Handel Overture: Rodrigo
BUDAPEST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by NIIKLOS ERDELYI
8.10* Mozart Violin Concerto No 2. in D IK 211): DAVID OISTRAKB who also directs the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.32* trad. arr Arambarrl Eight Basque Songs
TERESA BERGANZA (Soprano) with orchestra conducted bv GERADO COMBAU
8.47* Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 1: AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINE
A record request programme Beethoven Overture: The Ruins of Athens: BERLIN PHilHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARA. IAN
9.11* Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E fiat: MICHEL CUVIT SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.29* Berwaid Symphonie singulinre in c (1845)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING
Vaughan Williams 1872-1958
Centenary Issue The Orchestral Music by MICHAEL KENNEDY The Operas by JAMES ROBERTSON
Vaughan Williams and English Literature by URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
(Radio Times People: page 4. BBC Music Guide: Vaughan Williams Symphonies by Hugh Ottaway , 45p: see page 70)
Four Glorious Decades
The second in a series of programmes tracing the history of the orchestra from its beginnings to the present day conducted by Arturo Toscanini Part 1 Brahms Tragic Overture
11.15* Alex Nifosi talks about his impressions of Toscanini at rehearsal and in performance.
11.30' BBC SO: part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 6, in F major (Pastoral) gramophone records
Song Recital
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano) Part 1
Mozart Freemason's Cantata: Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls (K 619)
Wolf Morike Songs: Im FrOhling; Lied eines Verliebten; Denk' es, o Seele!; Heimweh; Bei einer Trauung; Jagerlied; An eine Aeolsharfe
An occasional series of talks This week:
Karlheinz Stockhansen
Part 2
Six Shakespeare Songs:
Arne Under the greenwood tree; Come away death
Quitter Fear no more the heat of the sun; 0 mistress mine
Warlock Take , o take those lips away
Tippett Come unto these yellow sands
Britten Who are these children?, Op 84: Lyrics, Rhymes and Riddles by William Soutar
Faschingsschwank aus Wien. for piano
String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3 Andante and Variations in B flat major, for two pianos, horn and two cellos
THOMAS WALSH (piano) QUARTETTO ITALIANO BRACHA EDEN AND
ALEXANDER TAMIR (two pianos) tFOR JAMES (horn)
DOUGLAS CAMERON (cello) TERENCE WEIL (CellO)
UTO UGHI (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN direct from the City Hall Part 1
Kenneth Leighton Dance Overture (first broadcast performance)
3.10* Sibelius Violin Concerto in d minor
3.45* How Quick is Quick?
CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN discussew and illustrates some problems of tempi in ciassical music. 1
4.5* Concert: part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 3. In E flat major (Eroica)
with Antony Hopkins
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)
The Poisoned Kiss Libretto by EVELYN SIHnPE Adapted for radio by URSULA VAUGHAN WILLIAMS This romantic extravaganza, sub-titled
' The Empress and the Necromancer,' is a fairy tale rather than an opera. Composed during 1927-28, it is set to characteristic and charming music, with spoken dialogue.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS, chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Producers DAVID ELLIS and STANLEY WILLIAMSON
(Radio Times People: page 4)
The Wasps of Aristophanes with the complete incidental music of Ralph
Vaughan Williams First produced in Greek, at the New Theatre in Cambridge, 26 Nov-1 Dec 1909
The play arranged for broadcasting by RAYMOND RAIKES from the English verse translation by BENJAMIN BICKLEY ROGERS. The words of the Choruses in English translation by H. J. EDWARDS
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by RAE JENKINS Chorus of Old Jurymen
(' The Wasps ') sung by the RICHARD WILLIAMS SINGERS
Scene: Before the house of Philo-Cleon, outside Athens, 422 BC
Characters in the comedy in order of speaking:
Producer RAYMOND RAIKES
DAVID OISTRAKH (violin)
PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano) Mozart Sonata in D major (K 306)
Sonata in E flat major (K 4811 Sonata in B flat major (K 454)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor LOUIS fremaux with ALLAN SCHILLER (piano) Part 1
Rossini Overture: William Tell Mozart Piano Concerto No 25, in c (K 503)
The friendship of two painters, AUGUSTUS JOHN and WYNDHAM LEWIS , described by MICHAEL HOLROYD , with quotations from their unpublished letters,
Part 2 Saint-Saens
Symphony No 3, in c minor
(Given on 3 March in the Albert Hall , Nottingham)
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