conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
(26 September 1881-1968)
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8.12 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
8.33* Prokofiev Aubade (Romeo and Juliet)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8.35* Respighi Fountains of Rome
NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA gramophone records
Introduced by John Lade Building a Library:
Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks reviewed by LIONEL SALTER.
New records of chamber music and song reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON , including: Mozart's Wind Serenades: Schubert's
Schwanengesang sung by Hermann Prey ; music by William Croft.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A (K 581)
ANTONY pay (clarinet) IONA BROWN (violin)
MALCOLM LATCHEU (Violin) STEPHEN SHINGLES (viola) DENIS VIGAY (cello) Schubert Der
Doppelganger; Die Taubenpost
(Schwanengesang)
HERMANN PREY (baritone) LEONARD HOKANSON (piano) gramophone records
ROBERT rowELL (narrator) BESSES 0 TH' BARN BAND conductor ROY NEWSOME
Elgar Howarth Fireworks Alfred Bradley/Roger
Payne The Little Swallow and the Happy Prince BBC Manchester
In the last programme of his series Fritz Spiegl singles out some multi-talented musicians including conductors whose cupboards contain some strange skeletons. gramophone records
(1305-1400)
Spanish songs and sacred music
MILLIARD ENSEMBLE director
PAUL hillier (baritone) Francisco de Penalosa Missa ' el ojo '
Juan del Encina Gran gasjo anon Dezi flor Juan del Encina Oyo comamos y bebamos
Mateo Flccba Ensalada: El jubilate
Morales Magnificat (tertii toni)
(Gicen in 1979 in St
John's. Smith Square, London)
Nicholas Anderson presents a choice of recent music broadcasts which have given him pleasure. Producer
ELIZABETH JOHNSON
Ninth of ten programmes Internecine warfare finally surfaced in Parisian artistic circles during the early 30s.
Today's programme tells of the intense rivalry between Igor Markevitch and the young
Virgil Thomson , who bitterly resented the Princesse de Polignac's virtual monopoly of musical patronage.
A last example Is encountered of her generosity to Stravinsky. And she commissions a symphony from a wholly unexpected source: Kurt Weill.
Written and narrated by Piers Burton-Page gramophone records
with Peter Clayton
John Spurting (in the Chair), talks with John Carey, Margaret Wallers and J. G. Weightman. This week's subjects:
Barnes' People - seven radio monologues by Peter Barnes performed by Alec Guinness. John Clements and others on Radio 3.
On the Razzle, adapted by Tom Stoppard from a play by Johann Nestroy , at the National Theatre. British Sculpture in the 20th Century at the 'Whitechapel Gallery.
Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey by V. S. Naipaul.
Andrzej Wajda 's new film Man of Iron.
Producer philip French
Last of four programmes Symphony No 5, in F minor, played by DAVIS SANGER at the organ of St Peter's Italian Church, Clerkenwell, London gramophone record
For the last of nine talks Bernard Levin reports from the most northerly of all festival cities, Anchorage, and the Alaska Festival of Music.
Serenade in G, Op 141a RICHARD ADENEY (flutC)
KENNETH SILLITO (violin) IAN JEWEL (viola)
In a concert direct from the Fairfield Halls, t'roydon, with the Philharmonia Orchestra led by Raymond OVENS conducted by Sir Charles Groves Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Graham Whellam Hymnos for string orchestra (first broadcast performance) A piano concerto, played by the winner of the 1981 Leeds International
Pianoforte Competition
There's a variety of landscapes or settings, seen with varying degrees of elaboration and precision; but all of these have human beings in the foreground. Anthony Thwaite introduces a selection of new poetry read by the poets themselves.
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
Sibelius Symphony No 5, in E flat, Op 82
(Given in association with the House of du Maurier)
(Stereo)
followed by an interlude
The fourth of seven monologues for radio by PETER BARNES
Leo McKern as William Miller
Directed by Ian Cotterell
(Tomorrow at 6.45: Dillys Laye in The Theory and Practice of Belly-Dancing)
IRIS DELL'ACQUA (soprano) ROGER vignoles (piano) Alfano Tre liriche;
Preghiera della Madonna Respighi Deita Silvanc:
Fauni; Musica in horto: Egle; Acqua crepusculo
.Cantabile
MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN (organ) gramophone record