Third of seven programmes Fantasia on Greensleeves ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Five Tudor Portraits
ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE
(contralto), JOHN CAROL
CASE (baritone). BACH CHOIR NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS : records
Listeners' record requests Lovelock Trumpet Concerto in c: JOHN ROBERTSON SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOSEPH POST
9.22* Rossini Ballet music: The Siege of Corinth: MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
9.36* Rossini Vegliar mat sempre (Count Ory)
NORMAN TREIGLE (bass) VIENNA VOLKSOPER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JUSSI JALAS
9.42* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat (Emperor): MAURlZIO POL-LINI, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BÖHM
A magazine about music and personalities in this year's Promenade Concerts
The BBC's Controller, Music, Robert Ponsonby, on some of the music to be heard.
Elgar as visionary: Jerrold Northrop Moore on The Apostles.
A review of a new history of the Proms by David Cox.
Presented by Jeremy Siepmann.
Symphony No 8, In c minor: NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KLAUS TENN -STEDT (North German Radio recording)
WILLIAM BENNETT and DAVID NICHOLSON (0Utes) CAROLYN SPAREY (VlOla) HAFLIDI HALLGRIMSSON (cello)
W. F. E. Bach Trio in o W. F. Bach Duo in F Haydn Trio in c BBC Scotland
Twelfth of 13 programmes Mixed Voice Choirs (2) READING PHOENIX CHOIR
EXETER UNIVERSITY SNGERS
WEST RIDING SINGERS
EX CATHEDRA. Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(piano)
Brahms Four piano pieces, Op 119; Three Intermezzi, Op 117
Beethoven Sonata in e flat, Op 7
Music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner (sung in German)
Welsh National Opera production, conducted by Reginald Goodall (whose 79th birthday it is today)
"Why does opera matter? Because when it is like this Goodall Tristan, it is the ritual of enlightenment." (THE GUARDIAN)
MALE CHORUS OF WELSH NATIONAL OPERA, chorus-master JULIAN SMITH
ORCHESTRA OF WELSH NATIONAL OPERA leader JOHN STEIN
The action takes place in Arthurian times. Act 1
Wagner controlled the orchestra as if it were a single instrument and he were playing on it ... He really seems to be improvising on his orchestra.
Pat Starr reads the fifth of six extracts from Music Study in Germany, the home correspondence, 1869-73, of Amy Fay.
Act 2
Trevor Harvey
Act 3
(Given at the Dominion Theatre, London, in December 1979. Sponsored by Amoco)
plays Mozart's Violin Sonata in c (k 296) with EMANUEL BAY (piano) gramophone record
by VACLAV HAVEL
Translated and adapted by VERA BLACKWELL , With
Ferdinand Vanek is a dissident playwright in Czechoslovakia - he has just come out of prison and is awaiting trial for his political activities. Stanek is a successful writer who has remained in favour with the authorities.
STANEK: Forgive me, Ferdinand, but you don't happen to live in a normal environment. You only mix with people who are making a stand. You give each other hope and encouragement. You've no idea the sort of environment I've got to put up with! It turns your stomach!
The National Theatre version. originally directed by MICHAEL KUSTOW
Produced for radio by BERNARD KRICHFFSKI
(John Norminqton is a National Theatre plaurr) (Pavel Kohout '.i The Licence: Tuesday 8.0 pm)
NOVAK QUARTET: record
in the Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen
STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Mozart Symphony No 13. in F major (K 112)
Ilindemith Suite: Nobilissima visione
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Part 2 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor (Given on 12 May)
A BBC Digital recording
The French baritone (b 1905) sinps Faurc's L'horizon chimérique
ALDEN GILCHRIST (piano) gramophone record: 1975
