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Mendelssohn Overture: Athalia
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOBNANY1
Stanford Clarinet Concerto in A minor
THEA KING
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALUN FRANCIS
Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
Elgar Orchestral Music, a BBC Music Guide by Michael Kennedy , is available from booksellers and music shops, price £1.50
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Britten's A Ceremony of Carols '. by GORDON REYNOLDS. New records of instrumental music and song, reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON. Producer
ARTHUR JOHNSON
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 28 i Pastoral) (mono)
WILIIELM KEMPFF (piano)
Vaughan Williams Song-cycle: On Wenlock Edge (orchestral version) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON HANDLEY gramophone records
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A series in which speakers from many walks of life, musical and non-musical, are invited to introduce some of their favourite music. This week: the composer
William Mathias Producer
PIERS BURTON-PAGE
Gramophone records
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon
Keyboard music by Byrd and his contemporaries, played by John Beckett (harpsichord)
Howard Mayer Brown reports on a seminar held last week at the Dallas Civic Opera on 'Opera and Vivaldi - Reflections of a changing world
Christopher Hogwood reviews the first volume of the newly-published Complete Keyboard Works of Froberger, edited by Howard Schott, and plays some of the music.
Elaine Padmore introduces her personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
with Peter Clayton
Richard Mayne (in the Chair) talks with Paul Barker. Margaret Drabble and Clancy Sigal.
This week's subjects:
Peter Prince 's play Television Times at the Warehouse Theatre.
Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Canaletto at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Sartre: 1905-80, by Douglas Johnson on Radio 4.
Bricks to Babel - the selected writings of Arthur Koestler with comments by the author.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Libretto (based on the play by Pushkin) and music by Mussorgsky, edited and translated by David Lloyd-Jones (sung in English)
The new production by English National Opera, direct from the London Coliseum
Chorus of English National Opera, chorus-master Howard Williams
Orchestra of English National Opera, leader Barry Collins, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones
Prologue; Acts I and 2
by Sofia Kovalevskya
Compiled by Gabriel Woolf from the translation by Raymond Chapman and Eleonora Gottlieb
Read by Maureen O'Brien
In the early 1870s, a young Russian scientist visited George Eliot in her St John's Wood home. In these recollections she describes the writer's charm, her relationship with the two men who shared her life, and her view of some themes recurring in her works.
(See also Wed 7.45 pm, R4)
Act 3
A sequence of poems selected by PATREC DICKINSON Readers Emily Richard John Rye, Godfrey Kenton Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Act 4 followed by an interlude
I violin ). plays three arrangements by Fritz Kreisler , with SAMUEL SANDERS (piano): record
