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Purcell Rondeau (Abdelazer)
8.7* Boccherini Minuet
ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.12* Paganini Sonata No 12, in e minor. Op 3 No 6
RUGGIERO ricci (violin) LOUIS PERSINGER (piano)
8.16* Tchaikovsky Pas de deux; Waltz of the Snowflakes;
Spanish Dance; Final Waltz and Apotheosis (Casse Noisette)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI
8.29* Bozza En foret IFOR JAMES (horn)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
8.36* Messager Ballet: Les deux pigeons: ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records
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Introduced bv JOHN LADE
Building a Library: the music of Michael Haydn , by MICHAEL DOWNEY
Recent records of instrumental music and opera: reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON and CHARLES OSBORNE
A programme of new records including this week VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY playing Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor, for piano, and excerpts from some of the opera records reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE in this morning's Record Review
Featuring live music-making Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) ERNEST LUSH (piano) from the BBC s Maida Vale Studios in London
Mozart Des Veilchen; Abendempfindung
Strauss Einerlei ; Morgen; Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden
Debussy Cinq poemes de Charles Baudelaire
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FÛRST . Part I
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in c minor, Op 3 No 2
12.27* Nielsen Symphony No 6 (1925) (Sinfonia semplice)
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Part 2 Barlok
Concerto for Orchestra
Sir Geoffrey Jackson , former Ambassador in Uruguay, also an author of children's stories, presents a personal choice of records.
His selection takes the form of a musical diary illustrated by the singers CHALIAPIN, HEDDLE NASH and HAROLD WILLIAMS. Among the composers he includes are Vivaldi. Schubert. Brahms and Shostakovich. Latin-American music is featured in a number of the entries.
(Radio Times People: page 5)
THE JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA conducted by MAX SCR ÖNHERR plavs marches, polkas and waltzes by Johann and Josef Strauss , and Carl Michael Ziehrer
(Austrian Radio recording)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5
Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat major, Op 12
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Presenting arguments that challenge current orthodoxies A Case for Racial Discrimination by Peter France , historian, and formerly a member of the Colonial Administrative Service followed by an interlude
Opera in two parts Music by Prokofiev
Libretto by the composer and M. MENDELSON-PROKOFIEVA after TOLSTOY
Sung in the English translation by EDWARD DOWNES direct from the London Coliseum
Prokofiev's War and Peace was written during the Nazi invasion of Russia in the Second World War. The experiences of those years, combined with the inspiration of Tolstoy's epic novel. gave rise to an opera in episodic form which contains some of Prokofiev's finest music.
Other parts sung by members Of SADLER'S WELLS OPERA
SADLER'S WELLS OPERA CHORUS chorus-master HAZEL VIVIENNE SADLER'S WELLS OPERA ORCHESTRA leader BARRY COLLINS conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES Producer COLIN GRAHAM Part 1
8.20*. The Making of the Opera EDWARD DOWNES , the conductor, in whose translation the work is being sung tonight, dircusses the music and Prokofiev's troubles over its composition, with JEREMY NOBLE .
8.35* Tolstoy and Opera: a selection from Tolstoy's writings on opera and operatic production.
Compiled by MARTIN MCBIRNEY Producers DENYS HAWTHORNE and BRIAN BARFIELD (from N Ireland)
8.55* War and Peace: Part 2
TREVOR HARVEY assesses Sir Adrian Boult 's achievement both with the BBC and other orchestras. and illustrates the musical consistency and integrity of his approach to the score.
Almaine and Saraband In G minor; Fantasy a 4 No 6, in F major; Pavane in D minor; Fantasy a 4 No 9, in c minor JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS
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