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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRĖMAUX
Offenbach Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
8.15* Massenet Scènes pittoresques
8.33* Saint-Saens Danse macabre
8.41* Bizet Procession and Carnival (Roma) gramophone records
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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: The best of Johann Strauss , by PETER GAMMOND.
Miscellaneous new records: reviewed by RICHARD OSBORNE.
led by HUGH BRADLEY conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN with STOIKA MILANOVA (violin)
John Maxwell Geddes Symphony (BBC Commission: first performance)
Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor
A weekly survey of the more positive trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced bv Donald Milner.
Part 2 Sibelius
Symphony No 1. in E minor
Strauss Four Last Songs
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
12.26* Ignaz Pleyel Sinfonle Concertante in B flat ISAAC STERN (violin)
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (viola)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM gramophone records
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As dreams are made on Can music be inspired by dreams? Stravinsky's Octet and Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata make this claim. Rosemary Brown claims contact with Liszt, and Giles Farnaby sets down His Dreame.
The origins of these pieces are considered by CHRISTOPHER HOG-WOOD in today's programme of record requests from the under-20s.
John Julius Norwich , writer and traveller, says that the records he has chosen are the musical milestones in his life, beginning with one of his childhood idols, FRANK CRUMIT. He includes Grechaninov's Creed, which recalls his fascination with the monasteries on Mount Athos. His passion for opera is represented by lolanthe, in which he sang the lead, and Arabella. in which he didn't.
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by PROINNSIAS 0 DUINN Schubert Overture in D (In the Italian style)
Leroy Anderson Irish Suite
Johann Strauss Waltz : Wine. Woman and Song
Kabalevsky Suite: The Comedians
Suppe Overture: Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna
Levon Chilingirian (violin) Mark Butler (violin)
Simon Rowland-Jones (viola) Philip de Groote (cello)
Hugh Wood Quartet No 2
Beethoven Quartet in s minor, Op 59 No 2
Introduced by Peter Clayton
This week:
Ian Mclntyre (in the chair) talks with RICHARD CORK. MARGHANITA LASKI and BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Dagincourt Suite du deuxieme ton
Clerambault Suite du premier ton^
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN at the organ of Uzes Cathedral: record
Lord Blake gives the third of four fortnightly talks. followed by an interlude
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by MAURICEHANDFORD direct from the Town Hall
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
7.51* Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Maler
BBC Music Guide: Brahms Orchestral Music, 35p from bookshops
(An extended version of the broadcast at 11.0 am)
Part 2 Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphonic Suite: Sheherazade (Presented by the BBC in assoc with the Leeds City Council Leisure Services Committee)
Basil Taylor considers the sources of Turner's inspiration - personal and external - as they affected one of the dominant themes of his painting. This is a theme abundantly represented in the present bicentenary exhibition at the Royal Academy. followed by an interlude
The first of two programmes in which the eminent Hungarian violinist plays a solo work by Bach, and, with Peter Pettinger. one of the two Bartok sonatas for violin and piano. Bartok Sonata No 1
Bach Partita No 2, in D minor
ARLEEN AUGE-R (soprano) ERIK WERBA (piano)
Mozart Die Zufriedenheit (K 473): Luise (K 520)
Haydn She never told her love; Das Leben ist ein Traum
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1974 Karinthscher Summer Festival)
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