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8.8* Frederick J. Converse Flivver ten million
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA conducted by JORGE MESTER
8.20* Copland Ballet Suite: Appalachian Spring LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. conducted by THE COMPOSER interspersed with three contributions from the celebrated American baritone JOHN CHARLES THOMAS (mono)
gramophone records
Introduced by John Lade Building, a Library:
Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, by FRITZ SPIEGL.
New records of choral and organ music reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Handel Samson , Act 3
LONDON VOICES
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
gramophone record
WILLIAM DAVIS
CONSTRUCTION GROUP BAND 'BBC Band of the Year 1980) conductor JOHN BERRYMAN
Gordon Jacob Suite in B flat
Joseph Horovitz
Sinfonietta
Edward Gregson
Connotations
BBC Birmingham
Moonlighters
Among the amateurs celebrated in this morning's selection of records, Jeremy Siepiuann finds a mine-owner, an American insurance man, a glass-manufacturer, and a chemist. Borodin, Ives, John Taverner and Frederick the Great are joined in a persuasive attack on specialisation by fellow all-rounders
Bernard Hassler, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Paderewski
Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon The American musicologist MARY CYR recently discovered a long-lost cantata by Rameau, Pour le jour de Saint Louis.
She talks about her discovery, relates it to
Rameau's other cantatas being broadcast complete in the next few weeks and leads into a performance of it by PATRIZIA KWELLA (soprano),
SIMON STANDAGE (Violin), JENNIFER WARD-CLARKE (cello) and NICHOLAS KRAEMER (harpsichord)
Johannes Tinctoris (c 1435-1511)
' For all the great reputation of Tinctoris as a theorist, he can be given only minor rank as a composer.'
(NEW OXFORD HISTORY
OF MUSIC)
RONALD WOODLEY takes a fresh took at Tinctoris, both as a theorist who has much to teach us about 15th-century performance, and as an under-estimated composer.
Ronald Corp introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Matthew Hoffman ,
Edward Lucie-Smith and Gillian Tindall.
This week's subjects: Passion Play by Peter Nichols at the Aldwych Theatre.
The television film
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller , on ITV.
Richard Rush 's film The SUinttnan.
A Night in the Gazebo and other poems by Alan Brownjohn.
A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Paul Gregory plays music by Bach, Haydn,
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and one of his own compositions. Introduced by DORITA SENSIER
by Granville Bantock
The second of Bantock's three symphonies for unaccompanied chorus, written in 12 parts throughout. The texts of the seven movements are taken from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes.
BBC SINGERS, conducted by SIMON JOLY
leader JOSE-LUIS GARCIA conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op 133
Mozart Piano Concerto No 13, in c (K 415)
A satirical short story by NIGEL DENNIS
Read by Denys Hawthorne
Producer LIANE AUKIN (Rpt)
Part 2 Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
(Promoted by the English Chamber Orchestra and Music Society)
in D minor. Op 42 GABRIELI QUARTET
Third of six programmes in which Gillian Weir introduces and plays all of Messiaen's organ music in the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC
Verset pour la fête de la dédicace (1960); Apparition de I'église eternelle (1932); Messe de la Pentecote (1950)
on the 275th anniversary of the birth of the instrument's inventor, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Mozart Rondo in c minor (K 617): BRUNO HOFFMANN (glass harmonica)
HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe)
AURELE NICOLET (flute)
KARL SCHOUTEN (viola)
JEAN DECROOS (cello): record
