A weekly programme of recent records
Cantata No. 21: Ich hatte viel
Bekümmernis
GUNTHILD WEBER (soprano) HELMUT KREBS (tenor) HERMAN SCHEY (bass)
BERLIN MOTET CHOIR
KÀRL STEINS (oboe obbligato)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by FRITZ LEHMANN gramophone record
A request programme of gramophone records
The London Symphony Orchestra's 65th Anniversary by NoEl Goodwin
Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) by LINA LALANDI
The Business of Music book review by ALAN BLYTH
Stockhausen's Clavierstucka by ROGER SMALLEY
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN Herbage
Requiem
HEATHER Nelli (soprano)
FEDORA Barbieri (mezzo-soprano) GIUSEPPE di STEFANO (tenor) CESARE SIEPI (bass)
ROBERT SHAW CHORALE
N.B.C. SYMPHONY Orchestra Conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI gramophone record
HANS Richter-Haaser (piano)
Thirty-two Variations on an original theme in C minor (WoO.80)
Six Variations in F major, Op. 34
Fifteen Variations and Fugue in E flat major. Op. 35 (Eroica)
born 1819 Les Deux Aveugles
Bouffonerie musicale
Words by JULES Moinaux and
Operette bouffe in one act
Words by ' SAINT REMY ' and Eugene D'ESPINET
THE OPERA Orchestra AND CHORUS OF FRENCH Radio
Conducted by JEAN-PAUL KREDER
Recordings made available by courtesy of French Radio in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Offenbach's birth
A concert from
The Forum.
Bath
BBC TRAINING ORCHESTRA
Concert-Master, Peter Mountain Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
ANTHONY COOKE (cello)
JEAN-RODOLPHE KARS (piano)
Part 1
Philip MOORE talks to
SIR MICHAEL Tippett about this year's Bath Festival
Part 2 piano. Ernest Lush
Four talks by EDWARD Lockspeiser
Several writers of recent times have attempted to define the new problems facing the composer in the present century. Edward Lock speiser discusses Jean-Christophe, Vinteuil, and Adrian Leverkiihn , the creations of Rolland, Proust, and Mann, and relates these fictitious characters to the great figures of twentieth-century music.
2: Vinteuil and the Musical Experience
Broadcast on July 24. 1965
Gide on Chopin: June 29
Sonata in A major
Toshiya ETC (violin) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Broadcast on November 29. 1967
gramophone records
Local Government
Good Local Government should reflect the movement and settlement of people: should be adequate to provide functions like education, social services, and planning: should be democratic and financially viable. How do the proposals of the Redcliffe-Maud Commission look when measured against these yard-sticks?
Speakers: John K. Boynton, Clerk to Cheshire County Council. member of North-West Regional Economic Planning Council; Professor J. A. G. Griffiths, former Urban District and County Councillor; Graeme Shankland. planning consultant; Baroness SHARP, member of the Maud Commission, former Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Chairman. L. J. Sharpe, Fellow of Nuffield College. Director of Intelligence to the Maud Commission.
Produced by Leonie Cohn
See also 10.25 p.m.
Opera in three acts
Libretto by SONNLEITHNER (after Bouilly)
Music by Beethoven
A concert performance from the Royal Festival Hall, London sung in German
Cast in order of singing:
SO. Chorus
Chorus-Master. Arthur Oldham LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, John Georgiadis
Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
A State prison outside Seville during the eighteenth century
ACT 1: In the head jailer's house
S.20* ACT 2: The inner courtyard of the prison
See page 45
by Henri Appia
A comment on what people have been saying and doing since the election of a new President of the French Republic. Henri Appia teaches at the Sorbonne.
Recorded in Paris
Act 3: A dungeon in the vaults of the prison
Devolution
Can the Redcliffe-Maud proposals be linked to the present notions for giving Scotland. Wales, and the English Regions a more independent status? How can the sovereignty of Parliament be reconciled with such a devolution of power?
Speakers: Norman Hunt , Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford, member of Royal Commission on the Constitution; John MACKINTOSH , M.P., anthor of TIIC Dex-olution of Power; J. c. Swaffield, Secretary of Assn. of Municipal Corporations. Chairman, L. J. Sharpe.
