First of ten programmes including all of Schumann's major piano works, in performances by artists from generations past and present.
1: Marching on the Philistines
Abegg Variations, Op 1 CLARA
HASKIL Papillons , Op 2 (mono) ALFRED CORTOT (rec in 1935) Three Albumblatter, from Op 124 (mono) ADELINA DE LARA
Carnaval, Op 9 (mono)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1929) gramophone records
Resenmüller Sonata No 10. in F
LEONHARDT CONSORT, directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
9.12* Capuzzi Double-bass Concerto: LUCIO BUCCARELLA i MUSICI
9.28* Dukas Scherzo: The Sorcerer's Apprentice BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
9.38* Liszt FuncSrailles (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
CARRICK OHLSSON (piano)
9.50* Rubbra Choral Suite: Inscape
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
JACQUES ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MYER FREDMAN
10.6* Maw Life Study No 2 ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
How to conduct my Meistersinger Overture, by Richard Wagner (by ROBERT L. JACOBS ).
Towards a theatre of (electro-acoustics) sound: a conversation with BARRY ANDERSON.
Fokine and music, by NOEL GOODWIN.
Philip Fowke (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, leader Raymond Ovens, conducted by Simon Rattle
Sibelius Symphonic Poem: Tapiola
Ireland Piano Concerto in E flat major
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* From the Proms 79 Part 2
Shostakovich Symphony No 10
Milhaud Suite d'après Corrette, for wind trio
Rameau, arr Desormiere, Airs de ballet (Acante et Cfphise), for wind quintet Foerster Wind Quintet. Op 95: LEONARDO
WIND QUINTET
in c (K 423), B flat (K 424) NORBERT BRAININ (violin)
PETERSCHIDLOF (viola)
Cheerful mythology In three acts
Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by JOSEPH GREGOR (sung in German)
The last but one of Strauss's 15 operas combines the myths of Midas, with the Golden Touch, and of Danae, visited by Jupiter disguised as a shower of golden rain.
There is no commercial recording of this rarely performed extravaganza, which has been specially recorded as part of Radio 3's complete cycle of Strauss operas.
Cast in order of singing:
BBC OPERA CHORUS. chorus-master GORDON KEMBER
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA guest leader WILLIAM ARMON , conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS Repetiteurs
TOM GLIGOROFF , MARY NASH German coach HILDE BEAL Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Tape editor PETER SIDHOM Producer ELAINE PADMORE
3.26* Interval Reading
3.25* Die Liebe der Danae Act 2
Derek Robinson watches some impromptu races at Ballingeary in West Cork and finds that the jockeys are youngsters.
Act 3
A recording of their British début at a public concert given in the Wig-more Hall on 25 July 1978 Part 1 Tchaikovsky
Trio in A minor, Op 50
The writer Antonio Callado considers the difficulties which Brazilian novelists face in finding a voice and an audience.
Part 2
Brahms Trio in c minor, Op 101
Beethoven Trio in D, Op 70 No 1
The poet C. H. Sisson introduces his translation of the Pastoral Poems of Virgil (70-19 Be) and places them in their context as an overwhelming influence on subsequent pastoral forms and on literature in general. with STEPHEN MURRAY , JOHN GABRIEL , JONATHAN NEWTH , IAN CROSS, MARGOT YOUNG and MICHAEL BURLINGTON Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Second of two programmes played by Osian Ellis
Roussel Impromptu
William Mathias Three Improvisations
Hindemith Sonata
conducts the VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger (mono)
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale gramophone records
BBC SINGERS, conductor NICHOLAS CLEOBURY Part 1
Bax Mater Ora Filium
Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor
10.10* Interval Reading
10.20* Sacred and Profane Part 2
Britten Five Flower Songs Howells Take him earth for cherishing (In memoriam J. F. Kennedy )
Sherlaw Johnson The Resurrection of Feng-Huang
First of two programmes played by NINA MILKINA Scarlatti Four Sonatas: B major (Kk 262); B minor (Kk 27); D major (Kk 161); D minor (Kk 141)
Bach Partita in B minor (BWV 831)
