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Svendsen Carnival in Paris: OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by OIVIN FJELDSTAD
Rachmaninov Three songs ELISABETH SÖDERSTRÖM (soprano)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Saint-Saëns Wedding Cake Caprice
DANIEL CHORZEMPA (piano) ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
Parry Symphony No 5, in B minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Sibelius's Violin Concerto, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
New records of instrumental music and song. reviewed by ANDREW KEENER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Handel Chaconne in G ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)
Wolf Mignon Lieder: Heiss mich nicht reden: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So lasst mich scheinen
Philine ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
GERALD MOORE (piano)
Grieg Ten Lyric Pieces EMIL GILELS (piano) gramophone records
Tredegar Town Band conductor Tudor Williams
Herbert Howells Pageantry
Leighton Lucas Symphonic Suite
Bryan Kelly Overture: Provence
BBC Wales
A series in which speakers from many walks of life, are invited to introduce some of their favourite music. This week:
Alfred Alexander , surgeon by profession, and also a composer, translator, novelist and author of Operanatomy. Producer
PIERS BURTON-PAGE: records
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon
Hildegard of Bingen (died 1179)
CHRISTOPHER PAGE talks about one of the most accomplished ladies of the 12th century - saint, theologian, poet and naturalist as well as musician. He directs two of Hildegard's Sequences, one of them in the liturgical context of the Mass of Dedication of the Monastery of St Disibod. of which she was herself the Abbess.
EMILY VAN EVERA , POPPY HOLDEN, EMMA KIRKBY, JUDITH STELL (female singers)
KEVIN BREEN. JOHN DUDLEY , ANDREW KING , ANDREW PARROTT (male singers)
DOREEN MUSKETT (symphony) Martim Codax (13th century)
ANDREA VON RAMM sings what has been described as the first song-cycle, the seven Canciones de amigo which were discovered in 1914 introduced by JACK SAGE
(The Codax songs, sung by Catherine Boil. Early Music Forum, 6 December)
Stephen Plaistow introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
J. W. Lambert (in the Chair), talks with Richard Cork , Eric Rhode and Margaret Walters.
This week's subjects: The Thirties - extracts from Edmund Wilson 's notebooks and diaries; Illuminations by Peter Jen kins at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; Franco Rosso 's film Babylon, Social Strategies of Women Artists at the ica; and the BBC2 Monday satire programme Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Last programme in the series, introduced and played by Peter Hurford
Organ of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Prelude and Fugue in D minor (bwv 539)
Fugue in G major (bwv 581)
Fugue in G major (Gigue) (bwv 577)
Concerto in E flat major (bwv 597)
Prelude and Fugue in G major (bwv 550) Series producer
WILLIAM M. ROBSON
Bach Organ Music, a BBC Music Guide by Peter Williams , is available from book and music shops, price £1.50
Le nozze d'Ercoleed'Hebe (The marriage of Hercules and Heb3)
Serenata in two acts
Music by Gluck to an anonymous libretto (sung in German)
One of four operas produced for the festivities in honour of the double wedding of princes and princesses of Bavaria and Saxony in 1747. LEIPZIG RADIO CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by WOLF-DIETER HAUSCHILD
(East German Radio recording from the 1980 Dresden Festival)
I had fully determined to bring Holmes to an end ... as I felt that my literary energies should not be directed too much into one channel.
Owen Dudley Edwards considers what claims can be made for some of Dovle's less familiar stories and novels.
Part 2 Orfeo ed Euridice Opera in three acts Music by Bertoni
Libretto by CALZABIGI (sung in Italian)
In 1776 the Venetian, Ferdinando Bertoni , had to provide an opera for a company which included the famous castrato Guadagni, Gluck's original Orfeo. Another Orfeo resulted. Havdn actually chose Bertoni's setting in preference to Gluck's for performance at Esterhaz.
MIXED CHORUS. CAMERATA ZURICH, conducted by RÄTO TSCIIUPP (Swiss Radio recording from the 1980 Ziirich Festival)
An Idea of England in 1698 Introduced by Michael Bakewell
3: To Newcastle and Gloucester
Read by Prunella Scales Cast prog next Saturday)
String Quartet in F minor, Op 80
CAECILIA QUARTET
Three Etudes, Op 8 Nos 10-12
ANGELA BROWNRIDGE (piano) gramophone record
