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Dvorak Overture: Amid Nature LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
Saint-Saëns Le rossignol et la rose: RITA STREICH (soprano)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT GAEBEL
Vaughan Williams The lark ascending
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (Violin) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Respighi Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELL ): records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
Recent choral and orchestral records, reviewed by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Haydn Piano Trio in E flat (H XV 10) - Beaux Artes Trio
Beethoven Variations and Fugue in E flat on a theme from Prometheus - Emanuel Ax (piano)
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conducted by DAVID ZINMAN STOIKA MILANOVA (violin)
Martin Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion and strings
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor Dvorak Czech Suite BBC Scotland
A personal selection of records
A talk by Toni Arthur on the folklore and superstitions associated with childbirth.
ANNE QUEFFELEC and IMOGEN COOPER ipiano duet) Bizet Jeux d'enfants
Schubert Six Polonaises (D 824) ILast Mon's Lunchtime Concert)
'I 1 seem to have been listening to music since almost before I can remember.'
Today the writer and critic A. Alvarez looks back over the music in his life. which started with his father's collection of records, and introduces a selection of the pieces that mean most to him.
Kodaly Dances from Galanta
Mozart Horn Concerto No 3, in E flat (K 447): HUNGARIAN STATE CONCERT ORCHESTRA, conducted by MARIO DI BONAVENTURA with FERENC TARJANI (horn)
(Hungarian Radio recording)
Mendelssohn Fugue iri E Hat, Op 81 No 4
GABRIEL] STRING QUARTET (record) Strauss Don Juan
HUNGARIAN STATE CONCERT ORCHESTRA. conducted by MARIO DI BONAVENTURA
(Hungarian Radio recording)
Haydn Quartet in G. Op 76 No 1 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET ( Rcptat) (Kodaly and Strauss repeats)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair). talks with William Feaver. Christopher Ricks and Clancy Sigal. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Simon Preston in a recital recorded in the Royal Festival Hall. London
Buxtehude Ciacona in i minor Franck Cantabile
Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm
conductor Boris Brott
Silvia Marcovici (violin) direct from the Leisure Centre. Pontypool
Heddinott The Sun. the great luminary of the Universe Sibelius Symphony No 5
Rosalyn Higgins , Professor of International Law at the University of Kent, gives the second in a series of four talks.
Part 2 Brahms Violin Concerto (Given in association with the Welsh Arts Council) BBC Wales
A talk by Henry Loyn , Professor of History at Westfield College in the University of London and President of the Historical Association.
The murder of his half-brother at Corfe brought Ethelred the throne 1,000 years ago today. He died - a loser - at London waiting for Canute's ships to arrive Sad stories of massacre and treachery soured his memory. Was he - like some modern statesmen and politicians - only the victim of a 'bad press '? PROFESSOR LOYN looks more or less coldly at the evidence.
Hallam Tennyson introduces songs from 13th- to 15th-century Tuscany. The songs have been recorded for the series For God and for Profit to be broadcast over the next three weeks.
SUSAN DENNIS (soprano) TIMOTHY PENROSE (counter-tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor) ALAN JONES (baritone) AMBROSIAN SINGERS, WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR, PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH
Much of this music has been unperformed since the Middle Ages and was found in Tuscan archives by Signora Poli-Rapp. The songs have been re-created from this manuscript material by Elisabeth Poston.
(For God and for Profit, Part 1: Monday 9.10 pm)
Duo in G (K 423)
JIRI NOVAK (violin)
MILAN SKAMPA (viola): record
Bryce Morrison offers some thoughts about the use of music in the treatment of disturbed and handicapped people.
One of the most ambitious and fascinating ' fusion ' compositions for some time has come from the pen of the British saxophonist TONY COE. Using a substantial orchestra, many fine soloists and two singers, it has been acclaimed by, among others, Richard Rodney
Bennett Derek Jewell plays the second half of the work The Zeitgeist as the heart of tonight's programme, together with songs from GINO VANELLI, FLEETWOOD MAC and LITTLE FEAT: records
The Mignon Songs from Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
So lasst mich scheinen (D 877 No 3): MARY THOMAS (soprano) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
