(1895-1960)
First of eight programmes of records made by the Romanian-born pianist late in her career.
Mozart Variations on a minuet by Duport (K 573) Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3: LAMOUREUX
ORCHESTRA, conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
Listeners' record requests Bruckner Symphony No 5 BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
A new series about some of the music and personalities in this year's Promenade Concerts.
The BBC's Controller of Music. ROBERT PONSONBY , on the coming season.
Voices of Spring: ARNOLD whittall on vernal works by Stravinsky and Britten. Wrong Notes: a conversation with NORMAN DEL MAR. Presenter
Jeremy Siepmann
Producers
GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and PETER TANNER
leader bela dekany conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY VICTORIA POSTNIKOVA (piano)
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (k 466)
Peter Porter , the poet
Pt 2 Strauss. Also sprach Zarathustra (Given on 4 June in Kagoshima)
Luciano Berio 's celebrated ' Sequenze ' are virtuoso pieces I?roviding a dramatic exploration of the relationship between a soloist and his own instrument. With the exceptions of Nos 1 and 4. the performances today are all given by the artists for whom the works were written. No 1, for flute ALAIN MARION
(Given in March 1980 in the QEH, London)
Ihr Grab; Das Heimweh ; Das war ich; Vor meiner Wiege; Der Geistertanz;
Die Gdtter Griechenlands ; Dcr blinde Knabe; Das Lied im Griinen
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
No 2, for harp FRANCIS PIERRE
ALAN MARKS (piano)
Fantaisie in F'minor, Op 49; Ballade No 1, in G minor, Op 23; Andante spianato and Polonaise in E flat, Op 22
No 3, for voice CATHY BERBERIAN
Oratorio: Der Tag des Gerichts. Text by CHRISTIAN WILHELM ALERS (sung in German) GERTRUDE LANDWEHR-HERRMANN (soprano) CORA CANNE-MElJER (contralto)
kurt EQUILU Z (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (baSS) FOUR SOLOISTS FROM THE VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR (treble and alto)
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS conducted by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT : records
No 4, for piano KATIA LABEQUE
DELME STRING QUARTET
Mozart Quartet in B flat (k 589)
Martinu Concerto da
Camera (Quartet No 7) BBC Bristol
No 5, for trombone STUART DEMPSTER
The artist is the Grand Master of everything. The self-styled ' living sculptures ', Gilbert and George, talk with Edward Lucie-Smith about their art. in particular the recent photopieces, and the feelings which stimulate their work.
Producer JUDITH bumpus (Gilbert and George:
Photopieces 1971-80 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, from 3 July)
No 6, for viola
WALTER TRAMPLER
Symphony No 1, in A flat PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA gramophone record
No 7, for oboe HEINZ HOLLIGER
by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, adapted for radio in two parts by JOHN ARDEN. Part 2
Don Quixote , the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, having faced manydangers is then challenged by the Knight of the Mirrors.
Music by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
No 8, for violin CARLO CHIARAPPA
A concert given earlier this evening in the Town Hall, Cheltenham City of London Sinfonia leader SIMON STANDAGE conductor Richard Hickox Deborah Cook (soprano) Maurice Bourgue (oboe) Beethoven Overture: Coriolan. Op 62
Berkeley Antiphon, Op 85 Strauss Oboe Concerto
9.55* Interval Reading
10.5' Concert. Part 2 Lutyens Concert Aria (Dialogo), Op 142
(first performance: commissioned by Richard Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia) Beethoven Symphony No 1. in c. Op 21
BBC Birmingham
Three songs
GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone)
JACQUELINE BONNEAU (piano) gramophone records
