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Handel Overture: Alcina
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER
8.13* Arne Sonata No 3, in a CHRISTOPHER HOG WOOD (harpsichord)
8.22* Giuliani Guitar Concerto in A: JOHN WILLIAMS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.45* Rossini Sonata No 3, In C, for strings I MUSICI gramophone records
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Recent instrumental records: reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMIAN.
Mozart Sonata in E flat (K 302) HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) INGRID HAEBLER (piano)
10.29* Church Sonata No 17, In C (K 336)
DANIEL CHORZEMPA (organ)
GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS, conducted by HELMUT WINSCHERMANN
10.35* Sonata in F (K 547) HENRYK SZERYNG (Violin) INGRID IIAEBLER (piano) gramophone records followed by an interlude
A concert direct from the NHK
Hall. Tokyo, by courtesy of the d JapaneseBroadcasting Corporation
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Debussy Poeme dansé: Jeux
Boulez Rituel: In memoriam Maderna
A weekly survey compiled and introduced by Donald Milner
Part 2
Stravinsky Ballet: The Firebird
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In today's programme, the first of two Examination Specials, CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD looks at some instances of musical symbolism and coherence in works set for this summer's GCE music exams.
Bach Cantata No 11: Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Monteverdi Laudate Dominum Purceil Dido's lament (Dido and Aeneas)
Haydn Symphony No 49, In w minor (La Passione)
Record requests from the under-20s.
Sir Alan Bullock, Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, says that since he was 17 music has given him as much pleasure as anything else in life. Among the delights he has chosen to include in his programme are records of Wotan's farewell from Wagner's Die Walkure, Clara Haskil playing a movement from Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat (k 595) and Sir Thomas Beecham conducting Handel.
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON Flotow Overture: Martha arr Malipiero La Cimarosiana
Bach. arr Walton Sheep may safely graze
Delibes Suite: Le roi s'amuse
Granados Intermezzo (Goyescas) Rutter Suite for strings
Dohnanyi Ruralia Hungarica
BBC Northern Singers, conductor Stephen Wilkinson
Holst This have I done for my true love
Joubert Incantation
Walton Cantico del Sole (first performance in this country)
Fleischmann Poet in the suburbs (first performance in this country)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
STOIKA MILANOVA (violin) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE HURST
Part 1 Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon
5.16* Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
5.55* Interval Reading
6.0* Concert: part 2
Schubert Symphony No 9, in c (A public concert presented in St George 's Hall on 28 April by the BBC in association with Mary Wakefield Music Festival)
John Spurting (in the chair) talks with JANET ADAM SMITH , DAN JACOBSON and DEREK MALCOLM. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
direct from the Assembly Booms LINDSAY STRING QUARTET JANET HILTON (clarinet)
Part 1 Haydn String Quartet tn D minor. Op 42 lain Hamilton Clarinet Quintet (first performance)
Gunter Kunert reads from his English Poems.
English translations read by PAUL GAYMON.
Gunter Kunert (born 1929) Is one of East Germany's leading poets. He recently spent some time at the University of War-wick. The sequence of poems he wrote here reflects his reactions to the British scene.
Part 2 Beethoven Quartet in « flat. Op 127
DENIS STEVENS , Professor of Music at Columbia University, New York, talks about settings of Petrarch. He compares settings of Hor che'l ciel e la terra by Tromboncino, Cipriano di Rore and Monteverdi, and introduces excerpts from settings as far removed in style and period as Giaches de Wert , Lassus. Vicentino, Schubert, Liszt and Fricker. followed by an interlude
BRENDA ROBERTS (Soprano) RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by HERMANN MICHAEL Gabrieli Three canzonas (Sacrae symphoniae, 1597)
Hindemith Three songs, Op 9. for soprano and orchestra (Hess Radio recording)
Every night before drawing the curtains round the Tester Bed, Mrs Caudle , archetype of the Nagging Wife, lectures her husband. PATRICIA HUGHES reads the first of six of DOUGLAS JERROLD 'S pieces.
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