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Mozart Flute Quartet in A major (K 298) - Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Isaac Stern (violin) Alexander Schneider (viola) Leonard Rose (Cello)
Beethoven Concerto in C major - Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) Pierre Fournier (cello) Geza Anda (piano) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay
(gramophone records)
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Christmas music by Praetorius, Torelli, Delalande, Bach and others: gramophone records
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MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
Schumann Overture: Genoveva Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor
Beethoven Symphony No 8, in F major
(Austrian Radio recording)
(Pollini plays Schubert and Beethoven: tomorrow, 10.15 pm)
Variations on an original theme in a flat major (D 813)
EDITH VOGEL and JAMES GIBB (piano duet) t
First of a special series of six programmes including all the string quartets of Edmund Rubbra and Michael Tippett and a variety of British choral pieces.
Warlock I saw a fair maiden
John Rutter Sing we to this merry company
Berkeley Look up, sweet babe Warlock Bethlehem Down
Rubbra String Quartet No 1
Christopher Brown Hodie Salvator apparuit BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE with TIMOTHY FARREI. L (organ) WISSEMA STRING QUARTET
NOBUKO IMAI (viola)
HOMERO FRANCESCH (piano) SILVIA MARCOVICI (violin)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL OSTERREICHER Part 1
Viola Concerto, reconstructed and orch Tibor Serly Piano Concerto No 1
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Part 2
Violin Concerto No 2
(Recording from this year's Salzburg Festival made available by Austrian Radio)
PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (Violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAl'M (CellO)
Schubert Nocturne (D 897)
Dvorak Trio in p minor, Op 65
(The Love Potion)
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani, after Scribe's Le Philtre Music by Donizetti
(sung in Italian)
Faint heart never won fair lady - as the young peasant Nemorino discovers. However, with the help of Dulcamara, a quack doctor, eventually all is well.
(Austrian Radio recording)
The action takes place in a village in the Basque country. Act 1 Sc 1: Adina's farm; Sc 2: The village square
4.5* The Vanishing Prima Donna : talk by Julian Budden
4.15* L'elisir d'amore
Act 2 Sc 1: Inside the farm-house; Sc 2: The village square
(Nicolai Gedda sings Schumann and Rachmaninov at
10.30 pm)
(Stereo)
Written and presented by David Munrow
Music by Sir William Walton for some famous Shakespeare films.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
BBC prize-winning portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams specially devised for an international competition for music programmes sponsored by Hungarian Radio this autumn. The programme, written and produced by Elaine Padmore, won her the Pro Musica award.
Last year was the centenary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's birth. This programme looks at some of the influences that made him one of England's greatest composers.
The music, by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Elgar and Holst, is performed by Ian Partridge (tenor) with the Nash Ensemble, Felicity Palmer (soprano) and Hugh Bean (violin)
Oriel Sutherland (contralto) and Roger Vignoles (piano)
St Margaret's Westminster Singers
conductor Richard Hickox
Organist Alastair Ross
A series of 13 programmes 11: The Symphonic Poem Part 1
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONYORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Schoenberg Transfigured Night (sextet version)
MEMBERS OF THE LONDON OCTET t Hugh Maguire (violin) Norman Nelson (violin) Harry Danks (viola) John Coulling (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello) Alexander Kok (cello)
7.25* The conductor of this concert, Norman Del Mar , talks to JOHN AMIS about the problematic concept of the 1 symphonic poem.'
7.45* The Symphony: part 2
Schoenberg Transfigured Night (orchestral version)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Smetana Quartet No 1, in I minor (From my life)
SMETANA STRING QUARTET Editor HANS KELLER
(2 Jan: The Symphonic Crisis)
A short story by Neilson Graham, read by Cyril Shaps
[recording]
Followed by an interlude
by Palestrina, Byrd, Sweelinck, Lassus, Praetorius and Weelkes sung by the MARTINDALE SIDWEI.L CHOIR conductor MARTINDALE SIDWELL
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power by Alastair Buchan
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(tenor) with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
A recital given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, last March, t
Part 1 Schumann
Song-cycle: Dichterliebe
11.5* Reading
11.15* Nicolai Gedda Part 2 Rachmaninov
Oh, never sing to me again; How fair this spot; The harvest of sorrow; Loneliness; Christ is risen; The answer; To the children; The morn of life; Spring waters; The lilacs; Romance of the young gypsy (Aleko); In the silent night
(More Rachmaninov songs: Thursday, 10.40 pm)
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