Time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1
TOKYO STRING QUARTET
Koichiro Harada (violin) Yoshiko Nakura (violin)
Kazuhide Isomura (viola) Sadao Harada (cello)
8.27* Schumann Kreisleriana VICTORIA POSTNIKOVA (piano)
Bach Cantata No 161: Komm, du siisse
Todesstunde SABINE KIRCHNER (Contralto) THEOPHIL MEIER (tenor)
MANNHEIM BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by HEINZ MARKUS GOTTSCHE
Handel Trio-Sonata No 1, in B flat: MICHEL PIGUET (oboe) HEINRICH HAAS (oboe)
WALTER STIFTNER (baSSOOn)
EDUARD MÜLLER (harpsichord)
Bach Cantata No 8: Liebster Gott. wann werd' ich sterben BOY TREBLE
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) KURT EQUILUZ (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE.
CAMBRIDGE, LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT gramophone records
A record request programme
Weber Piano Concerto No 2, in E flat:
FRIEDRICH WUHRER VIENNA PRO MUSICA ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS SWAROWSKY
10.26* Glazunov Ballet: The Seasons: Moscow RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BORIS KHAIKIN
Diaghilev (1872-1929) and MUSIC, by ANDREW PORTER
Musical Profile: Anne Howells , by ALAN BLYTH
Britten, Shakespeare and ' The Dream,' by LUCY BECKETT
Two books about Mozart reviewed by STANLEY SADIE Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
A fortnightly series of programmes
NINA MILKINA (piano)
G minor (Kk 450); D (Kk 161); E flat (Kk 507); D minor (Kk 396); c (Kk 527); D (Kk 29)
SMETANA STRING QUARTET Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)
Dvorak Terzetto in c major, Op 74. for two violins and viola Janacek Quartet No 2 (Intimate letters)
(mezzo-soprano)
PHILIP LEDGER (piano) Part 1
Handel 0, had I Jubal's lyre (Joshua)
Purcell Sleep, Adam, sleep; Sweeter than roses; Alleluia
Schubert Schwestergruss; Die abgeblulite Linde; Abendstern; Die Manner sind mechant; Epistel
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis: La flûte de Pan; La chevelure; Le tombeau des naiades
COLIN MAWBY suggests a paradox - that even comprehensive musical education is not musical enough if extra-musical knowledge remains underdeveloped.
Part 2
Beethoven Mignon; Ich liebe dich; Wonne der Wehmuth ; Busslied Faurt Nell; Prison; Soir
Gounod Serenade
(A recital given at the University of East Anglia in December 1970)
STEPHEN BISHOP (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conductorCHRISTOPHER SEAMAN direct from the City Hall, in association with the Corporation of Glasgow Part 1
John Maxwell Geddes Portrait of a City
3.12* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major
3.45* During the Interval Bruckner and Metaphysics
A discussion between ROBERT SIMPSON and DERYCK COOKE.
4.5* Concert
Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 3, in D minor (first definitive version)
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest.
played by EDUARD MELKUS (violin) with LIONEL SALTER (harpsichord) Sonata No 2, in A major
5.58* Sonata No 4, in c minor
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 last of his three reminiscent talks he recalls some of his meetings with James Joyce , Joyce's tastes in wine, and talks about the famous premiere of Satie's Reldche.
No 4: Domine, ne in furore tuo No 6: Beati, quorum remissae sunt iniquitates sung by PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conductorBRUNO TURNER
by TOM MALLIN
' I don'like those mirrors in your bathroom - it's positively indecent. I certainly don'want to stay if that's the sort of bathroom you have.'
' Personally, I always drape towels over them whenever I go in there, don'I, Niall? ' How cultured of you.'
The original cast of Michael Rudman 's Traverse Theatre production at the 1970 Edinburgh Festival
Producer GUY VAESEN
Comic opera in three acts
Libretto by WILHELM ANDERSEN after HOLBERG
English version by DUDLEY GLASS Music by Nielsen
(first performance in this country)
Masquerade is to the Danes what The Bartered Bride is to the Czechs - at once a characteristically national product and a sparkling comedy. Holberg's amusing play is an affair of mistaken identities; Nielsen's music considerably enlarges its humorous and emotional range. And, witty as Holberg is (he was not for nothing called the Danish Moliere), the musician is constantly surpassing him, both in colour and richness of comic invention and in poetry. Holberg had nothing to compare with the beautiful moon-lit atmosphere that opens Act 2. for instance.
This ojpera' is naturally a national institution in Denmark. but there is no reason to suppose that it will not travel now that an excellent English translation has been made. ROBERT SIMPSON
Cast in order of singing:
ProfessorNORMAN LUMSDEN
Chorus of students, officers and young girls
BBC NORTHERN SFNGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Repetiteur RICHARD NUNN
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
The opera is set in Copenhagen in the spring of 1723. Act 1 A room in the house of Jeronimus
9.55* Nielsen as Musical Dramatist
A talk by DUDLEY GLASS
10.15* Masquerade
Act 2 Outside the Playhouse
Act 3 The large hall of the Playhouse
