A weekly programme of recent records
Representation of Chaos (The
Creation)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER gramophone record
9.13. Quartet in C major, Op. 50
No. 2
FINE ARTS QUARTET
Leonard Serkin (violin) Abram Loft (violin)
Gerald Stanick (viola) George Sopkin (cello)
Broadcast on May 23. 1966
9.33* Symphony No. 91, in E flat major
ORCHESTRA OF NAPLES
Conducted by DENIS VAUGHAN gramophone record
A request programme of gramophone records
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Record Review
Contributed by Edward GREENFIELD
TREVOR HARVEY , ANDREW PORTER
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Cantatas 4, 5, and 6 Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN HEATHER HARPER (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Continuo:
Alan Brown (organ)
Philip Ledger (harpsichord) Keith Harvey (cello)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Cantata No. 4:
Fallt mit Danken, fallt mlt
Loben
Cantata No. 5:
Ehre sei dir, Gott!
Cantata No. 6:
Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
From St. Andrew's Church, Holborn
Broadcast on December 30, 1967
NATUSCIA CALZA (piano) plays
Acts 2 and 3 From the music drama 0 in three acts by Wagner sung in German
Cast in order of singing:
Vassals and women
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pitz
Conducted by Lorin Maazel
The Wieland Wagner production
The action takes place in legendary times
ACT 2
The Hall of the Gibichungs
3.35* ACT 3
Scene 1 A wooded place on the Hiiine
Scene 2 The Hall of the Gibichungs Recording from a performance at the 1968 Bayreuth Festival, made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
The last of seven broadcasts of Der Ring des Nibelungen
BORIS SCHWARZ , Professor of Music, Queen's College, New York talks about experimentation in the early years of the Soviet State and examines the changing relationship of composer and the State in Soviet society
Second broadcast
Symphony No. 2, In C major
(To October)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MORTON GOULD gramophone record
Quintet In E flat major GUARNERI QUARTET with ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) gramophone record
The bouzouki is the Instrument which gives Greek popular music its peculiar character and vitality.
GEORGE ANGELL traces the recent history of the bouzouki and gives examples of the development of laike moussike in the hands of talented Greek composers and poets
Music by Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Xarhakos, and Markopoulos
Lyrics read by OLIVE GREGG and HUGH DICKSON
Produced by George MacBeth and George Angell
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
HELEN WATTS (mezzo-soprano) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL Boys' CHOIR
Obbligati:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Peter Graemc (oboe, oboe d'amore) Edward Sclwyn (oboe) Martin Gatt (bassoon) Ifor James (horn)
Richard Merewether (horn) Anthony Randall (horn) Philip Jones (trumpet)
Continuo:
Alan Brown (chamber organ) Philip Ledger (harpsichord) Bernard Richards (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leaders, Emanuel Hurwitz and Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by Benjamin Britten From St. Andrew's Church, Holborn
Part 1
Cantata No. 143: Lobe den
Herrn, meine Seele
7.48 Cantata No. 151: Siisser Trost, mein Jesus kommt
A phoenix too infrequent
Le Corbusier's Villa at Poissy outside Paris was completed in 1931 for the Savoye family. It has recently been restored and is to be opened as a Le Corbusier Museum. STEPHEN GARDINER , an architect, saw it first at its most desolate moment in 1946 and again this summer.
Second broadcast
Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio)
8.43 Cantata No. 147: Herz und Mund undTat und Leben
discusses his new novel
A Small Town in Germany with J. W. LAMBERT
An extended version of a conversation first broadcast last October in The Lively Arts
Produced by Philip French
played by René Clemencic with Alan Fen-Taylor (harpsichord)
A story by R. T. JONES
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE
' The truthful ones-the masters of trutb-were men employed to carry news of death.' followed by an interlude at 10.55
