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Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.12* Copland Sextet (1937)
JUILLIARD QUARTET
HAROLD WRIGHT (clarinet) THE COMPOSER (piano)
8.27* Tarrcga Introduction and Variations on The Carnival of Venice
ALEXANDRE LAGOYA (guitar)
8.35* Ravel Bolero CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone records
Ravel Orchestral Music, a BBC Music Guide by Laurence Davies , is available from booksellers and music shops, price £1.50.
Introduced by John Lade
Building Library: Chopin's four
Impromptus, by BRYCE MORRISON.
New chamber music records reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON. Producer
ARTHUR JOHNSON
Britten Suite No 3. for cello
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER
Mozart String Quartet in c major (Dissonance) (k 465)
CABRIELI QUARTET
Kenneth Sillito and Ian Jewel (violins)
Brendan O'Reilly (viola) Keith Harvey (cello) oramophone records
DERBY CENTRAL SALVATION ARMY BAND bandmaster
MAJOR GEORGE WHITTINGHAM George Marshall March: Mighty to Save
Ray Steadman Allen Lord of the Sea
Charles Skinner Heroes of the Faith
BBC Birmingham
Slavonic Rhapsody
In his selection of music on records this week, John Amis includes Evgeny Mravinsky conducting Tchaikovsky. Zara Dohikhanova singing Prokofiev,
Vladimir Horowitz playing preludes by Scriabin. Rachmaninov playing Rachmaninov. and excerpts from Dvorak's String Quintet in E flat and Janacek's Taras Bulba.
Davidsbiindlertanze, Op 6
Papillons, Op 2, played by EDITH VOGEL (piano)
Nicholas Anderson introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
A sacred music-drama in three acts by Richard Wagner A Bavarian Radio recording of last year's Bayreuth Festival Production
(sung in German)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master
NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by HORST STEIN
The action takes place in Northern Spain during the Middle Ages. Act 1
Sc 1: A glade in woods nearthe Castle of the Grail Sc 2: A hall in the Castle oftheGrail
(Act 2 at 7.5 pm )
Richard Cork (in the Chair) talks with Chris Dunkley , Richard Hoggart and Gillian Reynolds. This week's subjects: Robert Altman 's film Popeve.
Bestsellers,
John Sutherland 's study of ' Popular Fiction of the 1970s '.
Act 2
Sc 1: Klingsor's magic castle
Sc 2: Klingsor's magic garden
(continued)
The BBC2 series, The
Commanding Sea, written and directed by MICHAEL GILL and ANTHONY MEYER.
Sculptures, paintings and drawings by Giacometti at the Serpentine Gallery. Chekhov's The Seagull in a new version by Thomas Kilroy at the Royal Court Theatre.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Act 3
Sc 1: A pleasant landscape near the Castle of the Grail
Sc 2: The hall in the Castle of the Grail
Last in a series compiled by JOHN ASHE
On Wit and Humour
Presented by Robin Holmes with as Producer
BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol followed by an interlude
by Dietrich Buxtehude. Last of seven Holy
Week cantatas, meditations on the crucified body of Christ, heard in the context of a short devotional service: the cantata is followed by the last part of the unique composite Passion appointed to be read at Lutheran Vespers in the course of Holy Week, and a chorale by Paul Gerhardt which has the same inspiration as Buxtehude's text Ad faciem
(The countenance) BBC SINGERS
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
WALTER HILLSMAN (organ) conducted by KERRY WOODWARD
arr Hess Jesu, joy of man's desiring (Cantata 147) arr Kempff Siciliana
(Flute Sonata in E flat, bwv 1031)
DINU LIPATTI (piano) gramophone record: 1950
