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Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2 BARTHOLDY QUARTET
8.29» Delius Quartet (1917) FIDELIO QUARTET: records
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Mozart Serenade in D (Serenata notturna) (K 239)
HUGH MAGUIRE , NEVILLE MARRINER (violins)
SIMON STREATFEILD (viola)
STUART KNUSSEN (double-bass)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG
9.18* Grieg Violin Sonata No 2, in G, Op 13
ALAN LOVEDAY (violin)
LEONARD CASSINI (piano)
9.37* Liszt Les Preludes
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
9.52* Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore (K 339)
KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano)
ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor) GWYNNE HOWELL (bass)
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by COLIN DAVIS : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Some Significances of the Baroque Suite: by STEPHEN DODGSON.
It Sounds Quite Different from Here (5): The Viola
With a Barrel-organ to the North Pole: FRITZ spiegl recalls the intrepid and musical explorer SIR WILLIAM PARRY. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
with Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 14, in E flat (K 449)
John Sparrow , Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, reflects on some of the things we say. (Repeated: Thursday 12 noon)
Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 8, in c minor (ed Nowak)
(Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording: Oct 1969)
A series of nine Sunday lunchtime programmes * 3:Jelly Roll MortonProducer
ALAN OWEN
(mezzo-soprano) with Steuart Bedford (piano)
Wolf Der Knabe und das Immlein; Schlafendes Jesuskind; Verborgenheit; Erstes Liebeslied eines Madchens
Granados La maja dolorosa: Oh muerte cruel; Ay majo de mi vida; De aquel majo amante
El tra la la y el punteado; EI majo discreto
Antony Hopkins
conductor NEVILLE MARRINER
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord) Corelli Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 2
Bach. arr Marriner Fugue in B minor on a theme by Corelli
Tippett Fantasia concertante on a theme by Corelli
Three talks about the cross-roads of history
1: If I Had Been Gladstone in 1880 Owen Dudley Edwards, Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh, considers how Gladstone, with his ' mission to pacify Ireland ', might have been able to do so when he became Prime Minister again in 1880.
Part 2 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in E (BWV 1053)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
BBC Birmingham
Nigel Glendinning , Professor of Spanish at Queen Mary College. University of London, looks at the historical, social and economic background against which the literature, painting and music of the Spanish Golden Age developed. Readings by JOHN ROWE Producer ALAN WILDING
The remarkable flowering of the arts which accompanied the reign of the 'Catholic Kings' found its musical expression over a wide range of styles, from the gentle refinement of Marian hymns to the ribaldry of secular songs. MUSICA RESERVATA conducted by JOHN BECKETT
EARLY MUSIC QUARTET, EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON, directed by DAVID MUNROW : records
The Golden Age of Spain produced an astonishing clutch of great poets. A reader of the poetry of the time often gains the impression that 17th-century Spanish poets spent their energy celebrating the Catholic oligarchy and its policies.
Professor L. J. Woodward of the University of St Andrews re-examines this emphasis, Spanish readings by MIGUEL PENARANDA
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
The devotional intensity which characterised the leading figures of the Counter-Reformation was reflected to some extent in the ' dark-glowing ecstasy ' of Spanish penitential settings. Morales Emendemus in melius
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conducted by BRUNO TURNER Per tuam crucem
PRAGUE MADRIGALISTS conducted by MIROSLAV VENHODA Lamentabatur Jacob
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conducted by BRUNO TURNER
Victoria Tenebrae Responsories : Second Nocturn of Good Friday CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM Lamentations of Jeremiah
SCUOLA DI CHIESA, conducted by JOHN HOBAN : records
translated and freely adapted by David Turner from El Magico Prodigioso by Pedro Calderan de la Barca
with David Buck, Lisa Harrow and Patrick Troughton
Calderan (1600-1681) represented the late flowering of Golden Age poetic drama. His themes - intellectual curiosity, concern with personal identity, religion and the law, are all brought together in this play, written two years after Life is a Dream.
It is a 17th-century Spanish version of the story of Cyprian of Antioch, who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for magical powers.
With MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES, MARY WIMBUSH and MICHAEL GOLDIE
Incidental music composed and conducted by DAVID CAIN, played by the PRAETORIUS CONSORT director CHRISTOPHER BALL DOREEN WALKER (contralto) Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced and directed by MARGARET ETALL
(Lisa Harrow is a member of the RSC)
by Cabezon, Mildn, Ortiz, Palero, Yepes, Narvaez and MudarraROBERT WOOLEY
(organ and harpsichord) CHRISTOPHER WILSON (lute) TREVOR JONES (bass viol)
Sir Ellis Waterhouse, Professor Nigel Glendinning and Eric Young, art historian, discuss the five major artists of the period: Velasquez, El Greco, Murillo. Zurbarán and Ribera. Producer EDITH BAER
by Professor P. E. Russell , King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish. University of Oxford. An illustrated talk showing the development of Spanish fiction from romance to novel. Producer GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
1618-1676
Three religious Villancicoa BBC SINGERS
ROSEMARY THORNDYCRAFT (bass viol)
DAVID WATKINS (harp)
MARGARET PHILIPS (harpsichord)
ALAN HARVERSON (organ) conducted by KERRY WOODWARD I
