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Bizet's L'Arlésienne: Suite No 2; Mendelssohn's Songs with and without words; and Massenet's Scènes pittoresques gramophone records
Locke Music for His Majesty's Sackbutts and Cornetts
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
William Williams Sonata in imitation of birds
Vaughan Williams Suite for Pipes
DAVID MUNROW, JOHN TURNER DAVID PUGSLEY , ALAN LUMSDEN
(recorders); GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord); OLIVER BROOKS (viola da gamba)
Henze Ragtimes and Habaneras GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH gramophone records
leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON with DAVID WILDE (piano)
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor
Prokofiev Symphony No 6 BBC Scotland
presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records,
4: Acting in Comedy 'Laughter is the most valuable thing that can happen in a theatre. It is so therapeutic Peter Barkworth in conversation with Robert Cushman
HOWARD SHELLEY and HILARY MACNAMARA Clementi Sonata No 1, In B flat major Schumann Andante and Variations Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Marghanita Laski , journalist and writer, introduces her personal choice of records.
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme, for cello and orchestra: RALPH KIRSHBAUM BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by HANS VONK Mozart Four Nocturnes (mono) SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) GEORGINA DOBREE , ALFRED WALLBANK , STEPHEN TRIER (bassett-horns) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3 (Polish): BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by HANS VONK
Fourth of eight programmes
Peter Heyworth, music critic of The Observer, presents a personal assessment of some changes in attitudes about contemporary music. He talks with Sir William Glock, Alexander Goehr and David Atherton and illustrates the programme with a wide range of music, including pieces by Rubbra, Fricker, Stravinsky, Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies.
followed by an interlude
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
Alan Hacker (clarinet)
Scottish National Orchestra, leader Edwin Paling, conductor Sir Alexander Gibson
Haydn Symphony No 86, in D
Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat
(Stereo & Quad)
(published 1874)
Douglas Parmée of Queens' College, Cambridge, talks about this important novel and its author. Reader GERALD CROSS
Birtwistle Melencolia 1
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
(Stereo & Quad)
The first of two programmes of instrumental music marking the 300th anniversary of his death
Suite No 2, in D (Consort of Four Parts)
Suite No 6, in A (Consort of Two Parts, For Several Friends) Duos for two basses: Fantazie I; Fantazie II; Sarabande
Suite No 4, in B flat (The Little Consort)
Suite No 4, in F (The Broken Consort, Part II) KING'S MUSICK
Since 1972 YES have been among the most successful rock groups in the world, playing lengthy, intricately arranged and sophisticated compositions which have been described as rock-classical fusions. Tonight Derek Jewell plays from their new album, Going for the One, which contains some shorter as well as longer pieces, and marks the return to the band of RICK WAKEMAN , a remarkable performer on keyboards modern and ancient - including the church organ. There are instrumental surprises, too, in the music of the Norwegian saxophonist, JAN GARBAREK , together with a hearing for JON HISEMAN 'S band, COLOSSEUM ii. Records
