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The first of seven programmes to include Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues, played on the harpsichord by RALPH kirkpatrick, and Corelli's 12 Violin Sonatas. Op 5, with EDUARD MELKUS as soloist
Bach The Well-tempered Clavier. Book 1: Preludes and Fugues. Nos 1-4
Corelli Sonata in D minor, Op 5 No 7
Bach Preludes and Fugues. Nos 5-8
Corelli Sonata in c. Op 5 No 3 gramophone records
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Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT
9.17* Schubert, orch Liszt Fantasy in C (Wanderer) ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) VIENNA VOLKSOPER ORCHESTRA conducted by Michael GIELEN
9.40* Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor (original version): AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
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Introduced by Michael Oliver
Boito and his music: by JULIAN BIIDDEN.
Mrs H. H. A. Beach - ' a nice rich teacake by Virginia ESKIN.
Between the notes - a series on style and performance - 5: DENIS ARNOLD on the true art of solo song.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
Mahler Symphony No 8. in E flat major
EDDA MOSER (soprano)
LINDA ESTHER GRAY (soprano) WENDY EATHORNE (soprano)
ELIZABETH CONNELL (mezzo-sop) BERNADETTE GREEVY (Contralto) ALBERTO REMEDIOS (tenor)
SIEGMUND NIMSGERN (baritone) MARIUS RINTZLER (bass)
BBC SINGERS, BBC CHORAL SOCIETY conductor JOHN POOLE
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN CURRIE WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR director RUSSELL BURGESS BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE boulez
(Alberto Remedios appears by permission of the English National Opera)
(Given on 25 July 1975 in the Royal Albert Hall )
Eleanor Bron reflects on some of the things we say and write. (Repeated: Thurs 10.20 am)
Eleventh of 13 programmes of music written by 19th-century Russian composers. This week ELAINE PADMORE introduces quartets and piano duets written for the Russian parlour.
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET plays music performed in the house of the millionaire timber-merchant turned music-publisher, Belaief.
Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov. Borodin, Glazunov String Quartet on the name B LA assorted composers Les Vendredis. Set No 2
ANNE SHASBY , RICHARD MCMAHON (piano duet) play
Rubinstein Movements from Bal-Costume, Op 103
Rimsky-Korsakov (and friends) Shutka Quadrille Balakirev Suite
Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am)
Opera in four acts, with a prologue and epilogue
Music and libretto by Bolto based on GOETHE'S play
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' The whole work is a curious example of what can be done in opera by an accomplished literary man without original musical gifts, but with ten times the taste and culture of a musician of only ordinary
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JULIUS RUDEL Prologue and Acts 1 and 2 4.30* Interval Reading
4.40* Mefistofele
Acts 3 and 4 and Epilogue
(Placido Domingo in ' I Car and ' Pag ': Good Friday R3 and BBC2)
Part 1
Szymanowski String Quartet, Op 56
Baird String Quartet No 1 (Play)
The writer Elizabeth Taylor depicted in her work the world of the English upper middle class. She died in November and her last completed novel Blaming will be published later this year.
In this talk about her, the novelist and critic PAUL BAILEY pays tribute to her art.
Reader ANNE JAMESON
Part 2 Meyer String Quartet No 1. Op 8 (first broadcast performance in this country) Lutoslawski String Quartet
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The Vet's Daughter by BARBARA COMYNS , dramatised for radio by SHIRLEY GEE , with
Alice Rowlands pretended to be able to levitate herself and the accidents occurred when a crowd watching a performance of the trick got out of control.
Produced and directed by DAVID SPENSER followed by an interlude
Symphony No 31. in D (Paris) (K 2971: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by Daniel barenboim : record
2: The Enfllish Radicals
At the time of the American Revolution, not all Englishmen supported their Government. Colin Bonwick , Lecturer in American History at the University of Keele, analyses some of the motives and arguments of the English Radicals who sympathised with the American Revolutionaries.
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Quatrième livre de clavecin, 1730: Ordre No 21
KENNETH oilbert (harpsichord) gramophone record
(1876-1944) antony harding introduces a number of Jacob's poems in French and in his own English translation. Readers
ANTONY HARDING, FRANK DUNCAN HARVEY HALL and ROBERT PINGET Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Derek Jewell looks to the future this week with three groups. Jean-Luc Ponty's personal style is (according to the handouts) 'bringing the violin out of the 20th century into the 21st' but whatever that may mean, his new band is certainly impressive, as extracts from their album Aurora show. Two freshly-arrived bands, both in the 10cc/Supertramp mould, complete the bill: City Boy from Birmingham, and Styx from America.
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