Elgar The Starlight Express (excerpts)
VALERIE MASTERSON (SOp) DEREK HAMMOND-STROUD (bar)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Auric Ouverture: LONDON
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI Rossini Toast pour ic nouvel an STOCKHOLM CHAMBER CHOIR conducted by ERIC ERICSON Suk Love Song
PAVEL STEPAN (piano)
Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No 1. in A minor JACQUELINE DU PRÉ NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Ravel La Valse
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN : records
Critics' Choice 1978
A personal selection of the year's best records and cassettes by ALAN BLYTH , CHRISTOPHER HEAD-INGTON, ROBERT HENDERSON , ANTONY HODGSON, J. W. LAMBERT and RICHARD OSBORNE. Edited and introduced by John Lade Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Mid 19th-century
Bavarian composer
Symphony No 1, in r. flat AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDGAR SEIPENBUSCH
(Austrian Radio recording)
Mozart Quartet in c (K 157) Schubert Quartet in D minor (D 810) (Death and the Maiden)
MOURA LYMPANV (piano) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
John Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat
Malcolm Arnold Scottish Dances
HELEN DONATH (soprano) KLAUS DONATH (piano)
HERMANN PREY (baritone) LEONARD HOKANSON (piano) Der Sanger; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tranen ass; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Kennst du das Land?; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Wonne der Wehmut; Klarchens Lied aus Egmont; Die Liebende schreibt; An die Entfernte; AmFlusse; Willkommen und Abschied
(Austrian Radio recording)
For the eve of Hogmanay, a trip North of the Border. John Calder is a Scotsman and a publisher. His involvement in the arts has not been confined to crusading for literature: he has also run his own festival at Ledlanet in Kinross. This afternoon, he includes RERI GRIST singing an aria from Mozart's 11 re pastore, a Scottish folk song arranged by Beethoven, and in lighter vein, IAN WALLACE singing The West End Perk. gramophone records
guest leader
RAYMOND COHEN , conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Prokofiev Symphony No 5. in B flat major
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by RICHARD HOWARTH
Conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE ANNE COLLINS (meZZO-SOp) THAMES CHAMBER CHOIR conducted by LOUIS HALSEY Bryan Kelly Improvisa tions on Christmas Carols Three Carols, conducted by LOUIS HALSEY :
Richard Rodney Bennett
Susanni Herbert Howells Sing Lullaby
David Cox Nowell ! Heap on more wood
Geoffrey Bush Natus est Immanuel Phyllis Tate Serenade to
Christmas, for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A special edition Philip Oakes (in the Chair) reviews the year with
Film critics Derek Malcolm, Alexander Walker
Television critics Peter Fiddick, Clive James
Radio critics Gillian Reynolds, Peter Porter
Art critics Edward Lucie-Smith, Marina Vaizey
Theatre critics Michael Billington, Robert Cushman
RASMA I.IELMANE (violin)
KATHRON STURROCK (piano) Tartlni, arr Kreisler Sonata in c minor
(Devil's Trill)
Ysaye Sonata No 2, In A, for solo violin
Simon Tapia Colman Sonata for violin and piano (El Afilador)
An opera in four acts
Libretto by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA and LUIGI ILLICA after Scenes de Boheme by HENRI MURGER
Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1978
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS, chorus-master NICHOLAS CLEOBURY
CHILDREN'S CHORUS. who broadcast by kind permission of the Headmasters of Ringmer School and St Peters , Seaford
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, leader
DAVID NOLAN , conducted by NICOLA RESCIGNO
Last month Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Professor James Meade. Fellow of Christ's College. delivered the biennial C. P. Snow lecture to a public audience in Cambridge.
How does a conductor get the interpretation he wants? Trevor Harvey has listened to some of the world's greatest conductors at work, and in the first of two programmes, he discusses the methods and idiosyncracies of SIR EDWARD ELGAR , SIR HUGH ALLEN , MENGELBERG and TOSCANINI
Tonight Derek Jewell looks back at some of the popular music which gave 1978 its particular flavour.
Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Yes and Jethro Tull are the artists featured.
Licht und
Liebe HELEN DONATH (soprano) HERMANN PREY (baritone) LEONARD HOKANSON (piano) (Austrian Radio recording from the 1978 Hohenems Schubertiads)
