'Whenever Haydn thought of God and his infinite goodness, he was inspired with such confidence and joy that he could have written even a Miserere in tempo Allegro.'
(CARPANI, 1812)
Missa Brevis in p
JUDITH NELSON , EMMA KIRKBT (SOPS), CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC conducted by SIMON PRESTON
8.20* Mass in c (Mariazeller): JENNIFER SMITH (SOP) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (bass)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by GEORGE GUEST : records
Listeners' record requests Rossini String Sonata No 1, in G: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.17* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan , Op 20 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
9.34. Bloch Piano Quintet NO 1: NEW LONDON QUINTET
10.11* Inert Concertino da Camera: EUGÈNE rousseau (alto saxophone), PAUL KUENTZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL KUENTZ
Introduced by Michael Oliver Brahms's late years, by JOAN CHISSELL. Five hunder fiddlers an' a', an' a': RONALD STEVEN son reviews the book by James Hunter. Tomas Luis de Victoria, musician of Avila, by BRUNO TURNER. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK (Repeated: Wed 2.5 pm)
Rossini Overture: The Siege of Corinth
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathetique)
(Voice of America recording of a broadcast concert given in Carnegie Hall, New York, on 21 February 1953)
(First broadcast in the series At Home)
The First Ten Years
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)
Songs by Wolf, and Schumann's Dichterliebe.
(First broadcast in 1975)
(harpsichord) plays Bach's Italian Concerto, pieces by Tomkins, and sonatas by Arne and Scarlatti. BBC Bristol
Heroic drama in three acts. Music by Joseph Haydn. Libretto from various sources
Sixth in a series of Haydn operas presented by the European Broadcasting Union
Haydn's last opera composed for Esterhaza returns to the seria type to tell a story from the crusades.
Continuo:
ANTAL DORATI (harpsichord) PABLO LOERKENS (cello) FRANCIS MARCELLIN
(double-bass), LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
1.5* Interval Reading
3.15* Armida. Act 2
1 We can hardly deny that English is under much greater threat now than it was 50 years ago. The two pillars of an effective and healthy language, concreteness and precision, are both being eroded.'
John Wain reviews The State of the Language, a wide-ranging collection of essays about the English we use on both sides of the Atlantic.
Act 3
Anthony Burgess offers a personal view of Stravinsky's achievement.
(piano)
Clcmenti Sonata in D major. Op 40 No 3
Grieg Four Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op 72
BBC Manchester
Mozart Quartet in B flat (The Hunt) (K 458)
Murray Schafer Quartet No 1
Wilfrid Mellers BBC Manchester
(Fri 7.10: Nigel Douglas )
Part 2 Beethoven
Quartet in c sharp minor, Op 131. BBC Scotland
by TED MOORE , with Edward Wilson as Sam and Arthur Blake as Eric ' You're 18, son. You're getting naggy. You're frustrated, Sam ... You spend too much time in your head. You need a woman, Sam.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester followed by an interlude
The seventh of nine concerts of British music at St John's, Smith Square BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by JOHN POOLE Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
Anthony Milner Cantata: Roman Spring
JANE MANNING (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
9.35* Interval Reading
9.45* Sacred and Profane Part 2
Vaughan Williams Suite: Flos campi
Brttten Festival Cantata: Rejoice in the Lamb JOHN COULLING (Viola)
PAMELA PRIESTLEY-SMITH, (soprano). CATHERINE DENLEY (contralto)
GARETH ROBERTS (tenor) PHILIP O'REILLY (bass) (Given on 6 February)
Sir Ralph Richardson reads an extract, selected by ALAN BELL , from George Saintsbury 's Notes on a Cellar Book, first published in 1920, perhaps the most original book on wine ever written. Producer
PIERS PLOWRIGHT
played by HENRYK SZERVNG (violin) HUGUETTE DREYFUS (harpsichord)
Sonata in c minor (BWV 1017); Sonata in t major (BWV 1016)
11.25* Interval Reading
11.30* Bach. Part 2
Sonata in G major (BWV 1019) (Austrian Radio recording)
