A weekly programme of recent records
NEW PHILHARMONIA Orchestra Conducted by RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS
Quartet In D major. Op. 20
No. 4
TEL AVIV STRING QUARTET Chaim Taub (violin)
Menahem Breuer (violin) Daniel Benyamini (viola) Uzi Wiesel (cello)
Broadcast on September 29
9.26* Symphony No. 60, in C major (II distratto) ESTERHAZY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by David BLUM gramophone record
Last programme in this series
A request programme of gramophone records
Conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty ' by NoEl GOODWIN Tito Schipa (1889-1965) by CHARLES OSBORNE
Early Jazz book review by STEVE RACE
Opera in 1968 by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Part 1
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted hy KYRlL KONDRASHIN
played by NINA MILKINA (piano)
Part 2
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) ANNA REYNOLDS (contralto) SVEN OLOF ELLASSON (tenor) ODD WOLSTAD (bass)
DEMKIRKEN Motet SINGERS
BERGEN SYMPHONY Orchestra
Conducted by KARSTEN ANDERSON Tippett
Oratorio: A Child of our Time
Recording made available by court tesy of Norwegian Radio
1: Edward Elgar
The Starlight Express Op. 78
A Fantasy for
Children of all ages arranged for broadcasting by RAYMOND RAIKES from the novel
A Prisoner in Fairyland by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD and the play by VIOLET PEARN with all the original music written by Elgar for the production at the Kingsway Theatre, London In December 1915
Cast in order of singing and speaking: with the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LIONEL SALTER who edited the music
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Broadcast on December 26. 1965
A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
BERTHOLD GOLBSCHMlDT talks about some of the problems of interpretation that arise in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and illustrates them from recordings made by BERNSTEIN, Golsch-MANN, HORENSTEtN, MRAVINSKY. PREVIN, ROWICKI, with the WARSAW PHILHARMONIC and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, STOKOWSKI, and others
Second broadcast
by DR. ANTHONY HEWISH of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Cambridge last December, says Dr. Hewish, we stumbled on something so strange that we could hardly believe that what our radio telescope recorded was true. What it was recording was radio signals which still present one of the major outstanding problems In astronomy. Dr. Hewish describes what has happened since this utterly unexpected discovery was made.
Second broadcast
NORBERT BRAININ (violin)
LILI KRAUS (piano)
by Colin Finbow with Michael Hordern and Beatrix Lehmann
Withdrawn from a world which has no use for them, an old couple long out of love relive their past through their old gramophone records.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Second broadcast
Heinrich SchUtz Choir
Charles Spinks
(organ and harpsichord) London String Players
Conducted by Roger Norrington
Part 1
Blow up the trumpet In Zion Suite:
Abdelazer Lord. how long wilt thou be angry 0 God, thou hast cast us out My beloved spake
by DR. R. A. WEALE of the Institute of Ophthalmology
Architects of the past sometimes used special devices to enhance-or preserve-the impressiveness of their buildings. Have modern architects forgotten how to play this game—or are they unwilling?
Part 2
Hear my prayer, 0 Lord
Act Tunes and Dances (arr. Bliss) Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes My heart is inditing
Recorded at a public concert given in St. Stephen Walbrook. London, on October 25
Poems chosen and Introduced by Sir Charles Tennyson Read by NICOLETTE BERNARD
ANTHONY JACOBS. HENRY STAMPER BRIAN HAINES
Produced by R. D. Smith
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER followed by an interlude at 10.99