A programme of recent records Boieldieu Overture: Ma tante Aurore: FRENCH RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCEL COURAUD
8.11* Liszt Two Concert Studies: Waldesrauschen;
Gnomenreigen claudio arrau (piano)
8.20* Duparc Mélodies: L'invitation au voyage; Extase; Chanson triste gerakd SOUZAY i baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
8.32* Tauslg Two Concert Studies, Op 1: michael ponti (piano)
9.41*Gounod Ballet Music Faust) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Cantata No 172: Erschallet, ihr Liedei : Ursula BUCKEL (soprano) IRMA KELLER (contralto) THEO ALTMEYER (tenor) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass) KASSEL VOCAL ENSEMBLE
GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS conducted by KLAUS MARTIN ZIEGLER
Cantata No 59: Wer mich lie-bet, der wird mein Wort halten ROTRAUD HANSMANN (Soprano) MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) AMSTERDAM CHOIR
CONCERTO AMSTERDAM directed by jaap Schroder
Cantata No 68: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
URSULA BUCKEL (soprano) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass) KASSEL VOCAL ENSEMBLE
GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS conducted by KLAUS MARTIN ZIEGLER gramophone records
A record request programme
Field Piano Concerto No 2, in A flat: RENA KYRIAKOU, BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by C. A. Bunte
Haydn Symphony No 68 PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Tippett and the Visionary Artist, by JOHN WARRACK
Musical Profile: Joan Ham mond. by HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Schubert's early symphonies. by GEOFFREY BUSH
Schnabel as Teacher: book review by DENIS MATTHEWS Edited by ANNA instone and JULIAN HERBAGE
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN .BRITTEN (piano)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLE
Neil Black (oboe)
Kenneth Sillito (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello) from The Mailings, Snape Part 1
Mozart Freemasons' Cantata: Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls (K 619)
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major (K 370)
Britten Who are these children?, Op 84: Rhymes, Riddles and Lyrics by William Soutar , for tenor and piano (first broadcast performance)
12.501 During the Interval
PAUL HAMBURGER talks about Mozart's g minor Piano Quartet
1.10* Concert Part 2 Mozart
Piano Quartet in G minor (K 478)
Opera in three acts Music by Michael Tippett
Libretto by the composer (gramophone records)
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by COLIN DAVIS
The scene is set in a clearing in a wood. Time: the present
Act 1 Morning
2.50* During the Interval
Sir Michael Tippett discusses his attitude to dramatic composition with HAROLD ROSENTHAL.
3.101 The Midsummer Marriage
Act 2 Afternoon
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)
Act 3 Evening and Night
CHARLES spinks (harpsichord) Purcell Suite No 1, in g major; Suite No 2, in G minor
Handel Suite No 8, in F minor
Symphony No 8
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader bela dekany conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
7.0 Exiles by James Joyce. Harold Pinter's Mermaid Theatre production re-created for radio.
James Joyce , who was born in 1882. left Dublin with Nora Barnacle in 1904. They lived in Trieste until 1915. They had two children, a boy and a girl. Exiles was published in Paris in 1918 four years before Ulysses. Joyce did not see the play performed.
Cast in order of speaking:
The play takes place at Merrion and Ranelagh, two suburbs of Dublin.
Producer Guy Vaesen
(John Wood is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Radio Times, People: page 4)
9.0 Portrait of Matyas Seiber (1905-1960)
The final programme in the series highlihting this neglected composer's work. including settings of James Joyce
Three fragments from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: PETER PEARS (tenor) JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
DORIAN SINGERS, MELOS ENSEMBLE conducted by THE COMPOSER (gramophone record)
Ballet: The Invitation (first broadcast performance)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Cantata: Ulysses ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) BBC CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
(David Atherton broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
followed by an interlude
Nabokov's Podvig, originally published in Russian in 1932, has just appeared in English translation for the first time.
JOHN spurling reviews the novcj and introduces extracts from a recent interview with VLADIMIR NABOKOV.
Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No 6: AUSTRAL QUARTET gramophone record