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Introduced by JOHN LADE :
Building a Library: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat, bv JOSEPH COOPER
Hi-Fi - What's it all about (iii): by DONALD ALDOUS
Recent orchestral and choral records': EDWARD GREENFIELD

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Donald Aldous
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield

A programme of new records
Sibelius Symphonic Poem: Pohjola's Daughter
Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Horst Stein
10.29* Beethoven Romance No 1, in G
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
10.38* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in E minor
Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell

Contributors

Musicians:
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conductor:
Horst Stein
Violinist:
Henryk Szeryng
Musicians:
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Musicians:
Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor:
George Szell

A series drawing on the treasury of music for one and two performers
Songs by Brahms and Schubert JAKOB STÄMPFLI (bass-baritone) with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Brahms Sonntag : An ein Veilchen: In der Gasse; Herbstgefiihl
Brahms Mein wundes Herz; Nachtwandler; Erinnerung; Dammrung senkte sich von oben
Schubert An die Leier; Litanei; Auf der Bruck; Greisengesang; An Schwager Kronos

Contributors

Piano:
Brahms Sonntag

Voices and Percussion RICHARD COOPER (treble)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) DAVID CORKHILL (percussion)
STEUART BEDFORD (piano, celesta) DAVID BLAKE (piano)
JOHN BIRCH (piano, organ) ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL SINGERS conducted by PHILIP LEDGER and IMOGEN HOLST direct from Blythburgh Church Part 1
Purcell Beati omnes qui timent Dominum
Hoist This have I done for my true love
Britten Cantata: Rejoice in the Lamb
3.35* During the Interval Cardew on Stockhausen CORNELIUS CARDEW looks at ' Refrain ' in relation to other German music of this century.
3.55* Aldeburgh Festival Part 2
Stockhausen Refrain for three plavers
David Blake The Bones of Chuang Chou , for baritone and piano (first performance)
Purcell Thy word is a lantern unto my feet

Contributors

Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Piano:
John Birch
Conducted By:
Philip Ledger
Conducted By:
Imogen Holst
Unknown:
Purcell Beati
Unknown:
Stockhausen Cornelius Cardew
Unknown:
David Blake
Unknown:
Chuang Chou

of composers who feature prominently in the week's music broadcasting
Mozart Variations in G major, for piano duet (K 501)
CELIA ARiELI. PETER WALLFISCH
Stravinsky Introit (In memoriam T. S. Eliot ) Wolf. orch Stravinsky Herr , was tragt der Boden hier?: Wunden tragst du, mein Geliebter Stravinsky Variations, Aldous Huxley in memoriam CAROL SMITH (mezzo-soprano) MEN'S CHORUS OF THE FREIBURG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST BOUR (Recording from part of the 1971 Donaueschingen Music Festival made available by courtesy of South-West German Radio) Bach Violin Concerto in A minor YONG UCK KIM RADIO FRANKFURT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERMANN Michael (Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Frankfurt)
Mozart Fugue in c minor, for two pianos (K 426)
CELIA ARIELI, PETER WALLFISCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Celia Arieli.
Unknown:
Stravinsky Introit
Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
Stravinsky Herr
Unknown:
Geliebter Stravinsky
Unknown:
Aldous Huxley
Mezzo-Soprano:
Carol Smith
Conducted By:
Ernest Bour
Conducted By:
Hermann Michael
Unknown:
Mozart Fugue
Unknown:
Peter Wallfisch

by ELZBIETA STEFANSKA-LUKOWICZ Handel Chaconne in G, with 21 variations
Rameau Tambourin ; Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de clavecin); La poule (Nouvelle suite de pieces de clavecin); Les cvclopes (rondeau) (Pieces de clavecin 1724)
Couperin Les fastes de la grande et ancienne ménestrandise (Ordre No 11)
(Recording from the 1971 Brno Festival made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elzbieta Stefanska-Lukowicz
Unknown:
Handel Chaconne
Unknown:
Rameau Tambourin
Unknown:
Couperin Les

Ivan Turgenev had a long and enigmatic love affair with the singer Pauline Viardot , and wrote to her almost daily. Newly discovered letters reveal unexpected information about his work and his emotional life. APRIL riTZLYON has translated the letters and suggests that they may greatly change our view of Turgenev both as man and writer.
Gary WATSON reads the letters Producer LORNA MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Turgenev
Singer:
Pauline Viardot
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Lorna Moore

Opera in two acts Music by Mozart Libretto by LORENZO DA fonts (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
PHILHARMONIA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
The action takes place in Naples in the late 18th century. Act 1
8.13* Passion and Cynicism
BERNARD WILLIAMS. Knights-bridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, offers some thoughts on Cost fan tutte.
8.99* Cost fan tutte Act 2

Contributors

Music By:
Mozart Libretto
Conducted By:
Karl Bohm
Unknown:
Bernard Williams.

Cinema
Presented by CHRISTOPHER COOK I I try in my films to involve myself in a poetic process which is distinct from the narrative process or the dramatic process ' (Orson Welles ) With reference to the retrospective season of the films of Orson Welles now on at the National Film Theatre, London, MICHAEL BILINGTON and ERIC rhode talk about his personal style as a director. They also discuss the ' narrative process' in the latest films of Alfred Hitchcock and Claude Chabrol - Frenzy and Le Boucher Producer ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Presented By:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Michael Bilington
Unknown:
Alfred Hitchcock
Unknown:
Claude Chabrol
Producer:
Rosemary Hart

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by boris BROTT
Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44
Bartok Divertimento for string. orchestra
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London, on 16 January)

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Boris Brott
Conducted By:
Dvorak Serenade

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