A programme of recent records
Quartet in A major, Op. 55
No. 1
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
9.21* Symphony No. 103, in E flat major (Drum-roll)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by Sir THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone record
A request programme of records
Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.
131
Broadcast on December 3. 1967
played by JOHN WILLIAMS 0 gramophone records
A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
Utopia is a south-sea island to which English laws and customs are suddenly applied. The country even runs on a Limited Liability principle so that ' there is not a christened baby who has not already issued his little prospectus '—all this the result of the King sending his daughter to Girton to be educated! Imported Flowers of Progress
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by MICHAEL MOORES
Act 1 A Utopian Palm Grove
Act 2 Throne Room in King Para. mount's Palace
Broadcast on June 26. 1966
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh Schubert
Moments musicaux
3.0* Sonata in C major (Reliquie) (D.840)
3.50* Four Impromptus (D.935)
DURING THE INTERVAL (at 3.30*)
HOWARD FERGUSON talks about
Schubert's piano music
See page 33
Violin Concerto (1925)
WOLFGI,NG MARSCHNER
BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Massimo FRECCIA Recording mute available by courtesy of BavailinRadio
played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Quartet in A major. Op. 20
No. 6
5.18* Quartet in G major.
Op. 76 No. 1
DONALD MACKINNON
Norris Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge comments on the two very different philosophical defences of freedom offered, respectively, by C. A. Campbell of Glasgow and by M. R. Ayers of Oxford in their books, recently published, on this perennial problem.
Symphony No. 9, in C major
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER gramophone record
1868-1955
A critical re-examination of the author and his work by Harman Grisewood and Robert Speaight with the voices of CLAUDEL Jean-Louis BARRAULT and GILBERT GADOFFRE
Readers: DENYS HAWTHOFTNE
DENIS MCCARTHY , DIANA OLSSON MICHAEL DEACON and LEONARD FENTON
Produced by Christopher Holme
Second broadcast
Alan Jones (baritone)
BBC Chorus and a section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Nicholas Goldschmidt
Part 1: Martinu
Field Mass
English translation by GEOFFREY DUNN
by DONALD McLACHLAN
Mr. McLachlan, a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, served throughout the war in Naval Intelligence. In his book Room 39, he revealed much hitherto undisclosed on the part Intelligence played during those years. He was able to do this thanks to a notable loosening of various security taboos. This makes it possible for him to discuss the organisation of Intelligence at the present time. and its use in planning not only for defence but also for economic development.
Second broadcast
Part 2: Bruckner
Mass No. 2, in E minor
From the Church of Christ the Kins. Gordon Square, London
by Richard Murphy with music by SEAN O'RIADA played by CEOLTOIRI CHUALANN conducted by THE COMPOSER Readers, CYRIL CUSACK
C. DAY LEWIS , TED HUGHES MARGARET ROBERTSON and NIALL TOIBIN
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
The Battle of Aughrim ' is a dramatic sequence of poems reflecting the thoughts and actions of those whose lives were affected by the battle or who now contemplate Its outcome. It Is In four sections: ' Now,' ' Before.' During.' and ' After.'
Aria vartata alia maniera italiana (S.989) played by FERNANDE KAESER (piano)
Broadcast on June 11. 1966 followed by an interlude at 10.55
