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Piano Sonatas and String Quartets
Mozart Sonata in D (K 576) (monv)
Haydn Variations in F minor (H XVII 6) (mono)
PETER PRANKL (piano)
Mozart Quartet in D h 499) AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
(Part of a public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in 1971)
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Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests. and at 10.0* talks to today's special guest. the trombonist Dennis Wicks , about his choice of music: Berlioz's Symphonie funèbre et triomphale
Also in today's programme:
Martinu Suite: Le revue de cuisine
Rossini Arias sung by CONCHITA SUPERVIA
Mozart Fantasia in F minor (k 608)
Lortzing Excerpts from Zar und
Zimmermann Michael Colgrass As quiet as BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
Written requests, with reasons for choice, to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 4WW. The programme no longer makes use of the phone-in system
Introduced by Alan Blyth
JANET BAKER talks about her career in opera. ' I don'sing in any other way than my own.... but you can learn from colleagues, from a conductor and from a coach too.'
Variations on a waltz: CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON looks at the ' other ' 50 composers of the Diabelli Variations
Producer KEITH HORNER
Die Walkiire
A music-drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
Wotan hopes to found a race of heroes through the union of his own offspring Siegmund and Sieglinde. Forced to withdraw his protection from Sieginund, he punishes the Valkyrie Briinnhilde for disobeying him and puts her to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire But Sieglinde will bear a son ... Siegmund.GERD BRENNEIS (tenor) Sieglinde GWYNETH JONES (sop)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN
(Bavarian Radio recording) Act 1
Kingsley Amis reflects on some of the things we say and write. (Rptd: Wednesday, 11.50 am)
Contemporary Music Class: Semi-Final 2
Canada: VANCOUVER CHAMBER
CHOIR
Hunnary: CHAMBER choir OF THE MISKOLC CULTURAL CENTRE
School Class: Semi-Final 2
Sweden: MALMO HUSIE FLICKKÖR United Kingdom: LATYMER MADRIGAL GROUP
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
(Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)
(violin), ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Mozart, arr Jensen Rondo in c 'K 373)
Webern Four Pieces, Op 7 Brahms Sonata in G, Op 78
Die Walkiire, Act 2
A description of John Clare 's flight from the Epping Asylum in 1841 taken from his poems and journals with Edward Woodward as John Clare
Compiled and introduced by ROGER FRITH 1
Die Walkiire, Act 3
(Siegfried: 16 December)
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest. Producer DAVID EPPS
(Repeated: Monday, 9.45 am) followed by an interlude
(piano)
Ives The Alcotts (Sonata No 2) Mozart Sonata in D (K 284)
Schumann Fantasie in c, Op 17
by BARRY COLLINS with music composed and arranged by WILLIAM SOUTHGATE 'It is the year of our Lord 1812. King George is mad, again. England is at war-with Napoleon. The island is blockaded: trade has almost dwindled away. Spurred by the depression, northern textile barons are introducing machinery that swallows still more jobs. In retaliation bands of workers, styled Luddites, begin to destroy the new equipment. The countryside is aflame with violence - and the rumour of rebellion....'
Musical director
WILLIAM SOUTHGATE
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds) followed by an interlude
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 of the concert she gave with Giuseppe di Stefano in the Royal Festival Hall on 26 November
They are accompanied by IVOR NEWTON (piano)
Conversations in four programmes about the current relevance of the arts to politics.
Presented by Frank Kermode 1: The Politics of the Family
Johnny Speight , author of Till Death Us Do Part
John Hopkins , former Z Cars writer, author of Talking to a Stronger
Angus Wilson
Roger Graef , producer of The Space Between Words Producer richard KEEN
Is your family at war?: page 25 followed by an interlude
Sonata No 3, in G minor (bwv 1029)
ALLA VASILYEVA (viola da gamba) MIKHAIL MUNTYAN (harpsichord) (Soviet Radio recording)
The third of five programmes to mark the 350th anniversary of his death
GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS
Francis Baines (treble viol)
Elizabeth Baines (treble viol) Peter Vel (tenor viol)
John Isaacs (tenor viol) Jane Ryan (bass viol) Desmond Duprd
(bass viol and lute)
Fancy a 6; Pavan: In nomine: Lachrimae: Pavan; The Cries of London
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