BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by NIGEL KEATLEY conducted by JOHN POOLE MARTIN JONES (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 86. in D
7.36* Mathias Piano Concerto No 2. BBC Wales
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN POOLE
Kodaly Dances from Marosszek
8.18* Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (The Scottish) BBC Wales
1685-1759
In 1710 Handel paid his first visit to London. There followed ten particularly eventful years during which, amidst various trips to and from Germany, he gradually established himself over here as a major musical figure. He composed operas, a birthday ode for Queen Anne, church music, the ' Water Music ' and he spent some time as music master at Canons to the Duke of Chandos.
This week's programmes concentrate on the music of this decade and also look at some of the ways Handel made life easier for himself in the field of composition.
Overture, March and Battle (Rinaldo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
9.13* Concerto Grosso in G major, Op 3 No 3: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-riELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
S.21* Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne (mono)
HONOR SHEPPARD , MARY THOMAS (sopranos)
ALFRED AND MARK DELLER (counter-tenors)
MAURICE BEVAN (baritone)
ORIANA CONCERT CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALFRED DELLER
9.48* Passacaglia (Suite No 7, in G minor): ' colin TILNEY (harpsichord): records
for young people
Atarah's Music Box
Atarah BenTovim with a programme for young listeners..
Antony Hopkins
Richard A. Baker delves once again into the origins of some Music-Hall songs, including the recorded voices of VESTA VICTORIA, GUS ELEN, MARIE LLOYD,
WILKIE BARD and HARRY CHAMPION.
A second chance to hear Brian Martin playing the organs of St Giles, Cripplegate and Westminster Cathedral
Bach Toccata in F (BWV 540)
Buxtehude Chorale Prelude: Nun bitten wir; Magnificat Primi Toni
Reger Chorale Prelude: Seelenbrautigam: Fantasia and Fugue on BACH, Op 46
CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, leader DENNIS SIMONS Conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Part 1
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
12.33* Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1, in G minor
Part 2 Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphonic Suite: Sheherazade (A public concert presented in the City Hall on 11 March by Sheffield Philharmonic Concerts) BBC Manchester
An appreciation of the jazz trumpeter and composer, illustrated with records, introduced by Ian Carr
Producer KEVIN CAREY
in Schubert Songs
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) Part 1
Versunken; Des Sangers Haber Wehmut; Der Strom; Das Ziigenglocklein; Abendbilder;
Auf der Donau; Der Schiffer; Totengrabers Heimweh
Some reflections on surrealism by Robert Melville, art critic and writer, who has sailed close to the wind of surrealism ever since 1928 when he was a young man in Birmingham.
Broadcast version of a lecture given in connection with the current Arts Council exhibition Dada and Surrealism Reviewed.
Part 2
Die Vogel: Am Fenster; Die Sterne (Leitner); Fischerweise; Liebeslauschen; Der Wanderer (Schlegel); Auf der Bruck; Im Friihling; Aus Heliopolis; Nachtviolen: Der Einsame; Geheimes; Nacht und Traume (Recording from last year's Salzburg Festival by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
reads The Happy Prince by OSCAR WILDE
In tribute to Micheal Mac Liammdir who died in Dublin on 6 March at the age of 78. (First broadcast in 1965)
(oboe) and the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
Vaughan Williams Concerto for oboe and strings: record
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSE-LUIS GARCIA directed by ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
ROBERT ALDWINCKLE
(harpsichord continuo)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G (BWV 1048); Violin Concerto in E (bwv 1042)
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op 8 Nos 1-4
(A public concert given in St George's Chapel, Windsor, in June 1977)
A recording from last year's Liszt Festival of London of the first complete performance in this country of Liszt's monumental oratorio.
LOIS MCDONALL (soprano)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
WILLARD WHITE (bass-baritone) CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
LISZT FESTIVAL CHORUS
ST ANGELA'S SCHOOL CHOIR director PETER BROADBENT
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
Part 1 Christmas Oratorio
8.50* Interval Reading
9.0* Liszt's Christus
Part 2 After the Epiphany
Part 3 Christ's Passion and Resurrection
I count this performance among the most thrilling of my musical discoveries in the past two decades.
(WILLIAM MANN, THE TIMES)
A series of three programmes on life in medieval Tuscany compiled and introduced by Iris Origo
Husband and Wife with Norman Shelley as the merchant, Francesco Datini
Carleton Hobbs as his friend, Ser Lapo Mazzei
Irene Sutcliffe as his wife, Monna Margherita
Robert Rietty as the narrator and the voices of MICHAEL GOLDIE , JOAN MATHESON , KENNETH SHANLEY and MANNING WILSON
Music created by Elizabeth Poston from research carried out by SIGNORA POLI-RAPP and played by the PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON , conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-sop)
TIMOTHY PENROSE (counter-tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
ALAN JONES (baritone) and members of the WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR and of the AMBROSIAN SINGERS
'Remember to wash the mule's s feet with hot water, down to her hoofs ... And have my hose made and soled... And give some of the millet to the nag. and see that it is well mashed... Remember to keep the kitchen windows shut, so that the flour does not get hot... '
Directed by HALLAM TENNYSON
13th-Century Motets
Ninth in a series of 28 programmes devised and introduced by Basil Lam
These motets, in contrast to those in the seventh programme, are mainly settings of non-liturgical sacred texts, mostly in Latin. Some of them appear in so many manuscripts that they may almost be described as 13th-century classics.
KEVIN SMITH (counter-tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
NIGEL WICKENS (baritone) MARY REMNANT
(medieval instruments) BASIL LAM (organ)
(Repeated: 4 April)
Abschied (Schwanengesang) DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
(Recording from the 1977 Salzburg Festival by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
