Stravinsky Greeting Prelude: COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER
Moscheles Concertante In F, for flute, oboe and orchestra: AURÈLE NICOLET HEINZ HOLLIGER
FRANKFURT RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by IXIAIIU INRAL
Paganini Sonata for violin and orchestra (La primavera): SALVATORE ACCARDO LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES DOTOIT
Rachmaninov Orchestral extracts from Aleko
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV : records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Mozart's Flute Concerto No 1, in G (k 313), by FRITZ SPIEGL.
Beecham centenary Issues reviewed by ROBERT PHILIP. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Handel
Excerpts from Solomon
BEECHAM CHORAL SOCIETY ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Sibelius Symphony No 7, in C: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA,conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records
(Timothy West as Beecham: tomorrow 0.15 pm BCC2)
The second of this series of children's concerts. direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Erich Gruenberg (violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra led by RICHARD LAYTON
Introduced and conducted by Bernard Keeffe
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Sibelius First movement from Violin Concerto in D minor
Elgar Movements from The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
Nielsen Saga Dream
Arnold English Dances, Set 2
BESSES O' TH' BARN BAND conducted by IFOR JAMES and ALEC EVANS arr Ifor James Four movements from The Elizabethan Suite
Adrian Cruft Essay on a Phrase
Edward Gregson Tuba Concerto
(Part of a concert given in June 1979 in Lauenham Church, Suffolk) BBC Birmingham followed by an interlude
The tunes and the limes
A personal view of jazz and popular music 3: 1944-1945 with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Mercer , Stan Kenton. Bing Crosby , Nat King Cole and others on record
Producer ALAN OWEN
Trio for two violins and viola
MEMBERS OF THE GABRIELI QUARTET
Kenneth Sillito and Brendan O'Reilly (violins) Ian Jewell (viola)
Robert Simpson Intro duces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Anthony Thwaite (in the Chair) talks with Paul Barker, Margaret Drabble and Edward Lucie-Smith. This week's subjects Include: Bill Douglas's film trilogy; the Royal Shakespeare Company production Captain Swing; A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, recent poems by Craig Raine; the Sir Thomas Lawrence Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
A monthly series devoted to the guitar and guitarists.
Dagoberto Llnhares plays music by Gaspar Sanz , Marios Nobre. Villa-Lobos. Isaias Savio and Catulo DapaixSo Cearense and talks to GRAHAM WADE
Producer GARETH WALTERS (A concert given before an invited audience in May in Douglas, Isle of Man) followed by an interlude
Opera seria in two acts
Libretto by CATERINO MAZ-ZOLA after METASTASIO
The last opera of Mozart. the apotheosis of the seria tradition, in this year's Salzburg Festival production at the former Summer Riding School. (sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
PHILIP EISENBERG
(harpsichord continue) WALDEMAR THILO (cello continue)
CHORUS Or THE VIENNA STATE OPERA chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LEVINE Act 1
8.40*Interval Beading
8.50* La clemenza dl Tite Act 2
(Austrian Radio recording)
Peter Howell reads a short story by SAKI.
(Another Saki story: tomorrow at 19.30 pm)
Handel Sonata In F major, Op 1 No 12
Leclair Sonata In c minor. Op S No 6 (Le tombeau)
Biber Sonata in G minor (Passacaglia), for solo violin
Bach Sonata in G major (BWV 1021)
MONICA HUGGETT (baroque violin), WILLIAM HUNT (viola da gamba). ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)
Ivor Gurney (1S90-1937) was one of the song writers England produced earlier this century (Ireland and Warlock were of the same vintage): but he was also a poet of distinction and originality; his double gifts unparalleled since Thomas Campian in Elizabethan times.
Michael Hurd , author of a recent book on Gurney, presents the second in a five-part biographical series, in which LAURIE LEE reads the poems and STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) an] JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) perform the songs.
