A weekly programme of recent records
No. 42: Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats
TERESA STICH-RANDALL (soprano)
MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto)
ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) JOHN BOYDEN (bass)
VIENNA ACADEMY CHAMBER CHOIR VIENNA Radio ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERMANN SCHERCHEN gramophone records
A request programme of gramophone records
Karl Loewe (1796-1869) by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Schumann's Piano Music by JOAN CHISSELL
Biography and Autobiography: book review by ROBERT ANDERSON
I cannot vouch for it' by SIDNEY HARRISON
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Song recital given by JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Feldeinsamkeit
Vergebliches Standchen
An die Nachtigall
(Geuss nicht so lauto
Meine Liebe ist griio
Herbstgefiihl Sommerfaden
Abendregen Verzagen
Nachtwandler
Komm bald!
Der Tod, das 1st die kühle Nacht
Broadcast on January 4. 1968
SMETANA STRING QUARTET Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)
Part 1
Hin und Zuriick
A sketch with music
Libretto by MARCELLUS SCHIFFER English translation by MARION FARQUHAR
Music by Hindemith
Members of the IRWELL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH Horovitz
The scene Is set in Robert's house, c. 1920
Recording of the 1967 Camden
Festival production, first broadcast on November 5, 1967
Part 2: Beethoven
Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
Recording of a Birmingham Chamber Music Society concert given in tho Birmingham City Art Gallery in February, 1967
From the Gaumont Theatre, Ipswich In association with the Ipswich Civic Concerts
JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
BBC Symphony ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by FRANZ-PAUL DECKER
Part 1
(piano) 1889-1968
A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
† ERIC SAMS discusses
Schumann's Liederkreis, Op 39. as sung by Dietrich Fischer -Dicskau, Gerard Souzay , Bern-hard Kruysen. Ernst Haefliger. Rita Streich , Kirsten Flagstad , and others
Broadcast on September 23. 1967
A miscellany of readings and interviews
This edition includes:
CHARLES TOMLINSON discussing, with examples, his recent preoccupation with the prose poem, and its relationship to his return to painting and new poems by John DANIEL , GAVIN EWART CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
J. R. HOWELL , GLYN HUGHES
ALASTAIR MACLEAN , LESLIE NORRIS and DAVID RAY read by the authors themselves
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH
played by SIDNEY HARTH (violin) TERESA HARTH (violin) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
A comedy by Aristophanes 422 B.C. with the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams A.D. 1909
The play arranged for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES from the English verse translation by BENJAMIN BICKLEY ROGERS
The words of the Choruses in English translation by H. J. EDWARDS
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by RAE JENKINS with the Chorus of Old Jurymen
I The Wasps ') sung by the RICHARD WILLIAMS SINGERS
Characters in order of speaking:
Scene: Before the house of Phtlo-Cleon. outside Athens. 422 B.C. r Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
To be repeated on June 27
See page 46
1934-1939
Sir Hugh Greene , until last month Director-General of the BBC. in conversation with THOMAS BARMAN
In 1934 Hugh Carleton Greene became Daily Telegraph Correspondent in Berlin during one of the tensest periods in modern history At that time Thomas Barman. later BBC Diplomatic Correspondent. was a Times correspondent in Paris.
Last of three programmes including some of his music for piano duet
Allegro in A minor (D.947)
(Lebensstiirme)
10.6* Rondo in A major (D.951)
10.19* Variations on an original theme in A flat major (D.813) played by EDITH VOGEL and JAMES GIBB
Who is at fault when injustice occurs? by LORD DEVLIN former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Introduced by MICHAEL ZANDER
Second broadcast
A new discussion on the practical problems of law reform, between Sir Leslie Scarman , Lord Devlin, and Anthony Lester , with Michael Zander as chairman: April 22
