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Schumann Papillons, Op 2 DANIEL ADNI (piano)
Schubert Quartet in A minor (D 804): TANEYEV STRING QUARTET Vladimir Ovcharek (violin) Grigori Lutsky (violin)
Vissarion Solovyov (viola) Josef Levison (cello)
(Soviet Radio recording)
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Edited and introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor, by ROBERT PHILIP
Recent records of vocal and instrumental music: NOEL GOODWIN
Schumann Violin Sonata No 3, in A minor
JOSEF SIVO , RUDOLF BUCHBINDER
10.35* Scriabin Fantasy in 1 minor: JOHN OGDON (piano)
10.45* Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
COPENHAGEN STRING QUARTET with F. CHRISTENSEN (viola) and L. GEISLER (cello) gramophone records
Opening Concert in the new Concert Hall of the Opera House
BIRGIT NILSSON (soprano)
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DONALD HAZELWOOD conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS Part 1 Wagner
Prelude (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg); Elisabeth's Greeting (Tannhauser); Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
12.5* Listening in Luxury
BETTY ARCHDALE, a Sydney concertgoer, compares the rigours of visits to the city's older theatres and halls with the comforts she finds in the new Opera House.
12.20* Live Stereo from Sydney Part 2 Wagner
Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine; Siegfried's Funeral Music: Brunnhilde Immolation (Gotterdammerung)
(Australian Opera's production of War and Peace can be seen tonight at 7.15, BBC2 colour. Tannhauser direct from Covent Garden, Radio 3, 5.55)
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(piano)
Rachmaninov Preludes (Op23): No 9, in E flat minor: No 2. in in B flat major: No 6. in E flat major; No 5, in G minor
Schubert Fantasia in c major (Wanderer)
Merle Park, Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet, introduces her choice of records. They include works by Richard Strauss , Brahms and Tchaikovsky, as well as some of the music to which she has danced.
WILLl. BOSKOVSKY and MAX SCHÖNHERR conduct the JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA and the BAVARIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA
In a programme of music by Johann Strauss
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio and Bavarian Radio)
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
Introduced by John Amis
A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it including COLIN DAVIS : JESSYE NORMAN ; and DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS in memoriam John Cranko
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
(Paris version)
Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (sung in German) direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The story of a medieval minstrel who succumbs to the temptations of the flesh. Cast:
Knights, ladies, pilgrims, sirens, bacchantes
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR director of music RUSSELL BURGESS
COVENT GARDEN CHORUS chorus-master
DOUGLAS ROBINSON
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conductor Colin Davis Producer VASLAV KASLIK
The action takes place in Thuringia at the beginning of the 13th century. Act 1
A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Peter Flinn
(A shorter version was broadcast at 1.5 pm)
Reflections on current affairs
John Vaizey gives the first of four fortnightly talks. Formerly Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College, Oxford. John Vaizey is now Professor of Economics at Brunei University. He is the author of Social Democracy and The Political Economy of Education.
Act 3
George Macbeth introduces new poems by Fleur Adcock, Lynn Beele, Jeni Couzyn, David Day, Gavin Ewart, Roger Garfitt, Denis Griffiths, Erica Jong, P.J. Kavanagh, Katherine Knight, Paul Merchant, Peter Reading and Anthony Thwaite, read by the poets themselves
followed by an interlude
Sonata No 3, in G minor, for viola da gamba and harpsichord
Sonata No 4, in c minor, for violin and harpsichord
SIGISWALD KUYKEN (violin)
WIELAND KUYKEN (viola da gamba) GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
Derek Jewell examines the best from today's popular music gramophone records
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