Time: GTS 8.0 am
Boieldieu Overture: La dame blanche
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.14* Boellmann Menuet gothique (Suite gothique)
8.17* Gigout Scherzo in E NICHOLAS DANBY (organ)
8.22* Eigar Three Bavarian Dances
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.34* Francaix L'horloge de flore, for oboe and orchestra JOHN HE LANCIE
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
8.51* Falla Miller 's Dance: Final Dance (The Three-cornered Hat)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ALBERT WOLFF gramophone records
Russian music, including a concert Riven at the Vienna Festival on 9 June
Stravinsky Four Etudes
S.16* Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor MARTHA ARGERICH (piano)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
9.53* Prokofiev Sonata No 2, in D major. OD 94b
WANDA WILKOMIRSKA (violin) ANN SCHEIN (piano) ‡
10.17* Stravinsky Scherzo a la russe
10.22* Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (revised version 1919) VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
10.45* Prokofiev Sonata No 1, in f minor, Op 80
WANDA WILKOMIRSKA (violin) ANN SCHEIN (piano)
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Schubert's Fantasy in c (Wanderer), by MISHA DONAT
Recent records of pre-classical music reviewed by CHARLES CUDWORTH
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN BUTTERWORTH (hom)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody
12.33* Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra
Midday Concert: part 2
1.5 Walton Symphony No 1, in B flat minor
A personal choice of records presented by Bernard Keeffe including at 1.50* stokowski conducting the Overture and Venusberg Music from Wagner's Tannhauser; at 2.37* a group of Monteverdi Madrigals sung by the NADIA BOULANGER ENSEMBLE (mono): at 3.0* Schumann's Concertstiick in P, for four horns and orchestra: at
3.20* Schoenberg's Piano Suite, Op 25; and at 3.50* Debussy's Poemn dansé: Jeux, with PIERRE BOULEZ conducting the NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUIS GARCIA directed from the harpsichord by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Cesti Dances (II porno d'oro) Monteverdi Ohime ch'io cado
Cavalli Sofonisba 's lament (Scipione Africano); 0 delle mie speranze (La Doriclea); La bellezza (Serse)
Cavalli Canzona a died
Monteverdi Si dolce e il tormento: Quel sguardo
Cavalli Cassandra's lament (La Didone); Numi ciechi (L'Orlmonte)
Monteverdi Ballo: Aere serene (II ballo delle ingrate)
JOHN AMIS talks to the artists-composers. conductors or performers - most closely concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music,
Records introduced by Manfred Mann featuring this week The Grateful Dead
(This Week's Sounds: page 17)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Part 1
Mozart Serenade No 6, In D major (Serenata notturna) (K 239) conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
6.14* Bizet Symphony in c
SIR cecm. PARROTT feels strongly about East-West cultural relations, and has reason to from his personal experience as a diplomat in Moscow. He is now Professor of Russian and Soviet Studies in the University of Lancaster,
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6, in » minor (Pathetique)
In JULY DAVID CAUTE published a trilogy, The Confrontation, in which he explored the implications - artistic as well as political-of the confrontation between the Old Left and the New Left. He discusses some of his ideas with JULIAN MITCHELL.
(The Shepherd King) An opera in two acts
Libretto by METASTASIO Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
RADIO TELEFIS EIREANN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN KITCHEN
Harpsichord continuo JEAN MALLANDAINE conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY Producer JOHN COX
(Relayed from the Theatre Royal. Wexford, in association with Radio Telefis Eireann)
The action takes place in and around Sidon in the fourth century bc. Act 1
ANDREW PORTER , music critic of the Financial Times, describes the town and its surrounding countryside.
' One of the pleasures of my job is that it brings plenty of chances to explore unfamiliar places. But Ireland lacks a Pevsner and Wexford a town guide. I've had to compile my own.'
Act 2
Quartet No 2, in c major
TEL AVIV STRING QUARTET Chaim Taub (violin)
Menahem Breuer (violin) Daniel Benyaminl (viola) Uzr Wiesel (cello)