Parry Bridal March (The Birds)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.10* Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea Songs (mono)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.28* Ireland Decorations DANIEL ADNI (piano)
8.38* Handel. arr Harty Suite: Music for the Royal Fireworks
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGE WELDON : records
Introduced by John Lade Building a Library:
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, by GORDON REYNOLDS .
New orchestral records reviewed by RICHARD OSBORNE .
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
SALVATORE ACCARDO
AMSTERDAM CONCERT GEDOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
Martinu Parables
CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZDENEK KOSLER : records
THE GUS DAND, conductor KEITH WILKINSON
Herbert Howells Suite: Pageantry
Denis Wright Scherzo Gilbert Vinter James
Cook - Circumnavigator BBC Birmingham
Bread winning
In todav's selection of records Jeremy Siepmann looks at the occupational side of life with the help of a barber (from
Seville), two blacksmiths (courtesy of Brahms and Spohr). a ploughman and a railway-worker. The art of salesmanship is given new meaning by Orlando Gibbons: Mozart and Stravinsky visit highly contrasting entrepreneurs and the programme ends in a bucolic vein with a performance of Bach's Peasant Cantata.
Georg Philipp Telemanns s tercentenary falls today Nicholas Anderson introduces the large-scale series starting on Radio 3 on 5 April with music played by VIENNA
C0NCENTUSMUSICUS, directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Nicholas Kenyon compares the old and new Grove's Dictionary entries on Telemann and considers them as touchstones of the general coverage of early music. Producer CLIVE BENNETT
Gordon Stewart introduces his selection of music broadcasts of the past week. VHF only
with Peter Clayton
Including' In memoriam played by the MODERN JAZZ QUARTET
The Woman without a Shadow
(Die Frau ohne Schalten) Opera in three acts Libretto by HUGO von HOFFMANSTHAL
Sung in the new English version bv ERIC CROZIER Welsh National Opera production, direct from the Dominion Theatre. Tottenham Court Road, London
Intended as his ' Magic Flute ', Strauss's most ambitious opera spans three worlds with its mixture of magic, fantasy and realism.
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus of Welsh National Opera, chorus-master JULIAN SMITH
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera leader JOHN STEIN conductor
Richard Armstrong Act 1
Compiled and presented by Peter Orr
Yet he sleeps on very deep in his slumber: how long has he been the sleeping lordf ore the clammy ferns his rustling vallance does the buried rowan ward him from evil, or does he ward the tanglewood and the denizens of the wood are the stunted oaks his gnarled guard or are their knarred limbs strong with his sap? ' Reader Frank Duncan Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN.
BBC Bristol
Act 2
Anthony Curtis (in the Chair) talks with William Feaver , Stuart Hood and Marina Warner.
Robert Redford 's first film as director, Ordinary People.
Drawing: Technique and Purpose at the V and A. Other People: A Mystery story by Martin Amis. Goose Pimples, devised and directed by Mike Leigh at the Hampstead Theatre.
BECl's Play for Today: The Garland by H. O. Nazareth and Horace Ové . Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Act 3
Piano Trio No 3, in c minor, Op 101: JOSEF SUK (Violin), JANOS STARKER (cello), JULIUS KATCHEN (piano): record
Last of six comic talks Einstein, Watch-maker
As science and the microchip redesign the world in their image, it seems the most obsolescent piece of merchandise is man.'
Written by BARRY PILTON and performed by Leonard Rossiter
LOUISE PURSLOW
(born 14 March 1681)
Chamber Concerto in A, for two violins in scordatura and continuo MUSICA ANTIQUA COLOGNE gramophone record