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The first of eight Chopin recitals drawn from the recordings of pianists renowned for their interpretation of his music. This week: Alfred Cortot
Study in c major, Op 10 No 1
8.8* Two Waltzes, Op 69
8.15* Preludes. Op 28 Nos 1-15
8.37* Ballade in F minor. Op 52
8.47* Two Nocturnes. Op 55 gramophone records
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Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor (K 310) (mono) DINU LIPATTI
9.19* Beethoven Septet in Sat, Op 20
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
10.1* Maliplero Violin Concerto
ANDRE GERTLER PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
This week Natalie Wheen reports on the Carl Flesch Violin Competition and how the City of London looks towards the Barbican.
Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT
leader BARRY WILDE conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Mozart Overture: La clemenza di Tito
Panutnik Sinfonia mistlca (first broadcast performance. Commissioned by the Northern Sinfonia Concerts Society with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain)
Mozart Symphony No 39 (K 543)
BBC Manchester
(Panufnik's Sinfonia di Sfere is played in Fri's Prom: 7.30)
Francis King , novelist and critic. BBC Manchester
International Amateur Choral Competition:
5: Equal Voice Class, Part 1
UK: READING MALE VOICE CHOIR; Bulgaria: WOMEN'S CHAMBER CHOIR OF THE TRADE WORKERS' HOUSE OF CULTURE, SOFIA; Belgium: CERCLE CECILIA DE RAEREN : Sweden: 'TREKLANGEN', LINKÖPING; Finland: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CHORUS
Introduced hy Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)
During the 1960s Norbert Bralnln recorded many classical violin-and-piano sonatas for the BBC. first with Lamar Crowson , whom we hear today, and later with Lili Kraus. Mozart Sonatas: in E minor (K 304); F (K 377); A (K 526) (s: 1965)
(These performances are available on BBC Records: album REF 313; cassette ZCD 313) followed by an interlude
Opera in four acts by Massenet
Libretto after GOETHE by EDOUARD SLAU , PAUL MILLIET and GEORGES HARTMANN (sung in French)
A performance given at the Bavarian State Opera House.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA conducted by jesus LÃPEZ-COBOS The action takes place in Wetzlar, near Frankfurt, towards the end of the 19th century. Acts 1 and 2 3.10* Interval Reading
3.20* Werther. Acts 3 and 4 (Bavarian Radio recording)
Peter Dodd takes a look at some of the music to be broadcast in the Proms.
The Fires of London: Philippa Davies (flute) David Campbell (clarinet) Beverley Davison (violin/viola) Rohan de Saram (cello) Stephen Pruslin (keyboard) Gregory Knowles (percussion)
Bach. arr Maxwell Davies Preludes and Fugues in C sharp major and minor (first broadcast performance)
Schoenberg/Webern Kammersymphonie
Peter Maxwell Davies Ave Maris Stella
(A public concert given on 2 August as part of the Wigmore Hall Summer Festival 1978)
(Stereo)
Kennedy's Children by ROBERT PATRICK
Five people sit in a bar on the Lower East Side of New York on a rainy February afternoon in 1974. As they talk. always to themselves, and some become progressively drunker, we learn what the 1960s were for each of them.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Preview: page 15
direct from the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith Part 1
Members of the Nash Ensemble
Clifford Benson (piano) Marcia Crayford (violin) Antony Pay (clarinet)
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Messiaen Quatuor pour la On du temps
Three talks in which Richard Mayne gives some impressions of recent cultural changes in France and Italy.
1: France into English
The ways in which France Is beginning to resemble Britain
Jan Latham-Koenig (piano), James Holland (percussion)
Bertrand Russell 's political ideas have tended not to be taken seriously and are often compared unfavourably with his contributions to philosophy and mathematics.
Alan Ryan. Reader in Politics at the University of Oxford, argues that Russell's qualities as a political thinker - as distinct from those as an activist - can only be understood if they are seen against the background of the liberal tradition into which he was born: and that his experience of 20th-century politics made him invest that tradition with a new life.
(viola and violin) plays music by his great grandfather, Dvorak, and his grandfather, Suk.
Dvorak Quintet in E flat, Op 97, for two violins, two violas and cello: with the SMETANA QUARTET Suk Un poco triste; Burlesca (Four Pieces, Op 17, for violin and piano): with JAN PANENKA gramophone records
A series of 13 talks by Richard Cobb. Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
10: The Commune d'lxelles (2) followed by an interlude
Last year Radio 3 broadcast three programmes devoted to some of the earliest secular songs extant, those of the Provencal poet-composers known as the Troubadours. In a further three programmes Piers Burton-Page traces the development of the lyric impulse in Northern France. 3: Adam de la Halle
Im Abendrot
AALT IF NOORDEWIER-REDDINGIUS (soprano)
ANTHON VAN DER HORST (Organ) gramophone record
