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Sullivan Suite: The Merchant of Venice
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN
8.20* Frank Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley
8.25* Delius Two Aquarelles ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN PRITTEN
8.31* Walton Five Bagatelles JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
8.45* Warlock Capriol Suite ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES gramophone records
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
MICHAEL BERKELEY talks to
JACK BRYMER
Recent orchestral records: reviewed by NOËL GOODWIN
leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine
10.34* Honegger Symphony No 5 (Di tre re)
10..59* Franck Symphony in D minor
A weekly survey of the more positive trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Donald Milner
Haydn Symphony No 91, In I flat
BAVARIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGEN jochum
12.28* Mozart Fantasy in D minor (K 397)
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
12.35* Schumann Papillons , Op 2
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
12.50* Tchatkovsky Waltz (The Sleeping Beauty)
WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD BOWICK ! gramophone records
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The simple device of a repeated note in some of its musical guises: as the cry of a hen, the sound of a shivering chorus (borrowed from Lully by Purcell); two stuttering lovers (The Magic Flute), a Handel Fugue subject, a Gabrieli Canzona. a Monteverdi Trillo. a balalaika band, Ligeti's continuum and Liszt's La Campanella. Requests from the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOCWOOD
Baroness Wootton of Abinger, who says she was the least musical member of a musical family, has chosen music related to incidents and phases in her life. She includes records of MARLENE DIETRICH singing Where have all the flowers gonet, OISTRAKH and ROSTROPOvich playing Brahms's Double Concerto, DONOVAN singing Universal Soldier, and JOHN WIL BRAHAM playing the Trumpet Voluntary by Clarke.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
RImsky-Korsakov Spanish Caprice
Bridge Tone Poem: Summer
Gordon Langford Overture: The Spirit of London
Tchaikovsky Movements from the Nutcracker Suite
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. This month's guest WILLIAM WATERS plays music by Falla, Bach. Arthur Wills, Krenek and Schumann, and talks to PETER SENSIER.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Petite Messe solennelle
SONA GRAZARIAN (soprano)
LILIANA NEJTSCHEWA (contralto) LUCIANO SALDAHI (tenor)
ERNST G. SCHRAMM (bass) ANTON GISLER (organ)
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR conducted by ARGEO QUADRI (Austrian Radio recording)
This week:
Julian Mitchell (in the chair), talks with JANET ADAM SMITH , DEREK MALCOLM , JOHN SPURLING Producer PHILIP FRENCH
The first of three programmes drawn from a recital given in Norway by the 15-year-old Danish musician MICHALA PETRI with HANNE PETRI (spinet) and ANDERS GROEN (cello)
Boismortier Trio Sonata In E minor, for descant recorder and continuo
Henrik Brandt Krist stod op af dode,fortreblerecordersolo
Telemann Sonata in c major, for treble recorder and continuo
(Recording made available by courtesy of Norwegian Radio) (Nextprogramme: Sun6.10pm)
Reflections on current affairs
Stuart Hall, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University, gives the first of four fortnightly talks.
followed by an interlude
The second of four programmes juxtaposing some of their late piano trios.
Haydn Trio in F sharp minor (H xv 26)
Beethoven Trio In D major, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost)
TETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (Violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)
A music drama in one act Libretto by ALAN GARNER Music by Gordon Crosse
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2's 2nd House of a specially reduced version by the composer
THE PINCHLEY CHILDREN'S MUSICGROUP oonductor JOHN ANDREWES Produced for the stage by MICHAEL ELLIOTT
Introduced by MELVYN BRAGG
Crosse references: page 4
Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone record
MICHAEL HOWARD talks about Gretchaninov and the music of the Russian Orthodox Faith. He directs the CHOIR OF ST MARYLEBONE PARISH CHURCH in performances of music by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, as well as Gretchaninov himself.
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