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String Quartet in c (K 465)
Piano Quartet in E flat (K 493) ALBAN BERG QUARTET with KARL ENGEL (piano)
(Austrian Radio recording)
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Denis Matthews presents listeners' record requests
This week's guest caller at
10.* is Archie Camden, whose choice is the record of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466) with DENIS MATTHEWS as the soloist.
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8. am and
10.30 today or send details on a postcard
Introduced by Stephen Walsh
' Playing a modern recorder is like driving a small tuned-up car, fast but not smooth. The baroque instrument, however, is not as quick at the traffic lights, but gives a silent, smooth and comfortable ride,' says recorder virtuoso Frans Briiggen , talking about his instrument.
Also Music Weekly looks at the religious influence on Stravinsky's music.
Producer KEITH HORNER
A concert from their 1972/1973 season conducted by SEIJI OZAWA with CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH (piano) Part 1
Ives Central Park in the dark some 40 years ago
Bartok Piano Concerto No 2
Christopher Serpell reflects on some of the things we say. (Repeated: Tues, 10.25 am)
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6. In B minor (Pathetique)
(Recording made available by courtesy of rias, Berlin)
International Rounds 6: Youth Choirs
Norway: SANDEFJORD JENTEK0R Yugoslavia:
YOUTH CHOIR OF RTV LJUBLJANA
Hungary: UNIVERSITY CHOIR of THE HUNGARIAN YOUTH FEDERATION Canada: ANNE CAMPBELL SINGERS Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHlLPOTT
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)
played by MARIA TIPO
Beethoven Op 2 No 3, in c Prokofiev No 5, in c, Op 38
Saint-Saens Fantaisie, Op 124, for violin and harp
Copland Sextet, for clarinet, piano and string quartet
Britten Suite in c, Op 83, for harp
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57
KATlA RICCIARELLI (soprano) LUCIA VALENTINI (contralto) MAURIZIO POLLINl (piano)
ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA OPERA HOUSE, MILAN conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO Part 1
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23. in A major (K 488)
Thomas S. Szasz , Professor of Psychiatry at the Upstate Medical Center of the State University of New York in Syracuse, explains ' Why mental illness is a metaphor ': in his various books, such as The Myth of Mental Illness, Ideology and Insanity and The Manufacture of Madness, he has challenged some of the basic concepts of modern psychiatry,
(Another talk next week)
Part 2 Pergolesi Stabat Mater (Austrian Radio recording)
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current Interest. Producer DAVID EPPS
(Repeated: Monday, 9.50 am)
KLAUS HEIDER (alto)
NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
DIRK SCHORTEMEIER (baritone)
HANOVER BOYS' CHOIR conducted by HEINZ HENNIG
ARTI VOCALI ANTICHE
VOCAL ENSEMBLE
ALICE HARNONCOURT (violin) TULLO GALLI (violin) NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (cello) TILL HARLAN (violone)
HERBERT TACHEZI (Organ)
BERLIN ENSEMBLE FOR OLD MUSIC conducted by JOHANN VAN DER MEER
Lobe den Herren, meine Seele Cantabo Domino in vita mea
Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore
Lobet den Herrn in seinem
Heiligtum Lobet den Herrn alle
Heiden Jauchzet dem Herren (swv 47)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Bremen)
by JEAN COCTEAU translated by CARL WILDMAN with and ' Listener, wound up here to the full so that the spring will slowly unwind the whole length of a human life. is one of the most perfect machines constructed by the infernal gods for the mathematical destruction of a mortal.'
Music by TRISTRAM CARY Producer H. B. FORTUlN followed by an interlude
LILIANA poli (soprano) ANNA MALEWICZ-MADY (mezzo-soprano) BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, Op 56a Ligeti Requiem
An illustrated talk by A. L. LLOYD , who describes how Bartok first became interested in folk music and in recording peasant performances from all over his native land.
A series of six programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s
In the second programme two works from c 1789
Piano Trio in c minor (H xv 13) OROMONTE PIANO TRIO
Piano Sonata in E flat major (H XVI 49): KATHAR[NA WOLPE