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Music associated with bird-song
Handel Organ Concerto No 13, in F major (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) HELMUTH RILLING (organ) WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JORG FAERBER
7.18* Couperin Le rossignol en amour FRANS BRUGGEN (recorder) GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
7.26* Michel Corrette Concerto: Le phenix: MEMBERS OF THE GERARD CARTIGNY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
7.35* Biber Violin Sonata (Representatio avium) ALICE HARNONCOURT (violin) NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (cello) HERBERT TACHEZI (harpsichord)
7.46* Vivaldi Flute Concerto in D major (del gardellino) JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL With the LOUIS DE FROMENT CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
(gramophone records)
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Wagner Prelude: The Master-singers
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.15' Mozart Symphony No 25, in G minor (K 183)
MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTER KEHR
8.36* Strauss Symphonic Poem:
Don Juan LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREYIN gramophone records
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Rimsky Korsakov Overture: May Night - Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov
9.14* Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 1, in E minor - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Boris Khaikin
(gramophone records)
with Antony Hopkins
TASKER'S SCHOOL CHOIR conductor JOAN OSBORNE THOMAS
ELIZABETHAN MADRIGAL SINGERS conductor ROYSTON HAVARD
This week's programme includes music by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach, Idris Lewis , Morley, Gibbons, Tallis, Tom-kins and Vaughan Williams
BARBARA NISSMAN (piano)
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERTO BENZI Part 1
Rimsky-Korsakov Introduction and Cortege (The Golden Cockerel)
10.53* Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2, in G minor
Stanford Quartet No 8, in I minor
LONDON STRING QUARTET
Part 2
Lyadov Symphonic Poems: Kikimora; Le lac enchanted Baba-Yaga
12.13* Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (revised version, 1919) (Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio)
Elgar and Vaughan Williams were fully alive to Parry's greatness, but misunderstanding of his true qualities still persists.
Sir Adrian Boult , Sir Keith Falkner and Dr Herbert Howells discuss with MICHAEL POPE their impressions of Parry, based on personal knowledge of the man and his music.
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Parry Part Songs and English Lyrics
CAROLINE FRIEND (soprano) STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC SINGERS accompanist MICHAEL LLOYD Conductor Richard LATHAM
Vaughan Williams Four Hymns, for tenor, string quartet and piano (first broadcast performance in this version) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) NONA LIDDELL (violin)
MARILYN TAYLOR (violin) JEAN STEWART (viola)
BERNARD RICHARDS '(cello) BERNARD ROBERTS (piano)
Introduced by Sir Keith Falkner (A series of public concerts given in St John 's. Smith Square, London. SW1. Tickets 40p, obtainable at the door)
Schubert Sonatina in A minor (D 385)
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op 30 No 2
- Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Daniel Barenboim (piano)
A talk by PAUL HAMBURGER
Schubert Symphony No 9, in C major
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Daniel Barenboim
(A 1971 Promenade Concert)
An organ recital given by Jiri Ropek in Durham Cathedral during this year s Festival
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow gramophone records
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A sequence of music for the early evening, played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with artists on records
Starting German: Reisebüro Atlas A 30-lesson course by R. M. OLDNALL and EDITH R. BAER 8: Herr Müller fährt nach Berlin
(Books 1-3, 20p each: Records 1 and 2. £1.05 each; Books and records, £2.75: see page 94)
Grande valse brillante, Op 18; Ballade No 3. in A flat; Valses brillantes, Op 34; Tarantelle, Op 43
ALFRED CORTOT (piano)
(gramophone records from the early 1930s)
direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London DAVID OISTRAKH (Violin)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader DESMOND BHADLEY conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH Part 1
Mussorgsky A night on the Bare Mountain
Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
8.55* Norman Kay talks about Shostakovich's 15th Symphony.
9.15* Concert
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 15 (first performance in this country)
in Social Theory and Imaginative Literature
RAYMOND WILLIAMS , Fellow Of Jesus College, Cambridge, examines the social theories and the literature that emerged from the 19th-century evoluionary debate.
(A lecture delivered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on 8 March) followed by an interlude
Fourth of a series of 12 programmes devised and introduced by Ronald Stevenson , who also plays the piano
Little sharpwit (1878): Prelude in B minor (1880); Study in d flat major (1882) (first performance); Prelude in A minor (1883);Little Ballet No 3 (1889): Epilogue (To Youth) (1909); Variation on c minor Prelude by Chopin (1922) (first performance)
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