Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Sonata in c major (x 309) JAMES GIBB (piano)
Quartet in A major (K 464) GUARNERI STRING QUARTET
(Part of a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in January 1968)
Antony Hopkins presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them, by telephone, the musical reasons behind their choice
This week's guest caller is Peter Kalin , who at 10.0* will be talking about his concert choice, Schubert's Trout Quintet.
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and
10.30 today or send details on a postcard
Introduced by Alan Blyth
The Wind Quintet: RICHARD MCNICHOL , with members of the ATHENA WIND QUINTET, OUtlines its history.
The Tuba: JOHN FLETCHER talks about its repertoire.
The Baroque Trumpet: PHILIP JONES reviews a new book. Producers KEITH HORNER and PETER BUTLER gramophone records
JEAN BERNARD POMMIER tpiano) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Part 1 Bach
Piano Concerto No 1. In I minor
Kingsley Amis reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 7, in E
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
International Rounds Programme 11
Equal Voice Class: Semi-Final 1 Norway: FANA MANNSKOR
Yugoslavia; ACADEMIC CHAMBER CHOIR COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
Contemporary Music Class: Semi Final I
Holland: POOL FOR MODERN MUSIC, UTRECHT
Umled Kingdom: THE CANTAMUS ENSEMBLE
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)
A fortnightly series
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
A minor (Kk 611; B flat (Kk 529); D minor (Kk 552); D minor (Kk 553); G minor (Kk 43); c minor (Kk 99); G (Kk 13)
L'heure espagnole Opera in one act Music by Ravel
Libretto by FRANC-NOHAN (sung in French
A story of marital infidelity in 18th-Century Spain, set in a clockmaker's shop.
Concepcion, wife of Torquemada
Jane Berbie ́ (mezzo-soprano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Producer VERONICA SLATER
3.35* Enchantress and Illusionist. MARGARET CROSLAND talks about the unexpected collaboration between Colette and Ravel on the opera L'enfant et les sortileges.
3.50* L'enfant et les sortilèges A lyrical fantasy in two scenes Music by Ravel Poem by COLETTE (s»)ginFrench)
A disobedient and destructive child is chastened by the animals, toys and furniture he has maltreated.
BBC SINGERS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Repetiteur ALEXA MAXWELL Producer VERONICA SLATER
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
Producer DAVID EPPS
(Repeated: Monday, 9.45 am)
(Antony Hopkins is taking part in Music in Question on Tuesday, 7.30 pm and is this week's guest in Pied Piper on Friday at 5.25 pm)
ISIDORE COHEN (violin)
BERNARD GREENHOUSE (cello) MENAHEM PRESSLER (piano) Haydn Trio in A (H xv 18)
Schumann Trio in » minor. Op 63
Sir Ernst Gombrich , Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London, and Peter Burke of the Department of European Studies in the University of Sussex, discuss the significance of cultural history, the tradition of Hegel. Burckhardt, Huizinga and Warburg, and what new methods can be adopted from anthropology, sociology and psychology, to examine the culture of societies in the past and of today.
The past is moving away from us at a frightening speed.' Sir Ernst Gombrich has written, and in this discussion he indicates how and why we must recover it for the future. Producer ROBERT FOX
Twenty-four poems by Lenau and Eichendorff set for voice and ensemble by the modern Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck
HEINZ REHFUSS (baritone)
VIRTUOSO ENSEMBLE, conducted by JACQUES-LOUIS MONOD
A verse play for radio by PETER REDGROVE
Music composed by HOWARD REES played by SHEERFIN with special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
This story of love and magic, transformation and joyful re-discovery, was published as a novel in April. It was warmly received by the critics who spoke of its ' hyperaesthesia, full of terrifying sensations, gallows humour, freewheeling fantasies ' and of its ' sheer, impure and simple ' absolu-
Producer CHRISTOPHER HOLME followed by an interlude
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Manuel Rosenthal Mozart Symphony No 34 (K 338)
9.31* Rosenthal Musique de Table
10.58* Roussel Symphony No 3
Gravity's Rainboiv is the third novel by the young American writer THOMAS PYNCHON.
TONY TANNER. Fellow of King's College. Cambridge. and author of several studies of American fiction, explains why he considers this massive 760-page novel not only a worthy successor to V and The Crying of Lot 49. but ' a work of genius which establishes Pynchon as one of the few manifestly major novelists to have emerged in any country since the war.' followed by an interlude
(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
Liszt Sonata in B minor
(Recording from the 1973 Schwetzingen Festival by courtesy of South German Radio)
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