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In the second of two programmes of works set for this year's GCE A-level exams, CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD looks at some mixed doubles: Tippett's Concerto for two orchestras, Bartok's Sonata for two pianos and percussion (also in its orchestral version) and Brahms's Quintet in F minor for piano and strings (also in its two-piano version). Record requests from the under-20s.
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Ravel's piano suite Le tombeau de Couperin, by ROBERT Henderson. MICHAEL BERKELEY talks to
CHRISTA LUDWIG.
Recent records of pre-classical music, reviewed by JEREMY NOBLE .
To include recent operatic records reviewed a fortnight ago in Record Review.
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) WILLIAM BENNETT (flute)
PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord)
CHARLES TUNNELL (cello continuo)
Telemann Trio-Sonata in A
W. F. Bach Duet in E flat, for two flutes (F 57)
Telemann Fantasias for flute: No 6. in D minor; No 2, in A minor
J.S. Bach Flute Sonata No 2, in E flat major (BWV 1031)
C. P. E. Bach Trio-Sonata in E (Wq 162)
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings
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Poems of character, selected and introduced by Michael Schmidt
5: A Flatterer Readers:
DAVID MAHLOWE , PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
- to mark the official birthday of Her Majesty The Queen BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted bv BRYDEN THOMPSON Music by Elgar, Eric Coates , Purcell, Bliss, Handel and Walton
Sir Cecil Parrott , Professor of Central and South-East European Studies at Lancaster University and former British Ambassador in Prague, with his personal choice of records.
Mozart Non piii andrai (The Marriage of Figaro) istvan gati (baritone)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER SCIIROTTNER (Rias Berlin recording)
Berlioz Opening scene (The Damnation of Faust), with Rakoczy March
STUART BURROWS (tenor)
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by seiji
OZAWA Weber Concertstuck in F minor NIKITA MAGALOFF (piano): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Conducted by COLIN davis. Records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Denderbelle, Belgium
Kamiel D'Hooghe talks to JOHN LADE at the console of this village organ and discusses a record which he has made including music by F. J. Fttis and van Helmont.
Richard Mayne (in the Chair) talks with JANET ADAM SMITH BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE and BRYAN ROBERTSON
Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude
Opera in three acts Music by Korngold Libretto by PAUL SCHOTT
(sung in German) (records)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS TOLZER BOYS' CHOIR
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
The action takes place in Bruges at the end of the 19th century. Act 1
Selected and read by Nicolette Bernard
Act 2
9.30* Interval Reading
S.40* Die Tote Stadt: Act 3
RICHARD OSBORNE talks about Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A flat. Op 110, as played by ARRAU, BACKHAUS, BARENBOIM, BRENDEL, KEMPFF, SCHNABEL, SER-KIN and others.
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