This week: a performance of the Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (k 491) by SOLOMON, with the PHILHAR-MONIA ORCHESTRA, COnducted by HERBERT MEN-GES, preceded by Johann Wendt 's arrangement for wind of extracts from The Marriage of Figaro, and the concert aria Non temer, amato bene (K 490): records
Listeners' record requests Purcell Frost Scene (King Arthur. Act 3)
ROSEMARY HARDY (SOpranO) MAURICE BEVAN (baritone) DELLER CHOIR
THE KING'S MUSICK conducted by ALFRED DELLER
9.25*. Haydn Piano Trio in E flat (H xv 29) AMADE TRIO
9.41* Respighl Fountains of Rome
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA t.58*FaurtLabonne chanson. Op 61 (mono)
CHARLES PANZÉRA (baritone) MAGDELEINE PANZERA-BAILLOT (piano)
The items are interspersed with 16th-century brass music, played by the WELSH BRASS CONSORT
Last in a series of magazine programmes about this year's Proms
First and last nights: some thoughts from JAMES IOUGHRAN.
What, another Messiah? CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD and SIMON PRESTON on performing the oratorio with a difference. Presented by Jeremy Siepmann
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE
The first in a series of ten programmes on records in which some ' personality ' conductors of the past are featured with the orchestras with which they had a particular rapport. This week: Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra Rossini Overture: Semiramide Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathetique)
BORIS BERMAN
Bartok Three Burlesques, Op 8c
Bebussy Estampes Franck Prelude. Chorale and Fugue
International Amateur Choral Competition
8: Contemporary Music Class (1) Sweden: BROMMA CHAMBER
CHOIR Poland: MEN"S CHOIR Or POZNAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY; Ireland: ni LINDSAY SINGERS; Netherlands: SCHOLA TOONKUNST
Bernard Keeffe
introduces the choirs, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
Sextet in B flat, Op 18
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
BRIAN HAWKINS (Viola)
MORAY WELSH (cello)
Opera in a prologue and three acts
Music by Benjamin Britten
Words by MONTAGU SLATER , after the poem The Borough by GEORGE CRABBE (sung in English: records)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
conducted by COLIN DAVIS
Prologue and Act 1
by GEORGE CRABBE
Alan Badel
reads this autobiographical poem by the author of The Borough.
Act 2
4.11* Interval Beading
4.15* Peter Grimes Act 3
(violin With THE PARIS ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON
Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Ravel Tzigane: records
direct from the Royal Albert Hall. London
Juaith Nelson , Emma Kirkby (sops), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto). Martyn Hill (tenon, David Thomas (bass-bar), Michael Laird (trumpet)
Continuo: Francis Grier , simon Preston (organs). William Christie (harpsichord), Anthony Pteeth (cello), Peter McCarthy (double-bass)
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford director SIMON PRESTON Academy of Ancient
Music, leader CATHERINE MACKINTOSH. director Christopher Hogwood Handel Messiah, Part 1
by EDMUND SPENSER. read by Fr Christopher Pemberton
Handel Messiah, Part 2
A programme of poetry and prose, chosen and introduced by John Carroll , and read by PATRICIA GALLIMORE and JOHN WESTBROOK.
Handel Messiah, Part 3
2: Matinees and Storms
'When Liszt had finished, he raised one hand in the air, and you seemed to see all the people in the gallery drinking in the sound.'
Pat Starr reads another instalment from Music Study in Germany, the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay adapted for radio by CAROLE ROSEN.
played by CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) gramophone record
Recorded by Deben Bhat tacharya and presented by Michael Berkeley
6: Ceremonial Music from Bali
followed by an interlude
(k 581) played by RICHARD STOLTZMAN
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
(Part of a public recital recorded last October during the 1978 Benson and Hedges Music Festival)
