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Delius Marche caprice
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Grainger Bold William Taylor JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Delius English Rhapsody: Brigg Fair
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor: SHURA CHERKASSKY
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, by JOHN STEANE.
Recent records of instrumental music reviewed by LIONEL SALTER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Bach Preludes and Fugues in B flat minor, B major and B minor (Book 1: 48 Preludes and Fugues)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) gramophone records
Third in a series of programmes including music by Sir Lennox Berkeley , 75 this year SUSAN BRADSHAW
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (pianos) Berkeley Sonatina for piano duet
Ravel Suite: Ma Mère l'Oye
Berkeley Sonatina for two pianos: Palm Court Waltz for piano duet
leader ELI GOREN conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
YVONNE MINTON ( mezzo-soprano) STUART BURROWS (tenor)
Berlioz Les Nuits d'été: La Mort de CleopAtre; Three excerpts (Romeo and Juliet)
A series of five programmes on press reaction to famous events. After the Declaration of American Independence. 1776
Written and presented by George Walton Scott
Narrator John Holmstrom
Reaction to the Declaration was intense. The Morning Post accused the colonists of pride, hypocrisy, dishonesty and ingratitude, while the Gentlemen's Magazine wrote that ' the Declaration was of the most extraordinary nature both with regard to sentiment and language.'
Producer RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
Quartet in G (D 887)
AMtDEUS STRING QUARTET
The Rev Paul Oestrelcher , vicar of Blackheath, is Chairman of the British Section of Amnesty International. He has a particular interest in Eastern Europe, as he was born in a town now in East Germany. Meiningen. where his mother was a singer at the Court Theatre. He lived through a childhood under Hitler; went as a refugee to New Zealand; and. perhaps inevitably, has come to feel deeply about human rights and the world's oppressed. This afternoon his choice of music, cheerful as well as profound, reflects some of his experiences: records
Sibelius Symphony No 1. in E minor: BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Chopin Berceuse
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) (gramophone record)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)
WALTER KLIEN (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
Death in Venice
An opera in two acts
Libretto by MYFANWY PIPER, after the story by THOMAS MANN Music by Benjamin Britten
Royal Opera House. Covent Garden, production direct from the Maltings. Snape
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSE LUIS GARCIA conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
The action of the opera takes place in Munich, in Venice and on the Lido, 1911. Act 1
Reflections on current affairs
Theodore Zeldin , Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and historian of modern France, gives the third of four fortnightly talks.
(Lust tall.: 24 June)
Death in Venice Act 2
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
John Spurling (in the Chair), talks with Marghanita Laski , Peter Porter and Marina Vaizey Producer PATRICIA BRENT
Second of four programmes of his piano music introduced and played by RONALD SMITH
Le festin d'Esope; Symphony, Op 39 Nos 4, 5, 6 and 7
Eight programmes on the role and significance of Islam in contemporary society. 6: India
In the first of two programmes on the sub-continent, Simon Digby of Wolfson College. Oxford, examines the particular characteristics of Islam in India, and reports on the attitudes and aspirations of the large Moslem minority that remained there after partition. Producer JOHN THOMAS
Three artists who are each trying, in various ways, for ' fusion ' of ancient and modern styles head the bill tonight as Derek Jewell plays music by YUSEF LATEEF ; the classical guitarist john Williams , travelling towards popular horizons; and the singer SHUSHA, whose new album, produced by Paul Buckmaster , blends the sounds of Persia with those of the West. A fine new singer, DEE DEE BRIDGWATER , Is also featured, together with an encore from the new wave band, TELEVISION. gramophone records
To mark the 90th anniversary of her birth, all this week's closing Schubert songs will be sung by ELISABETH SCHUMANN , beginning with Die Vogel , in which she is accompanied by KARL ALWIN.
(gramophone record: 1927)
BBC Music Guide: Schubert Songs, by Maurice Brown , 75p, from bookshops
