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A weekly series of pieces based on all kinds of dance forms. Including this week a Strathspey and Reel by Percy Grainger ; Pavanes by Dowland and Ravel; Hungarian Dances by Liszt and Kodaly: records
Soler Sonata in G minor
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
9.12* Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47: BEAUX ARTS TRIO SAMUEL RHODES (viola)
9.42* Brahms Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 2
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
10.12* Franz Schmidt Piano Quintet in G: VIENNA PHILHARMONIA QUINTET: records
Symphony No 53, in D (Imperial) Imperial Mass
MARGARET MARSHALL (SOpranO) HELEN COCHRANE (contralto) DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) NEILSON TAYLOR (baritone)
BBC SCOTTISH CHORAL SOCIETY chorus-master colin RATCLIFFE
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY BBC Scotland
with a weekly selection of popular classics on records.
Some perennial characters poetically illustrated and introduced by Michael Schmidt 8: A Rash Man
Readers: ANN ARIS, PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
The first In a series of Saturday afternoon recitals, direct from Broadcasting House. London. Ida Haendet (violin)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Tartini Sonata in G minor (Devil's trill)
Beethoven Sonata In A. Op 47 (Kreutzer)
(Ida Haendel is in Friday's Prom concert at 7.30 pm)
Bernard Williams , Knight-bridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, and a director of the English National Opera, introduces his personal choice of records.
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 1: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone record
Bruckner Symphony No 5. in B flat: RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. FRANKFURT conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN (Hess Radio recording)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Some highlights from the Eighth International Organ Festival, which took place at the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban last June. LYNNE DAVIS , winner of the interpretation Competition, plays two movements from the Suite by Jehan Alain (part of the final round on 25 June).
5.55* Peter Hurford , founder and Artistic Director of the Testival, talks about its purpose and its development.
6.5- St Albans 75
JEAN LANGLAIS plays two of his recent Cinq Meditations sur I'Apocalypse, and improvises on a submitted theme (part of his recital on 25 June).
This week: Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH , CHRISTOPHER RICKS and CLAIRE TOMALIN , Producer PHILIP FRENCH
direct from the Royal Albert Hall FELICITY PALMER (soprano)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA associate leader ASHLEY ARBUCKLE conducted by Walter Susskind Schubert Overture: Rosamunde Berg Seven Early Songs
Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
A. S. Byatt , novelist and critic and Lecturer in English at University College, London, gives the second of four talks.
Part 2 SuppS Overture: Morning. Noon and Night in Vienna Lehar Waltz: Gold and Silver
Johann Strauss Overture: The Gypsy Baron; Pizzicato Polka; Waltz: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Part 2 of this concert will be shown on BBC1 on Sun 8 August
Henry Pleasants talks about American musical life and its development,
JAN DEGAETANI (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP WEST
(oboe, cor anglais, alto shawm) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Ives The Indians; The cage; Thoreau
Elliott Carter Pastoral, for cor anglais and piano
Ives The circus band arr Ives In the mornin'
John Harbison Amazing Grace: variations for oboe
Ives The things our fathers loved
Richard Wernick Songs of Remembrance, for voice with shawm, cor anglais and oboe Ives Serenity
(first broadcast performances in this country of the works by Carter, Harbison and Wernick)
