAMES BURNETT about the Aldeburgh Festival
played bv the SWEDISH RADIO Orchestra
Overture: The Queen of Golconda (1862)
Conducted by SIXTEN EHRBLING
Sinfonie capricieuse in D major (1842)
Conducted by STIG WESTERBERG Baiadarfesten (The festival of the Indian dancers) (1842)
Conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING first broadcast in this country
The first of three programmes of Berwald's orchestral music to mark the centenary of his death
Recording made available by courtesy of Swedish Radio
A poem for three voices by Sylvia Plath
Violin Sonata played by MAMOUG PARIKIAN
Broadcast on March 19. 1887
by Jean-Paul Sartre translated by VERNON DOBTCHEFF
Radio adaptation by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with Produced by Archie Campbell Scene: Argos-a city tn Ancient Greece
JUDI Dench Is In ' Cabaret ' at the Patace Theatre. London
Second broadcast
Ilse Wolf (soprano)
Sybil Michelow (contralto) Ian Partridge (tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
Tilford Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
Leader. Trevor Williams
Conductor, Denys Darlow
Part 1
A public concert, promoted by the Tilford Music Society, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on January 27
A centenary talk by Ian Fletcher on the work of the Scottish architect and designer
Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1928
Part 2