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Sennets and tuckets
Which is simply the Elizabethan anglicisation of ' sonatas and toccatas.'
This week CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD pursues Sennets by Pezel (Hora decimal. Monteverdi (Sonata sopra Sancta Maria), Mozart (Church Sonata, K 336) and Walton (Sonata for string orchestra). He also offers the Clementi original of Satie's parody, Sonatine bureaucratique.
Record requests from the under-20s.
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Audio Bookshelf by DONALD ALDOUS.
Recent organ records: reviewed by GILES BRYANT.
Bax's Symphony No 7, played by the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD , and short pieces by Percy Grainger , from a new record by the SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Beethoven and Schubert With ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Beethoven Der Wachtelschlag Three Goethe Songs, Op S3:
WonnederWehmut: Sehnsucht; Mit einem gemalten Band An die HofTnung, Op 94
Schubert Wehmut (Wenn Ich durch Wald und Fluren gen'); Auf der Riesenkoppe: An den Mpnd auf einer Herbstnacht: Die Allmacht
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings...
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Kevin Ruane introduces a programme of press reaction.
AMARYLLIS FLEMING (Cello)
Suite No 2, in D minor (bwv 1008); Suite No 6, in D major (Bwv 1012)
Richard Seifert. architect, almost took up a career as a violinist when his playing of the Meditation from Massenet's Thais won him an offer of a scholarship in Rome, and he includes this piece in his personal choice of records.
Among his other musical memories are SIR HENRY WOOD conducting the Queens Hall Orchestra in Elgar. HARRIET COHEN playing Bach transcriptions, and GRACIE FIELDS singing ' Sally,' also Offenbach in Berlin, MARIA CALLAS at Covent Garden, and Tchaikovsky at the Bolshoi.
Mozart Violin Concerto in D major (k 218)
BELA DEKANY (violin)
C. P. E. Bach Sinfonia in r major (Wq 183 No 3)
BBC SYMTHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
William Shitld Whilst with village maids I stray
Haydn My mother bids me bind my hair: Sympathy SANDRA DUGDALE (Soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) i Repeat)
Beethoven Symphony No 1, In c major, Op 21
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Stravinsky, drawn by Picasso, is discussed by his son, Soulima, at 10.15 pm
ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano) Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations in v, Op 19 No 6
Ravel Suite: Gaspard de la Nuit (Finnish Radio recording)
This week:
Anthony Quinton (in the Chair), talks with EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH. GILLIAN TINDALL and JOHN WEIGHTMAN
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Anthony Quinton aives the first talk in Current Trends in Philosophy: Thursdall 8.10 pm
Opera in four aots Music by Bolto
(sunn in Italian)
TURIN CHORUS. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master RUGGIERO MACHINI conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI
Act 1: The Appian Way
Act 2: The temple of Simon Mago
Reflections on current affairs.
Hugh Thomas. Professor of History and Chairman of the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies at the University of Reading, and the author of books on the modern history of Spain and Latin America, gives the last of four fortnightly talks.
Act 3: A garden in the suburbs of Rome
Act 4: The Circus Maximus (Italian Radio recording)
who is himself a pianist and composer, talks about his father and musical life in the Stravinsky household during his youth. He discusses Stravinsky's attitude to other musicians. including Debussy and Ravel, his relations with Diaghilev, and recalls the concert toilrs he made with his father.
Quatrième livre de clavecin, 1730: Ordre No 22
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord) gramophone record
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