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Thomas Overture: Mignon
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Saint-Saëns Oboe Sonata, Op 166
MAURICE BOURGUE (Oboe) ANNIE D'ARCO (piano)
Debussy, orch Caplet Suite: Children's Corner
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON Chaminade Autrefois
SHURA CHERKASSKY (piano)
DeUbes Pizzicato; Cortege de Bacchus (Sylvia)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone' records
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2. in c minor, by GEOFFREY NORRIS. Recent records of piano and organ music reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMlAN.
Liszt Variations on Weinen, Klagen. Sorgen. Zagen NICHOLAS DAKBY (organ)
10.32* Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN gramophone records
Songs of the 18th century which were written for the Pleasure Gardens of Vauxhall, Marylebone and Ranetagh. Nell Jenkins (tenor) sets the scene, and is accompanied by CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) in songs by Boyce, John Stanley , Defesch, Michael Arne and Thomas Arne.
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of -popular classics in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
Are songs from the Irish tradition valid today? MARY O'HARA answers this question and sings some of the songs accompanying herself on the Celtic harp. Producer MADEAU STEWART
The last in a series of Saturday afternoon recitals direct from Broadcasting House, London. Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Michael Isador (piano) Bach Sonata in G minor
Beethoven Sonata in c major, Op 102 No 1
Brahms Sonata in F major, Op 99
Brian Rees , Headmaster of Charterhouse, introduces his personal choice of records.
A Czech programme: as main work
Smetana Ma vlast (My country): a cycle of six symphonic poems: Vysehrad; Vltava; Sarka: From Bohemia's woods and fields; Tabor; Blanik
CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JAROSLAV KROMBHOLC
(Opening concert of this year's Prague Spring Festival: Czech Radio recording) preceded by two of Dvorak's Gypsy songs (including Songs my mother taught me) JOAN HAMMOND (soprano) Ivor NEWTON (piano)
JINDRICH JINDRAK (baritone) ALFRED HOLECEK I pianO) gramophone records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A performance of Les Corps glorieux given by NICOLAS KYNASTON on the CavaillSColl organ in Manchester Town Hall in 1971. BBC Manchester
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Edwin Mullins (in the Chair), talks with Paul Barker , Gillian Reynolds and John Weightman
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
direct from the Town Hall, Leeds
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano)
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
BRYAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) LEEDS FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master SIMON WRIGHT CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR conductor ROY BOHANA
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by JOHN ALLDIS Part 1
Gordon Gostelow reads from the journal which William Tayler, footman to Mrs Prinsep of Great Cumberland Street, kept in the year 1837.
Part 2
A concert presented by the BBCinassociationwiththe Leeds Music Festival. BBC Manchester
(Mendelssohn is This Week'! Composer: Mon-Fri 9.5 am)
talks about string quartets in general, and about some of her own in particular. In the coming weeks six of her quartets, each coupled with one by Schubert, will be broadcast on Radio 3.
(Thurs at 10.50: Quartet No 1)
(piano)
Scarlatti Three Sonatas: D minor (Kk 141); F minor (Kk 481); A major (Kk 113)
Liszt Transcendental Study No 10, in F minor
Chopin Etudes: c major, Op 10 No 1: C minor, Op 10 No 12; E flat major. Op 10 No 11; B minor, Op 25 No 10; F minor, Op 10 No 9; C sharp minor. Op 25 No 7; C sharp minor, Op 10 No 4; F minor. Op 25 No2; A flat major, Op25 No 1; C minor, Op 25 No 12
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)