Johann Strauss Overture: Die Fledermaus
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
Reicha Music for the French Republic (excerpts): PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV SMF .
TACEK Walter Leigh Concertino for harpsichord and strings: NEVILLE DILKES , who also directs the ENGLISH SINFONIA
Humperdinck String Quartet in c
ZURICH TONHALLE QUARTET
Rodgcrs March: Guadalcanal (Victory at Sea) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted hy SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Shostakovich's Piano Concerto NO 2, by GEOFFREY NORRIS. Live v Studio Recording, by JOHN BORWICK.
New cassettes reviewed by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor. Op 132 TALICH QUARTET
Mendelssohn Songs without Words: Op 19 Nos I, 5 6: Op 30 Nos 3, 4
DANIEL BARENBOIM 'piano) gramophone records
CARLTON MAIN FRICKLEY
COLLIERY BAND conductor DAVID JAMES Boeckel Scherzo
John Golland Diversions Gregson The Plantagenets BBC Manchester
In his selection of records, Jeremy Siepmann investigates the youthful outpourings of. among others. Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Chopin; plays works written with youth in mind by Elgar and Etienne Méhul; and includes a cautionary talc or two for children from Hilaire Belloc.
Introduced by Hugh Keyte Oswald von Wolkenstcin (1377-1445)
Philip Pickett considers the life of the colourful German composer and directs the NEW LONDON CONSORT in his music.
Der oben swebt; Mein herz das ist versert; Frölich zartlich; Du ausserweltes schons mein herz; Der Mai mit liber zal: Frolich geschrai; Grasselick lif; Wach auf, mein hort; Stand auf Maredel; Ach senliches leiden; Nu huss; Durch Barbarci. Arabia
Gordon Stewart introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
with Peter Clayton
Philip Oakes (in the Chair), talks with John Elsom, Edward Lucie-Smith and Claire Tomalin. This week's subjects: Maurice Hatton's film Long Shot; Little Dorrit on Radio 4; recent paintings by Bill Jacklin at the Marlborough Gallery; Problems and Other Stories by John Updike; Sisterly Feelings by Alan Ayckbourn at the National Theatre.
played and introduced by Peter Hurford
Orgun of New College Chapel, Oxford
Prelude and Fugue in B minor (BWv 544)'
Chorale Preludes: Erbarm' dich mein. 0 Herre Gott (hwv 721); Gelobet seist du.Jesu Christ (BWV 723): Wie schon leucht't uns der Morgenstern (bwv 739).; Vom Himmel hoch (BWV 738): In dulci jubilo (bwv 729); Lobt Gott. ihr Christen, allzugleich i BWV 732)
In today's edition Ernesto Bitetli ' plays music by Ariel Ramirez. Jukihiro Jocoh. Jose Buenagu.
Joào Pernambuco, Hector Ayala and Falla. Introduced by DORITA SENSIER
WENDY EATIIORNE (soprano) PATRICIA PRICE (mezzo-sop) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORUS CHORISTERS OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL. BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DONALD HUNT Edwin Roxburgh The Rock I first performance)
New poetry selected and introduced by Alan Brownjohn with poems by AMSTAIR ELLIOT , NICKI .IACKOWSKA, IAN MACMILLAN, rETER PORTER, MAURICE RUTHERFORD, LAWRENCE SAIL, VERNON SCANNELL, and D. M. THOMAS
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Part 2 Rossini Stabat Mater. BBC Manchester
(Postponed from 4 April)
Sonata, Op 8 No 2; Balletto primo: CONSORT OF MUSICKE, directed by ANTHONY HOOLEY : record
A short story from Egypt by YUSUF IDRIS , translated by WADIDA WASSES
Read by Sam Dastor
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Suite No 3. in G: COLIN TILNEY (spinet) (record)
Four-part Fantazia No 3 (composed 14 June 1680) ENGLISH CONSORT OF VIOLS