Time: GTS 8.0 am
Records of music by Reynaldo Hahn , French lutenists. Campra, Ravel and Messager
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op 95: by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
Hi-Fi - What it's all about (I): by DONALD ALDOUS
Recent records of operatic highlights and recitals: MARK LUBBOCK
Including this week Record Review's recommended version of Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op 95, and excerpts from some new records of operatic highlights and recitals
A series drawing on the treasury of music for one and two performers
STOIKA MILANOVA (violin)
RADU LUPU (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in G major, Op 96
Franck Sonata in A major
ROGER WOODWARD (piano)
BBC SCOTTI SH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Part 1
Borodin Overture: Prince Igor
12.28* Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c major
JOHN amis talks to artists concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music.
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5, in E minor
of some composers who feature prominently in the week's music broadcasting
Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in c major
GASTON LITAIZE playing the organ of the Church of St Severin. Paris (Recording from the 1971 Paris Festival made available by French Radio) (Monday: Mass in B minor)
Matyas Selber Fantasy for cello and piano
KEITH HARVEY , MERALYN KNIGHT (Sunday: Portrait of Seiber) Egon Wellesz Alleluia
NOELLE BARKER (Soprano)
Schubert Piano Sonata in G major: ANDRE WATTS
(Recording made available by Hungarian Radio)
A profile of the Hungarian conductor who died two years ago this summer. EDWARD GREENFIELD presents recordings of Kodaly. Haydn. Mahler, Walton, Strauss and Schumann, mostly with Szell's own Cleveland Orchestra. There is also a recording of Szell as a pianist and an interview made with Edward Greenfield during a visit to London.
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Schubert Quartet in B flat (D 112)
Mozart Quartet in D (K 575)
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
ROBERT GERLE (violin), BBC
NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE HURST Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Prometheus
6.8* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
6.35* During the Interval
NORMAN KAY talks about Shostakovich's youthful symphony.
6.45* Concert: part 2
Shostakovich Symphony No 6
(Given in the Town Hall, Stock-port, on 26 January)
- we'll make It worth your while: by ANTHONY WOOLF
Under the present law it can be cheaper to cause someone a slow, lingering death than to kill him outright. Mr Woolf , a solicitor, talks about this legal phenomenon. followed by an interlude
Opera in three acts
Libretto by WILLIAM CONGRIVI Music by John Eccles
(first stage performance In London)
Opera da Camera production from St John 's, Smith Squart
Apollo, the sun god, and Somnus, god of sleep.RICHARD ANGAS
SERENATA OF LONDON leader EMANUEL HURWITZ conductor STEUART BEDFORD
Producer PETER LEHMANN BEDFORD The action takes place in Greece in mythological times. Acts 1 and 2 9.0° John Eccles and Semele A talk by ROGER FISKE
9.20. Semele Act 3
(Handel's Semele: 30 April)
Jeremy Noble introduces:
Thea Musgrave and Bryan Northcott discussing "Contemporary British Music" by Francis Routh.
Grayston Burgess and Anthony Rooley discussing "John Dowland" by Diana Poulton.
Reviews of two BBC Symphony Orchestra concerts conducted by Colin Davis and Pierre Boulez, broadcast on 5 and 19 April.
Michael Steinberg of The Boston Globe appraising New York's Metropolitan Opera on the night of Sir Rudolf Bing's Farewell Gala.
' Of the whole enormous area which was once the spirited domain of Tibetan culture and religion ... now only Bhutan seems tc survive as the one resolute and self-contained representative of a fast disappearing civilisation.'
In the first of two talks John Levy presents recordings he made recently in Bhutan of the awe-inspiring lamaist orchestras and chant and the contrastingly quiet singing of villagers, which reveal a musical culture hitherto unknown outside the country.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
Elgar Sospiri , for strings, harp, and organ
Strauss Morgen
Elgar Elegy for strings Strauss Befreit ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano) gramophone records