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Borodin Symphony No 2. in B minor
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANSIIEL BRUSILOW
7.35* Schumann Kinderscenen. Op 15 (mono) ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano) gramophone records
Ravel Shehdrazade
JANET BAKER (mezzo-Sop) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.21* Shukur The Mountain Fairy
SALMAN SHUKUR (oud)
8.29* Prokofiev String Quartet No 2. Op 92 (on Kabardine themes)
NOVAK QUARTET: records
Janacek
String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
VLACH QUARTET
9.35' The Makropulos Case: Finale. Act 3
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano), SOLOISTS
CHORUS OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKEKRAS gramophone records
played by ANNE QUEFFELEC (piano) Book 1
Pour les cinq doigts d'apres M Czerny; Pour les tierces; Pour les quartes: Pour les sixtes: Pour les octaves; Pour les huit doigts
10.20' Interval Reading
10.25* Debussy éludes Book 2
Pour les degrés chromatiques: Pour les agrgments; Pour les notes répétées: Pour les sonorites opposSes; Pour les arpeges composes; Pour les accords
KEITH ELCOMBE (organ)
NORTHERN BRASS ENSEMBLE conducted by TIMOTHY REYNISH
John Hall Intrada and Chorale Variations for brass quintet and organ
Kenneth Leighton Pre lude. Scherzo and Passacaglia, Op 41. for organ Peter Dickinson Fanfares and Elegies for organ and brass
BBC Manchester
conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK DAVID WILDE (piano)
Mozart Overture: Idomeneo
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, in F major
Hindemith Symphony: Matins der Maler
direct from the Royal Exchange Theatre
Alberni String Quartet Jennifer Partridge (harmonium)
Dvorak Bagatelles
Puccini I crisantemi
Verdi String Quartet in E minor
(The fifth of 12 concerts: promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in association with Dunlop Heywood and Co. Chartered Surveyors)
' I think I'm really a bit leggy for Cherubino ' comments international mezzo-soprano Yvonne Minton.
That particular role may not suit her physique, but several others do, and in this programme she talks to GRAHAM SHEFFIELD about some of them, including Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito. Countess Geschwitz in Lulu, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and Thea in The Knot Garden: with illustrations on records.
JANET HILTON (clarinet) RAYMOND OVENS (violin) EDWARD HARPER (piano) Bartok Contrasts
Stravinsky Suite : L'histoire du soldat
by ROBERT WOOLLEY
Froberger Toccata No 3. in G: Tombeau de Monsieur Blancheroche
Telemann Fantasia No 5 Pachelbel Chaconne in D Bach French Suite in c minor (Bwv 813)
Trois petites liturgies de la Presence Divine
JEAN-FRANCOiS HEISSER (piano)
JEANNE LORIOD (ondes Martenot)
RADIO FRANCE CHORUS (WOMEN'S VOICES)
NEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF RADIO FRANCE conducted by GILBERT AMY
(French Radio recording)
Gordon Reynolds introduces the programme of music for early evening.
Antony Hopkins considers a work or theme that has recently caught his attention.
'Your sister from Setagaya was here the other day and said that she had never heard of a child who was afraid of thermos flasks... I'm sure he's more afraid of them than of his indulgent father.'
Geoffrey Beevers reads a short story by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
(Repeat)
8.0-8.45*, 9.5*-9.50 Stereo
The Ulster poet Tom Paulin reflects on some of the ways we think about language and the ways we use it.
The machine doesn't invent anything. The only thing the machine does that I don't know beforehand is the detail, but what counts for me is the organisation of the cloud of events. (XENAKIS) I'm not able to write a program which reproduces Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. (KOENIG) lannis Xenakis and Gottfried Michael Koenig discuss with Steve Holtzman the role of computers in their music, with performances of Xcnakis's Morsima-Amorsima (GEOR-GES PLUDERMACHER, piano, JKAN-CLAUDE BERNEDE, ViOlin, PAUL BOUFIL , cello, JACQUES CAZAURAN. double- bass, conducted by kon-STANIIN SIMONOVITCH: record); Koenig's Study for Piano (GEORGE NICHOLSON); and Holtzman's '... for solo harp ...'
(SANCHA PIELOU)
Five Flower Songs: To Daffodils (Herrick); The Succession of the Four Sweet Months (Herrick); March Flowers (Crabbe); The Evening Primrose (Clare); Ballad of Green Broom (anon)
ELIZABETHAN SINGERS conducted by LOUIS HALSEY gramophone record
