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Giovanni Gabriell Sonata pian e forte: Canzon primi tont PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
7.9* Paisiello Harpsichord Concerto in C: MARIA TERESA GARATTI I MUSICI
7.31* Verdi Ballet Music (II Trovatore)
MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA gramophone records
Berlioz Overture: King Lear
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Gibson
8.19* Poulenc Sinfonietta
The Paris Orchestra, conducted by Georges Pretre
8.47* Ibert Bacchanale
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Fremaux
(gramophone records)
(Stereo)
Vaughan Williams
Song-cycle: On Wenlock Edge
9.27* Six Studies in English Folksong
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Hugh Bean (violin)
Frances Mason (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
gramophone records
John Poole
(Present Director) conducts the BBC SINGERS
With TIMOTHY FARRELL (Organ)
Bliss Cantata: Shield of Faith, for soprano, baritone, chorus, and organ (first broadcast performance)
JULIE KENNARD (soprano)
JONATHAN ROBARTS (baritone)
Last of seven programmes featuring each of the BBC's Chorus Directors since the foundation of the Wireless Chorus in 1924, together with two guest conductors.
in B flat major, Op 83 CLAUDIO ARRAU
ORCHESTRA NATIONALE DE FRANCE conducted by iGOR MARKEVITCH (Recording from the 1976 Lausanne Festival made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
In the hrst of 13 programmes of German song, the composers are Mozart, Schubert, and Wolf Mozart Ungluckliche Liebe; Der Zauberer
Schubert Suleika n
Wolf Begegnung ; Wiegenlied im Sommer
Schubert Das Rosenband; Ganymed
Mozart Das Veilchen Abendempfindung
MARGARET MARSHALL (soprano) JOHN FRASER (piano)
(14 October: Beethoven and Schubert with Margaret Price and James LocUiart )
leader ALAN TRAVERSE conductor SIR CHARLES GROVES
Daniel Jones Symphony No 9 (first broadcast performance) Frank Bridge Lament for strings Nielsen Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments) BBC Manchester
David Wilde (piano)
Bach Partita No 1. in B flat
Mozart Sonata in E flat (K 282)
Schubert Four Impromptus (D 899)
(From the Library Theatre, Bradford. The first of 12 concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in association with the BBC)
An oratorio
The story of Semele, ' alter'd from the Semele of MR WIL LIAM CONGREVE , set to musick by Mr George Frederick Handel '. First performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden in February 1744
Continuo:
BERNARD RICHARDS (cello)
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) ALASTAIR ROSS (organ) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader JACK ROTHSTEIN conductor PAUL STEINITZ
(Given before an invited audience in St John's, Smith Square, London, on 26 April) Acts 1 and 2
Frederic Raphael , the novelist and playwright
Act 3
'He trailed clouds of glory through the opera houses of the West, but remained all his life a typical Volga peasant - coarse, cunning, vindictive, miserly.'
LESLIE GARDINER talks about Chaliapin, the private man and public figure -and particularly about his triumphant visit to Edinburgh in 1922. BBC Scotland
Records of the Spanish guitarist MANITAS DE PLATA and the ANTONIO ARENAS FLAMENCO GROUP
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The Wider World
6.30 Mid-Career
4: Ways of Coping
ROBERT HUDSON looks at some of the ways in which people cope with stress at work. and how this affects their job performance.
7.0 New series
What Right Have You Got?
MICHAEL MOLYNEUX introduces a new 26-programme course for adults on the rights and responsibilities of the citizen - at home, in the community, at work, and at law.
Series producers ALAN EREIRA and JOHN THOMAS
(Rptd: Sunday.3.30 pm R4VHF: not Scotland, Ulster)
Book 1, £1.35, from bookshops
leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD with KYUNG-WHA CHUNG (violin) direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester: Part 1
Berlioz Overture: Le corsaire Brahms Violin Concerto in D
by A. Alvarez
The novelist, critic and author of The Savage God, reads a cycle of seven poems, his first for 12 years, and comments on the circumstances in which they were written.
Part 2 Schoenberg Pelleas and Meiisande. BBC Manchester
by Virginia Woolf, abridged for radio by Louis MacNeice
John Rowe as Bernard, Faith Brook as Susan, Lyndon Brook as Neville, Caroline Blakiston as Rhoda, Nigel Hawthorne as Louis, Penelope Wilton as Jinny, Peggy Ashcroft as the Choral Voice
Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel is of the interwoven autobiographies of three men and three women tracing their lives from childhood to middle age.
Songs by Schubert and Brahms, in performances given by her for the BBC between 1960 and 1967. with ERNEST LUSH (piano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Brahms Nachtwandler
Schubert Der Schmetterling ; Der Musensohn: An die Laute; Das Lied im Griinen
Brahms Meine Liebe ist griin; Abendregen; Verzagen; Nachtwandler
(Repeats)
