In the second of this series which will include all of Mozart's piano concertos, a performance of the Concerto No 2, in B flat (K 39), by DANIEL BARENBOIM with the ENG
LISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, preceded by music of Johann Schobert , Josef Kohout and J. C. F. Bach. gramophone records
Listeners' record requests Telemann Concerto in G. for four violins
ALICE HARNONCOURT , WALTER PFEIFFER , PETER SCHOBER - WALTER, KURT THEINER VIENNA CONCERTUS MUSICUS directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
9.13* Monteverdi Madrigals: O mio bene; Zefiro torna
NIGEL ROGERS , IAN PARTRIDGE (tenorsi, CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass), INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE, directed by JORGEN JURGENS
9.23* Scarlatti Sonatas in B flat (Kk 544 and 545): VALDA AVELING (harpsichord)
9.31* Pescetti Sonata in c minor: PETER HURFORB at the organ of Eton College
9.401 Hoffmeister Viola Concerto in D: ATAR ARAD
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by REINHARD PETERS
11.1* Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music: Soloists, LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
From Royal Italian Opera to Royal Opera: some pages from the later history of Covent Garden,presented by Michael Oliver. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
Fifth in a series of ten programmes based on their subscription concerts in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. The current season opened last October under Claudio Abbado with Rudolf Serkin as soloist
Schubert Ballet Music from Act 4; Entr'acte before Act 3 (Rosamunde)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)
' It's even more fun when you win,' says Derek Robinson , in the first of a weekly series of tips and hints.
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5, In 8 minor
(WFMT Chicago recording)
with Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Mon 10.0 am)
D'Anglebert Suite in D minor
Adrien le Roy Pieces de danse
Couperin Ordre No 6, in 8 flat: LAURENCE BOULAY (harpsichord)
(Original 1847 version) Opera in four acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE
Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian)
The first performance of Verdi's Macbeth took place in Florence in 1847. Later Verdi revised it, for performance at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris. That revised version is the one usually heard nowadays. But this performance provides a chance to hear Verdi's original conception of the opera. The edition has been prepared by GEORGE BADACSONYI. Cast in order of singing:
BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN MATHESON
Repetiteur ALEXA maxwell Coach GEORGE BADACSONYI
Italian coach GWYN MORRIS Technical presentation by MARGARET STEVEN Acts 1 and 2
Dr Nick Humphrey , of King's College, Cambridge, argues that self-knowledge is of such vital importance to the survival of the species that biological mechanisms have evolved to ensure that young animals, like it or not. rapidly receive the instruction necessary to turn them into 'nature's psychologists'. Producer GEOFF deehan
Acts 3 and 4 (The revised version of the opera will be screened as part of BBC'2's Opera Month on Friday at 9.10)
(violin), with Maria Bergmann (piano) Mozart Sonata in B flat, for violin and piano (k 454)
Bach Sonata in c, for violin (bwv 1005)
Diana Gordon , a former BBC producer, talks about Tovey and the Musical Layman.
Part 2 Beethoven Sonata in c minor, for violin and piano, Op 30 No 2
( South-West German Radio recording)
in Oedipus at Colonus hy SOPHOCLES based on the translation by ROBERT FITZGERALD with and Gabriel WooU as Messenger
In this play Oedipifs, a wandering self-blinded exile, old and destitue, accompanied only by Antigone, draws near a sacred grove, there to end his life's pilgrimage.
People of Colonus:
ERIC ALLAN , GAVIN CAMPBELL , JOHN GABRIEL , MALCOLM GERARD , HAROLD KASKET , MANNING WILSON
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS and performed by the NEW CHAMBER SOLOISTS with MARTYN HILL (tenor), and MEMBERS OF THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
If only all radio production were on this level one would hardly need to leave one's armchair and venture forth into the real theatre at all
(THE FINANCIAL TIMES)
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS followed by an interlude
KYUNG-WIIA CHUNG (violin) MVUNG-WHA CHUNG (cello) MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG (piano) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by WALTER WELLER
Overture: Egmont
Triple Concerto in C, Op 56
Archie Turnbull. Secretary of the Edinburgh University Press, argues that the knowledge of how to print books is about to vanish.
Part 2: Symphony No 5, in c minor
(A concert given earlier this evening in the Royal Festival Hall, London)
JOAN DICKSON (cellO)
HESTER DICKSON (piano) Pizzetti Sonata in r
Tovey Elegiac Variations, Op 25