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Mozart, orch Erik Smith Diver. timento in F (from KE 15) ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.15* Handel, arr Dart Suite in c minor, for two harpsichords IGOR KIPNIS , THURSTON DART
8.28* Vaughan Williams The lark ascending
IONA BROWN (violin): ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.45* Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BODLT
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A record request programme
Mendelssohn Symphony No 9 in c, for string orchestra ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.31* Bruch Scottish Fantasia JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin)
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON, conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Herbert Howells (born 17 October 1892): a Birthday Greeting from SIR THOMAS ARMSTRONG
Donizetti's Don Pasquale , by CHARLES OSBORNE
English Cathedral Music: book review by FRANK HOWES
Music Magazine remembers ... Arturo Toscanini , by FRANCIS TOYE
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
The third In a series of programmes tracing the history of the orchestra from its beginnings to the present day
Conducted by Arturo Toscanini
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
11.7* Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat major
(gramophone records)
Liszt Apres une lecture du Dante (Deuxième annee de pelerinage)
Liszt La lugubre gondola JOHN OGDON (piano)
Bartok Sonata for two pianos and percussion
JOHN OGDON , BRENDA LUCAS
TRISTAN FRY , JAMES HOLLAND
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Part 1
Schubert Quartet in B flat (D 112)
Debussy Quartet in G minor
A series in which composers talk about music criticism - its effect on them, and the changes they would like to see in the critic's role.
This week: Tim Souster
Part 2 Schubert
Quartet in d minor (Death and the Maiden)
(Given in the Shaftesbury Hall, Cheltenham, on 11 July)
Sir John in Love
Opera in four acts based on SHAKESPEARE'S play The Merry
Wives of Windsor
Queen Elizabeth I is said to have expressed a wish to see the Fat Knight in love. Shakespeare complied with a play in which Sir John woos two married women simultaneously with hilarious results.
BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN Repetiteur MARTIN PENNY Producer BRIAN TROWELL
(Elizabeth Tippett and Eric Stannard broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
Acts 1 and 2 3.50* A Visit to VW
A talk by POWELL LLOYD
4.5' Sir John In Love Acts 3 and 4
with Antony Hopkins
(Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)
Janacek The diary of one who disappeared
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE (mezzo-sop) PHILIP LEDGER (piano) with ELIZABETH GALE (soprano) ROSANNE CREFKIELD (mezzo-sop) MARJORIE BIGGAR contralto) Stravinsky Les noces
MILDRED ALLEN (soprano)
REGINA SARFATY (mezzo-sop) LOREN DRISCOLL (tenor) ROBERT OLIVER (bass)
AMERICAN CONCERT CHOIR
SAMUEL BARBER. AARON COPLAND LUKAS FOSS , ROGER SESSIONS (pianos)
COLUMBIA PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE conducted by the composer gramophone records
A modern version of LEO TOLSTOY 'S play in living Irish speech by JOHN MCGAHERN
The action passes in the West of Ireland in the middle of the 20th century.
Producer DENYS HAWTHORNE
(Radio Times People: page 4)
(26 October: Tolstoy and Music) 'Part 4 of Tolstoys War and Peace: Thurs 8.30 pm, BBC2)
Prelude and Fugue in c major (BWV 547)
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (The Wedge) ibwv 548)
HELMUT WALCHA at the organ of St Laurens Church. Alkmaar gramophone record
A talk by EDWARD DOWNES
followed by an interlude
Symphony No 1. in c minor (Linz version. 1866)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
(Recording from the 1972 Vienna Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
DR WALTER OAKESHOTT. Rector Of Lincoln College. Oxford, in conversation With LAURIE JOHN
The haunting medieval figures in the ruined monastery of Sigena are unlike anything else in Spain. Can the Winchester Bible unlock their centuries-old secret?
A fortnightly series
Michael Isador (piano)
G (Kk 104): c (Kk 356); F (Kk 44): A minor/major (Kk 175): E major/minor (Kk 206); C (Kk 5151
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