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... and tuckets
Continuing from last week's programme. CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD touches on keyboard toccatas from Rossi, Frescobaldi, Ravel and Schumann, and orchestral versions of the same form from Monteverdi, Martinu and Vaughan Williams. Record requests from the under-20s.
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: some notable reissues reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON.
Recent opera records, reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE.
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
Haydn Symphony No 7. in c major (Le midi)
Britten Nocturne. Op 60
11.5* Interval Reading
11.10* Concert Part 2
Strauss Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, chosen from over 75 yearsof gramophone recordings.
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Introduced by Donald Milner
JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO (piano)
Brahms Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann , Op 9
Schumann Kreisleriana, Op 16
Edward Carpenter. Dean of Westminster Abbey, declares. ' I have been very lucky to have been exposed to good music whether I wished it or not. This has generated an interest and educated me into a musical taste which has brought with it rare satisfaction.' For instance, he has ' caught by contagion ' a love of Bach and he includes the Passacaglia in c minor in his personal choice of records. Also music for Easter week by Handel, the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony. Psalm 84 sung by the choir of Westminster Abbey and ' Sound the trumpet ' by Henry Purcell who was once organist there.
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 297b): KARL STEINS (oboe)
KARL LEISTER (clarinet) GUNTHER PIESK (bassoon) GERD SEIFERT (horn)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM : record Beethoven Ich liebe dich; In questa tomba; Mailied
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER : record
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47: JASCHA HEIFETZ CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by WALTER HENDI. : record
Introduced by Peter Clayton
St Mary's Church, Lemgo, Westphalia
Nicholas Danby talks to JOHN LADE at the console of this German organ and also discusses his records including music by Weckmann, Bach and Bruhns.
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Anthony Quinton (in the Chair), talks with GILLIAN TINDALL , MARINA VAIZEY and ALEXANDER WALKER.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Opera in two acts
Libretto by JOSEPH SONNLEITHNER and FRIEDRICH TREITSCHKE after Leonore, ou l'amour con-jugal by JEAN NICHOLAS BOUILLY Music by Beethoven (sung in German) direct from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Florestan, unjustly imprisoned. is saved from death by his wife, who contrives to enter the dungeon as a boy.
Guards, prisoners, townfolk ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ROBIN STAPLETON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. leader MEYER STOLOW conducted by REGINALD GOODALL The action takes place in a State prison near Seville.
Act 1 Sc 1: A room in Rocco's house; Sc 2: The courtyard of the prison
8.50* Beethoven's Lost Opera: Anthony Jacobs reads FRANZ CRILLPARZER 's account of working with Beethoven on an opera based on the story of Melusine. Translation by MARIE BURG
9.15* Fidelio
Act 2 Sc 1: A deep dungeon; Sc 2: An open space outside the prison
Roger Sessions is one of the most influential American composers of his generation, author of The Musical Experience, and an important symphonist and teacher. In this conversation he talks to DAVID DREW. followed by an interlude
Quatrieme livre de clavecin, 1730: Ordre No 23
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord) gramophone record
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