Test Match Special
Australia V England at Perth Commentary during the second day's play by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS ALAN MCGILVRAY and DENNIS COMMTTI , with comments from LINDSAY HASSETT
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VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLEMENS KRAUSS Johann Strauss
Overture: The Gypsy Baron
Waltz: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Train-Polka
Egyptian March
Waltz: Artist's Life
Pizzicato-Polka (with Josef Strauss)
Overture: Die Fledermaus gramophone records
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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Schubert's Symphony No 3, in D, by STEPHEN DODGSON
Hi-fi Today - 3: Loudspeakers, by DONALD ALDOUS
Recent opera records reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE
To include some of the records reviewed this morning by CHARLES OSBORNE in Record Review.
DSCH, BACH. ABEGG, FAE, HAYDN and even CABBAGE all translate into musical themes.
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD ShOWS hOW it was done by Shostakovich, Schumann, Brahms, Ravel and others.
(Requests, on postcards please, to 'The Young Idea,' BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by GEORGE HALLAM conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Part 1
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6, in B flat major
12.39* arr Respighi Suite: The Birds
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A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Donald Milner.
Part 2
Mozart Symphony No 35, in D major (K 385) (Haffner)
1.42* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
Alastair Burnet , Editor of the Daily Express, indulges, with his choice of records, in some of the personal preferences that a journalist's life has thrust upon him. These range from records by JOHN MEARNS and CHARLES TRENET to the music of Sibelius and Bizet.
In this edition John Duarte reports on the recent Concours International de Guitare in Paris
(French Radio recordings)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Fauré Pavane
Grace Williams Fantasia on Welsh nursery tunes
Lehar Waltz: Gold and Silver
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings
Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
by ERIC HOPE
Beethoven Rondo in B flat (circa 1790)
Philip Cannon Sonatine cham-Setre ebussy Voiles; Les collines d'Anacapri; Minstrels (Pre. ludes. Book 1); Bruyères; Général Lavine- eccentric (Preludes, Book 2)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Richard Mayne (in the chair) talks with JOHN GILLETT
J. W LAMBERT and ERIC RHODE Producer PHILIP FRENCH
A lyric drama in five acts by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Music by Debussy (sung in French) direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Debussy's only opera was inspired by the Belgian playwright Maeterlinck. The story is a legendary one containing all the ingredients of a fairy-tale, and in which, through a shadowy, symbolic and tragic drama, we see its characters submit to fate.
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ROBIN STAPLETON
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by COLIN DAVIS Acts 1, 2 and 3 9.5* The Back of Our Destiny
BERNARD WILLIAMS, Knight-bridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, discusses the interpretation of Pelleas et Melisande.
9.25* Pelleas et Melisande Acts 4 and 5
Recently Eugene lonesco, one of the founding fathers of the Theatre of the Absurd, was awarded the Welsh Arts Council's International Writers' Prize. HALLAM TENNYSON interviewed him in French when he visited Wales to receive his prize. lonesco talks about his view of the contemporary theatre and his own vehement commitment to the politics of freedom. In this edited version Hallam Tennyson translates his questions and gives an indication of the contents of the French author's replies.
(died ten years ago today)
BASIL LAM introduces recordings made by him.
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