Fourth of eight programmes
Mozart Serenade In c minor (K 388)
8.30* Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44: records
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Introduced by Michael Oliver
Dargomizhky and the Mussorgsky connection, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
A conversation with the operatic producer, ELIJAH MOSHINSKY.
Using the new Grot'e (2): RICHARD MAYNE.
(Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)
During the early 1920s PIERRE MONTEUX was
Music Director of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA In 1960. aged 85. he conducted a performance of Beethoven's Choral
Symphony with them at Tanglewood; they never made a record of this masterpiece together.
Beethoven Symphony No 9, in D minor
ELEANOR STEBER (SOpranO) FREDA GRAY-MASSÉ (contralto)
JOHN MCCOLLUM (tenor) DAVID LAURENT (bass) TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL
CHORUS (Recording from Boston Symphony
Transcription Trust)
Colin McLaren (2)
Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 64 No 6
Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals. Today:
Hooray for What? The
30s and the 70s
Opera in three acts by Dargomizhky
Libretto by PUSHKIN, sung in the English translation by EDWARD DOWNES
One of a series of Russian operas forming a background to the Mussorgsky centenary:
Dargomizhky set Pushkin's ! play, based on the Don Giovanni story, without altering a word, using a recitative style that deeply influenced Mussorgsky.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS (MEN'S VOICES), chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS Simons conductor EDWctD DOWNES
IIENRYK SZERYNG (Violin) MUNICH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI Part 1 Brahms
Violin Concerto in D VHF only
William Mann , senior music critic of The Times. BBC Manchester
VHF only
Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 3, in d minor (1888-9 version) (Bavarian Radio recording) VHF only
Douglas Eves reflects on the life and work of Walter Savage Landor. Extracts read by John Rye
Last of four programmes played by EDITH VOGEL c minor. Op 111
by Bach: second of two Programmes
No 2, in F major; No 5, in d major; No 3, in G major: JOHN HOLLOWAY
(violin), FRIEDMANN 1MMER (natural trumpet)
STEPHEN PRESTON (flute) philip PICKETT (recorder) DAVID REICHENBERG (oboe) John TOLL (harpsichord) Continuo: JENNIFER WARD clarke (cello)
FRANCIS BAINES (violone) JOHN TOLL (harpsichord) TAVERNER PLAYERS directed by ANDREW PARROTT (harpsichord)
by DAVID HARE
Adapted by the author from his stage play with Jane Lapotaire as Susan Traherne John Rowe as Raymond Brock and Zoe Wanamaker as Alice Park.
In counterpointing the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance during the war with her life in the following 20 years, the author offers a view of post-war history, as well as examining changing values and the collapse of ideals embodied in a single life.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(First performed in 1978 at the National Theatre)
leader PAN HON LEE conducted by James Conlon Halle Choir (men's voices) chorus-master RONALD FROST Imogen Cooper (piano) John Aler (tenor)
A concert given earlier this evening at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester Mozart Piano Concerto
No 20. in D minor (K 466)
9.30* Interval Reading
9.40* lialils Orchestra Part 2 Liszt
A Faust Symphony BBC Manchester
Motet: Suscipe quaeso
TALLIS SCHOLARS, directed by PETER PHILLIPS : record
