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Organ Concerto No 2, in c: E. POWER BIGGS COLUMBIA SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZOLTAN ROZSNYAI
8.18* Mass in B Bat (Heiligmesse)
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) SHIRLEY MINTY (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by GEORGE GUEST : records
Listeners' record requests Coupe in Le carillon de Cithere; Les baricades mistérieuses; Les petits moulins a vent
ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)
9.12* Mozart Symphony No 20, in D (K 133)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by JAAP SCHRÖDER (violin) and CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
9.48* Schutert lhr Grab (D 736); Nachtviolen (D 752)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
GERALD MOORE (piano)
9.47* Myaskovsky Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 44: GRIGORI FEIGIN MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALEXANDER DMITRIEV
Introduced by Michael Oliver
William Tell : a drama of paternity, by JULIAN BUDDEN.
The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications.
Lauritz Melchior: a great Heldentenor remembered, by ALAN BLYTH. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWtCK
(Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)
An all-Stravinsky concert given in Orchestra Hall. Chicago, by the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
Zvezdoliki (The star-faced one)
MEN'S VOICES OF CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS
Ballet: Jeu de cartes; Ballet on music by Pergolesi: Pulcinella MARIA EWING
(mezzo-soprano)
RYLAND DAVIES (tenor)
CLAUDIO DESDERI (baritone) Suite: The Firebird (1919) (WFMT Chicago recording)
A recital given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 31 March 1979
Part 1
Sonata In R major (D 575); Sonata in f minor (D 625)
1.30* Interval Reading
1.40* Sviatoslav Richter Plays Schubert Part 2
Sonata in A major (D 664) Sonata in A minor (D 784)
(The Bronze Horse) Opera in three acts
Libretto by EUGENE SCRIBE Music by Daniel Francois -Esprit Auber
(sung in French)
NEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR OF RADIO FRANCE chorus-master JACQUES JOUINEAU conductor JEAN-PIERRE MARTY
(French Radio recording) Act 1
Kenneth McLeish reviews the past week's music broadcasting on radio. BBC Manchester
(Friday at 7.10 pm: Hans Keller )
Acts 2 and 3
Walter Legge (1966-1979)
' Somehow Walter was a performer of artists - as we have our instruments, Walter had his artists....'
(GEOFFREY PARSONS )
' I think he was one of the last great impresarios - the trouble was that for the last part of his life he was an impresario manque.'
(LORD HAREWOOD)
' He lived on the inner stem of music.'
(ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF)
John Amis recalls the career of this pioneer of gramophone recording and founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra, with the help of Walter Legge 's widow, Elisabeth Schwarz kopf. and his friends, relations and fellow-musicians: LORD HAREWOOD, GEOFFREY PARSONS , DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR , GARETH MORRIS, MANOUG PARIKIAN, SUVI GRUBB , MAYA TOBIN and NANCY EVANS.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
Five short pieces, for piano trio; Sonata, for flute and piano; Scherzo, for flute and piano (from Sextet); Piano Trio No 3, in c
TONONI PIANO TRIO
JUDITH PEARCE (flute)
RONALD LUMSDEN (piano)
by ZVONIMIR BAJSIC translated by EVALD FLISAR with James Bree as Miroslav, and Pat Heywood as Mcriola Miroslav gains entry into the flat of the widow Mariola. A subtle battle of will between the sexes ensues ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-sop) Wagner Prelude to Act 1 (Tristan und Isolde)
Reger An die Hoffnung (Holderlin)
Bruckner Symphony No 7. in E major. (Bacarian Radio recording)
Stelvart Sutherland , Professor in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King's College. University of London, examines the distinction between true saintliness and the pathological in Ibsen's Brand and Kierkegaard's treatment of Abraham in Fear and Trembling.
played by VIRGINIA ESKIN
MacDowell Woodland Sketches: To a Wild Rose; Will o' the Wisp; At an old Trysting-place; In Autumn; From an Indian Lodge; To a Water-lily; From Uncle Remus; A Deserted Farm; By a Meadow Brook: Told at Sunset
Mrs H. H A . A. Beach Variations on Balkan Themes
Last of four programmes Rubbra String Quartet No 4
Brahms String Quartet No 2, in G major, Op 111 AMICI STRING QUARTET with JEAN STEWART (viola)
