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conducted by BERNARD HAITINK with HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) and the AMSTERDAM CONCERTGE
BOUW ORCHESTRA
Salnt-Saens Danse macabre
7.13* Beethoven Two Romances for violin and orchestra
7.32* Ravel Ballet: Ma Mère l'Oye gramophone records
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Still With BERNARD HAITINK and the AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1. In G minor
With ARTHUR GRUMIAUX
Haydn Symphony No 99, In I fiat gramophone records
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Handel
Excerpts from the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus from a performance in which ALEXANDER YOUNG sings the title role. gramophone records
The second part of a sequence with commentary from the collector IAIN ADAM
Producer MADEAU STEWART
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by HANS-HUBERT SCHONZELER
Alan Hovhaness Psalm and Fugue
Tchaikovsky Serenade in c
A series featuring the music of Faurg
Saint-Saëns Septet In I flat. Op 65
PARIS INSTRUMENTAL GROUP Lionel Gali (violin) Michel Noel (violin)
Bruno Pasquier (viola) Robert Bex (cello)
Jean Laforge (piano) with ANTOINE LAGORCE (trumpet) JACQUES CAZAURAN (double-bassj
Duparc Songs: Lamento; La vie antérieure
GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (pianO)
Faure Piano Quartet No 1, In c minor
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) ERNST WALLFISCH (viola) MALRICE GENDRON (cello) JEREMY MENUHIN (piano) gramophone records
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (cello) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by VERNON HANDLEY Part 1
Moeran Overture for a Masque
12.28* Haydn Symphony No 103, in E flat major (Drum-roll)
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DONALD PRICE previews some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.
Part 2
Dellns Cello Concerto
1.4S* Dvorak Scherzo capriccloso
(Given before an Invited audience in the Town Hall, Leeds)
Opera in three acts Music by Gluck
Libretto by RANIERI CALZABIGI after EURIPIDES
(sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
'When I undertook to write the music for Alceste, I resolved to divest it entirely of all those abuses ... which have so long disfigured Italian opera and made of the most splendid and most beautiful of spectacles the most ridiculous and wearisome.' (GLUCK) Cast in order of singing: Herald
JAMES ATKINS (baritone)
Ismene, confidante of Alcestis
MARION LOWE (soprano)
Evander, friend of Admetus
ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
Alcestis, wife of Admetus
KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano)
Children of Admetus and Alcestis:
Eumelus.JOAN CLARK (soprano) Aspasia
ROSEMARY THAYER (soprano)
High Priest
THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone)
Voice of the Oracle
JAMES ATKINS
Infernal Deity THOMAS HEMSLEY Admetus, King of Pherae
RAOUL JOBIN (tenor) Apollo THOMAS HEMSLET
GERAINT JONES SINGERS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by GERAINT JONES
The action takes place In classical antiquity. Act 1
3.5* Patricia Howard compares the French and Italian versions of Gluck's Alceste.
3.20* Alceste Acts 2 and 3
Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow gramophone records
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.
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6.30 New series Film Music
Should the composer's contribution be memorable? In the first of three programmes MISHA DONAT discusses the purpose of music for films and gives examples from scores by Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand.
Series producer DAVID EPPS
THE HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER Part 1 Nielsen
Symphony No « (1925) (Sinfonia semplice)
8.5* Dvorak: SIR CECIL PARROTT talks about the Czech composer: ' Music welled out of him whatever art form he chose he could not conceal the origin of his music.... by the use of Czech folk themes or by the harmonies which occur in them.'
8.25* Concert: part 2
Dvorak Symphony No t. In G
at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with BRUNO CANINO (piano)
A la recherche de la musique perdue, comme une soiree chez Mme Verdurin , Paris, 1900. The programme includes songs by Messieurs Satie , Hahn, Delibes, Saint-Saens, Gounod, and many others, each item charmingly introduced by Miss Berberian Mrs Pankhurst's tragic song ' Father's a drunkard ' is included, together with Mr Zilchers' arrangements, with words, of certain melodies by Ludwig van Beethoven. (The 300th promotion of the Park Lane Group, recorded on 17 October 1972)
A weekly programme
Introduced by Oleg Kerensky This edition includes:
1. ALVAREZ and JOHN SPURLING discussing the Samuel Beckett double bill, Krapp's Last Tape and Not I at the Royal Court Theatre, London
Michael SCAMMELL on A Window on Russia, a collection of Edmund Wilson's articles on Russian literature.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude
Bach Cantata No 81: Jesus schlaft, was soil ich hoffen? ANNA REYNOLDS (Contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor) THEO ADAM (bass)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER
Vivaldi Flute Concerto in major (p 205)
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL I SOLISTI VENETI directed by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
Bach Cantata No 111: Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh' allzeit: EDITH MATHIS (soprano) ANNA REYNOLDS , PETER SCHREIER THEO ADAM MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone records
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