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Gershwin Suite: Catfish ROW: ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD SLATKIN
8.30* Gottschalk Caprice: Suis-moi
LEONARD PENNARIO (piano)
8.33* Mehul Ouverture burlesque: MEMBERS OF THE MUNICH PRO ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.37* Walton Excerpts from Facade
ROYAL OPERA HOUSt
ORCHESTRA, COVENT GARDEN conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI : records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
New opera records reviewed by EDWARD GREEN-FIELD.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel (Act 2, Scenes 2 and 3; Act 3)
(sung in German)
COLOGNE OPERA CHILDREN'S CHORUS, GURZENICH
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD : records
SUN LIFE STANSHAWE BAND conductor ROY NEWSOME
Gordon Langford Salute to the Six
Granville Bantock Prometheus Unbound
Gilbert Vinter Triumphant Rhapsody. BBC Bristol
John Amis presents a weekly selection of classics on record.
The tunes and the times A personal view of jazz and popular music 4: 1946-1947 with Ethel Merman. Pearl Bailey , Duke Ellington, Nellie Lutcher , Dizzy Gil lespie, Ella Fitzgerald , Nat King Cole, Phil Harris and others on records.
Producer ALAN OWEN
Records of the Three Bears fantasy conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT and the Knightsbridge March from the London Suite conducted by THE COMPOSER. Also included is a 1949 Sound Archives recording of Eric Coates describing the recording session.
William Robson Intro duces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
(Nezt week's preview: Friday 7.25 pm)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
This week: John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with Alan Brien, Margaret Drabble and Edward Lucie-Smith.
Subjects this week include: Simon Gray's play Stagestruck; the Post-Impressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy; Monty Python's Life of Brian; and Philip Roth's novel The Ghost Writer. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
conducts English orchestral music
Elgar Triumphal March (Caractacus): LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Parry An English Suite, for strings: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: records
TAKASHI SHIMIZU (violin) JOHN BLAKELY (piano)
Mozart Sonata in E flat (K 481)
Brahms Sonata In D minor. Op 108
BBC Bristol
by Alun Hoddinott
The premiere of an opera specially commissioned by BBC Wales. The plot is based on a short story by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON and the libretto was written by MYFANWY PIPER.
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2
For details and cast list see page 31
Dr Nick Humphrey of King's College. Cambridge, argues that a love of beauty has given man a unique ability to order and classify the objects around him and so better understand the world.
Readers ANDREW BRANCH, JOHN GABRIEL , HENRY KNOWLES
G minor, Op 74 No 3 (The Rider); F major, Op 77 No 2 AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
(Part of a public concert given in the QEH, London, in October 1976)
Michael Hurd , author of a recent book on Gurney, presents the third in a five-part biographical series, in which LAURIE LEE reads the poems, and NIGEL WICKENS (bar) accompanied by PAUL HAM BURGER, STEPHEN VARCOE (bar) by JOHN CONSTABLE and ANN MURRAY (mezzo-sop) by GRAHAM JOHN SON, perform the songs.
