Cbabrier Joyeuse marche SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Planquette Overture: Les cloches de Corneville NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Massenet Fantasy for cello and orchestra
JASCHA SILBERSTEIN
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Jean-Michel Damase Sonatine for two pianos
MICHELE-ELISE QUERARD and THE COMPOSER lbert Bacchanale
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX :
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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Rubbra on record, by HUGH OTTAWAY.
New cassettes reviewed by ANTONY HODGSON
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Shostakovich Symphony No 15: LONDON PHILHAR
MONIC ORCHESTRA, Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK record
HOMERO FRANCESCH (piano) Falla Fantasia Baetica Antonio Soler Sonata in c minor: Sonata in D flat Albenlz El puerto: Evocacidn; El Albaicin (Iberia)
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
Mozart Quartet in B flat major (The Hunt) (K 458) Bartok Quartet No 5
Sir Charles Curran. formerly the BBC's Director-General, says: 'I have often been critical of people who talk for so long about the music they are playing that I almost lose interest in the music itself! ' With a firm promise to keep the balance right, he Introduces a choice of records that includes Mozart, Schubert and Sibelius, and also takes in Gerard Hoffnung and Spike Milligan , and a song by Beethoven in Spanish.
leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor
KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat major (Emperor)
Debussy Three Symphonic Sketches: La mer BBC Scotland
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Handel Prelude, Aria and Variations (Suite in B flat) Arne Sonata No 1, in p Daquin Le coucou Alec Templeton Bach Goes to Town gramophone records
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Michael Billlngton (in the Chair), talks with Peter Porter. Bryan Robertson and Marina Warner
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
FELIX KOK (violin)
ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet) DAVID PETTIT (piano)
Milhaud Suite for violin, clarinet and piano
Janacek Sonata for violin and piano
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
Opera in three acts
Libretto by GIUSEPPE ADAMI and RENATO SIMONI Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
The Welsh National Opera production direct from the Birmingham Hippodrome
Cast in order of singing:
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORALE chorus-master JULIAN SMITH WELSH PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, leader john stein conducted by RICHARD ARMSTRONG ACt 1
8.10* Reflections in a Muddy Pond
Leslie Gardiner ventures into the marsh country of the Maremma where Puccini re-created the legend of Princess Turandot,
8.25* Turandot Act 2
A sequence of poems on Attila the Hun by Philip Martin
The historian Jordanes says that when the Huns had sung Attila's funeral song they celebrated with great revelry a ' strava '. Voices: ELIZABETH PROUD, GEOFFREY BEEVERS , JOHN GABRIEL , ANDREW BRANCH and JOE DUNLOP
Producer DAVID SPENSEB
Act 3
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET
Schubert Quartet-movement in c minor (D 703)
Sibelius String Quartet in D minor, Op 56 (Voces intimae)
Introduced by Derek Jewell
Some well established performers defy the tides of popular music fashion: others go with the vogue of the moment. Derek Jewell checks on the latest position of HERBIE HANCOCK , GEORGE HARRISON and TANGERINE DREAM as he plays from their new albums.
Songs too, from a new British group, CHORALE, and the gritty Texan SOUndS Of JERRY JEFF WALKER. gramophone records
