Louis Ganne Overture: Les Saltimbanques (mono) ORCHESTRA, conducted by JULES GRESSIER
di Chiara La Spagnola (mono)
BENIAMINO GlGLI (tenor)
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LAWRANCE COLLINGWOOD
William Hurlstonc Piano Concerto in D: ERIC PARKIN LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE
Smetana Blanik (Ma vlast) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : records
Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: an introduction to medieval music, by MARY BERRY.
New orchestral records reviewed by EDWARD SECK -ERSON.
Franz Xaver Richter Sinfonia in B flat CAMERATA BERN directed by THOMAS FORI
Schumann Symphony No 4: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BÖHM: records
direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE
English Chamber Orchestra, led by JOSEF FRÖHLlCH Introduced and conducted by Christopher Seaman
Handel Movements from Water Music: Suite No 1
Poulenc Two Christmas motets
Ravel Movements from Le Tombeau de Couperin Berlioz The Shepherds' Farewell (The Childhood of Christ)
Mozart Symphony No 41, in c (Jupiter) (K 551)
MORRIS MOTORS BAND conductor CLIFF EDMUNDS
Manuel Bilton Overture: Napoleon
Harry Bellstedt Napoli
Peter Yorke Suite: The Shipbuilders
William Rimmer March: Ravenswood followed by an interlude
with Nicholas Kenyon John Dowland
IAN HARWOOD reviews the mammoth Decca recordings of the complete works, the final discs of which appear early in the New Year; followed by a selection from them. The Viola d'Amore
PETER HOLMAN traces the long history of this unique hybrid instrument.
Ann Stangar introduces her personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
with Peter Clayton
J. W. Lambert (in the Chair), talks with Richard Mayne , Eric Rhode and Clancy Sigal.
This week's subjects:
Mike Leigh 's TV play Grown-Ups on BBC2.
The National Theatre revival of Harold Pinter 's The Caretaker.
Max Beckmann : The Triptychs at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Two horror movies: John Carpenter 's The Fog and Roger Spottiswoode 's Terror Train.
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart, a biography by Robert Bernard Martin.
AYLA ERDURAN (violin) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Franck Sonata in A major Brahms Sonata in D minor, Op 108
A stage work with music, In two acts, by Ernst Krenek
Krenek completed his most important opera in Germany in 1933. By the time it was performed in Prague in 1938, he was a refugee from Nazism, living in America, his present home.
Karl V has the distinction of being the first full-length 12-tone opera. The Emperor is dying and, in a series of flash-backs into his past, analysing the reasons for his failure to establish a united world empire.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF AUSTRIAN RADIO conducted byGERDALBRECHT (An EBU co-promotion given as part of this year's Salzburg Festival) Act 1
The more I write history, the more I become conscious of the subjectivity of the whole enterprise.
Dr Theodore Zeldin stands at the present crossroads of the writing of history, and asks whether the French historian, Fernand Braudel , has lost his way.
Act 2
'I suppose I'm often successful because I suffer from conviction. Academics are notoriously unconvinced.'
The novelist, Rachel Trickett, Principal of St Hugh's, Oxford, in conversation with Alastair Hetherington
Variations sérieuses, Op 54 LYDIAARTYMIW (piano)
The Swan of Tuonela, Op 22 NO 3: BERLIN PHILHAE-MONICORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone record
