Time: GTS 8.0 am
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra with Arthur GRUMIAUX (violin)
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.11* Michael Haydn Violin Concerto in A conducted by EDO DE WAART
8.31* Mendelssohn Scherzo; Fairies' March; Nocturne (A Midsummer Night's Dream) conducted by BERNARD RAITINK
8.44* Tchaikovsky Italian Caprice conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone records
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has influenced many later works, including Messiaen's masterpiece, the Turangalila Symphony. The songs which begin the programme were themselves studies for Tristan. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
9.29* Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
9.47* Chausson Chanson perpetuelle, Op 37
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) MELOS ENSEMBLE
9.57' Messiaen Turangalila Symphony
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Bach's harpsichord music, by JANE CLARK
Recent choral records: reviewed by GORDON STEWART
Grant Johannesen (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edo de Waart
Kodaly Dances from Galanta
12.33* Bartok Piano Concerto No 3
EDMUND RUBBRA , who celebrated his 70th birthday last Sunday. talks about his attitude to the art of composition,
(This year there will be seven programmes containing all Rubbra's symphonies: Nos 1 and 2. Monday. 7.25 pm)
Part 2
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
1.27* Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
A personal choice of records presented by Barrie Iliffe including at 2.0* BARBIROLLI conducting Elgar's Overture: Froissart; at 2.18* The weeping babe by Tippett, sung by the JOHN ALLDIS SINGERS; at
2.26* Serenades by Peter Warlock, Vaughan Williams. and Benjamin Britten ; and at 3.16* 'the first symphonies of William Boyce and William Walton
Nigel Perrin (alto) Tim Brown (alto)
Robin Doveton (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) David van Asch (bass)
Sacred music and madrigals by Bateson. Byrd , Kirbye, Morley, and Tallis; folk song arrangements and spirituals, and light music in close harmony.
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in- St John 's, Smith Square. London, on 3 May)
JOHN AMIS talks to artists concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music.
Introduced by STEVE RACE
(piano)
Scarlatti Sonatas: D minor (L 422); B minor (L 449); G major (L 487); c sharp minor (L 256); A major (L 395)
Beethoven Sonata in E minor Op 90
Scriabin Sonata No 4, in F sharp major, Op 30
Prokofiev Sonata No 3, in A minor, Op 28; Visions fugitives (Op 22) Nos 1, 3. 5, 11, 10, 17
An investigation in seven programmes into the developing relationship between art and its publics.
5: New Publics
A critical enquiry by FRANK KERMODE. Professor of Modern English Literature at London University with contributions from
THE HON MICHAEL ASTOR
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH JOE BOYD , SUE
BRADEN JOHN CALDER , MICHAEL KUSTOW
This programme explores the role of state-supported and private entrepreneurs in promoting new forms of expression.
Produced by RICHARD KEEN (The Composer and his Public: Wednesday. 8.55 pm)
Day of Peace
Opera in one act
Libretto by JOSEF GREGOR. Music by RICHARD STRAUSS (sung in German)
First performance in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Soldiers of the garrison and of the besieging army. towns-people
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
ROYAL MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHOIR chorus-master DR JOHN R. WRAY BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Repetiteur ROGER VIGNOLES Produced by ERNEST WARBURTON Time: 24 October 1648
Place: The citadel of a beleaguered town during the Thirty Years War
(Elizabeth Bainbridge, John Dobson. and Dennis Wicks broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Gwynne Howell by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co)
by Steven Rose. Professor of Biology at the Open University, who has a particular interest in the political and social implications of scientific work.
(12 June: the first of four fortnightly talks by Professor Richard Wollheim )
played by PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) JACQUELINE DU PRE (cello) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Part 1
Variations on Ich bin der Sehneider Kakadu. Op 121a Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1 No 1
by Robin Maconie
Though we think of music 'evolving' in a continuous development, individual discovery is less significant than the need to adjust to new media. To be able to understand the context of new music is to find the music itself more accessible and to be armed with some criteria by which it may be valued,
Part 2
Piano Trio in D major, Op 70 No 1 (The Ghost)
(The first of three programmes recorded at last year's Brighton Festival)