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Purcell Suite in G
LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
7.12* Rameau Dances from Zoroastre
EDUARD MELKUS ENSEMBLE
7.28* Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1
LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA
CHAMBRE DU roy, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE (Oboe)
7.38* Telemann Suite: Don Quichotte: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records
Stravinsky Ragtime for 11 instruments: BOSTON SYMPHONY
CHAMBER PLAYERS
8.9* Barber Piano Concerto JOHN browning (piano) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.35* Bernstein Symphonic Dances: West Side Story NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records
Martinu Primrose : Duets to Moravian folk poetry texts (mono) CZECH SINGERS' CHORUS with instrumentalists conducted by josef VESELKA
9.13* Nonet (mono) CZECH NONET
9.30* The Opening of the Wells: Final song
JINDRICH JINDRAK (baritone) CZECH SINGERS' CHORUS with instrumentalists conducted by JOSEF VESELKA gramophone records
The second of two programmes BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Suite for Strings: Two Poems; Lament for Strings; Summer
Part 1
Mozart Quartet in c (Dissonance) (K 465)
Bartok Quartet No 3
11.25* Interval Reading
11.30* Concert Part 2
Brahms Quartet No 3, in B flat, Op 67
BBC Manchester
leader MICHAEL DAVIS conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN JANE MANNING (soprano) MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
HELEN WATTS (contralto) Part 1
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
Nicholas Maw Scenes and arias
A personal preview by DONALD PRICE of some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.
Part 2
Berlioz Symphonic fantastique
BBC Manchester
Lulu
Ballet by JACK CARTER Music: MILHAUD
(Le boeuf sur Ie toit)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI Elite Syncopations
Ballet by KENNETH MACMILLAN
Music: SCOTT JOPLIN and others
MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA
COVENT GARDEN, directed by PHILIP GAMMON (piano) gramophone records
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY
Second of two programmes, which also includes two Brahms songs, sung in English translations by LESLIE MINCHIN JOHN BARROW (baritone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Parry Weep you no more; Dirge in Woods; Through the ivory gate
Brahms I rose and went out (Wie rafft' ich mich auf)
Parry Nightfall in winter; Under the greenwood tree
Brahms Irresistible (Uniiberwindlich)
Parry Looking backward; From a city window; What part of dread eternity?
(harpsichord)
Frescobaldi Toccatas Nos 2 and 7 (Book 2: 1637)
Froberger Suite in c minor; Tombeau de M Blanrocher played on a 17th-century harpsichord
(Recording from the 1976 Niirnberg Organ Week by courtesy of Bavarian Radio)
Time for Revision or A first look (?)
From the works set for this year's examinations by the GCE A-level Boards, Christopher Hogwood selects three examples of musical symbolism and pictorialism to discuss in today's programme: Purcell's Come, ye sons of art away, Smetana's Vltava and Strauss's Don Juan gramophone records
(continued)
Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Putting on a Show
The sixth of eight programmes . in which anthony cornish, drama producer, lecturer and adjudicator, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the amateur theatre.
6: Owning Your Own Theatre - The Law and Finance
7.0 Where It's At
6: It Gives Me Great Pleasure
In an up-dated final programme JOHN PEEL chooses some of the bands, both newer and established, that augur well for the future of rock music.
Series producer DAVID EPPS
DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR introduces records of this distinguished Czech tenor.
The last of four concerts direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Pinchas Zukerman (violin and viola)
Jaime Laredo (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra leader JOSÉ-LUlS GARCIA conducted by PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Part 1
Serenade in D (K 239) (Serenata notturna)
Violin Concerto No 5, la A (K219)
or Maxims for Locomotion by WILLIAM KITCHINER , MD (died 1827)
Adapted for broadcasting in three parts and narrated by David Lloyd James Part 2 with Victor Lucas as the Doctor
PETER HALL and PAUL TAYLOR (tenors)
ALAN JONES (baritone) RICHARD NUNN (piano)
Producer TERENCE TILLER (Part 3: Monday 23 May)
Part 2
Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, in E flat (K 364)
Three readings from the translation by MICHAEL ALEXANDER 2: The Fight with Grendet Reader John Glen accompanied by MARY REMNANT on a reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo lyre, loaned by courtesy of the British Museum Producer MICHAEL MASON
(Part 3, The Fight with the Barrow Dragon: 27 May)
Piano Concerto No 1, In I sharp minor
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN gramophone record
A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
This week: after the recent publication of DEREK JEWELL 'S biography, Duke, an assessment of Duke Ellington's contribution to American music. Introduced by JOHN amis Producer BRIAN COOK