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Samuel Wesley Symphony in D BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
7.18* Arne Song: Blow. blow thou winter wind
7.20* Thomas Linley <Jr), arr Beechey 0, bid your faithful Ariel fly: APRIL CANTELO (sop) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
7.24' Vaughan Williams Three Portraits (The - England of Elizabeth)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
7.41' William Alwyn Four Elizabethan Dances
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER: records
Verdi Overture: Aroldo
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.14* Mendelssohn Notturno (A Midsummer Night's Dream) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
8.20* Salnl-Saens Symphony NO 3, in c minor
GASTON LlTAIZE (organ)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM gramophone records
TCHAIKOVSKY
1840-1893
Tchaikovsky is usually considered as the composer of orchestral and operatic music. This week's programmes feature his instrumental music: the Piano Trio, the four String Quartets and his last chamber work, the String Sextet, known as Souvenir de Florence.
String Sextet in D minor, Op 70 (Souvenir de Florence) BORODIN STRING QUARTET GENRIKH TALALYAN (viola)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) gramophone record
(Tchaikovsky's Ballet: Nutcracker: BBC1 tomorrow 2.35 pm)
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(B'cast on Christmas Sunday)
Tallis Spem in alium (a 40) Byrd Laudibus in sanctis (a 5) Purcell Ode on St Cecilia's Day (1692): Hail. Bright Cecilia Britten Cantata Misericordium. for tenor, baritone, chorus and small orchestra: JULIE KENNARD (SOP), JOHN YORK SKINNER and DAVID JAMES (counter-tenors) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baritone) JONATHAN ROBARTS (baSS) BBC SINGERS, NOUVEL
ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE conducted by JOHN POOLE
(French Radio recording of a public concert given in Notre Dame (des Blancs-Manteux on 7 December)
born 1816
Pièces espagnoles; Fantasia Baetica: IRIS LOVERIDGE (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
SANDRA BROWNE (mezzo-soprano) Smetana Symphonic Poem: Vltava (Ma vlast)
Mahler Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 5, in c minor. BBC Scotland
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
A programme of Victorian music introduced by the artists.
MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
FREDERICA YON STADE (Soprano) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO Part 1 Brahms
Piano Concerto No 1, In D minof
Barbara Jefford reads from the mystical text which provided the famous quotation at the end of Eliot's Four Quartets - the Revelations of Divine Love of the 14th-century hermitess Juliana of Norwich
Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 4
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
The National School Brasi Band Association Festival Concert 1976. Introduced by HARRY MORTIMER , OBE
Hoist Suite No 1: MASSED BANDS conducted by HARRY MORTIMER
Philip Lane A Spring Overture HARLOW SCHOOLS BAND conducted by BRAMWELL TAYLOR Philip Sparke Concert Overture WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL BAND, conducted by ALBERT POWER Stuart Johnson Ceramic City Festival: MASSED BANDS conducted by HARRY MORTIMER
(Part of a concert recorded in the Central Hall, Westminster, on 22 May)
bursts open with ATARAH'S BAND. Atarah Ben-Tovim explains how to build a band and finishes up with a quiz: have pencils and paper ready,
(piano)
Chopin Polonaise in A flat, Op 53: Fantaisie in F minor, Op 49; Berceuse, Op 57
Brahms Capriccio in B minor, Op 76 No 2; Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2
Chabrier Scherzo-valse (Pieces pittoresques): records
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2
A fairv-tale opera by Engelbert Humperdinck adapted by ADELHEID WETTE from the Grimm Brothers' version of the traditional tale and sung in an English translation by NORMAN KELLEY
CHILDREN FROM WHITGIFT SCHOOL DR CIIALLONER'S GRAMMAR
SCHOOL, AND FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S MUSIC GROUP
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader CARL PINI conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES
The second of six programmes BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTET Schubert Octet in F (D 803)
9.0* John Warren , Principal Lecturer in German at Oxford Polytechnic, talks about the Biedermeier world of Schubert and his friends.
9.15* Schubertiads Part 2
TILL ENGEL (piano), MEMBERS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTET Schubert Quintet in A (The Trout) (D 667)
(Austrian Radio recording)
EVA CSAPO (sop). AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor LEIF SEGERSTAM
Krenek Fragments from the opera Karl V, Op 73a WebernCantataNo1,Op29,for soprano, choir and orchestra (Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
A Christmas reflection by Dennis Potter
Cantata No 64: Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget: HAZEL HOLT (soprano) PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor)
JOHN NOBLE (baritone), LONDON BACH SOCIETY CHOIR AND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, leader JOHN HOLLOWAY conductor PAUL STEINITZ
(Bach's Magnificat in E fiat, tomorrow 9.40 pm)
John Walter 's Landscape Introduced by CHARLES FOX
