Johann Ludwig Bach Suite in G
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Handel Three German Arias
ELISABETH SPEISER (soprano) MARTIN WENDEL I flute) HANS STEINBECK (Oboe)
GEORGE RAPHAEL (violin) MANFRED SAX (bassoon)
OSKAR BIRCHMEIER (harpsichord) Haydn Symphony No 7, in c (Le midi)
VIENNA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER gramophone records
Humphrey Burton presents listeners' record requests
This week's guest caller Is Elisabeth Soderstrom , who at
16.9* introduces music of her compatriot Wilhelm Stenham mar. played by the BORODIN QUARTET.
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and
10.30 today or send details on a postcard
led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD with BELA DEKANY (violin)
Mozart Symphony No 19, in E flat (k 132)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4. in D (K 218)
Strauss Metamorphosen: study for 23 solo strings
United Kingdom Rounds: Programme 7 Youth Class:
GROSVENOR HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR NEWTON PARK COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION. BATH
Mixed Voice Class: KINGHORN SINGERS
LONDON CHORALE
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS
A talk by Sir Bruce Fraser
(Repeated: Thursday, 10.40 am)
Introduced by Sir John Betjeman
A tribute, devised by RAYMOND LEPPARD, to some remarkable but neglected composers, who were honoured with knighthood by Queen Victoria RICHARD ADENEY (flute)
LILIAN WATSON (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) MALCOLM BINNS and RAYMOND leppard' (piano duet)
Part 1
1.40* Sullivan
Overture di ballo
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES : record
1.50* Victorian Knights Part 2
(Sir John Betjeman introduces a Poetry Prom on Radio 4 tomorrow at 11.5 am)
PETER MARK (viola)
THEA MUSGRAVE (piano) Hamilton Sonata (1950) Fricker Fantasy
Le Roi Malgré Lui
Opera-comique in three acts Libretto by EMILE DE NAJAC and PAUL BURANI
Music by Chabrier (sung in French)
This masterpiece of the Opera-comique genre was much admired by the greatest French composers of this century. Ravel once remarked that he would be prouder to have written Le Roi Malgri Lui than Wagner's Ring.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS. chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by MANUEL ROSENTHAL Repetiteur JOHN WILSON
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
The opera is set in Poland In 1573. Act 1 A castle near Cracow
4.14* Emmanuel Chabrier
ROLLO MYERS talks about the composer of Le Rot Malgri Lui and his music.
4.25* The French Opera Le Roi Malgré Lui
Act 2 Laski s palace
5.25* Chabrier's Paris: Louis ALLEN looks at the intellectual and artistic life of the city.
5.41* The French Opera Le Roi Malgre Lui
Act 3 An inn near the frontier
Extracts read by ROBIN HOLMES
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano)
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR DEREK STEVENS (organ and harpsichord continuo)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA leader TREVOR WILLIAMS conductor DENYS DARLOW
Bruhns Hemmt eure Tranenflut Graupner Overture in E Buxtehude Missa brevis
Goldberg Psalm 12: Hilf, Herr, die Heiligen ' haben abgenommen
A Modern Morality for Radio by Frederick Bradnum
With Robert Lang, Graham Armitage and Rolf Lefebvre
Sir Fred Blagg is a millionaire Property tycoon who expresses himself almost poetically: "People, people, people! Why do my properties have to have people? Decent, struggling, colourless people who haven't the money to pay ..."
Time: The present
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 4, in B flat major
9.30* The Power of Sound: George Eliot and Music
GABRlEL WOOLF introduces readings, by himself and JILL BAL CON, from the writing of George Eliot , which show how far ahead of her English contemporaries she -was in her appreciation of composers like Bach and Beethoven.
9.35* Salzburg Easter Festival Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 5, in c minor
(Recording from this year's Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
(piano) Par! 1
Chopin Ballade in F minor; Impromptu in A flat; Two Nocturnes. Op 55: No 1, in F minor; No 2, in E flat; Scherzo in c sharp minor
Rachmaninor Two Etudes-tableaux (Op 39): No 2, in A minor; No 5, in E flat minor
Roger Van Der Weyden is one of the most shadowy of great artists. ANDREW MARTINDALE Of the University of East Anglia explains why it is important to know about the career and character of a master as well as his creations. He looks at a new study of Roger by Sir Martin Davies.
Part 2 Liszt
Un sospiro; Vallee d'Obermann; Dante Sonata
(Given last January before an invited audience in the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham)
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