Time: GTS 8.0 am
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Glinka Overture: A Life for the Tsar
8.14' Bizet Symphony in c
8.42* Ravel Daphnis and Chloë: Suite No 2 gramophone records
(Der Schauspieldirektor) A comedy in one act
English text by GEOFFREY DUNN after Gottlieb Stephanie
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
(From a 1970 Prom Concert) 1
9.36* Adagio in B minor (K 540) ARTUR BALSAM (piano) (gramophone record)
9.40* Eine kleine Freimaurer - Cantate (K 623)
KURT EQUILUZ (tenor) RUDOLF RESCH (tenor) LEO HEPPE (baritone)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE VIENNA VOLKSOPER conducted by PETER MAAG (gramophone record)
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Recent chamber and instrumental music by DOMINIC GILL
JACK BRYMER (saxophone)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Introduced and conducted by TREVOR HARVEY from the Royal Festival Hall
Rawsthorne Overture: Street Corner
Bartok Dance Suite (First, second, and third movements)
Ibert Concertino da Camera, for saxophone and orchestra Debussy Fetes
Stravinsky The Shrove-tide Fair (Petrushka)
Beethoven Bagatelles (Op 33): No 3, in F; No 5, in c
Sonata in A flat major, Op 26
1.4 Mussorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition
A personal choice of records presented by Ricbard Baker including at 1.55* Rossini's aria Non pill mesta and Chopin's Variations on it for flute and piano: at 2.5* Schubert's Quartet in G (D 887); at 2.50* JOHN OGDON playing Mendelssohn's Rondo brillant in E fiat; and at 3.34* Belshazzar's Feast by Walton, conducted by the composer
HURWITZ CHAMBER ENSEMBLE director and solo violin EMANUEL HURWITZ
(From StJohn's, Smith Square)
JOHN amis talks to artists concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music.
introduced by STEVE RACE
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor COLIN DAVIS
Seven programmes outlining the activities and cultural background of a major centre of pre-classical composition.
4: 16th and 17th-century Venice Introduced by DENIS ARNOLD (gramophone records)
MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano) JEAN KNIBBS (soprano)
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
BRIAN ETHERIDGE (baritone) WILLIAM BENNETT
(flute and alto-flute)
EDWARD BECKETT (alto-flute) JOHN TAVENER (organ) LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS Continuo:
HAROLD LESTER
(organ and harpsichord) TERENCE WEIL (cello)
JOHN GRAY (double-bass)
THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS HALSEY Part 1
Bach Motet: Komm, Jesu, komm!
8.12* John Tavener Coplas (first broadcast performance in this country)
8.24* Bach Suite No 2, for flute and string orchestra
ROLLO MYERS lived in Paris immediately after the First World War and came to know many of the leading Parisian figures of the day. In the second of his three reminiscent talks he recalls meetings with Poulenc and some important Stravinsky premieres, as well as the development of Dadaism.
Bach Motet: Fiirchte dich nicht
9.31' Tarener Nomine Jesu (first broadcast performance in this country)
9.44' Purcell Welcome to all the pleasures: a song for St Cecilia's Day (1683)
(Concert at St John's, Smith Square, promoted by the City of Westminster Arts Council)
by HEINRICH VON KLEIST 1777-1811
IDRIS PARRY , Professor of Modern German Literature at Manchester University, introduces and reads a translation of Kleist's famous essay, which he has prepared for Radio 3. Produced by ADRIAN JOHNSON ‡
WALTER KLIEN (piano)
Schumann Three Romances, Op 28
Brahms Variations on a theme of Schumann, Op 9; Seven Fantasies, Op 116
