Today's time: GTS 8.0 am
Members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by PAUL ANGERER
Werner Excerpts from the Curious Musical Calendar gramophone records
MARIA STADER (soprano)
HERTHA TÖPPER (contralto) ERNST HAEFI. IGER (tenor) DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
(baritone)
RIETH ENGEN (bass) MUNICH BACH CHOIR
MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone record^
Introduced by JOHN LADE Summer Retrospect 42)
Contributed by CHARLES CUDWORTH ROBERT HENDERSON , and CHARLES OSBORNE
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
Ctlinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla Mozart Exsultate , jubilate (K 165)
Delius Summer evening
Falla Three Dances (The Three-cornered Hat)
1.4 Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso Dvorak Song to the moon (Rusalka)
Rossini, arr Respighi Ballet Suite: La boutique fantasque
(The final concert of the Bristol Proms, given at the Colston Hall on 16 May)
Second of four programmes
Debussy Cinq poemes de Charles Baudelaire
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (SOprano) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
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A personal choice of records presented by Noel Goodwin Including at 2.21* Liszt's Orpheus: at 2.51* Milhaud's La creation du monde; at 3.14* Stravinsky's Apollo, conducted by the composer; at 3.43' Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna; at 4.10* Dances from Don Quixote, by Roberto Gerhard ; and at 4.38* the Prologue to Boito's Metistofele, conducted by TOSCANINI
JOHN AMIS talks to the artists concerned with next week's broadcast music
introduced by STEVE RACE
Piano Recital bv Alfred Brendel
Beethoven Sonata in B flat major. Op 106 (Hammerklavier) (Part 2 of a recital given this morning in Leith Town Hall)
The Bartered Bride
(Prodana Nevesta)
Comic opera in three acts Libretto by KAREL SABINA Music by SMETANA
A Prague National Theatre production from the King's Theatre: sung in Czech
CHORUS, ORCHESTRA, AND BALLET OF THE PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE conductor JAROSLAV KROMBHOLC Produced by LUDEK MANDAUS Act 1
by JOHN WHALE, author of a book about television and politics in Britain and the USA called The Half-Shut Eye
He examines the suggestion that the mass media in Britain reflect a systematic set of political and social attitudes-and concludes that, if this is so, it is purely accidental.
Act 2
IDRIS PARRY , Professor of Modern German Literature in the University of Manchester, reflects on Herman Hesse 'sfamous novel The Glass Bead Game, recently published in a new translation by Richard and Clara Winston. In 1946 Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel, which was originally published in German in 1943.
Act 3 followed by an interlude
ERIC WARR discusses with HOWARD FERGUSON and PAUL HAMBURGER the interpretation of some of Chopin's Preludes but reveals the identities of the performers only after their discussion of each example
Haydn Symphony No 9, in C NETHERLANDS RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA
Jan Vaclav Kalivoda Oboe Concertino. Op 110 WERNER HERBERS
NETHERLANDS RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK MACAL
Sqtie Pantins ; Piegede Meduse ; Embryon: NETHERLANDS RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)
