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A White Mass A Black Mass A Field Mass
Two Piano Sonatas by Scriabin frame open-air military music by Martinu in today's programme of record requests from the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD.
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Bach's Mass in B minor, by JEREMY NOBLE.
Recent records of chamber and instrumental music, reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Music by Haydn. Duphly, Balbastre and Pierre Max Dubois. gramophone records
MAX ROSTAL (violin)
COLIN HORSLEY (piano)
Sonata in c major. Op 30 No 3; Sonata in A major, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
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It was in 1628 that John Earle published his book of character-sketches Microcosmographie or A Piece of the World Discovered; and Earle's shrewdly-observed types recur in English poetry before and since.
Michael Schmidt offers some poetical illustrations of Earle's perennial English aborigines, 3: A Lascivious Man
Readers ANN ARIS , PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
VERMEER STRING QUARTET
Shmucl Ashkenasi. (violin) Pierre Menard (violin) Nobuko Imai (viola) Marc Johnson (cello)
Stravinsky Concertino. for string quartet
Beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op 132
Dr Michael Fordham. a leading analytical psychologist and co-editor of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung , introduces a personal choice of records.
CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conducted by JOHN NELSON
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2, in d minor
Dvorak Symphony No 6, in D major
BBC Scotland
Introduced by Peter Clayton
played by ROBERT GLASGOW Schumann Sketch in D flat; Canonic Study in B major; Sketch in F minor Franck Prière
Liszt Prelude (old version) and Fugue (rev version) on BACH
This week:
John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with JANET ADAM SMITH
ROBERT CUSHMAN , MARINA VAIZEY Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude
Opera in five acts. Libretto by EUGENE SCRIBE, CHARLES OUVEYRIER Music by Verdi (sung in Italian) (gramophone records)
Based on an event which took place in the year 1282, when the people of Palermo rose against their French oppressors and massacred them.
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LEVINE Acts 1 and 2
John Ziman. H. H. Wills Professor of Physics at Bristol University, gives the second of four fortnightly talks.
Act 3
by Peter Lloyd Jones. Head of the School of Three Dimensional Design at Kingston Polytechnic. An international conference called ' Design for Need ' took place in April at the Royal College of Art in London. After the collapse of the ' functionalist ' ethic which had supported the Modern Movement in architecture and design, some designers are claiming the right to act as problem solvers to society. Peter Lloyd Jones , paimter and designer, questions whether ' need ' is a useful concept as a criterion for selecting and solving design problems.
Acts 4 and 5
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