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with Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
Kuhlau: Overture: Elf Hill - Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Johan Hye-Knudsen
8.16* Grieg: Movements from Peer Gynt: Wedding March (orch Halvorsen); Ingrid's Lament; Anitra's Dance - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
8.29* Grieg: At the brook (Haugtussa) - Kirsten Flagstad with Edwin McArthur (piano)
8.37* Sinding: The maiden strolled in the poppy field - Kirsten Flagstad,
Edwin McArthur
8.39* Sibelius: Suite: King Christian II - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Berglund
8.54* Lumbye: Queen Louise's Waltz - Copenhagen Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lavard Friisholm
(gramophone records)
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Introduced by JOHN LACE
Building a Library: Chopin's Piano Concerto No I, in E minor, by JEREMY NOBLE
Artist of the Month: Zubin Mehta. by MICHAEL BERKELEY
New records: reviewed by MARTIN COOPER
A programme of new records
Massenet Fantasy for cello and orchestra
JASCHA SILBERSTEIN
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
10.34' Saint-Saens Requiem Mass, Op 54
DANIELLE GALLAND (SOPranO) JEANNINE COLLARD (contralto) FRANCIS bardot (tenor)
JACQUES VILLI SECH (bass)
CONTREPOINT CHORAL ENSEMBLE MICHELINE LAGACHE (Organ)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-GABRIEL GAUSSENS
The second in a series featuring live music making. Today's programme comes from the Pebble Mill Studios. Birmingham
Lindsay String Quartet
Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Bartok Quartet No 6
(21 October: Manoug Parikian and Malcolm Binns play violin sonatas by Mozart and Brahms)
RADIO FRANKFURT SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA Part I conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK SmetanaSymphonic Poems: Haakon Jarl; Richard III; Wallenstein's Camp
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Part 2 conducted by DEAN DIXON with ZVI ZEITLIN (violin)
Ravel Tzigane, for violin and orchestra
Schumann Fantasy in c major, Op 131, for violin and orchestra
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Radio Frankfurt)
Roy Strong. Director of the National Portrait Gallery, presents a personal sequence of gramophone records.
His lifelong interest in 17th and 18th-century England is illustrated with music by Campian, Purcell, and Down-land's Lachrimae played by THURSTON DART and the PHILO-MUSICA. And another partly visual interest, that of theatre music, with opera by Verdi, ballet by Tchaikovsky and Klgar, and musical comedy by Ivor Novello.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE plays music by Rossini. German, Bush, Kaure and Arnold
(mezzo-soprano) and PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Schubert Delphine ; Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen; Hin und wieder fiiegen Pfeile; An die untergehende
Sonne Strauss All mein Cedanken; Das Rosenband; Meinem Kinde: Schlagende Herzen
Britten Winter Words. Op 52
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it Introduced by John Amis Production assistant
NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Buxtehude
Prelude. Fugue and Chaconne in c
Passacaglia in d minor Prelude and Fugue in E
Prelude and Fugue in D minor MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN at the organ of St Mary's, Halsingborg, Sweden gramophone record
(28 October: St Bavo, Haarlem) (A leaflet giving the specifications of the organs used in all six programmes may be obtained from [address removed], enclosing SAE)
Alexander Solzhenilsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was not able to attend the ceremony but wrote an address, as is customary with Nobel prizewinners, which he would have read in Stockholm.
That address, translated into English by NICHOLAS BETHELL , is read by Paul Scofield
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK followed by an interlude
Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Edinburgh Royal Choral Union chorus-master Brian Head
BBC Scottish Choral Society chorus-master Andrew Davis
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra leader Sydney Humphreys conductor Christopher Seaman
Direct from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne
7.47* Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody
The third of four fortnightly talks by John Wain , novelist and critic.
Part 2 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony
(Vaughan Williams Symphonies, a BBC Music Guide by Hugh Ottaway , 45p: see page 66)
PETER NICHOLS examines the reputation of two of the founders of modern Italy, King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia and Piedmont-Savoy, and his prime minister. Cavour. How responsible are these men, hallowed in name in streets and squares in every Italian town, for Italy's strengths and weaknesses?
A tragic opera In three acts Libretto, after BYRON, by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian)
Corrado and his men destroy by fire the Turkish fleet. Due to an act of chivalry he is captured, imprisoned, and finally set free by Gulnara; he returns home to find his beloved Medora dying.
Cast in order of singing:
Corsairs, guards, Turks, slaves, odalisques, maids BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by MARCUS DODS Repetiteur JOHN BACON
The action takes place in the Eastern Mediterranean at the beginning of the 19th century. Acts 1 and 2 10.55* Ritual Form In Ottocento Opera
A talk by DAVID KIMBELL
11.15* II Corsaro Act 3
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