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Auber Overture: Masaniello
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by DOUGLAS GAMLEY
Franz Doppler Fantaisie pastorale hongroise
JAMES GALWAY (flute)
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT Johann Strauss Duet and Czardas (Die Fledermaus, Act 2): GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) EBERHARD WACHTER (baritone) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
Gluck Dance of the blessed spirits (Orphee et Eurydice) JAMES GALWAY (flute)
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT Liszt, arr Franz Doppler and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records
Haydn Symphony No 99, In a flat: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Brahms Sonata in F, Op 99 GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (cello) ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) gramophone records
(soprano and piano)
Haydn Canzonets: Fidelity; Sympathy; A Pastoral Song; She never told her love
Brahms Abenddammerung, Op 49 No 5; Madchenlied, Op 107 No 5; Des Liebsten Schwur, Op 69 No 4
Liszt Freudvoll und leidvoll; Die Lorelei; Ihr Glocken von Marling; Jugendgliick
Britten Canticle 1: My beloved is mine and I am his, Op 40 BBC Birmingham
leader ELI GOREN conducted by YURI AHRONOVITCH Bartok Music for. strings, percussion and celesta
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird U919)
presents a selection of classics in popular style, chosen from 75 years of gramophone recordings.
The Nightingale
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET
Shostakovich Two pieces for string octet, Op 11
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20
Dr Magnus Pyke , Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, introduces his personal choice of records.
Most of it associated with London
Haydn Symphony No 104, in D major (London)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS ROSBAUD (gramophone record. 1957)
Hoist The Dream City; Betelgeuse (Humbert Wolfe songs) NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
STEUART BEDFORD (pianiO)
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT (gramophone record)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Jennifer Bate in New College, Oxford
Hiiding Rosenberg Fantasia and Fugue (first broadcast performance in this country)
Kellner Chorale Prelude on Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Johann Caspar Vogler Chorale Prelude on Jesu Leiden, Pein und
Tod Bach Trio-Sonata No 6, in G Jiri Ropek Variations on Victimae Paschali Laudes
Flor Peeters Largo (first broadcast performance in this country)
Messiaen Diptyque
Jos de Brabanter Toccata (first broadcast performance in this country)
(A public recital given on 21 May 1972)
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
Alexander Walker (in the Chair) talks with Janet Adam Smith, William Feaver and Christopher Ricks.
(Last in the current series: Critics' Forum returns in Sept)
The composer of Miss Julie outlines his operatic credo and introduces the first performance of his Strindberg opera.
An opera in two acts by William Alwyn
Libretto by THE COMPOSER after the STRINDBERG play (first performance)
The setting is the kitchen of a large country house in Sweden in the 1880s on Midsummer Night.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Repetiteur ALEXA MAXWELL Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Producer ELAINE PADMORE
Act 1 Sc 1: Mid-evening; Sc 2: Later that night
8.55* Interval Reading
9.0* Miss Julie
Act 2: Early next morning
Regarded as a major figure during his lifetime, Bloch has fallen into relative neglect. Alexander Knapp examines the essential Jewishness of his artistic personality.
Successful songwriters often fail to make good singers: JIMMY WEBB , whose songs include Wichita Lineman, Galveston and MacArthur Park, has not achieved acclaim with his previous albums as a singer. Now, however, with George Martin producing, his latest album El Mirage 4s reshaping critical opinion. Derek Jewell plays from it, with other contributions from NEIL YOUNG and ARETHA FRANKLIN: records