Pakistan v England at Lahore
(Fourth day) CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS introduces commentary direct from Lahore by DON MOSEY and HENRY BLOFELD
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Fifth of 14 programmes Most of the music this morning dates from his Paris visit in the summer of 1778: he was separated from Aloysia Weber , his mother died, and his concerts were only moderately successful. Meeting Aloysia again early the next year, he found himself rejected. Mozart Second Minuet (Divertimento in B flat, K 287; composed in Salzburg in 1777) (mono):Josephszigeti(violin) With SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE conducted by MAX GOBERMAN (gramophone record) Piano Sonata in A minor (K 310): NINA MILKINA (piano) Recitative and Aria: Popoli di Tessaglia (K 316; the piece intended as a present for Aloysia Weber on their reunion)4 mono): RITA STREICH (sop) BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS (record) Violin Sonata in E minor (k 304) (mono) NORBERT BRAININ (violin) LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
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Listeners' record requests Schiitz German Magnificat HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR OF LONDON conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
9.14* Cherubini String Quartet No 5, in F MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
9.41* Schubert Salve Regina in A (D 676) TERESA STICH-RANDALL (SOpranO) SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RISTENPART
9.55* Schumann Kreisleriana ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Tippett as Symphonist: by ANDREW PORTER.
The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications.
George Thill : an 80th-birthday tribute to the celebrated French tenor from ALAN BLYTH. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
A music-drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
The final part of the controversial Bayreuth Centenary Ring, in this year's revival. Producer Patrice CheYeau set Götterdämmerung in the 1920s, with Hagen in a grey business suit and Siegfried and Brunnhilde in evening dress, much to the audience's disapproval.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Act 1
Roy Fisher
(Repeated: Thursday 12.10pm)
A personal view of the popular music of the 1920s. 5: 1928 and 1929 With CROSBY, CHEVALIER, JOE VENUTI , JESSE CRAWFORD , ELLING-TON, WHITEMAN, HYLTON, FATS WALLER, NOEL COWARD and others on disc.
Series producer ALAN OWEN
Hungarian Dances, Book 2
IMOGEN COOPER and ANNE QUEF-FELEC (piano duet)
Act 2
Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 11.0 am)
Act 3
(Bavarian Radio recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival)
Owen Dudley Edwards , who edited the four-act version of The Importance of Being Earnest, to be broadcast on Radio 3 on Christmas Day. considers the play in the light of Wilde's own alterations and arrival at the customarily produced text.
Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
The Songs of Francis Poulenc
This 13-part series examines the whole of Poulenc's song-writing career and looks closely at the poets he chose to set. Performances are both in vintage recordings and newly-made by young artists.
Written by the accompanist Graham Johnson and produced by Elaine Padmore and presented by both, with Philip Monnet reading Poulenc's own words.
9: Sanglots
Poulenc's settings of Guillaume Apollinaire , who inspired some of his finest songs, and whose voice can also be heard in the programme.
Le dromadaire; 1904; Dans le jardin d'Anna; Allons plus vite; La grenouillere; Banalit6s; Les Mamelles de Tirgsias (extract); Montparnasse; Hyde Park; Tell me where is fancy bred?; Marie; Le pont; Un poeme; Rosemonde; Sanglots performed by PIERRE BERNAC (baritone) and FRANCIS POULENC (piano) STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) and PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
A dramatisation by GORDON HONEYCOMBE of the last two books of Le Morte Darthur by THOMAS MALORY. With and Malory wrote his story whilst in prison, relying for his background information upon other earlier accounts of the famous legend.
Lancelot and Guinevere, Gordon Honeycombe's dramatisation, concentrates upon the disastrous love affair between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and the resulting destruction wrought upon England, Arthur, and the noble Virtues symbolised by the Round Table.
King of North Wales.DAVID NEAL Music composed by DEREK OLDFIELD and played by MEMBERS OF THE ALLEGRO ENSEMBLE
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(piano)
Debussy Suite: Pour Ie piano Berkeley Six Preludes
Debussy L'isle joyeuse; Reflets dans 1'eau
Berkeley Scherzo
J Believe in a Universe of space and time amazingly vast unfathomed ranges of light years past seen now and who knows future
An unusual collaboration in which jazz-rock composer Neil Ardley provides an electronic setting to a poem by Patrick Huddie
PATRICK HUDDIE (voice)
NEIL ARDLEY (synthesiser and variable speed tape recorder) Producer RICHARD ELSE
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Derby)
(A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix H, compatible for both stereo and mono receivers)
Scarlatti Sinfonia in B flat
Boccherini Symphony in E flat, Op 12 No 2 played by the NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD gramophone records
Critics have seen the East German novelist Stefan Heym either as a satirist of political conditions in the Communist bloc or simply as a writer of compelling fiction. Dr Peter Hutchinson. Fellow of Selwyn College. Cambridge, argues that Heym's work operates on deeper and more general levels and he suggests that this is the reason for Heym's awkward position in present East German society.
A work of the same richly productive period - the early war years - as much of the music heard in Journal de mes Melodies at 5.45.
Sonata for cello and piano JONATHAN WILLIAMS and GRAHAM JOHNSON