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Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Sonata in r major (K 533 and 494): WALTER KLlEN (piano)
Quartet in D minor (k 421) (mono)
BARTOK STRING QUARTET
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Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them, by telephone, the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caller Is Sir Charles Groves , who at
10.8* talks about Symphony No 7 by the Welsh composer Daniel Jones
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and
10.30 today or send details on a postcard
Introduced by Dominie Gill
ANTHONY PAYNE on the music of Frank Bridge
(BENJAMIN BRITTEN)
JOHN REED on Schubert's last year; CHARLES OSBORNE on Prokofiev's opera The Gambler, which is to be relayed from Wexford next Saturday on Radio 3.
Producers KEITH HORNER and PETER BUTLER
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
Mozart Serenade in G major (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
Piano Concerto No 25, in c major (k 503)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
Christopher Serpell reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words. (Repeated: Wed, 12.5 pm)
8: Contemporary Music Cheirs USA: CONSERVATORY CHORALE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI,
KANSAS CITY Canada: VANCOUVER CHAMBER
CHOIR
Norway: SCHOLA CANTORUM
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS (Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)
Milhaud Suite for violin, clarinet and piano
Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, in E minor
Brahms Clarinet Trio In A minor, Op 114
A comic opera in two acts
Libretto by LORENZO DA ponti Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
Two officers are induced to test their sweethearts' fidelity by each wooing the other's fiancée in disguise.
CHORUS OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(Austrian Radio recording made at this year's Salzburg Festival) Act 1
3.50* Passion and Cynicism
BERNARD WILLIAMS , Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cam-bridge, offers some thoughts on Cosi fan tutte.
4.10* Cosi fan tutte. Act 2
(Details as Monday, 9.50 am)
by William Shakespeare
with Michael Aldridge, Alan Webb, Barbara Jefford, Julian Glover, John Rowe
A full-blooded revenge tragedy. The Andronici family become involved in a feud with the Roman Emperor Saturninus and his wife Tamora and her sons. Murder follows murder until a degree of order is restored with the deaths of all the main characters. The mounting feast of horrors is heightened by some superb verse.
Saturninus, Emperor of Rome JOHN ROWE
Bassianus, his brother SAM DASTOR
Titus Andronicus MICHAEL ALDRIDGE
His sons:
Lucius.................SEAN BARRETT
Quintus..............NIGEL GRAHAM
Martius WILLIAM SLEIGH
Mutius NEVILLE JASON
Lavinia, his daughter FRANCES JEATER
Young Lucius , his grandson CRISPIN GILLBARD
Marcus, his brother...ALAN WEBB
Tamora, Queen of the Goths BARBARA JEFFORD
Her sons:
Demetrius DAVID TIMSON
Chiron..................COLIN BAKER
Aaron, a Black Moor and Tamora's lover ... JULIAN GLOVER
Publius NIGEL GRAHAM
Aemilius.................BRIAN HAINES
Captain I FRASER KERR
Second Goth NEVILLE JASON
Nurse ....... BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT
Clown...............TIMOTHY BATESON
Messenger ......... WILLIAM SLEIGH
Music specially composed by DAVID CAIN and played by MARTIN NICHOLLS, COLIN SHEEN, ROGER BRENNER, TERENCE EMERY, GEORGE KHAN and PAUL RUTHERFORD
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Michael Aldridge is in 'Absurd Person Singular' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
A series of six programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s.
Two trios and two sonatas from the 1780s Part 1
Piano Trio in A (H XV 9)
Piano Sonata in E minor (H xvi 34)
9.2S* Innocence and Experience JAMES GIBB describes the special qualities of Haydn's late sonatas,
9.40. Haydn: part 2
Piano Sonata in c (H xvi 48)
Piano Trio in E minor (H xv 12) JAMES GIBB (piano)
OROMONTE PIANO TRIO
BRIAN WALDEN , Labour Member of Parliament for All Saints, Birmingham, since 1964, examines the lives of Herbert Mor rison and Aneurin Bevan as revealed bv the current publication of their biographies, and assesses their influence on the Labour Party,
The second of three programmes of music by Henry Purcell and John Blow CANTORES IN ECCLESIA
MARGARET PHILLIPS (organ) conductor MICHAEL HOWARD , who also introduces the programme Purcell Funeral Sentences: Man that is born of a woman: In the midst of life: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
0 God thou art my God
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B flat
Voluntary on the 100th Psalm tune
Turn thou us, 0 good Lord
0 give thanks unto the Lord
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Symphony No 5
ACADEMY OF THE BBC conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX
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