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Bach Cantata No 62: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Adele Stolte (soprano)
Gerda Schriever (Contralto) Peter Schreier (tenor) Theo Adam (bass)
Choir of St Thomas's, Leipzig, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Erhard Mauersberger
Praetorius Chorale: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Hanover Niedersachsischer Singkreis, Ferdinand Conrad Instrumental Ensemble conducted by Willi Trader
Bach Cantata No 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Edith Mathis (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar) Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra conducted by Karl Richter
(gramophone records)
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Edited and introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Purcell's The Fairy Queen by MICHAEL GREENHALGH
Two 75th Anniversaries: by ROGER WIMBUSH
Recent Orchestral Records: reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMIAN
Brahms Tragic Overture CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
10.30* Schumann, rev and ed Andreae Symphony in G minor MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MARC ANDREAE
10.55' Reger Ballet Suite
BERLIN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTMAR SUITNER gramophone records
COMPOSERS' STRING QUARTET Elliott Carter Quartet No 2
Beethoven Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)
igor ozim (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ Part 1
Purser Opus 7 for Orchestra
12.30* Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in g major (K 216)
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Introduced by Donald Milner
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 5. in F major
(Given in the City Hall, Glasgow, on 13 November)
Rt Hon John Davies , mp
1 Music has been for me both a stimulus and a solace throughout life....'
This afternoon he makes his personal choice of records, including music by Franck, Delibes, Schubert, Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Brahms, as well as an excerpt from the musical Oklahoma!
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by MYER FREDMAN
The programme includes:
Chabrier Overture: Une education manquee
Mozart Six German Dances (K 509)
Lars-Erik Larsson Pastoral Suite
Schubert Overture in D (In the Italian style)
Piano Concerto No 1, in d flat MINDRU KATZ LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone record
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis
This week a visit to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
Producers NATALIE WHEEN and DENYS GUEROULT
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
HARRISON OXLEY speaks about the organ to JOHN LADE and discusses his records, including music by Philip Cranmer , John Gardner. Parry, Vaughan Williams and himself.
followed by an interlude
Opera in three acts Music by Puccini
Libretto by GIUSEPPE ADAMI and RENATO SIMONI
(sung in Italian: records)
Turandot, like Madam Butterfly, has an oriental setting, against which takes place a series of events which emphasise the horror and cruelty brought about by sexual passions.
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA Act 1
Reflections on current affairs
David Daiches , Professor of English at the University of Sussex, gives the second of four fortnightly talks.
(Third talk: 22 December)
Act 2
9.10* Listening in Luxury
Next year Joan Sutherland , tonight's Turandot, makes her first appearance in the Sydney Opera House.
BETTY ARCHDALE, another Sydneysider, compares the rigours of visits to the city's older theatres and concert halls with the comforts she finds in the new building,
9.25* Turandot, Act 3
by John Bergsagel
Relatively little is known about the kind of musical life that flourished in the far North during the Middle Ages, though the literary legacy is rich enough.
DR BERGSAGEL examines some of the musical survivals that are to be found in isolated folk communities in Scandinavia.
URSULA HOLLIGER (harp) SOUTH GERMAN CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL ANGERER
Lully Suite : Le triomphe de l'amour
Debussy Danse sacrée et danse profane, for harp and string orchestra
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, in D major
(South German Radio recording)
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