A programme of recent records
Conducted by GEORGES PR ËTRE
James BOWMAN (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) John BARROW (bass)
LONDON BACH SOCIETY
COLIN TILNEY (organ continued)
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS Leader, Alan Loveday
Conductor, PAUL STEINITZ
Cantata No. 166: Wo gehest du bin?
9.25* Cantata No. 108: Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe
A record request programme
MEMBERS of THE MELOS ENSEMBLE
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) by ANDREW PORTER
Musical Profile: John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas by HENRY RAYNOR
Music Magazine Remembers-Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM (1879-1961)
Strauss continued
Book review by NOEL GOODWYN
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Opera in five acts
Libretto by VLADIMIR Stassov and the composer English version by EDWARD DOWNES
Music by Mussorgsky
Arranged and orchestrated by SHOSTAKOVICH
Narrator. RONALD HARVI
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
Boys OF
MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL Chorus-Master, Richard Sinton
BBC Northern
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Repetiteur, Robert Keys
Produced by Ernest Warburtoo
ACT 1
The Red Square. Moscow
See page 45
played by IVAN MORAVEC
Act 2
Prince Vassily Galitsln 's house
ACT 3
The Streltsy settlement
Scottish National ORCHESTRA Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor. ALEXANDER GIBSON
Part 1
Act 4
Scene 1: Prince Ivan Khovansky 's house
Scene 2: The square in front of St. Basil's Church. Moscow
ACT 5
A pine forest
Elizabeth Bainbridge , Edward Downer John Lanigan and David Lennox broadcast by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Don Garrard by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co
in conversation with David SYLVESTER
5: Roy Lichtenstein painter of comic strips on a monumental scale
† Third broadcast
Barnett Newman : May 11
† BARTOK STRING QUARTET
Peter Komlos , Sandor Devich Geza Nemeth , Karoly Botvay
First of two talks prompted by the publication of Fight for Education, edited by C. B. Cox and A. E. Dyson
ALBERT HUNT. Senior Lecturer in Complementary Studies, Regional College of Art, Bradford, argues that the contributors to this ' Black Paper ' have themselves abnegated the standards they want to maintain. He also challenges their Elitist view of education.
Second talk, by Professor G H. Bantock , Tuesday at 9.55 p.m.
BOBBY SEALE co-founder and chairman of the Black Panther Party and DAVID HILLYARD captain of the Oakland Chapter talk to JONATHAN POWER about the California-based Black Panther Party for Self Defense. their concept of revolution, their attitude to alliances with white radicals, their approach to violence, and their disagreements with other black organisations.
Produced by Daniel Snowman
Extended version of the programme broadcast on March 26 followed by an interlude at 7.25
From the Royal
Festival Hall, London
Claudio Arrau (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend
Conductor, Bernard Haitink
Part 1 0
† by KRISHAN KUMAR
Lecturer in Sociology. University of Kent
Is television politically impotent, as studies of the mass media suggest, or does it possess the great political influence that many producers hope and many politicians fear? Mr. Kumar discusses these and related issues in the light of Jay G. Blumler and Denis Mc-Quail's book Television and Politics.
Dr. Blumler on The Press, Television, and Democracy: Monday,
9.30 p.m.
Part 2: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4, in F minor
First of three concerts in which Claudio Arrau plays Beethoven's last three piano concertos.
The trilogy by Robert Lowell adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
1: Endecottand the Red Cross with Deborah Anthony , Jan Carey
The scene: Merry Mount in Massachusetts on May Day. 1630
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Gay Super is in ' The Canterbury Tales' at the Phoenix Theatre. London
The second play: May 11 See page 44
The '48'
Preludes and Fugues (Book 1) No. 8. In E flat minor: No. 17. in A Hat major: No. 2. in C minor: No. 15. in G major; No. 13. In F sharp major; No. 22. In B flat minor played on the piano by JAMES FRISKIN (1886-1967)
The second of eight programmes recorded in 1962 and 1963 in which James Friskin played Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues: broadcast on April 17. 1963
Next programme : May 14
