Vienna Concentus Musicus directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (cello) Fux Overture in D minor Biber Battalia
Bach Suite No 1, in c major gramophone records
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 570) ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano)
(gramophone record: recorded in 1948) 9.23* Scfioenberg Quartet No 1, in d minor, Op 7 0. KOHON STRING QUARTET Harold Kohon (violin)
Andrew Svilokos (violin) Eugenie Dengel (viola) David Moore (cello)
(gramophone record)
10.10* Beethoven Leonore (Act 3)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS
BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS ALTMANN
(Recording made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)
(23 May: Beethoven's Fidelio performed by Scottish Opera)
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Berlioz's Symphonic fantastique, by NOEL GOODWIN
Recent choral records: reviewed by TREVOR HARVEY
From the Teatro Comunale, Florence CLIFFORD curzon (piano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor COLIN DAVIS
Part I
Berlioz Overture: The Corsair Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major
The Shadow of the Dome
PETER MURRAY tells how Brunelleschi solved the problem of constructing the dome of Florence Cathedral
Part 2
Thea Musgrave Concerto for Orchestra
Walton Suite: Façade
(A concert given last Sunday: recorded in collaboration with Italian Radio)
A personal choice of records and recordings, presented by Bernard Keeffe including at 2.10* Act 2 of the Glyndebourne production of Mozart's opera Idomeneo; at
3.45* Schubert's String Quartet in A minor, D 804, with the AMADEUS quartet; and at 4.45* Suite No 1 from Roussel's ballet Bacchus et Ariane
JOHN AMIS talks to the artists-composers, conductors, or performers - most closely concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music
Introduced by STEVE RACE
This week
ANDOR FOLDES plays
Sonata in E flat major, Op 7
Sonata in c minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)
(Recordings made available by courtesy of rias Berlin and Hungarian Radio)
by ISAAC DEUTSCHER
A shortened version of a lecture given in 1965 at the London School of Economics by the distinguished Marxist historian, who died in 1967. The lecture was recorded privately and came to light last year.
Opera in three acts Music by RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Libretto by BEVERLEY CROSS after the novel by Joseph Conrad (Commissioned by the Friends of Covent Garden)
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
(first broadcast performance) Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Produced by COLIN GRAHAM
The action takes place in the Dutch East Indies in .1895 Act 1 The courtyard of Schomberg's hotel in Surabaya
The last of four talks by Robert Skidclsky , author of Politicians and the Slump and English Progressive Schools, who is now at work on biographies of Mosley and Keynes
Act 2 Sc 1 The island of Samburan - before Heyst's bungalow in a clearing above the beach. Sc 2 The card-room at Schomberg's hotel
A personal portrait by Bertrand Russell
(Ian Watt discusses Conrad's novel The Secret Agent: Wednesday, 10.20 pm; Joubert's opera Under Western Eyes: Thursday, 2.0 pm) followed by an interlude
Act 3 The island of Samburan
Part 1
No 27, in B flat major (k 595)
FRIEDRICH GULDA : AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILAN HORVAT
10.40* during the interval PAUL HAMBURGER talks about Mozart and his late concertos
10.55* Mozart Part 2
No 25, in c major (K 503)
ALFRED BRENDEL : AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILAN HORVAT
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)