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Delibes Suite: Le roi s'amuse
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.20* FaurG Madrigal PARIS OPERA CHORUS
FRENCH RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
7.25* Franck Symphonic Variations
CLIFFORD curzon (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.42* Ravel Rapsodie espagnole NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI gramophone records
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Mozart Overture: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
8.12* Schubert Rondo in A ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.26* Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat: CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL gramophone records
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Satie and Roussel Satie Symphonic Drama: Socrate
VIOLETTE JOURNEAUX (soprano) JANINE LINDENFELDER (soprano) SIMONE PEBORDES (soprano)
ANNE-MARIE CARPENTER (Soprano) PARIS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RENÈ LEIBOWITZ gramophone record
3: Flutes by Boie and Stanesby Music by Frederick the Great, Hotteterre and Bach played by STEPHEN PRESTON accompanied by COLIN TILNEY
Recorded at the Horniman Museum
Introduced by MADEAU STEWART
with VLADIMIR SKERLAK (violin) conducted by RUDOLPH BAUMGARTNER
Telcmann Overture: Don Quixote
Pachelbel Canon in D major
Bach Violin Concerto in E major (bwv 1042)
Stravinsky Three Pieces Bartok Rumanian Dances
with particular emphasis on the works of FaunS
Lekeu Violin Sonata in G
CHRISTIAN IERRAS
PIERRE BARBIZET
Faurf Piano Quintet No 1, in D minor
VIA NOVA QUARTET with JEAN HUREAU (piano) gramophone records
MAURICE MURPHY (trumpet) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Part 1
Grieg Holberg Suite, for string orchestra
12.42* Haydn Trumpet Concerto in e flat major
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A preview by DONALD PRICE of some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World)
(Before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Manchester)
1919-1939
Excerpts from the repertory staged at the Opera House between the wars, sung by the artists who took part in the performances
First of two programmes on the 1928 Grand Opera Season. It saw the debuts of EVATURNER as Turandot, ROSETTA PAMPANINI as Madam Butterfly and RENATO ZANELLI as Otcllo gramophone records
Tonbridge Music Club WILLIAM BENNETT (flute)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) Part 1
Hotteterre Suite in E minor, for flute and harpsichord
Rameau Suite in D minor, for harpsichord
3.20* The Adjudicator and the Music Festival
A talk by MAURICE JACOBSON
3.40* Music Club: part 2
C. P. E. Bach Sonata in i minor, for flute (Wq 132)
J. S. Bach French Suite No 5, in c major, for harpsichord (bwv 816)
J. S. Bach Sonata in B minor, for flute and harpsichord (Bwv 1030)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble Introduced by IAN CARR Producer JOHN f. muir
Music for Children
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone record
with David Munrow
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6.30 New series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Seven programmes presented by DONALD BLIGH , Institute of Education, London University 1: The Teacher's Task
This programme considers the design of courses and the choice of appropriate teaching methods.
Series producer
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
7.0 Key to Music
Twelve programmes in which PETER wishart examines the basic materials of music 7: Two-Part Structures
(Publication, 90p: see page 59)
1: From Moscow to the Unity Theatre
PROFESSOR HERBERT MARSHALL , who now teaches at the University of Southern Illinois, was one of the pioneers of left-wing theatre in Britain, and spent many years in the Soviet Union in the 30s where he studied under Eisenstein at the Soviet Film Academy. In these talks he remembers those years and the personalities he met.
Don Quichotte chez la Duch esse. Opera-ballet in three acts
Music by Boismortier. Libretto by CHARLES-SIMON FAVART (sung in French)
First produced in 1743, Don Quichotte has been called the first French opéra-comique. Favart's libretto is loosely based on episodes from Cervantes, but incorporates many fanciful ideas of his own.
HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR LONDON STRING PLAYERS led by ROLF WILSON
CHIRLES SPINKS (harpsichord)
OL"GA HEGEDUS (cello continuo) conducted by ROGER norrington direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Acts 1 and 2
by SIR NIKOLAUS PEVSNER
Thomas Archer 's Church of St John 's, Smith Square, London, built 1715-1728, provides Sir Nikolaus with an answer. He considers the church not only stylistically, but as the most successful case, to date, of the conversion of an old church to a new use.
Act 3
(18 February: Gretry's 'Le tableau parlant ' and Philidor's ' Sancho Panza ')
Percy Scholes broadcast the first talk on music exactly 50 years ago today. Alec Robertson looks back on the changing style of music talk as he recalls it, both as a listener and for a time as the BBC's Music Talks Producer.
He includes excerpts from talks by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, SIR WALFORD DAVIES, SIR HAMILTON HARTY, JOHN IRELAND, CONSTANT LAMBERT and SIR DONALD TOVEY, and other distinguished musicians
Introduced by John Higgins This edition includes:
BRYAN MAGEE on Sadler's Wells Opera's production of Siegfried, which completes their presentation of the Ring Cycle in English at the Coliseum. This production will be broadcast on Radio 3 on 3 March. Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 24 KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Robin Holloway Liederkreis VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE conducted by HOWARD WILLIAMS The Holloway , an instrumental work, takes Schumann's cycle as its basis.
The opening Praeludium leads into a performance of the Schumann and the other movements follow without a break after the last song.
(Part of an Invitation Concert given in Birmingham last Dec) 1
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