A weekly programme of recent records
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Handel
MENUIUN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Conducted by YEHUDI MENUIIIN
Cantata No. 176: Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding
9.20* Sonata in B minor (S.1030)
MAXENCE LARRIEU (flute)
RAFAEL PUYANA (harpsichord) gramophone record
9.39* Cantata No. 164: lhr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet
ILSE WOLF (soprano)
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
TILFORD BACH Festival CHOIR
Obbligatf Mary Ryan. Ronald Gillham (flutes) Sarah Francis. Natalia James
(oboes)
Olga Hegedus (piccolo cello and cello)
Continuo
Derek Stevens (organ and harpsichord)
Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon) Francis Baines (double-bass)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Led by Vera Kantrovich
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Cantatas broadcast on April 28.
1968
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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Leontyne Price introduces records of her own choice
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with Terence Weil (cello)
Victoria DE LOS ANGELES (soprano)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Neville Taweel
Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
Part 1
His house described and his nephew Yury Davydov interviewed by Roy MacGregor Hastie
From the BBC Sound Archives
Concert
Part 2
Recording of a public concert given at the Royal Festival Hall. London, on October 15. 1968
An opera in three acts
Libretto by JOSEF WENZIG English translation by HUMPHREY PROCTER -GREGO
Music by Smetana
Cast In order of singing:
Judges, soldiers, townsfolk BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by Vilem TAUSKY
Repetiteur, Martin Penny
Produced by Brian Trowell
Don Garrard broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.
Recorded before an Invited audience In the Camden Theatre, London The action takes place in Prague In 1498
ACT 1
The courtyard of the castle
A series of illustrated talks by NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY
6: Andhra Pradesh (ii)
Produced by Madeau Stewart
From the BBC Sound Archives
ACT 2
Scene 1 A street, outside an Inn
Scene 2 The gaoler's room in the castle
Scene 3 Dahbor's cell In the tower Act 3 at 5.35 (Third)
The Modern Delusion by HERBERT DINGLE , Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, University of London
Professor Dingle attempts to bring to light the dangers, both intellectual and practical, which can result from the tendency in modern science and philosophy to regard definitions and indefinable realt ties as identical.
Second broadcast
ACT 3
Scene 1 The King's council-hall Scene 2 Dalibor's cell
Scene 3 Before the castle
by David Mercer with Sylvia Coleridge and David March
In a bungalow, in a colony no longer British. against a background of primitive jungle noises and of African drums, Lady Harriet Boscoe writes her diary every day trying to maintain an earlier British Way of Life, unaware that the sun has set and the Empire faded until tragedy overtakes her.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Second broadcast followed by interlude at 7.20
from the Royal Albert Hall London
GEORGE MALCOLM (piano)
WANDSWORTH School
BOYS' CHOIR
Director of Music Russell Burgess
BBC Symphony ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Part 1: Mozart and Britten
by JACK MOLE
The old epistemology, based on making sense, has led us into a fair amount of nonsense.
Might it be that a metaphysics of nonsense, if we knew how to construct it, would make a bit of sense of things for us?
Part 2: Britten and Tchaikovsky
Some rubbings from
FRANCIS PONGE 's Le Savon translated and compressed by SIMON WATSON TAYLOR with vocal assistance from
Hugh Dickson , Frances Hooker Gary Watson and the BBC Sound Effects Department Mr. Taylor introduces a French poet's twenty-year meditation on the necessity of keeping clean. The slippery identity of soap has never been so nakedly, or so entertainingly, revealed.
Produced by George MacBeth
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