Mozart Piano Concerto No 25, in c (K 503)
FRIEDRICH GULDA, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO Handel, arr Mozart Excerpts from Messiah
SOLOISTS, CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF AUSTRIAN RADIO, conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS : records
Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie (mono) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.15* Franck Piano Quin tet in F minor CRISTINA ORTIZ
MEDICI STRING QUARTET
9.53* Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart, Op 132
SAXON STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ BONGARTZ : records
introduced by Michael Oliver
Busoni and Beyond: by CALUM MACDONALD.
A conversation with LINDA ESTHER GRAY
Musica Nova 1979: BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH and ROBIN HOLLOWAY talk about their music in this year's festival. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
This week Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
GlinkaOverture:Ruslan and Ludmilla Strauss Symphonic Poem: Ein Heldenleben: records
EINAR JOHANNESSON (clarinet)
PHILIP JENKINS (piano)
Florent Schmitt Andantino Richard Stoker Sonatina (first broadcast performance)
Hindemith Sonata arr Thorkell Sigurbjorns son Four Icelandic folk songs (first broadcast performance)
International Amateur Choral Competition
Hungary: BELA BARTOK CHOIR OF THE LORAND EOTVOS UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES: West Germany: KOLNER KANTOREI; United Kingdom: LONDON CHORALE
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)
(1913-1969)
Dvorak Overture: Carnival, Op 92: LONDON PHIL
HARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio), Op 50 BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: records
Plaeido Domingo appears in both operas in this celebrated double bill, recorded at a public performance at the Bavarian State Opera.
Cavalleria Rusticana
Melodrama in one act
Libretto by G. Targioni-Tozetti and G. Menasci, based on the play by Giovanni Verga
Music by Pietro Mascagni (sung in Italian)
3.25* Interval Reading
3.35* Cav and Pag: Pagliacci
Opera in a prologue and two acts. Words and music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (sung in Italian)
Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, chorus-master Josef Beischer conducted by Nello Santi
(Bavarian Radio recording)
The Florentine Ihtermedi were perhaps the most lavish musical and theatrical productions of the 16th century. They were also an important part of Medici strategy. Dr lain Fenlon considers how music, libretto and staging were all structured by political concerns.
SYLVIA SASS isoprano) KOLOS KOVATS (bass) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, leader
DAVID NOLAN , conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
Concerto for Orchestra
' Edward Kennedy has been called the Elizabeth Taylor of American politics ... with an air of being kept up regardless of expense.'
Anthony West , the English writer who lives on an island off the Connecticut coast, gives a minority view of the expected Carter-Kennedy struggle for the United States Presidency.
Part 2
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Given in association with Commercial Union Assurance in the Royal Festival Hall, on 13 March)
by JOAN AMBROSE
Don and Shelley live happily together on a remote sheep farm in Western Australia but their marriage is threatened when a new farm hand arrives.
Members of the club: MAX ALFORD. DAVID CASEY. MEG JOHNSON , LOVEDAY OAKLEY
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY
played by JONATHAN RENNERT in St John's College Chapel, Cambridge
Franck Chorale No 2, in B minor
MessiaenDieuparmi nous (La nativite du Seigneur)
: record
and his Love. A short story by YUKIO MISHIMA translated by IVAN MORRIS Read by John Moffatt
Irina Arkhipova (soprano) Robert Tear (tenor)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra leader CARL PINI conductor Riccardo Muti Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
Tchaikovsky Serenade for strings
by Stephen Weeks
(Repeat)
(Decaying Splendours, a BBC Publication by Stephen Weeks, will be available from bookshops from 20 Sept, price £7.50)
Part 2 Scriabin
Symphony No 1, in E
Recorded by Deben Bhat tacharya and presented by Michael Berkeley
7: The Silk-Stringed Zithers of China
Seven poems of Jameb Joyce (Chamber Music)
PATRICIA MCCARRY (soprano) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
