Franck Symphonic Poem: Le chasseur maudit THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
Henry Bishop Forester , sound the cheerful born THE SCHOLARS
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2, in c minor MOURA LYMPANY
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1. in A minor, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
New instrumental records. reviewed by DAVID MURRAY. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Debussy Préludes (Book 1) ARTURO BENEDETTI
MICHELANGELI (piano) gramophone record
A concert for children direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Antony Ransome (baritone)
Peter Barker (narrator) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE
BBC Concert Orchestra leader JOHN BRADBURY
Introduced and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Grainger Children's March: Over the Hills and Far Away
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Kodaly The Angels and the Shepherds
Bizet Suite: Jeux d'enfants (Children's Games) (A few season tickets for this series are still available. For details, contact Elizabeth Russell, [number removed]ext 2819)
Piano Sonata tn F sharp major. Op 78
Piano Sonata in c major, Op 53 (Waldstein)
(Part of a public recital given in the Royal Festival Hall in June 1973)
Anthony Payne Quartet (BBC Commission: first performance)
Mozart Quartet in i major (K 464)
The name of Foyle's is synonymous with books, yet the enterprise started as a single book-barrow The present Managing Director. Christina Foyle. started the famous Foyle's Literary Lunches, today an institution in the publishing world. This afternoon, she presents her own ' none-too-serious choice of records.
conducted by Michael Gielcn
Strauss Metamorphosen
(Recording made available by courtesy 01 RIAS Berlin)
Earlier today the United States Secretary of State, The Hon Cyrus Vance addressed a special meetinp; of members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In the chair LORD HARLECH, British Ambassador in Washington, 1961-65. Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
John Higgins (in the Chair), talks with Stephen Bayley , Richard Mayne and Marina Vaizey
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
The variety of instrumental sounds and styles coming from the popular spectrum today is accepted - yet it can still be surprising. Derek Jewell illustrates the point this evening with music played by Woody Herman ('Stravinsky meets Sousa' according to its composer Chick Corea), Brian Eno and Oregon. Songs, too, from Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Julie Covington.
Denis Donoghue , Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin. gives the last of four talks in this series of reflections on current affairs.
BBC Manchester followed by an interlude
4 simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. Romantic opera in three acts by Wagner
A recordingfrom the Bavarian State Opera
Cast in order of singing:
Saxon, Thuringian and Brabantine nobles, ladies, pages and attendants BAVARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
Elsa of Brabant, falsely accused of her brother's murder, is victoriously defended in combat by a mysterious knight who marries her on the condition that she does not ask his name. The action takes place in Antwerp in the first half of the tenth century.
Act 1: A meadow on the banks of the Scheldt
' In an age of crude poetry - the age of the salesman, the adman, the demagogue, the TV personality-it is sinister that rhythm, which contributes so much to our unease, acquiescence, ecstasy and anger should remain unmapped.'
Philip Hobsbaum argues the case for a fresh account of the rhythmic element in poetry. BBC Manchester
Act 2: The citadel at Antwerp
18.25* Interval Readings by JILL BALCON and HUGH BURDEN
10.30* Lohengrin
Act 3, Scene 1: The bridal chamber
Scene 2: The banks of the Scheldt
Suite for three B flat clarinets: DAPHNE DOWN THEA KING
GEORGINA DOBREE gramophone record
Der Winterabend
MITSUKO SHIRAI (soprano) HARTMUT HÕLL (piano)
