Comprehensive forecast for UK . land areas and inshore waters
To include works by Suppé, Josef Strauss , Lehar and Kreisler: records
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Handel's Messiah, by LIONEL SALTER.
Miscellaneous new records, reviewed by DAVID MURRAY.
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (viola) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) gramophone record
A concert for children recorded last Saturday in the Royal Festival Hall, London DAVID SANGER (organ)
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE
Introduced and conducted by Christopher Seaman
Bach Christians be Joyful (Christmas Oratorio)
Poulenc Quern vidistis pastores dicite; Hodie Christus natus est Handel Larghetto and Allegro from Organ Concerto No 13, in F major (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale)
Janacek Rikadla (Children's Rhymes)
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records.
MARGHANITA LASKI questions the validity of ' folk ' music. Producer MADEAU, STEWART
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Haydn Quartet in c, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor)
Smetana Quartet No 1, in B minor (From my life)
Joan Lawson , author and teacher of classical ballet and dance at the Royal Ballet School, introduces her personal choice of records,
Beethoven Sonata in F sharp, Op 78 (mono): EGON PETRI i piano) (gramophone record. 1936)
Beethoven Symphony No 9, in D minor (Choral)
ANNA TOMOWA-SINTOW (soprano) AGNES BALTSA (contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor) jose VAN DAM (baritone)
CHOIR OF THE VIKKNA GESELL-SCHAKT DER MUSIKFREUNDE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conductor HERBERT VON KARAJAN (Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with A. S. Byatt , Richard Cork and Russell Davies. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN with SHURA CHERKASSKY (piano) Schumann Overture:
Manfred S. 47* Liszt Fantasia on Hungarian folk tunes for piano and orchestra: record
Dr Edward Norman. Dean of Peterhouse and Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge, gives the last of four fortnightly talks. BBC Manchester
(8 January: Walter Bodmer )
MARY BEVERLEY (soprano)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (bass)
WINCHESTER. CATHEDRAL CHOIR WAYNFLETE SINGERS
JAMES LANCELOT (organ continuo) DAVID STANCLIFFE (organ continuo)
JAYE CONSORT OF VIOLS, LONDON CORNETT AND SACKBUT ENSEMBLE conducted by MARTIN NEARY direct from
Winchester Cathedral
Schutz Herr , unser Herrscher (Psalm 8); Die Himmel erzahlen (from Psalm 19) Grillo Canzona quarta
Schutz Domini est terra (Psalm 24); Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (The Christmas Story) BBC Bristol
AportraitbyRobertLayton.
Walter Piston , who died last month, was one of the most distinguished American composers of our day. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger in the early 1930s, he became Professor of Music at Harvard, the author of important books on orchestration and harmony, as well as an influential symphonist.
He talked about his early life in New England and his beliefs as an artist and teacher.
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1628-91) Suite in c.
KENNETH GILBERT : record
LEVON CHII. INGIRIAN (violin) and CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) Copland Sonata (1943)
Martinu Sonata No 3 (1944)
Copland Nocturne and Ukulele Serenade (1928)
Introduced by ANTHONY BURTON
A selection of poems, prose and songs from the North of England, with HENRY LIVINGS
ALEX GLASGOW. VALERIE GEORGESON and CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Compiled by BRIAN THOMPSON Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
