A programme of recent records, including Concertos by Bonporti and Stravinsky: Italian songs sung by contralto HELEN WATTS , and Russian songs sung by baritone NICOLAI GHIAVROV
A record request programme
J. C. Bach Symphony in E. Op 18 No 5. for double Orchestra ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by EMANUEL HURWITZ
9.22* Handel Dixit Dominus HELEN DONATH soprano)
TRUDY KOELEMAN (Soprano) AAFJE HEYNIS (contralto)
GERARD VAN DOLDER (tenor) DAVID HOLLESTRELLE (bass) NCRV VOCAL ENSEMBLE
AMSTERDAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MARINUS VOORBERG
Schubert's Schwanengesang, by ALEC ROBERTSON
Boulez at Bath, by ROBERT HENDERSON
Musical Profile: Shirley Verrett. by ALAN BLYTH
Concerning the Clarinet: book review by JACK BRYMER Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
The opening concert of this year's Vienna Festival direct from the Great Hall of the Musikverein. Vienna IGOR OISTRAKH (violin) and DAVID OISTRAKH (viola) who also conducts the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Mozart Part I
Divertimento in D major (k 334) Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, for violin, viola and orchestra (K 364)
12.20* During the Interval Mozart's Last Symphony
PAUL HAMBURGER offers some new observations.
12.35* Vienna Festival: Part 2
Mozart Symphony No 41, in c major (Jupiter) (K 551)
with ANTONY HOPKINS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)
A fortnightly series
MALCOLM FRAGER (piano) c minor (Kk 11); c (Kk 2): A minor (Kk 31; minor (Kk 5); G minor (Kk 4): A minor (Kk 7); D (Kk 211; A (Kk 39)
A musical play in five scenes by Paul Knepler and Fritz Lohner
Music by Franz Lehar
(First production: Vienna State Opera, 1934)
English translation by Adam Carstairs. arranged for stereo by Raymond Raikes
BBC Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Vilem Tausky
Sc 1: The market-place in a Mediterranean port
3.16* During the Interval
Vilem Tausky discusses with Charles Osborne the place of Giuditta among Lehar's work.
3.20* Giuditta
Sc 2: North Africa - in the garden of Octavio's villa; Sc 3: A military encampment
4.10* During the Interval
Dr Bernard Grun, author of Gold and Silver: The Life and Time of Franz Lehar talks about Lehar and the Vienna of the 20s and 30s, and introduces a historic recording of part of Giuditta with the original principals, Richard Tauber and Jarmila Novotna conducted by the composer.
4.20* Giuditta
At The Alcazar: Sc 4: The Alcazar - a night club in a large North African city; Sc 5: Four years later - a private room in a luxury Paris hotel
(Anne Pashley and Gwynne Howell broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
Producers RAYMOND RAIKES and JOHN BUSSELL
A repeat of In Parenthesis, a programme first broadcast on April Fool's Day, incorporating
1st: a discussion between Tom Stoppard, Henry Cecil, Benny Green, David Ryall
In the chair Tony Palmer
The Trout Quintet (fourth movement) (Pianist John Gould)
The Poetry of Rino Sitan
Introduced by George MacBeth
Jazz Record Requests
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Interval talk: The French Structuralist - Henri Mensonge by Professor Malcolm Bradbury
Episode, a new work by Eisberg (Notes by John Gould)
Talking about Music Antony Hopkins
Programme tentatively held together by Cormac Rigby
Devised and produced by David Hatch and Simon Brett
Conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN Part 1 arr Barbirolli An Elizabethan Suite
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
MARK GIROUARD , architectural historian, takes this fine Derbyshire country house, the creation of Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, as his starting point for describing life in an Elizabethan household.
Part 2 Brahms Symphony No 4
A recent Danish entry for the Italia Piize, adapted by ERNST BRUNN OLSEN from the original play by NEVILLE SMITH and translated by DAVID HOHNEN ' If only I could get my hands on her. You want to see her body And you can and all, through that dress ... Now she's taking her beads off ... I tell you this could be the start of something big.'
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY
by E. J. Moeran
Seven poems from the collection ' Chamber Music '
PATRICIA MCCARRY (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
In 1929 James Joyce was living in Paris, internationally established as a writer. Suddenly he stopped work and began to devote virtually all his time to promoting the career of an Irish tenor, John O'Sullivan.
This programme is about what he did, why it happened, and the effect of his obsession on his life and work. The story is told by Arnold Goldman, author of The Joyce Paradox, with contributions from Mme Eugene Jolas, Nino Frank, Robert Gwynne, Alexander Kipnis, Philippe Soupault and the late Mme Paul Leon, with Norman Rodway as James Joyce
followed by an interlude
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT from Clare College. Cambridge Fantasia in c minor (BWV 562) Three Chorale Preludes
Prelude and Fugue in B minor
Song-cycle: A young man's exhortation (Poems by Hardy) Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
