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Johann Strauss Overture The Gypsy Baron
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.13* Moscheles piano Concerto in G minor MICHAEL PONTI
PHIEJIARMONIA HUNGARICA ' conducted by OTHMAR MAGA
7.39* Arensky Suite No 2 (Silhouettes)
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by ' .' ' MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH gramophone records
Mozart Six Landler 696)
EDUARD MELKUS ENSEMBLE
8.10* Mercadante Flute Concerto in E minor SEVERINO GAZZELLONI
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8.31* Bach Chorale Prelude on 0, Mensch. bewein dein, Siinde gross (BWV 622): PIETKEE (organ)
8.38* Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 2 LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records
Aaron Copland
That my range as a composer includes both accessible and problematical works is a fact that 1 find not at all worrisome.
Today's programme begins a chronological survey of Copland's music which contrasts the different facets of style that have perplexed some commentators, if not the composer himself.
The Cat and the Mouse (1920)
ROBERT SILVERMAN fpiano) Symphony for organ and orchestra (1924) E. POWER BIGGS
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Passacaglia (1922)
ROBERT SILVERMAN (piano) Piano Concerto (1926) THE COMPOSER
NEW YORK PHILHAR
MONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN records
Marcia Crayford (violin), Brian Hawkins and Kenneth Essex (violas), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Rodney Slatford (double-bass), Antony Pay (clarinet), John Pigneguy and Anthony Halstead (horns), John Leach (cimbalom) with Robert Hill (clarinet)
Part 1
Spohr Octet in E major, Op 32
Gordon Crosse Wildboy: concertante for clarinet with cimbalom and seven players
(conducted by Lionel Friend)
10.55* Interval Reading
11.0* Nash Ensemble
Part 2
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20
A public concert given in 1978 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall
David Butt (flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Symphony No 16, in c major (K 128)
Flute Concerto No 2, in D major (K 314)
Symphony No 17,- in- G major (K 129)
Symphony No 19, in E flat major (K 132)
direct from St John 's, Smith Square. London
Helen Donath (soprano) Klaus Donath (piano)
Mozart Der Zauberer : Das Vcilehen ; Abendempfindung
Schubert Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen: Liebhaber In alien Gestalten: Mignons Gesang: Klarrhens Lied; Gretchen am Spinnradre
Brahms Da unten im Tale; Schwesterlein; Klage; Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr
Strauss Morgen ; Du meines Herzens Krbne lein: Breit über mein Haupt; Sie wissen's nicht: Begegnung
(Repeated: Wed 10.0 pm)
Two BBC Music Guides available from book and music shops, price £1.50: Schubert Songs, by Maurice Brown
Brahms Songs , by Eric Sams
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by FRANK SHIPWAY
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Delius Summer evening
David Lyon Fantasia on a nursery song
Gounod Ballet Music: Faust Josef Strauss Waltz: Music of the spheres
Wagner Suite: The Master-singers
Elizabeth Hunt (violin) Tanya Hunt (cello)
Ingrid Culliford (flute) David Rix (clarinet)
Odaline de la Martinez (piano)
Richard Rodney Bennett Comedia II Fuku-Shima Shun-san
George Crumb Eleven Echoes of Autumn
Sebastian Forbes Partita
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANRÉ PREVIN
Sibelius Six humoresques for violin and orchestra
SALVATORE ACCARDO LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
Debussy Poeme dansé: Jeux
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone records
Noel Goodwin introduces the programme of music for the early evening.
Beethoven Quartet in F, Op 135
BBC Manchester
The Life and Music of Aaron Copland ' It seemed odd that we couldn't, in the field of serious music, be as Ame. riean as the jazz composers were in the pop- . ular field.
He hit on a series of tonal progressions which absolutely spell wilderness to the American ear and to people around the world.
Agnes de Mille , the choreographer, the composers
Virgil Thomson and Peter Maxwell Davies , the critic Wilfrid Mellers , and Aaron Copland himself, whose 80th birthday is on Friday, rpminknp aiirl rftflect on his place in 20thcenturv music Presented by David Wheeler Producer
LOUISE PURSLOW
in c major
MARTIN JONES (piano)
BBC SINGERS (men'svoices) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Hofmannsthal was one of the most widely-read poets of his day and his übretti for Strauss's operas draw on a rich variety of sources.
Peter Branscombe talks about some of the sources that inspired Arabella, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos.
A series containing every work Webern completed, introduced by Clive Bennett
JAN DEGAETANI (meZZO-SOp) JOHN constable (piano)
Eight Early Songs. OP posth, to poems by Dehmel, Goethe, Greif, Nietzsche and others (composed between 1901 and 1904),
Introduced by Charles Fox
Paul Lytton (percussion and live electronics)
Evan Parker (soprano and tenor sax)
Paul Lovens (percussion)
(Stereo)
Romance, Op 42
SALVATORE ACCARDO (violin) LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT MASUR : record
