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Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D, Op 8 No 11 (rv 210) SIMON STANDAGE (baroque violin)
ENGLISH CONCERT, directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
7.17* Villa-Lobos Preludes: No 1, in * minor; No 5, In p: JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
7.25* 'Chausson Chanson perpefuelfe, for voice, string quartet and piano JANET BAKER (mezZO-SOp) MELOS ENSEMBLE
7.32* Moeran Sinfonietta LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
Hendelssohn Concert Aria: Infelice: EDDA MOSER (soprano), LEIPZIG GEWAND-HAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT MASUR
1.14* Poulenc Sonata for trumpet, horn and trombone: MEMBERS OP THE PHILIP JONES BRASSENSEMBLE
8.22* Roussel Symphony No 4. In A: PARIS CONSER-VATOlRE ORCHESTRA COndUCted by ANDRE CLUYTENS gramophone records
Walton-Between the Wars William Walton was 16 when the First World War ended, and the music in this week's programmes ranges from the Piano Quartet he completed in 1919, through
Façade and the Viola Concerto (which brought him universal recognition) to the mature Violin Concerto of 1939. Overture: Portsmouth, Point: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER t.12* Piano Quartet (mono) ROBERT MASTERS PIANO QUARTET
9.40* Façade (excerpts) CATHY BERBERIAN ROBERT TEAR
Ensemble conducted by STEUART BEDFORD : records
Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44; Twelve Etudes, Op 25
VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano)
Music of the Golden Age, Including Short Ayres , both grave and light, by Anthony Holborne , and dances from the School of Gregorio Lambranzl.
BBC Manchester
leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by KURT SANDERLING
MAYUMI FUJIKAWA (violin) Part 1
Stravinsky Symphony in three movements
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G major (K 216)
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Hallé Orchestra Part 2 Schumann
Symphony No 4. in D minor
BBC Manchester
direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Vermeer Quartet
ShmueL Ashkenasi (violin)
Pierre Menard (violin) Bernard Zaslav (viola) Marc Johnson (cello) Bartok Quartet No 2
Haydn Quartet in G major, Op 76 No 1
(Rptd: tomorrow 7.0 pm) (Tickets £1.30 available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by FRANK SHIPWAY
Harold Overture: Zampa Tchaikovsky Suite: The Sleeping Beauty
Mascagnl Intermezzo (L'amico Fritz)
Sibelius Valse trlste Rimsky-Korsakov. Capriccio espagnol
ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON (piano)
MessiaenL'alouettecall andrelle
Sherlaw Johnson Astero , genesis (first UK broadcast); Sonata No 3
Messiaen Le merle bleu
Elgar Concert Overture: In the South (Alassio) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
Brahms Concerto In A minor for violin, cello and orchestra: ITZHAK PERLMAN MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
Noel Goodwin introduces the programme of music for the early evening.
A musical reconstruction of Pindar's famous ode Olympian I
One important aspect of the original Olympic Games was the dedication by a poet of an ode celebrating a great victory. But how was it sung? What did it sound like? This programme gives one possible answer in an exciting musical version by Enno Dugend.
Readers DENIS MCCARTHY ANTHONY SMEE
ROGER SNOWDON
Compiled and produced by JOHN THEOCHARIS
Introduced by Charles Fox
Excerpts from ' Frames ' - music from an imaginary film.
KEITH TIPPETT 'S ARK
arr Paul Kochanski
Suite populaire espagnole ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) SAMUEL SANDERS (piano) gramophone record
Of Mice and Hen
Opera in three acts after the novel and play by JOHN STEINBECK
Music by Carlisle Floyd -
(Reduced orchestration by JAMES MEDVlTz)
First of two broadcasts direct from the Theatre Royal, Wexford
Since its premiere In Seattle in 1970 this musical setting of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has won wide acclaim throughout the United States. Floyd uses an approachable and romantic idiom to tell the story of two itinerant farm workers, George and Lennie, and their hopeless dream of owning a farm.
Cast in order of singing:
Wexford Festival Male Chorus, chorus-master KIM MOONEY
Radio Telefls Eireann Symphony Orchestra leader AUDREY FARK conducted by John DeMain
Elaine Fadmore looks behind the scenes at Wexford's opera festival and meets some of the people who are part of this annual 12-day wonder in south-east Eire,
Act 2
10.15* Interval Reading
10.30* Of Mice and Men Act 3
(Edgar: tomorrow at 8.30)
Sonatina for flute and piano
JAMES GALWAY
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE
(gramophone record)
