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Vivaldi Concerto in A (L'estro armonico): ALAN LOVEDAY (violin) CARMEL KAINE (violin), ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-F1ELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.13* Mozart Symphony No 35, inD i (Haffner) (K385): AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by JOSEF KRIPS
8.33* Bruch Violin Concerto No 2, in D minor: YERUDI MENUHIN LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
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A record request programme
Vaughan Williams Suite: Flos campi
CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
KING'S COLLEGE CHOIR, CAMBRIDGE JACQUES ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS
9.26* Dvorak Rondo in G minor MAURICE GENDRON (cello)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
9,34. Respight Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN kertesz
1944-1973. Final Edition of the weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Bach's St John Passion, by JEREMY NOBLE
Musical Profile - Cathy Ber berian: by ROBERT HENDERSON A Day in the Life of ... Ebenezer Prout: by SIDNEY HARRISON Richard Strauss Concluded: book review by NOËL Goodwin
(Anna Instone 's Choice: page 5)
RADIO FRANKFURT SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Part 1 Smetana Symphonic Poems: Haakon Jarl ; Richard III ; Wallenstein's Camp
11.40* Dvorak and Smetana
JOHN CLAPHAM makes comparisons
11.50* Kubelik: part 2
Dvorak Overtures: Amid nature; Othello; Carnival
(Radio Frankfurt recording)
ORION PIANO TRIO Part 1
Debussy Sonata in D minor, for cello and piano
Charles Camilleri Trio (first broadcast performance)
with Ian McIntyre
Part 2 Ravel Piano Trio
(A concert given in the Shaftesbury Hall)
Opera in three scenes Music by Wagner Libretto by THE COMPOSER, after HEINRICH HEINE
(sung in German: records)
Wagner's first great opera tells the story of a man who, through supernatural power, is committed to stay at sea until he can earn redemption.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE 1971 BAYREUTH FESTIVAL conducted by KARL BÖHM
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. (Rptd: Monday, 9.45 am)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Walton Overture: Scapino
4.55* Britten Les illuminations, for tenor and string orchestra
5.19* Elgar Symphonic Study: Falstaff
by William Shakespeare
with Leo McKern, Elizabeth Spriggs, Peter Jeffrey, John Rowe, Clifford Rose, Patricia Routledge, Allan Cuthbertson
The action of the play takes place in England
Groom; Drawer ROBIN BROWNE Music specially composed by DAVID CAIN and played by MICHAEL LAIRD, MALCOLM SMITH, ROGER BRENNER, MARTIN NICHOLLS, CHRISTOPHER BALL, TERRY EMERY
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
During the Interval (7 30*-7 35*)
A setting of a Marian hymn, followed by a setting of the Agnus Dei, written specially by DAVID CAIN and sung by MARTYN
Hans Keller suggests that this version of the Adagio and Fugue isn't as authentic as it looks, while the string quintet arrangement of the Clarinet Quintet seems, on musical grounds, Mozart's own.
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) Part 1
Busoni String Quartet In D minor, Op 26
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor (K 546) (for string quartet)
A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them. In this recording Benjamin Frankel , the distinguished symphonist who died last month, tries to answer the question: How does one set about writing a Symphony !
Part 2 Clarinet Quintet in A (K 881) (arr for string quintet)
by COLIN BENNETT with Edward Petherbridge as George Pottesby , a Foreman Fitter looking for a job
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
Hugh OTTAWAY makes a survey of Robert Simpson 's symphonic achievement.
On 26 April and 3 May two symphonies by Simpson will be given their first performances. To mark this unusual musical event, his three earlier symphonies will be broadcast in the weeks before the two premieres.
Symphony No 1 (1951)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT to whom the work is dedicated, and who savs:
gramophone record
(Symphony No 2: 3 April)
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