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celebrates National Folk Day with music based on folk tunes and folk song arrangements by Butterworth Grainger , , Vaughan Williams , Hoist and Warlock. gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches, by ROBERT PHILIP.
Twenty-five Years Ago: EDWARD GREENFIELD looks back.
Arnold English Dances
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES Cyril Scott Early one morning JOHN OGDON (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN Elgar The Spirit of England TERESA CAHILL (soprano)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON : records
presents a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
ANGELA CROOME , writer on marine archaeology, talks about the threats to the recovery of the neglected record locked up in ancient wrecks.
Howard Davis (violin) Peter Pople (violin) Berian Evans (viola) David Smith (cello) with Janet Hilton (clarinet) Shostakovich String Quartet No 9. Op 117 Mozart Quintet in A (K 581)
Peter Brinson , Director of the British and Commonwealth Branch of the Gulbenkian Foundation, introduces his personal choice of records.
Bach Cantata No 209: Non sa che sia dolore MARGARET MARSHALL (soprano) SAARBRUCKEN RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS ZENDER (Saar Radio recording) Mozart Adagio and Rondo in c major, for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (K 617) ARS REDIVIVA ENSEMBLE, PRAGUE (gramophone record) Strauss Symphonic Poem: Ein Heldenleben MICHEL SCHWALBE (violin) BERLlN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARA JAN (SFB, Berlin, recording)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts This week: John Spurting (in the Chair) talks with Malcolm Bradbury Marghanita Laski and Clancy Sigal Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Cuatro piezas españolas played by Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
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by Pedro Schwartz , economist and historian
Spain has just elected a new Parliament, the first one after 40 years - against the background of a worsening economicsituation, followed by an interlude
The first broadcast in this country of this Donizetti opera Libretto by ANDREA LEONE TOT-TOLA after SCRIBE and SIR WALTER SCOTT (sung in Italian) An Opera Rara production, mounted to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, and recorded in the Collegiate Theatre, London, as part of this year's Camden Festival.
This was the first of Donizetti's operas on British historical subjects. Written in 1829, it tells the story of the unfortunate Amy Rohsart , caught between the ambitions of her husband and her Queen.
OPERA RARA CHORUS, PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON, leader JOHN WILLISON conducted by ALUN FRANCIS
8.10* A German View of Sir Walter Scott
James Trainer , Professor at the University of Stirling, argues that earliest German imitators of Scott's historical novels misunderstood the originality of his writing, and that his lasting impact was upon the work of the German realists a generation later.
8.30* II castello di Kenilworth
Act 2
9.20* Interval Reading
9.25* II castello di Kenilworth Act 3
An investigation by Richard Bebb
Sir Henry Irving , the greatest of Victorian actors, collapsed on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Bradford, on 13 October 1905, and died later that night. His last appearance was In Tennyson's Becket, and a recently discovered recording of Irving reciting one of the play's most memorable speeches is included tonight.
Producer BENNETT MAXWELL
What happens when half a band departs, and the remaining two members take over with the aid of new sidemen? Derek Jewell looks at the case of 10 cc with songs from their new album, Deceptive Bends. Other sounds from the world of contemporary popular music include BRAND x, the group which has shown a different facet of the talents of Genesis vocalist and drummer, Phil Collins , and the GARY BURTON QUARTET, playing with the German bass virtuoso, Eberhard Weber : records
