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Continuing the series which will include all of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues as well as Handel's Op 6 Concerti Grossi. This week: Preludes and Fugues from Book I in the keys of F sharp, E, and c sharp (major and minor) together with the Concerto Grosso in A (Op 6 No 11): GUSTAV LEON-HARDT (harpsichord), COL-LEGIUM aureum, directed by pranzjosef MAIER : records
Listeners' record requests Mozart Serenade in D (Haffner) (K 250)
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin) who also directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA,
10.0. Warlock The Curlew ian PARTRIDGE (tenor)
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Ernest Read (1879-1965): memories of the conductor. teacher and founder of the London Senior and Junior Orchestras.
A conversation with ROBIN leggate , Tamino in Covent Garden's new production of The Magic Flute
Homage to Dr Kurt Eulenburg : a 100th birthday tribute from HANS-HUBERT SCHONZELER. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK.
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS
Schubert Psalm 92: Lied fiir den Sabbath (Stephen VARCOE , baritone); Psalm 23:
Nachthelle Gesualdo Dolcissima mia vita
Gesualdo, arr Stravinsky Assumpta est Maria
Brian Ferneyhough Missa Brevis
Bruckner Ave Maria (a 7) Schoenberg Friede auf Erden
(Repeat oj a Promenade Concert broadcast on 21 August 1978 from St Augustine's Church, Kilburn)
Elaine Feinstein. novelist and poet. reflects on some of the things we say and write.
BBC Manchester
Vaughan Williams Toccata Marziale
LONDON WIND ORCHESTRA conducted by DENIS WICK
Warlock Capriol Suite
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONltTTA conducted by GEORGE BURST
Moeran Symphony in G minor
ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES : records
with Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Mon 9.45 am)
Opera in three acts, based on a Breton legend
Libretto by EDOUARD BLAU Music by Lalo
(sung in French)
A Princess of Ys. thwarted in love, betrays the secret that protects the city from the sea.
Jahel.MARlO HACQUAFTD (bar) Rozenn
CURISTIANE EDA-PIERRE (SOp)
CHORUS AND NEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF RADIO FRANCE, chorus-master PRANÇOIS BILGER conducted by JEAN-PIERRE MARTY
Time: The Middle Ages Act 1
3.5* Lalo: a lonely figure in French music
A talk by JAMES Harding
3.20* Le roi d'Ys Act 2
3.55* Interval Reading
4.0* Le roi d'Ys Act 3
(Radio France 'recording)
Graham Steed. who was pupil of the great French organist, stakes a claim for him as a composer of far greater personality and importance than is generally recognised.
The first of two recitals by the flautist Istvan Matuz to include music written for him by young Hungarian composers in the current decade.
Barnabas Dukay Plus Alpha
Laszlo Dubrovay Matuz iada No 2: Streams
(first performances in this country)
Andrf Jolivet Cinq Incantations
conducted by CLAUD 10 ABBADO with LUCIA POPP (soprano) Part Schubert
Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished) (D 759)
"A man should write for all he is worth, about whatever state he is in at the time, however little he knows about it. You only stumble on poetic truth in the dark: in the light it is too easy to step round it."
P J. Kavanagh introduces and reads a selection of his own poetry.
BBC Manchester
Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 4. in o
Friends and critics of Edith. Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell contribute to this programme by John Pearson. whose biography of the trio of famed writers was published recently.
Contributors include:
SIR HAROLD ACTON , AL AL-VAREZ, JOHN LEHMANN , JACK LINDSAY , FRANK MACRO, RAYMOND MORTIMER , JOHN PIPER , PETER QUENNELL and SIR WILLIAM WALTON and recordings from BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
The young Dutch violinist makes her Radio 3 recital dSbut in a programme including the latest in Luciano Berio 's series of Sequenzas for solo instrumentalists. The pianist in the 19th-century works flanking it is Roger vignoles.
Weber Sonata in c major, Op 10 No 6
Berio Sequenza VIII (first performance in this country)
Schubert Rondo in t minor o 895)
The Romanian-born American artist Saul Stein berg is best known in this country for his cartoons and New Yorker covers, and for such books as The Passport and The Inspector. But a retrospective exhibition covering 40 years of his paintings, collages, tables and graphic work is currently at the Serpentine Gallery in London, enabling the British public to see for the first time the full range of his achievement. John Hollander , poet and Professor of English at Yale. has long been an admirer of Steinberg. and in this talk he examines the development of his work and world. followed by an interlude
SCHUTZ CHOIR OF LONDON LONDON BAROQUE PLAYERS conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
BBC Manchester