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Bach Suite No 3, in D THE ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
7.23* Hande] Dopo notte
(Ariodante): JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.30* Mozart Symphony
No 36, in c (Linz) (K 425) (mono)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZ BUSCH
8.0 News
8.5 Delibes Ballet Music: Le roi s'amuse
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.19* Smetana Marenka's aria (The Bartered Bride, Act 3) (mono)
SENA JURINAC (soprano) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WARWICK BRAITHWAITE
8.26* Elgar Six
Promenades for wind instruments
ATHENA ENSEMBLE
8.40* Franck Symphonic
Variations: CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano), PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY gramophone records
Alexander Konstantinavich Glazunov (1865-1936)
Glazunov is a marvellous example of a purely
Russian phenomenon: as a composer he can honestly and fairly hold a position in Russian music that is not simply outstanding, but unique.
(DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH)
Oriental Rhapsody MOSCOW SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VERONIKA DUDAROVA
Symphony No 1 (mono) USSR RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by EVGENY AKULOV : records
SIMON STANDAGE (violin) JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello)
JEREMY WARD (bassoon) JOHN TOLL (harpsichord)
Vivaldi Manchester Sonata No 7. in c minor (RV 6)
Albinoni Sonata in B flat
Vivaldi Manchester Sonata No 11, in E flat (Rv 756)
Some of his most important piano works played by ANDOR FOLDES
14 pieces (For Children); Sonatina (1915); Seven Sketches, Op 9 (1908-10; rev 1945); Sonata (1926); Nine pieces (Mikrokosmos, Book VI): FreeVariations; From the Diary of a Fly; Ostinato: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm
(Joint Winner of the 1980 Rupert Foundation
Conductors' Award) conducting the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade
Prokofiev Scythian
Suite (From a concert on 16 January at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon)
direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
Norbert Brainin (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Mozart Divertimento in E fiat (K 563)
(Tickets £1.30, available from 11.0 am today or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Repeated: Thurs 9.35 pm)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by VIVIEN HIND conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Music by Rossini,
Honegger, Janacek,
Tchaikovsky, Farnon and John Foulds
A series of 13 programmes 2: Vladimir Horowitz Jeremy Slepmann explores the life and art of a musician who combines a prodigious technique with an introspective temperament.
Horowitz is heard in recordings spanning almost 50 years, including performances of Scarlatti, Clementi and Sousa. the G minor Ballade of Chopin and Schumann's
Fantasy in c: records
Offenbach Overture: Bluebeard
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Falla Harpsichord
Concerto: JOHN CONSTABLE LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by SIMON RATTLE Sibelius Suite: Pelleas and Melisande: ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ZINMAN
Michael Berkeley
Introduces music mainly by English composers, including at 6.15* a recent setting by Phyllis Tate of Tennyson's
The Lady of Shalott.
Symphony No 7, in D minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: record
The second of three talks in which Professor Lewis Binford , of the University of New Mexico, considers how observation of remote groups of people like aborigines, eskimos. and peasants in northern Mexico can help to provide a basis for understanding the condition of early man, BBC Bristol
Operetta in one act Music by Offenbach
Libretto by LUDOVIC HALÉVY and WILLIAM BUSNACH translated into English by PETER KNAPP Introduced by Pierre Comte-Offenbach
LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by HOWARD WILLIAMS
Repetiteur IAIN LEDINGHAM Technical presentation by MIKE LUCOCK
Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA
- the words of Georges
.Pompidou on the death of de Gaulle. In the second Of two programmes
Dr Christopher Andrew
Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, considers how far de Gaulle's France has survived the General himself. Producer MICHAEL GREEN. BBC Manchester
Introduced by Charles Fox 'New Year Song ' by Graham Collier
GRAHAM COLLIER MUSIC
The first of two extracts from Byron's journals and last letters from Greece
Compiled by ANGELA MORRELL. Reader Ian Frost
Seven Holy
Week cantatas, in the context of a short devotional service.
2: Ad genua (The knees)
Les voix humaines
JORDI SAVALL (viola da gamba);
HOPKINSON SMITH (theorbo): record d
