A weekly programme of recent records
Quartet in F major, Op. 74
No.2
† AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
9.28* Symphony No. 104, in D major (London)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone record
A request programme of gramophone records
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
played by the GUARNERI STRING QUARTET Arnold Steinhardt (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)
Quartet in B flat major, Op.
130 with Grosse Fuge , Op. 133, as finale
Broadcast on February 4
gramophone records
played by LESLIE PARNAS (cello) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Opera in three acts by Handel
English translation by GEOFFREY DUNN
Cast in order of singing:
BAROQUE OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, Paul Doe
Continuo:
Oliver Brookes (cello)
Malcolm Hicks (harpsichord) Alan Cuckston (harpsichord)
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Act 1
Scene 1 A room tn the Palace in Pherae. capital of Thessaly
Scene 2 A wood near Pherae Scene 3 A room tn the Palace Scene 4 A wood near Pherae
2.S3* Act 2
Scene 1 Hades
Scene 2 The Royal Garden
Scene 3 A wood near Pherae
Scene 4 The same. next morning
4.10* Act 3
Scene 1 A room in the Palace Scene 2 A square in Pherae Scene 3 The Throne Room
Twenty-fourth in an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music
See page 33
Last of six programmes juxtaposing poetry and music Three love-poems by Christopher Logue read by ANTHONY JACOBS
Schumann: Three Romances for oboe and piano played by Tess MILLER and ERNEST Lush
Hugh Wood :
Four settings of love-poems by Christopher Logue
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Programme devised by Leo Black
Schumann broadcast on May 26.
1967; Hugh Wood on Aug. 22. 1964
speaks on The Role of the Intelligentsia
A talk by the President of Wolfson College, Oxford, for the Annual Conference of the University Teachers' Group earlier this year. The theme of the Conference was Integration and Separation.
Second broadcast
Tel Aviv STRING QUARTET with PNINA SALZMAN (piano)
by Ian Grimble an account of the Anglo-Celtic civilisation in Northumbria told through the original documents
Readers, CLIFFORD EVANS DENIS MCCARTHY and DUNCAN MCINTYRE
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
To be repeated on September 4 See page 33
Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Josephine Nendick (soprano)
Paul Esswood
(counter-tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
VALDA AVELING
(harpsichord continuo)
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
London Percussion Ensemble
London Choral Society
Philomusica of London
Leader, Geoffrey Grey
Conducted by John Tobin
Part 1
† Tom DRIBERG , m.p., an Anglican delegate at the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, looks at the conference through a politician's eyes
A concert at the Mansion House on July 11
Introduced and read by Richard Highes
The American poet Vachel Lindsay was perhaps the greatest public performer of his verse the twentieth century has seen. In 1920, after reading in the Examination Schools in Oxford, he spent two days instructing a group of undergraduates in his methods. One of these undergraduates was Richard Hughes, the novelist.
Sonata in G major
CHRISTIAN FERRAS (violin) PIERRE BARBIZET (piano) gramophone record
