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Verdi Overture: Aroldo BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Rossini Duet for cello and double-bass
KENNETH HEATH and RODNEY SLATFORD
Bizet Suite: The Fair Maid of Perth
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
Saint-Saens Etude en forme de valse; Toccata CÉCILE OUSSET (piano) Satie, orch Milhaud Jack in the Box
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL : records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte, by J. w. LAMBERT.
Gramophone Awards 1979: a report by EDWARD GREEN-FIELD.
New orchestral records, reviewed by NOËL GOOD-WIN
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Finzi Cello Concerto
YO-YO MA
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VERNON HANDLEY : records
The last of this season's concerts for children, direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London, in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Patron of the Concerts
A 100th birthday concert for Sir Robert Mayer (born 5 June 1879)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS
Introduced and conducted by Bernard Keeffe
At Sir Robert's suggestion; the programme consists of the four most requested works in an audience poll earlier this season.
Malcolm Arnold Overture: Tarn O'Shanter
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Beethoven First two movements from Symphony No 5, in c minor Sibelius Finlandia
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
(soprano)
Martin Isepp (piano)
Liszt S'il est un charmant gazon; Oh! Quand je dors; Comment, disaientils
Emil SJogren Klinge , klinge, mein Pandero; Jahrlang mocht ich so Dich halten: In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Wolf In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Geh ', Geliebter, geh' jetzt; Hogen alle bosen Zungen (Spanisches Liederbuch) Mussorgsky Nursery Songs
This week Hans Keller reflects upon a life in music and some of the musicians at its centre, including JULIUS PATZAK, BRONIS-LAW HUBERMAN, WILHELM FURTWANGLER and BENJAMIN BRITTEN. gramophone records
conducted hy
VACLAV SMETACEK
GERHARD OPPITZ (piano) Part 1
Martinu Saltarello (Mirandoline)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, in c minor
4.5* Interval Reading
4.16* Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 6, in D major
(Bavarian Radio recording)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
J. W. Lambert (in the Chair), talks with Michael Billington
Margaret Drabble and Bryan Robertson
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
The Cinderella of Voices
Jerrold Northrop Moore presents gramophone records of three contraltos from the early years of this century, ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK , LOUISE HOMER and CLARA BUTT. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
leader EDWIN PALING conductor
Sir Alexander Gibson
Dmitri Alexeev (piano) direct from the City Hall. Glasgow
Edward Harper Symphony (first performance: commissioned by the SNO with the aid of the Scottish International Education Trust)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
' I am no sentimental medievalist longing for a William Morriss-y return to the hand press. I accept that the printed book is dead. What's gone wrong has been the exclusion of imagination and intelligence.'
Archie Turnbull , Secretary of the Edinburgh University Press, argues that the knowledge of how to print books is about to vanish.
Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 1, in C minor. BBC Scotland
' Friedrich Nietzsche is the most literary of philosophers. He usually referred to himself as a writer, spoke of his own " philosophy " with a touch of irony and in inverted commas, and remarked in 1888 to the Danish critic, Georg Brandes , " We philosophers like to be mistaken for artists ".'
J. P. Stern. Professor of German at University College, London, gives a studio version of his 1978 Master-Mind Lecture at the British Academy.
(died 1574)
Lamentations of Jeremiah CLERKES OF OXENFORD conducted by DAVID WULSTAN : record
For most of the decade gong have been among the leaders of innovative modern music. Now, Pierre Moerlin leads a new band with a style even more dependent on tuned percussion than the old. Mike Oldfield and Steve Winwood are among the guests on Gong's latest album, from which Derek Jewell plays tonight. Blondie, Catherine Howe and Phoebe Snow are also to be heard.
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