directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER
Gluck Overture: La rencontre imprévue; Scythian Dance
(Iphigenie en Tauride) Handel Concerto Grosso In a, Op 6 No 11
Michael Haydn Incidental Music: Zaire
Turkish March: records
Listeners' record requests Lekeu Adagio for strings (mono) LIÈGE SOLOISTS conducted by GÉRY LEMAIRE
Widor Symphony No 5, In F minor
RICHARD ELLSASSER (Organ) Schubert Polonaise in flat (D 580)
GIDON KREMER (violin)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EMIL TCHAKAROV
Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by WALTER SUSSKINB
Introduced by Michael Oliver
' French Perfection? ': the music of Maurice Durufle , by BASIL DEANE.
A conversation with david POUNTNEY , soon to be Director of Productions at the English National Opera.
' He uses his instrument as Jupiter his bolts ': RODNEY SLATFORD On the life and music of the colourful double-bass virtuoso
Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846).
Producer GRAHAM Sheffield
Mahler Symphony No 3. in D minor
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto)
]PHILnARMONU CHORUS (women's voices) chorus-master
JOHN MCCARTHY SOUTHEND BOYS' CHOIR director MICHAEL CRABB
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
(Given in the Royal
Albert Hall , London, on 19 August 1981) (A BBC digital recording)
John Sparrow (1)
Beethoven Quartet In 9 flat major, Op 16
Faure Quartet No 1, In c minor, Op 15
(A BBC dioital recording)
An opera in three acts by George Lloyd
Libretto byWILLIAM LLOYD Wiltshire AD 1415
Richard returns from the English victory at
Agincourt to find his fiancee Sybil compelled to marry Socman to prevent her father's death for Lollardry.
CHORISTERS OF MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL director STUART BEER
, BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Repetiteur MARY NASH Technical presentation DON HARTRIDGE
Producer CHRIS DE souza
The poet Vernon Scannell looks in detail at 303 Vergissmeinicht
' Cairo Jag ' and ' How to kill by KEITH DOUGLAS
Reader Paul Webster Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of The Royal
Shakespeare Company)
Act 2
4.40* Interval Reading
4.50* John Socman Act 3
A short story by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by David Heald
Read by Ian Saynor
In the gymnasium of a German Military Academy, a young cadet considered weak and insignificant by the officers and pupils, takes drastic measures to prove himself.
Introduced and played byPeterHurford at the organ of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Pedal exercitium (BWV 598)
Sonata VI, in G major (BWV 530)
Prelude and Fugue in * (BWV 532)
Christopher Headington talks about Schumann's Kinderszenen as Performed by ARRAU, CORTOT, CURZON,
ESCHENBACH, GIESEKING, HOROVITZ, and others.
by ROSE LEIMAN coi.dhmherg, based on Letters Home, edited and with commentary by AURELIA SCHOBER PLATH
On a cold winter's day In London, 1963, the American poet
Sylvia Plath committed suicide at the age of 30. An attractive and highly-talented writer, she had struggled with her inner despair but, unable to accept defeat or rejection. she finally lost the will to live. Her relationship with her mother was one of mutual dependence, and the hundreds of letters to her which she left behind provide a fascinating insight into her character.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON (Originally produced with the same cast at the New End Theatre, London)
Given earlier this evening in the Free Trade Hall RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor EDWARD DOWNES Part I
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in c minor (K 546)
Piano Concerto No 18, in B flat major (K 456)
6: Women, Children and Walnuts
' Britain is a nation in decline, but by lucky coincidence, h'er great malaise is widely attributed to such causes as lack of discipline, dishonesty, laziness, lateness - all of them problems easily resolved by some form of knuckle sandwich.' written by BARRY PILTON and performed by Leonard Rossiter Producer
CATHERINE WEARING
(Lost prog: next Sun)
Part 2 Maxwell Davies Symphony No 2
Partita JOHN Williams (guitar) gramophone record
