Rawsthorne Overture: Street Corner
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
Tarrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra
LIONA BOYD (guitar)
George Antheil Jazz Symphony: NETHERLANDS WIND
ENSEMBLE, conducted by REINBERT DE LEEUW
Francaix Wind Quintet VIENNA WIND SOLOISTS
Dvorak Legends Nos 3 and 4: BRNO STATE
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JIRI PINKAS gramophone recorda
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
New instrumental records reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Haydn Sonata in A (H xvi 26): RICHARD BURNETT (Viennese fortepiano, c 1798)
Telemann Fantasias: No 4. in d; No 1. in B flat
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (Violin) Schumann Carnaval
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) gramophone records
LONDON COLLEGIATE BRASS conductor EDWARD GREGSON Bryan Kelly Edinburgh dances
Edward Gregson Essay for brass band
BBC Birmingham
Same programme, same time, new presenter: Jeremy Siepmann, who this week introduces a selection linked by the theme of community, with double concertos by Bach and Vivaldi, a duet by Handel, and several folk items, including the haunting sound of a pair of Turkmenian duet flutes.
(gramophone records)
A new weekly programme including news. views and reviews of the international world of early music, presented this week by Nicholas Anderson
GUSTAV LEONHARDT and CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD diScuss the problems of distinguishing good and bad taste in authentic performances.
BRIAN TROWELL talks about last week's conference on early music.
The English Ayre: Anthony Rooley introduces the first in a new series. He talks about John Dowland's First Booke of Songes or Ayres of 1597 and directs the CONSORT OF MUSICKE in a selection from the publication.
Unquiet thoughts: Can she excuse my wrongs; Come, heavy sleep: Come away. come sweet love
Piers Burton-Page Introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the week.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with John Carey, Hilary Spurling and Alexander Walker.
Philip Mackie's version of Zola's Therese Raquin for BBC2; Graham Greene's new novel Doctor Fischer of Geneva; the Ruskin Spear retrospective at the Royal Academy; Paul Scofield as Othello at the National Theatre; and the film The Role, directed by Shyam Benegal.
Played by Peter Hurford , who also introduces the cycle of 34 programmes. most of which were specially recorded for the BBC on instruments all over the world
Organ of Our Lady o/ Sorrows Church, Toronto, Canada
Fantasia in G major (BWV 572); Fugue in B minor (BWV 579); Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 533); Chorale Preludes: Wir Christenleut' (bwv 710); Wir glauben all' (Bwv 740); Trio in D minor (bwv 583); Allabreve (bwv 589)
(Recording facilities by CBC) followed by an interlude
4 simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 direct from the Royal
Opera House.
Covent Garden, London
Opera in a prologue and two acts
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI Music by Gaetano Donizetti (Full details: page 29) Prologue
In his new study of the role of adultery in European fiction, Tony Tanner argues that there are structural resemblances between bourgeois marriage and the bourgeois novel. Harold Beaver examines this and other claims in Tanner's book.
Act 1
Ian Grimble considers the problems of teaching Persian literature to Iranian students during the Islamic revolution.
Act 2
David Ashford reads a short story by FREDA BROMHEAD followed by an interlude
by Sylvius Leopold Weiss Prelude and Passacaille in D major; Suite in F major: Fantasia: Tom-beau sur la Mort de M Cajetan. Baron d'Hartig
NIGEL NORTH (baroque lute)
