BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Grieg Overture: In Autumn
7.18* Bridge Dance Rhapsody
7.36* Copland Ballet Suite: Billy the Kid
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Dvorak Symphonic Varia- : tions on an original theme, Op 78
8.29* Berwald Symphony in E flat
Mikhail Ivanovlch Glinka (1804-1859)
' With his Kamarinskaya, Glinka bequeathed to posterity the symphonic treatment of the Russian folk tune.'
(RIMSKY-KORSAKOV)
' For long years to come Russian composers will drink at this source
(TCHAIKOVSKY, about the same work)
The programmes this week celebrate the 175th anniversary of Glinka's birth by tracing his development from dilettante to ' Father of Russian music ' and culminate in the orchestral piece so highly regarded by his successors.
This morning, a sequence of early songs and instrumental works, performed by NINA DORLIAK (soprano) BORIS CHRISTOFF (baSS) JOHN MARSON (harp)
RUDOLF BARSHAI (viola) and VALERY KAMYSHOV (piano) gramophone records
with Antony Hopkins
Firstoffourprogrammes, which include the six sonatas for violin and keyboard
B minor (bwv 1014) A major (bwv 1015) JOHN HOLLOWAY
(baroque violin)
JOHN TOLL (harpsichord) Stereo
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIMON RATTLE
YVONNE KENNY (soprano)
Rossini Overture: Semiramide
Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op 109
Robert Walker talks about some Tempi in Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 4, in G
(A public concert recorded at the City Hall, Glasgow, on 25 April) BBC Scotland
direct from St John 's. Smith Square, London BBC Singers director John Poole
Wolf Six Sacred Songs
Schubert Wehmut ; Mondenschein: Sehnsucht: Grab und Mond
Poulenc Sept Chansons
(Tickets il.00 available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
played by John Wells at Clare College, Cambridge SweelinckChromaticFantasia
Bach Two Chorale Preludes: Nun danket alle Gott (BWV 657); Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr' (bwv 663)
Couperin Dialogue sur les trompettes, clairon et tierces du grand clavier; Tierce en taille: Offertoire sur les grands jeux (Messe pour les paroisses). BBC Birmingham
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY Mozart Overture: Lucio Silla
Offenbach Intermezzo and Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Bizet Scenes Bohemiennes trad. arr Tausky Green-sleeves
Ethel Smyth Two Interlinked French Folk Melodies Debussy Sarabande Meyerbeer, arr Lambert Suite: Les Patineurs
Boyce Symphony No 7, In B flat
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, directed by RONALD THOMAS (Violin) Finzi Dies
Natalis PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD HICKOK
Cyril Rootham Symphony No 1. in c minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
FODENS MOTOR WORKS BAND conductor JAMES SCOTT
Arthur Butterworth Caliban (Scherzo malevolo) Elgar Severn Suite BBC Manchester
Presented by Jack Brymer BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JANOS FURST , With CHRISTIAN BLACKSIIAW (piano)
Nielsen Overture: Helios Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1, In c
In arrangement
Pavans and galliards In transcriptions for the keyboard, played by COLIN TILNEY : record
Comic opera in two acts by Paisiello
Libretto by Battista Lorenzi
Performed in Naples 1768
Retold by Hans Werner Henz
Libretto by Giuseppe di Leva for the Montepulciano Festival 1979
Sung in the English translation by Rodney Blumer
Introduced by the producer Tom Hawkes
WIND AND BRASS BAND FROM THE WILLIAM ELLIS SCHOOL conductor ANTHONY BRAMALL KOENIG ENSEMBLE conducted by JAN LATHAM-KOENIG
(Presented by Phoenix Opera in association with the Goethe Institute at the 25th Camden Festival, recorded at the Round House, London, on 31 March)
by David Edgar
with Alison Steadman, Peter Pacey and Miriam Margolyes
'Where had it started? She'd often asked herself. Where do things start? Which is the first spoke in the wheel? The first daisy in the chain?'
Vicky and Clive Brent, and their cohorts, are brought face to face with the darker side of the 'Swinging 60s' sexual revolution, and all that its apparently liberating aspects implied.
BBC Birmingham
followed by an interlude
Charles Fox introduces
NARCISSUS
