Handel Concerto Grosso No 28, in F, for double orchestra
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.22* Couperin Concert Royal No 11, in c minor HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe) THOMAS BRANDIS (violin) MANFRED SAX (bassoon) CEIRISTIANE JACCOTTBT (harpsichord)
7.40' Johann Stamitz Symphony in A: SLOVAK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, directed by BOHDAN WARCHAL
(continued) conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
Schumann Overture: Manfred: NEW PHILHARMONIl
ORCHESTRA
8.17' Mozart Serenade in c minor (K 388): NEW PHILHARMONIA WIND ENSEMBLE
8.37* Wagner Siegfried Idyll: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: records
The Wesleys
S. S. Wesley Symphony (Overture): ACADEMY or THE BBC, conducted by MARTIN NEARY
The Wilderness: CHOIR or LEEDS PARISH CHURCH
ANTHONY LANGFORD (Organ) conducted by DONALD HUNT gramophone records
EDMOND CARLIER (cello) RICHARD NUNN (pianO)
Bach Suite No 2, in D minor, for unaccompanied cello (bwv 1008)
Beethoven Sonata in c minor, Op 5 No 2
First of two programmes by two of America's leading singers of 20th-century music; with, this week, an instrumental bonus in the shape of a rarely heard early work by Elliott Carter
JAN DEGAETANI (mezzo-soprano)
PHILIP WEST (oboe, cor anglais, shawm)
ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Ives The Indians; The Cage;
Thoreau Carter Pastoral, for cor anglais and piano
Ives The Circus Band; The Things Our Fathers Loved
Richard Wernick Songs of Remembrance, for voice with shawm, cor anglais and oboe
Ives Serenity; In the mornin'
(Revised repeat)
leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
MARK KAPLAN (violin)
Weber Overture: Euryanthe
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
Charles Ives featured in today's chamber recital (American Songs, 10.20 am), and now Everett Helm reflects on the composer's personality: Charles Ives - Composer or Businessman?
Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 6, in F (Pastoral)
(A public concert given in the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, on 29 March)
direct from St George 's, Brandon Hill,
Bristol Peter Wallfisch (piano)
Schubert Sonata in G (D 894)
Bartok Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs (A series of concerts from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Charlotte Street, Bristol. Tickets: 85p at the door) BBC Bristol
Opera in four acts Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO
After MÉRY'S play La battaille de Toulouse
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (sung in Italian)
A tale of love, heroism and imagined betrayal of a hushand by his wife, set against the background of the war between Barbarossa and the cities of northern Italy. Cast:
MILAN CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master MINO BORDIGNOK conducted by MAURIZIO RINALDI
(Italian Radio recording) Acts 1 and 2 3.0* Interval Reading
3.5* La battaglia di Legnano Acts 3 and 4
A performance bv the LASALLE QUARTET Of his Quartet (1964) recorded during the 1978 Edinburgh International Festival BBC Scotland
Fifth in a series of seven Programmes featuring music from Italy, France, Germany and England TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
John Bull Dr Bull's My Selfe, a Gigge; Dr Bull's Juell; The King's Hunt
William Randall Galliard: Can she excuse
Giles Farnaby Loth to depart;
Muscadin William Byrd The bells
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.
Presented by Jack Brymer Grieg Four Norwegian Dances
Nielsen Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by AKEO WATANABE
With David Munrew
Musical life in the salons and the taverns of London after Albert became
Prince Consort.
by HOWARD BRENTON adapted for radio by the author from his stage play
Songs composed by NICK AND TONY BICAT and sung by PAUL JONES and MAGGIE BELL
A teeming, Breughel-like composition set on Derby Day in Silver Jubilee Year, June 1977.
Music and songs composed and conducted by NICK BICAT
Musicians NICK BICÃT, ANDREW DICKSON. BILL WORREL, CHARLIE GRIMA , CATHY GILES and PAUL HART Music production by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY followed by an interlude
HILVERSUM RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID PORCELUN
Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The peacock (Netherlands Radio recording)
4: Theorems of Vision
'Modern neurophysiology has learned much about the operation of the individual nerve cell, but unpleasantly little about the meaning of the circuits they compose in the brain.' Furthermore, as Professor David Marr of MIT argues, we have yet to define what problems the brain solves when, for example we see. He discusses with John Maddox his new work which aims to provide a comprehensive account of intelligence.
A recital by the young Greek pianist
Haydn Sonata in *(h xvi 37)
Beetheven Variations on Une fièvre brúlante (Grétry's Richard Coeur de
Lion) (WoO 72)
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1
No 86: Wahrlich, wahr-Unhichsage eucn
No 138: Warum betrubst du dich, mein Herz?
VIOLET TWOMEY (soprano) AINE NIC GABHANN (contralto)
FRANK PATTERSON (tenor) WILLIAM YOUNG (bass)
JOHN O'SULLIVAN (organ)
CANTATA SINGERS, NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader MARY GALLAGHER conducted by JOHN BECKETT
(A public concert given in St Anne's Church, Dublin, on 11 February)