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This morning's programme Is devoted entirely to Vivaldi, and the main item is an excerpt from his oratorio Judiths Triumphans. It was composed in' 1716 for performance by the girls at the Ospedale della Pieta, one of four institutions in Venice for orphaned or unwanted children. Vivaldi was employed there intermittently for most of his working life.
Vivaldi Concerto in D for strings, Op 12 No 3: 1 musici
8.12.* Vivaldi Juditha Trium phans: excerpt, with ELLY AMELING (soprano)
INGEBORG SPRINGER (mezzo-sop) BIRGIT FINNIL (contralto)
ANNELIES BURMEISTER (contralto) BERLIN RADIO SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE
BERLIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by VITTORIO NEGRI
8.39' Vivaldi Chamber Concerto in c (RV 87)
FRANS BRÜGGEN (recorder) JÛRG SCHAEFTLEIN (oboe)
ALICE HARNONCOURT (violin) WALTER PFEIFFER (Violin)
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (cello)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
8.46* Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 8 No 10 (La Caccia)
ALICE HARNONCOURT (Violin) VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS gramophone records
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53: josEF suK
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL
9.37* A celebrated historic recording: Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor, Op 74 (Pathetique) (mono)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILHELM FURTW ÄNGLER : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Vincent d'Indy and the Schola Cantorum: a tradition in French music by 'FELIX APRA-HAMIAN.
The tuba, an instrument of unexpected resource by MELVYN POORE.
The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) DAVID WILLISON (piano)
Schubert Five songs from Schwanengesang: Nos 1, 4, 8, 9 and 10
Patricia Beer
Part 2 Schubert
Die schSne Mullerin
ITZIIAK PERLUAN (violin)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
Stravinsky Violin Concerto In D
Brahms Symphony No 3, in F
The seventh of ten programmes in which 26 amateur choirs compete for the honour of representing the United Kingdom.
7: School Choirs (1)
MARKET HARBOROUGH UPPER SCHOOL CHOIR, CHOIR OF HOWELL'S SCHOOL, LLANDAFF, BISHOP FOX'S MADRIGAL GROUP, CHOIR OF WIRRAL COUNTY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, ST BERNARD'S CONVENT CHOIR, GROS-VENOR HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR
Adjudicators CHARLES BEARDSALL NOEL COX , IAN CARSON
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks and announces the Class winners.
Antony Hopkins
direct from The Mailings, Snape Amadeus String Quartet
Part 1 Mozart Quartet in C (Dissonance) (K 465)
Britten Quartet No 3, Op 94
3.55* Britten's Last Quartet
Hans Keller , the dedicatee of Benjamin Britten 's Third String Quartet, talks about the work in the context of both Britten's creative character and the history of the genre.
4.15* Aldeburgh Festival 1978 Part 2 Schubert
Quartet in A minor (D 804) BBC Birmingham
The last of four programmes of music from the Islamic world, from recordings made by Deben Bhattacharya.
4: Arab Maqams from Syria
Instrumental music played on the 'ud, the Arab lute; the Nay, the flute; the Buzuk, a long-necked lute-like instrument; and the Qanun, a psaltery.
John Buller Scribenery , for cello
John Buller Familiar, for two violins, viola, and cello Xenakis Nomos Alpha , for cello
Naresh Sohal Chiaroscuro II (first performance)
ROHAN DE SARAM (cello) ARDITTI STRING QUARTET
YVONNE LORIOD (piano)
TRISTAN MURAIL (ondes martenot) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GILBERT AMY
Messiaen Turangalila - Symphony. BBC Manchester
by ARTHUR KOPIT
The story of an elderly woman who was an aviatrix in her youth and who is now confronting her last great adventure.
With PETER MICHAEL GOETZ
MICHAEL LASKIN , ZOAUNNE LEROT MARYANN LIPPAY , RICHARD RAMOS Original music composed by HERB PILHOFER
Technical realisation by TOM VOEGELI
Directed by JOHN MADDEN for Earplay, the radio drama production centre for American public radio
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given at the Salzburg Mozart Week on 21 January. As well as familiar items there are several rarities in the programme: arias written for specific performances of the operas but now seldom included.
MARGARET PRICE (SOpranO) INGA NIELSEN (soprano) MARGARITA ZIMMERMANN (mezzo-soprano)
CLAES-HAAKON AHNSJO (tenor) THOMAS MOSER (tenor)
HAKAN HACEGARD (baritone) GVORGY HOMOKI (Violin) MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA
LEOPOLD HAGER (conductor and piano soloist) Part 1
Lucio Silla : Overture
Die Entfiihrung: Aria (Belmonte): Ich baue ganz auf deine Starke
Le Nozze dl Figaro: Arietta (Susanna): Un moto di gioia (K 579); Aria (Marcellina): II capro e la capretta; Aria (Basilio) In quel'anni
Cosl fan tutte: Aria (Guglielmo): Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo (K 584); Aria (Fiordiligi): Per-pieta ben mio, perdona: Cavatina(Ferrando): Tradito, schernito: Aria (Dorabella): E amore un ladroncello
Don Giovanni: Duet (Zerlina-Leporella): Per queste tue manine (K 540b)
9.55* Interval Reading
10.5* A Mozart Opera Concert Part 2
Idomeneo: Recitative and Aria (Arbace): Sventura Sidon! - Se cola ne' fati e scritto; Two setting of the same aria text, Non temer, amato bene: Scena and Rondo (Idamante) with violin obbligato (K 490); Recitative and Aria (soprano) with piano obbligato (K 505) Ballet Music.
(Austrian Radio recording)
A panorama of people, places and things, factual and fictional, in the traditionalist French-speaking culture of 1850 to 1950.
A series of 13 talks by Richard Cobb , Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford
6: Military Service (il)
This series could be sub-titled L'histoire des petites gens. ' L'histoire ' - the witness of both fact and fiction. ' petites gens ' - a loving celebration of the quartier, the café des habitues, Jacques Tati country; everything threatened by the New France of technocracy,
Du bist die Ruh'
ELISABETH SCHUMANN (soprano) KARL ALWIN (piano)
(gramophone record: 1932)
