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Grétry Overture: Le Magnifique ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Desire Dondeyne Suite d'airs populaires
ANDRE CAILLIERET (oboe) GILBERT VOISIN (clarinet) ALAIN BOUTRON (bassoon)
Delibes Ballet: Coppelia, Act 3 SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by richard BONYNGE gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimind, by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Recent choral and organ records: reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Byrd Motets: Gaudeamus omnes; Ne irascaris, Domine; Domine salva nos; Haec dies: THE KING'S SINGERS Daquin Noel Suisse de Grigny Tierce en Taille Mulet Toccata: Tu es Petra GILLIAN WEIR (organ)
Bach Motet: Jesu, meine Freude
REGEN'SBURG CATHEDRAL CHOIR
VIEN.NA CAPELLA ACADEMICA, COnducted by HANS-MARTIN SCHNEIDT gramophone records
(piano)
Chopin Sonata in b flat minor
Liszt Paganini Studies: E major (La chasse); G sharp minor (La campanella)
Chopin Nocturne in D flat major; Scherzo No 3, in c sharp minor
presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records...
A talk by Dr Roy Strong on the Church as a custodian of our heritage.
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET
Shostakovich String Quartet No 3 in F, Op 73
Haydn String Quartet in e flat, Op 20 No 1
L.J.K. Setright, motoring writer, introduces his personal choice of records.
Verdi Overture: La Forza del Destino: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
(gramophone record)
Donizetti Concertino in G major, for cor anglais and orchestra: HEINZ HOLLIGER
BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG (gramophone record) Rossini Stabat Mater
TERESA ZYLIS-GARA (soprano) SHIRLEY VERRETT (mezzo-sop) LUCIANO pAVAROTTi (tenor) NICOLA ZACCARIA (baSS)
ROME CHORUS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF
ITALIAN RADIO, conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
(Italian Radio recording)
(The Art of Luciano Pavarotti : Wednesday 7.30 pm)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
The Centenary of the Talking Machine
JERIROLD NORTHROP MOORE introduces the last of his series tracing the history of sound recording during its first 50 years.
5: The Electric Revolution includes reoordlings of Elgar, Richard Strauss , Dame Nellie Melba , Yehudi Menuhin , the Bayreuth Festival of 1927 and the Crystal Palace Handel Festival of 1926.
MIRA ZAKAI (contralto)
ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano)
Schumann Der arme Peter
Wolf Urn Mitternacht ; Denk' es, o Seele; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag' erhoben; Lebe wohl
Webern Five Songs, Op 3 (poems by Stefan George ): Dies ist ein Lied; Im Windesweben; An Bachesranft; Im Morgentaun; Kahl reckt der
Baum Schubert Three songs of Mignon- Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt ; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich schein&n
Julian Mitchell (in the Chair) talks with Derek Malcolm Michael Schmidt and Gillian Tindall
Producer joy HATWOOD
Clifford Curzon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader eli GOREN conducted by Charles Mackerras direct from the Stadthalle, Dtisseldorf Part 1
Walton Variations on a theme by Hmdemith Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss)
Professor John Fennell. who holds the Chair of Russian at Oxford. reflects on the insights into Vladimir Nabokov 's own writing which are contained in the author's criticism of Push-kin, Gogol and Chernyshevsky.
Part 2 Brahms
Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor
On the 50th anniversary of this momentous event David Drew talks about the significance attached to it by the general public on the one hand and several contemporary artists and musicians on the other, and introduces a recording of Weill Der Ozeanflug : a cantata with words by BRECHT ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
NEIL HOWLETT (baritone) ROGER STALMAN (bass) BBC CHORUS chorus-master PETER GELLHORN WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR Director of Music
RUSSELL BURGESS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by COLIN DAVIS
(The performance was given in the Royal Festival Hall in 1971) (But 50 years later will Concorde oe allowed to make the return flight? You, the Jury tomorrow 6.15 pm Radio 4)
How good are THE BEACH BOYS now, after over 15 years as a major voice in modern popular music? Derek Jewell discusses their work and plays songs from their 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You. There is exciting music, too, from a band voted as the best prospect of 1976 in the ' electric folk ' area, FIVE HAND REEL, as well as the Spanish flavour of CHICK COREA'S new album, and a final look at the Works Of EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER.
