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Copland Quiet City MICHAEL WINFIELD (cor anglais) WILLIAM LANG (trumpet) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER
7.14* Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, in F, Op 102: EUGENE LIST MOSCOW RADIO AND TELEVISION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH
7.30* Hahn Air de la lettre; Air des Adieux (Mozart) (mono) YVONNE PRINTEMPS (soprano), with orchestra
7.37* Milhaud Suite Provencale BOSTON SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
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8.5 Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet) ACADEMY OF ST-MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.12* Monn Cello Concerto in c minor: JACQUELINE DU PRE , LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.34* Rossini La Danza ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
8.37* Haydn Symphony No 21, in A PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
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Malcolm Williamson A composer who nets out to create a specifically ' sad ' or ' happy ' piece is skating on the thinnest ice. This is done all the time by film composers of course, but they rely on false correspondences between music and the human heart. Violin Concerto (1964/5) YEHUDI MENUHIN LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOUI. Five Piano Preludes (1966) PENELOPE THWAITES Six English Lyrics (1966) YVONNE LEA (mezZO-SOp) SCOTTISH BAROQUE ENSEMBLE conducted by LEONARD FRIEDMAN : records
PETER LE HURAY plays and introduces the Snetzler Organ at the Church of St Mary the Virgin. Hillington, Norfolk John Stanley Concerto in A major. Op 10 No 5 John Bull Revenant C. P. E. Bach Sonata No 6 in A minor. BBC Birmingham.
The veteran American composer and critic is 85 today. To mark the occasion, a programme of his piano music, including two sets of his musical portraits of friends and colleagues, all ' drawn from life (first UK broadcasts) Sonata No 1 Portraits. Album I Sonata No 2 Portraits. Album 3 NIGEL COXE (piano)
conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
CHANDLER GOETTING (trumpet)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Mendelssohn Symphony
No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
Bavarian Radio recording
direct from Broadcasting House. London
Andrew Watkinson (violin) Alexander Baillie (cello) Kodaly Duo. Op 7 Martinu Duo No 1
Bartok. arr Kraeuter Seven Hungarian folk melodies
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Beethoven Sonata in c minor. Op 13 (Pathelique) Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini
Debussy Reflets dans l'eau; Etude pour les arpeges composes; L'isle joyeuse
from The Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castte
Introit: O praise the Lord (Batten)
Responses: Morley
Psalms: 119, vv 73-104 (Battishill, Noole, Norris, Havergal)
First Lesson: Hosea 11. vv 1-11
Canticles: Ward - The first Service
Second Lesson: Matthew 12. vv 1-21
Anthem: Hymn to St Cecilia (Britten)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Vittoria (Britten)
Natalie Wheen
Producer ROBERT LAYTON
Understanding McLuhan I am an investigator, I make probes explorer is totally inconsistent, he never knows when he might make some startling discovery.
Marshall McLuhan 's combative writing on aspects of media - the printing press. advertising, television - bristles with slogans and quirky insights. He was lionised in the 60s and neglected in the 70s.
How does his work stand up now?
Russell Davies presents this documentary assessment of Marshall McLuhan.
Contributors TOM WOLFE ,
FR WALTER ONG , JOHN WAIN , CORINNE MCLUHAN ,
PROFESSOR JAMES CAREY.
DR TOM COOPER , PROFESSOR FRANK KERMODE , PROFESSOR NORTHROP FRYE ,
RALPH NADER , ROBERTSON DAVIES , ANTHONY SMITH , DR DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE
Producer DAVID PERRY
ROY HOWAT (piano) plays two recently discovered pieces by Debussy gramophone record
The second of eight concerts of 20th-century music direct from the Royal Festival Hall,
Londonsop)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (sop)
John Constable (piano) Timothy Walker (guitar) Hugo d'Alton (mandolin) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Pierre Boulez
Part 1nts
Webern Five movements for string orchestra. Op 5
Boulez Livre pour cordes
Part 2 Boulez Pli selon pli
Earlier today members of the Historical Association and guests heard a lecture by A. J. P. Taylor to mark its 75th anniversary.
(cello), who also conducts the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Tchaikovsky Andante cantabile: record
