J. C. Bach
Bassoon Concerto in E flat
GEORGE ZUKERMAN
WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JÖRG FAERBER
7.29* Sonata in D, Op 5 No 2 INGRID HAEBLER (fortepiano)
7.43* Symphony in E flat, for double orchestra, Op 18 No 1 ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS gramophone records
Kabalevsky Suite: The Comedians
RCA VICTOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN
8.21* Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies: No 15, in A minor (Rakoczy March); No 3, in B flat: ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
8.33* Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records
leader BELA DEKANY conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Mozart Symphony No 36, in c (Linz) (K 425)
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in c minor, for string orchestra (K 546)
Brahms Serenade No 2, in A
Good Friday anon Gregorian Chant: Jesum tradidit; Caligaverunt oculi mei MONKS OF THE ABBEY OF ST PIERRE
DE SOLESMES conducted by DOM JOSEPH GAJARD John IV. King of Portugal Crux fidelis: AMBROSIAN SINGERS conducted by JOHN MCCARTHY Byrd De lamentatione AMBROSIAN SINGERS conducted by JOHN MCCARTHY
Gesualdo Caligaverunt oculi mei: ACCADEMIA MONTEVERDIANA conducted by DENIS STEVENS
Victoria Responsories for Tenebrae
CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM gramophone records
Quintet in c major (D 956) AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with WILLIAM PLEETH (Cello)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conductor PAAVO BERGLUND Part 1
Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A major
12.46* Sibelius The swan of Tuonela
(Cor anglais JEFFREY BROWN )
ROBIN HOLMES on some plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.
Part 2 Nielsen
Symphony No 5 (1922)
(mezzo-soprano) with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Schubert Blumenlied: Das Lied im Grünen: Der Schiffer (Friedlich lieg' ich): Fruhlingsglaube; Sehnsucht (Der Lerche wolkennahe Lieder); Der Ungliickliche
David Lord Song-cycle : The Wife of Winter (Words by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE. Commissioned by Janet Baker : first broadcast performance) David Lord remembers:
His Eastertide poem
Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward read by ROBIN HOLMES
by NINA MILKINA Part 1
Bach Partita in B minor (Overture in the French style) Scarlatti Six Sonatas
John Houseman , American stage and screen producer, founder with Orson Welles of the Mercury Theatre, discusses his life and work with JOHN HIGGINS in a conversation first broadcast in Arts Commentary on the occasion of the British publication of his autobiography Run-through.
Part 2
Haydn Sonata (H xvi 32)
Mozart Minuet in D (K 355); Sonata in D (K 576)
(Given in the Purcell Room, London, in April 1972)
A Passion Play with Songs
First performed in 1971 by the entire staff of BBC Radio Bristol The music played by the BLUE NOTES TRADITIONAL JAZZ BAND led by ROGER BENNETT of Radio Bristol. Singers:
SAMMI BROWN and JOHN HOOPER
The play written and produced by FRANK TOPPING
Songs: On The Hill: Let me be Born Again: Bread of my Life; Love is Crucified; He's Alive
(Pilate programme: page 4)
with David Munrow : records
EUGENE ISTOMIN (piano) ISAAC STERN (violin) LEONARD ROSE (cello)
Trio in B flat major, Op 97
(Part of a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in October 1970)
It is now more than half a century since ' Le groupe des Six' became active. JAMES HARDING examines them as a cultural phenomenon and assesses their impact on French life. He also talks about the lesser known of the group who, unlike Poulenc and Milhaud, have failed to establish themselves,
A sacred festival drama In three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
The story of the ' fool made wise by pity ' who redeems the fellowship of the Holy Grail.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master NORBERT BALATSCB conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM
(Recording from the 1972 Bayreuth Festival, made available by Bavarian Radio) Act 1
8.55* Pilgrimage to Beethoven A short story by RICHARD WAGNER adapted by CHARLES OSBORNE
It was in 1840, as a young man living in Paris, that Wagner wrote this fictional account of a visit to Beethoven. The two men. in fact, had never met: Wagner was 14 when Beethoven died. But the story reveals a great deal that is perhaps surprising about its author.
Reader MICHAEL HORDERN
9.15" Parsifal, Act 2
PROFESSOR DAVID LUSCOMBE Of Sheffield University discusses the importance of The City of God on the publication of a new translation. He suggests that undue emphasis has been given to the political theory of the book, and that its achievement lies in Augustine's vision of humanity - ' a vast summa of history and the problems of the human soul.'
Act 3
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