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Kabalevsky Suite: The Comedians
VIENNA STATE OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN
7.20* Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 4 No 6 (La Stravaganza)
CARMEL KAINE, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.31* Parry Blest Pair of Sirens
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.42* Handel Organ Concerto No 9, in B flat, Op 7 No 3
SIMON PRESTON
MENUHIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
8.0 News
8.5 Overture (continued) Ibert Escales
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
8.20* Granados El fandango de Candit; Quejas 6 la maja y el ruisenor (Coyescas)
THOMASRAJNA(pianO)
8.35* Berkeley Guitar Concerto
JULIAN BREAM
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER gramophone records
Rameau
Excerpts from Zoroastre (Tragédie en musique, 1749): SOLOISTS
HAMBURG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD KAPP gramophone record
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor)
DAVID WILLISON (piano) RICHARD STOLTZMAN (clarinet)
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
Elizabeth Maconcby Quartet No 11
William Alwyn Song-cycle: A Leave-Taking (first performance)
10.45* Interval Reading
10.50* Aldeburgh Festival 1979: Part 2
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor. Op 115
(Given in June in Blythburgh Church, Suffolk)
BBC Birmingham
(Stereo)
ELISABETH SPEISER (sop) HEINZ MEDTIMOREC. and HANS PETERMANDL (pianOS) SALZBURG MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA, conducted by THEODOR GUSCnLBAUER
Symphony No 32, in a (K 318)
Concerto in E flat, for two pianos (K 365)
The cellist Joan Dickson talks about The Perils of the Prodigy.
Part 2
Two arias from Zaide: Trostlos schluchzet Philomele; Tiger! wetze nur die Klauen
Symphony No 34, in c (K 338) (Austrian Radio recording from the 1979 SaUbttrg Festival)
direct from the Royal Exchange Theatre Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin)
Maria de la Pau (piano)
Beethoven Sonata In r, Op 24 (Spring)
Franck Sonata in A
(Promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Societn in association with the BBC and Samuel Rains and Son, Estate Agents and Surveyors) BBC Manchester
Opera in three acts, by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto by FRANCESCO BERIO
(sung in Italian: records)
'They have been crucifying Otello into an opera!' (Byron)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JESUS LOPEZ COBOS
Act 1
reads from Edward Holmes's "A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany" concerning a performance in Munich of Rossini's "Otello".
(Richard Briers is in "Middle Age Spread" at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Acts 2 and 3
Ives I.argo for violin, clarinet and piano
Bartok Contrasts, for violin, clarinet and piano CAPRICORN
A two-part sequence of music for early evening.
5.45-5.50 News
Presented by Jack Brymer Maurice Andrl : a musical profile of the French trumpeter: records
Devised by BRIAN GEAR followed by an interlude
Antony Hopkins considers a work or theme that has recently caught his attention.
' It's going to take me the rest of my life.'
Richard Hughes knew that he was taking on a mammoth task when he started writing the trilogy which was to examine the events leading up to the Second World War and the War itself. In fact he only lived long enough to write two complete volumes-The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess, but there are 12 unpublished chapters of the third volume and the people who were close to him have some idea of the direction the book was taking.
Paul Scofield reads extracts from these 12 chapters and Michael Bake well examines the various clues as to what would have happened in the third, and possibly final, volume of The Human Predicament.
Producer JANE MORGAN
(1921-2)
' I think I may claim in all modesty that I was the first to translate the hidden Ireland into musical terms.'
Thus, in a 1949 broadcast. Bax acknowledged the programmatic nature of his earlier works. By the time of the disturbed First Symphony, howe-ver, it was an approach which he was emphatically to reject. The programme also contains another post-war work - Morning Song (1947) -and an excerpt from Bax's broadcast talk: records
JOHN LADE introduces the performance of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony recommended by Arnold Whittall in last Saturday's Record Review.
