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The Muse of Blackfriars, or Theatre Musick Vindicat 'd
A cross-section of four centuries of music for the English theatre, from the opening of the first playhouse in 1576 to the new National Theatre.
Words by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD. Music by Lawes and Arne (for Milton's Comus), Weber (who died in 1826 after the premiere of Oberon). Haydn (Overture to an English Opera), Sullivan (for The Tempest). and Elgar (for The Crown of India). Record requests from the under-20s.
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Grieg's Piano Concerto, by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON.
DONALD ALDOUS on Tape Today.
Recent Choral Records: reviewed by BASIL LAM.
conducted by DIEGO MASSON FREDERICK RIDDLE (Viola) Part I
Stravinsky Symphony in three movements
Martin Dalby Viola Concerto
Anthony Dorrell talks about Them and Us - our understanding of past art.
Part 2
Brahms Serenade No 2, in A
Berlioz Trojan March (The Trojans)
(A public concert recorded in the City Hall. Glasgow, on 9 March) BBC Scotland
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
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Kevin Ruane introduces a programme of press reaction to the week's events, drawn from newspapers round the world.
(piano)
Beethoven Six Bagatelles. Op 126
Janacek Sonata: 1 x 1905
Beethoven Sonata in c major, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Sir Henry Plumb. President of the National Farmers' Union, makes a personal choice of records ranging from the folk song The Farmer's Boy - ' my own signature tune ' - to Suppg's Light Cavalry Overture played by the GRIME-THORPE COLLIERY BAND. MOSt Of the records are either associated with the countryside which he finds ' full of natural music ' - a dawn chorus, Vivaldi's The Seasons and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony - or with his present work representing the farmers of Europe - Schiller's Ode to Joy in Beethoven's setting, the anthem of the EEC.
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN JONES conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ BERNADETTE GREEVY (mezzo-sop) Bizet Symphony in c
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Tchaikovsky Fantasy: Francesca da Rimini. BBC Bristol
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Paul Bailey (in the Chair). talks with RICHARD CORK, PHILIP OAKES and GILLIAN REYNOLDS. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
ARDITO WIND QUINTET With HARRY SPARNAAY (bass clarinet)
Pijper Wind Quintet
Janacek Mladi , for wind sextet
Reflections on current affairs
Hugh Thomas. Professor of History and Chairman of the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies at the University of Reading, gives the second of four fortnightiy talks. i Next talk: 27 March)
Opera seria in three acts
Libretto by Gianbattista Varesco
English version by M. and E. Radford
Music by Mozart
English National Opera production direct from the London Coliseum
English National Opera Chorus, chorus-master Hazel Vivienne
English National Opera Orchestra leader Barry Collins
Continuo: Noel Davies (harpsichord) John Catlow (cello) Peter Hodges (double-bass)
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
The action takes place at Cydonia in Crete, soon after the end of the Trojan War.
Act 1
John Gielgud reads a selection of SHELLEY'S lyrics, including Ode to the West Wind. Introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON
Act 2
In this occasional series Geoffrey Bush offers some critical reflections on recent music broadcasts.
Act 3
(The Marriage of Figaro: tomorrow 8.45 pm BBC2. Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail: direct from Paris on R3, 26 March)
A portrait of the American composer by Robert Layton who visited him at his home in Vermont some months ago. Walter Piston, now in his 80s, is one of the most distinguished American composers of our day. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger in the early 1930s, he became Professor of Music at Harvard, the author of important books on orchestration and harmony, as well as an influential symphonist. In this programme he talks about his early life in New England and his beliefs as an artist and teacher.
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