Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW orchestra, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
7.17* Weber Andante and Hungarian Rondo
GEORGE ZUKERMAN (bassoon) WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JORG FAERBER
7.27* Beethoven Symphony No 1, in c
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT gramophone records
Leoncavallo Prologue: Pagliacci
ROBERT MERRILL (baritone) ST CECILIA ACADEMY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LAMBERTO CARDELLI
8.12* Saint Saens Piano Concerto No 3, in E flat PHILIPPE ENTREMONT TOULOUSE CAPITOL ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL PLASSON
8.42* Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso: BERLIN philharMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAIt gramophone records
Delius
Cello Sonata
GEORGE ISAAC (cello) MARTIN JONES (piano) Appalachia alun JENKINS (tenor) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR john barbirolli: records
ROBIN leccate (tenor) GORDON BACK (piano)
Haydn Songs from the English Canzonets: Piercing eyes; She never told her love: Sailor's song
Beethoven Song-cycle: An die feme Geliebte; Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmuth: Resignation: Sehnsucht
Britten Canticle I. Op 40: Folksong settings: 0 waly. waly: The plough boy; Oliver Cromwell
conducted by MARCUS DODS Weber Overture: Preciosa George Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Falla Love the Magician
Sonata for two pianos and percussion MARTHA ARGERICH
STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH WILLY GOUDSWAARD
MICHAEL DE ROO: record
conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
JANET HILTON (clarinet)
Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine
12.21. Finzi Clarinet Concerto
With DONALD PRICE
Part 2 Szymanowski
Symphony No 2, In I fiat. BBC Manchester
Ballet For All, as an offshoot of the Royal Ballet, appeared for the last time at Croydon on 31 March. This afternoon's programme follows the format of its final production, Ashton - The Dream Era. which covered the ballets created by Ashton when Director of the Royal Ballet, including pas from Swan Lake, Enigma Variations, Mono-tones and Jazz Calendar
Music Richard Rodney Bennett: LONDON JAZZ
ENSEMBLE, conducted by JOHN LANCHBERY Sinfonietta
Music Malcolm Williamson MELBOURNE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by YUVAL ZALIOUK Introduced by Cormac Rigby : records
Canzona Serenata, Op 36 No 6; Tale, Op 9 No 3; Danza Jubilosa ; Three Hymns in Praise of Toil, Op 49; Sonata Romantica, Op 53 No 1: EDNA ILES (piano). BBC Birmingham
A centenary series of performances conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM.
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (rec 1945)
Verdi Ritorna vincitor (Aida): Eva Turner (sop) with orchestra (rec 1928) Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Quixote
LEONARD RUBENS (viola) PAUL TORTELIER (cello)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (rec 1947 and 1948) gramophone records
(The Beecham Legend - True or False?: R4UK next Wed)
Presented by Jack Brymer Perlemuter plays Chopin Ballade in A flat. Berceuse in D flat and some Mazurkas.
Plus Mendelssohn's String Quartet in D. Op 44 No 1, played by the AEOLIAN QUARTET
Series producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol
PETER PEARS (tenor) JULIAN BREAM (lute)
Sorrow, stay!: The lowest trees have tops; Semper Dowland. semper do-lens; In darkness let me dwell: Say. Love, if ever thou didst find gramophone records
direct from the Guildhall, Portsmouth
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by Michael Gielen Berlioz Overture: King Lear
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor
Four readings for Easter. 4: An excerpt from True Resurrection. by H. A. WILLIAMS , CR, on the theme of ' Resurrection and Death '
Read by Frank Duncan
Part 2 Stravinsky
Suite: The Firebird (1919 version)
(Presented in association with Portsmouth City Council to mark the inauguration of the City of Portsmouth International String Quartet Competition)
by Corinne Jacker
A double bill from America.
In the first play, two women struggle to cope with each other, while one of them insists on her need to be wired to a bank of medical gadgets. In "Terminal" the author's ironic theme is developed: Steven, newly admitted to hospital, faces the smothering demands of a long-standing patient who claims that his case is terminal.
"Rarely have I heard so many outrageously funny, truly funny, lines or dialogue about disease and operations."
(Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph)
(Rpt)
(Stereo)
Prelude and Fugue in A minor (bwv 894): TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
10.49* Triple Concerto In A minor (BWV 1044)
SIMON STANDAGE (violin) STEPHEN PRESTON (flute)
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord). ENGLISH CONCERT gramophone records
A series of programmes in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared.
JOHN* STEANE talks about the role of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg as recorded by NORMAN BAILEY, DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU, FRIEDRICH SCHORR, THEO ADAM, PAUL SCHÔFFLER. and others.
(Die Meistersinger: next Sunday BBC2/Radio 3)
