A programme of recent records Handel Ballet Music: Ariodante
ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.18* Schumann Abegg Varia tions, Op 1
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
8.28* Mendelssohn Friihlings lied, Op 34 No 3; Bei der Wiege ; Auf der Wanderschaft DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano)
8.35* Janacek Theme and Variations: RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano)
8.44* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Noonday Witch
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ.
Cantata No 34: 0 ewiges Feuer LORNA SYDNEY (contralto) HUGUES CUENOD (tenor)
ALOIS PERNERSTORFER (bass) VIENNA CHAMBER CHOIR and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JONATHAN STERNBERG
Cantata No 176: Es 1st ein trotzig und verzagt Ding SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) NORMA PROCTER (contralto) ERICH WENK (bass)
GACHINGER KANTOREI
STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM conducted by HELMUTH RILLING
Cantata No 175: Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen
LOTTE WOLF-MATTHÄUS (contralto) HANS JOACHIM ROTZSCH (tenor) HANS-OLAF HUDEMANN (baSS) CHOIR OF THE
JACOBI KIRCHE, HAMBURG
HAMBURG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ WUNDERLICH gramophone records
A record request programme
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
10.10* Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
10.35* Delius Idyll , for soprano, baritone and orchestra
HEATHER HARPER
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872), by Andrew Porter
Musical Profile: David Atherton, by Stephen Walsh
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), by Christopher Hogwood
Bantock and Sibelius: book review by Noel Goodwin
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
IVAN MORAVEC (piano) BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONT ORCHESTRA leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by GEORGE HURST
Mozart Symphony No 35, tn I major (Haffner) (K 385)
Hindemith Symphony: Mathli der Maler
12.50 During the Interval
HANS GAL discusses the genesis of Brahms's B flat Piano Concerto.
1.10* Concert: part 2
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, In B flat
Quartet No 2, in A, Op 69 BORODIN STRING QUARTET
Rostislav Dubinsky (violin)
Jaroslav Alexandrov (violin) Dmitri Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello)
Opera in three acts
Text by OSKAR KOKOSCHKA Music by Krenek (sung in German)
(first broadcast in this country) Introduced by THE COMPOSER Cast:
Soldiers, peasants, ship's crew, women, spirits of the dead AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA chorus-master
GOTTFRIED PREINFALK conducted bv ERNST KRENEK
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest.
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (mezzo-soprano) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
(harpsichord continuo)
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLI SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD
ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER and SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT Part 1
Scheidt Battle Suite Bach Magnificat in D
SAMUEL BECKETT 'S radio play An That Fall was first broadcast in 1957 and became a classic of radio drama. Tonight at
8.0 pm there is a new production of the play in stereo
JOHN FLETCHER discusses the play and its first production.
Part 2
Stravinsky Ballet: Apollo
Purcell Birthday Song for Queen Mary: Come, ye sons of art away
Quartet in D minor (Death and the maiden)
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
A stereo production of SAMUEL BECKETT 'S famous radio play with Marie Kean and J. G. Devlin
Cast in order of speaking:
Programme realised at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by DESMOND BRISCOE
Producer DONALD MCWHINNIE
(Kevin Flood andDerry Power are in ' The Threepenny Opera at Piccadilly Theatre. London)
Twelfth of 17 piano recitals by VLADO PERLEMUTER
Impromptus: A flat major; F sharp major; G flat major
Fantaisie-Impromptu in c sharp minor
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat major
Four conversations in which CHRISTOPHER EVANS asks Why certain fundamental ideas persist in science fiction, and what is their significance.
1: Spacewarp and Time-Travel Dr Evans and PROFESSOR JOHN TAYLOR talk about how to cheat in astrophysics
SCHOLA CANTORUM STUTTGART conducted by CLYTUS
GOTTWALD Cerha Verzeichnis (first broadcast in this country)
Holliger Dona nobis pacem (first performance)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
Second of three programmes No 2. in c minor
MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin) MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
(No 3: tomorrow night at 11.10)
