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A record request programme Part 1
Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-F1ELDS
Conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.10* Haydn Mass in B flat (Creation),: APRIL CANTELO (sop) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
FORBES ROBINSON (bass)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-TRE-FIELDS conducted by GEORGE GUEST
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Part 2
Vivaldi Autumn (The Seasons) ALAN LOVEDAY (violin). ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILI.E MARRINER
8.18* Debussy Trois gymnopedies: ALDO CICCOLINI (piano)
8.27* Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 364) IGOR OISTRAKH (Violin) DAVID OISTRAKH (viola) who also directs the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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Balakirev and Borodin
Balakirev Sonata in a flat minor (1905): ALBERT FERBER (piano)
9.32* Songs:
Balakirev They always call me Fool: Seventh November BORIS CHRISTOFF (baSS)
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN (piano)
Borodin For the shores of thy fair native land
BORIS CHRISTOFF , LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA. conducted by GEORGES TZIPINE : records
Recorded by ROBERT JOYCE in Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
Hoddinott Toccata alla Giga, Op 37 No 1
Sweelinck Variations on Christe qui lux es et dies
9.54* Franck Pastorale , Op 19
10.5* Messiacn Combat de la mort et de la vie (Les corps glorieux)
A programme of music composed in the same year
Brahms Trio in A minor. Op 114. for clarinet, cello and piano: MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Debussy Dans le jardin; Romance: Les cloches; Les angélus: La mer est plus belle; Le son du cor s'afflige; L'échelonnement des haies RICHARD ANGAS (bass)
PETER PETTINGER (piano)
Tchaikovsky Suite: Nutcracker PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH : record Strauss Two Songs, Op 26
RICHARD ANGAS , PETER PETTINGER Sibelius Introduction; Kullervo and his sister (first and third movements from Kullervo) RAILI KOSTIA (soprano)
USKO VIITANEN (bass-baritone)
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY MALE VOICE
CHOIR, BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND : record
Brahms Quintet in B minor. Op 115, for clarinet and strings: MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
The artists performing in today's Concert Hall talk to NATALIE WHEEN
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A weekly series of recitals by the younger generation.
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) David Willison (piano) Dezso Ranki (piano)
Schubert Liebesbotschaft ;Dass sie hier gewesen ; Wandrers Nachtlied (Uber alien Gipfein ist Run'); Der Musensohn Chopin Studies. Op 10
Britten The choirmaster's burial; Before life and after (Winter Words)
Bartok Three Burlesques, Op 8c Liszt Concert Study: Un sospiro (Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London)
Scenes from Mozart's last opera. The cast includes EVELYN LEAR as Pamina, FRITZ WUNDER -LICH as Tamino, and DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU as Papageno and is conducted by KARL BOHM gramophone records
conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Ginastera Variaciones concertantes (1953)
3.18* Faure Pavane
3.26* Haydn Symphony No 73. in D (La chasse)
from Magdalen College, Oxford Introit: Ecce concipies (Handi) Responses (Tomkins)
Psalms 27 and 32 (Jones. Boycel Lessons: Isaiah 45. vv 18-25: 1 Thessalonians 4, v 13 to 5, v 28
Canticles (Sheppard, Second Service)
Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David (Weelkes)
Organist and Informator Choristarum BERNARD ROSE
Organ scholar IAN CRABBE
Records requested by the under-20s. introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Respighi The Adoration of the Magi (Three Botticelli Pictures) (monft)
Schuller Seven Studies on themes of Paul Klee
Martinu The Frescoes of Riero della Francesca
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6.30 Ochen' priyatno
Russian beginners' course 10: At the Opera
Series producer DAVID DOUGHAN (Rptd: Sunday. R4 VHF)
Book, 80p; two LP records, £1.22 each; Pronunciation record, 99p: see page 90
7.0 Rendez-vous a Chaviray A second-year French course Programme 10
(Rpt: Sunday. R4 VHF)
Book, 55p; three LP records, £1.21 each: see page 90
Quartet No 1, in D, Op 11
SMETANA STRING QU.4RTET: record
from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Geza Anda (piano)
BBC SINGERS (WOMEN'S VOICES) director JOHN POOLE
BBJ8 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1
Suite: The Wooden Prince Piano Concerto No 2
J. C. Hall 's new book A House of Voices marks a departure in his work: the main theme is his father's death, together with an exploration of childhood memories and the art of poetry.
Tonight MR HALL introduces and reads a selection of these poems with HARVEY hall
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Part 2
Village Scenes
Ballet: The Miraculous Mandarin
Audun and the Polar Bear A new play for radio by PAAVO HAAVIKKO translated from the Finnish by DYMPNA CONNOLLY
Music by LIONEL SALTER
A folk tale from the world of Icelandic sagas about the ups and downs of human fortune and the strange ways of human destiny.
Audun. a young man said to be lucky............. NIGEL ANTHONY
Egill. a man who married his future wife's sister, so that his future wife became his wife's sister FRASER KERR
Jofridur. his wife...JAN EDWARDS Helga. Jofridur's sister, who was to have been Egill's wife, and who was older than Jofridur ... PATRICIA GALLIMORE
Thor. the father of these girls who have got the order of their marriage wrong
HAYDN JONES
Heraldur, King of Norway, who had a quarrel with the King of Denmark
PETER WILLIAMS
Sveinn. King of Denmark, who had a quarrel with the King of Norway .... TIMOTHY BATESON
Aki. a courtier of King Sveinn, who came off badly
TERRY SCULLY
Irish harp played by GRAINNE YEATS
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude
(guitar)
Dowland My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Dowland Melancholy
Calliard Bach. transc Williams Chaconne (Partita in D minor)
Mateo Albeniz , transe Williams Sonata in D major gramophone records
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