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This week's programmes celebrate the four seasons in music. Vivaldi Concerto in E, Op No 1 (Spring)
ALAN LOVEDAY (violin), ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN THE FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.17' Pasquint Toccata con lo Scherzo de Cuculo
RAFAEL PUYANA (harpsichord)
7.22' Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECBAM
7.30* Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records
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Schubert Ballet Music. No 1: Shepherd's Melody:' Chorus of Shepherds (Rosamunde) NETHERLANDS RADIO CHORUS, AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.18* Schumann Symphony No 1, in B flat (Spring)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.48* Orff Primo Vere (Carmina Burana)
RAYMOND WOLANSKY (baritone) NEW PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS : records
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b. 1885 d. 1957
Finland's greatest composer, many of his works conjure up the austere beauty of his national landscape and echo the country's culture and folklore.
Tone Poem: Finlandia
9.14* Scene with Cranes; Valse triste (Kuolema)
9.25* Tone Poem: Luonnotar - Taru Valjakka (soprano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Berglund
9.35* Suite: Karelia - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel
(records)
Antony Hopkins
BRUNO CANINO. ANTONIO BALLISTA (Lost Saturday's broadcast)
GORDON PULLIN (tenor) KEITH SWALLOW (piano)
Parry 0 mistress mine; When we two parted; My heart Is like a singing bird (English Lyrics)
Francis Jackson St Mary's Bells; Tree at my window; From a railway carriage (Song-cycle: Echoes and laughter) (first broadcast performance) Ftnzi Shortening days; Ditty; Her temple: The sigh; Bud-mouth Dears (A Young Man's Exhortation) BBC Manchester
Mozart Serenade in D, for four orchestras (K 286)
SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by REYNALD GIOVANIETTI
Erich Urbanner Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus. for two orchestras. three trombones and celesta (Austrian Radio commission for the 1973 Salzburg Mozart Week) (first broadcast In this country): AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER KEUSCHNIC
Mozart Serenata notturna in D (K239): SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by REYNALD GIOVANIETTl
(South-West German Radio and Austrian Radio recordings)
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Wolfgane Schneiderhan (violin) Walter Klien (piano)
Schubert Sonatina in r, minor Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op 12 No 3
Brahms Sonata in A. Op 100
From St John's. Smith Square. Tickets: 80p at the door
Weber Overture: March (Turandot): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS-HUBFRT SCHONZELER
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor: LAZAR BERMAN , BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records
(organ)
Dupre Prelude and Fugue In B Messiaen Dieu parmi nous (La nativité du Seigneur): Two Movements from Les corps glorieux: Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace
Tonrnemire, transe Duruflt Petite rapsodie improvisee
Duruflc Prelude and Fugue on the name ALAIN, Op 7
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music bv Berlioz. Trevor Rob erts. Svendsen. Tchaikovsky. David Morgan and Beethoven.
THE LEWISHAM CONCERT BAND conductor Joseph PROCTER
Music hy Blankenburg, Walton O'Donnell and Gordon Jacob.
David Hunrow begins a week out of doors with street music of many lands: from the oriental shawm players of today to the street cries and barrel organs of old England.
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by SIMON STREATFEILD BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD with artists on records
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Home and Family
6.30 You Are What You Eat Introduced by BILL BRECKON 4: Making the Best of It
7.0 The Roof Over Your Head Presented by TRISH WILLIAMS 7: Self-Help
conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN MORAY WELSH (cello)
Lutoslawski Jeux venitiens Hugh Wood Cello Concerto
John Weightman
(Repeated: Wednesday 4.10 pm)
Part 2 Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
BBC Scotland
Samuel Sebastian Wesley , who died 100 years ago this month, was perhaps the greatest composer of English church music since Purcell.
Hugh Keyte talks about Wesley's celebrated anthem The
Wilderness, and about the Gresham Prize Medal for church music, which it failed to win in 1833. Musical illustrations recorded in St Augustine's Church, Kilburn, by the BBC SINGERS with STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ) conductor JOHN POOLE
(Centenary Concert: 8 May)
JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) JOHN-ANGELO MESSANA (counter-tenor)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) MARTYN HIILL (tenor)
WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) MONTEVERDI CHOIR, EQUALE BRASS ENSEMBLE. MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader NONA LIDDELL conductor JOHN BLIOT GARDINER Gabriell Canzona a 8: Sol sol la sol
Schiitz Veni. Sancte Spiritus Scheidt Courant dolorosa
Schiitz O bone Jesu. fili Mariae Buxtehude Motet: Benedicam Dominum
Bruckner Motets: Ave Maria: Tota pulfhra es; Christus factus est; Ecce sacerdos magnus Verdi Te Deum
(Given on 31 July 1975 in Westminster Cathedral) (Rpt)
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