gramophone records
DAVID OISTRAKH
Moscow RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
8.42- Scherzo capriccioso.... Dvorak
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE gramophone records
Bach Toccata. Adagio, and Fugue in C
9.20* Chorale Prelude on Schmiicke dich, o liebe Seele (S.654) HELMUT WALCHA (organ)
9.29' Motet: Singet dem Herrn etn neues Lied
AEOLIAN SINGERS
Conducted by SEBASTIAN FORBES gramophone records
A programme of recently released records
BBC WOMEN'S CHORUS
Conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE with ROBERT MUNNS (organ)
LONDON TROMBONE Quartet Tony Moore , Alan Lumsden John Edney. John Pritchard
ROSEMARY PHILLIPS (contralto)
PETER LE HURAY
(harpsichord continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by JOHN CAREWE Broadcast on September 19. 1963
Nina Milkina
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets should be sent to the Ticket Unit. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. [Postcode removed]. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Deidamia Opera seria in three acts
Libretto by PAOLO ROLLI English translation by E. J. DENT (adapted) Music by Handel A concert performance given last Friday in the Great Hall, Exeter University
The action takes place on the Aegean island of Scyros. soon after the outbreak of the Trojan War. Act 1
Scene 1: The sea-front, adjoining
Lycomedes's palace
Scene 2: A gallery in the palace Scene 3: A room in the palace See page 43
JOSEF Sivo (violin)
IVAN EROD (piano)
ACT 2
Scene 1: The palace gardens
Scene 2: A clearing in the forest
4.50* ACT 3
Scene 1: A room in the palace
Scene 2: A gallery in the palace Scene 3: The royal apartments
Scene 4: A great hall in the palace John Constable broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
by PETER HURFORD From the Royal College of Organists. London
BERNARD KEEFFE looks at musical events in the West, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the next week
See page 44
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Broadcast on February 25
by Christopher Hampton
' My search for universal experience has led me here. To lead an idle, pointless life of poverty, as the minion of a bald, ugly, ageing, drunken lyric poet, who Clings on to me because his wife won'take him back.'
Derek Godfrey as Verlaine
Kenneth Cranham as Rimbaud and Gwen Watford
Produced by RONALD MASON
Derek Godfrey is in ' The Ruling Class ' at the Piccadilly Theatre. London
To be repeated on May 18 See page 42
See also 10.30 p.m.
Cinq poemes de Charles Baudelaire
Le balcon: Harmonie du solr Le jet d'eau; Recuelllement La mort des amants
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Last of fifteen weekly programmes of French song
"I saw us as two children free to wander in the paradise of sadness" (Arthur Rimbaud)
Christopher Hampton examines the relationship of Verlaine and Rimbaud through their poetry and assesses the influence they had upon each other in their work.
Kenneth Cranham and Derek Godfrey read the poems.
