Second of seven programmes marking the centenaryofthebirthof ARTUR SCHNABEL and including all the pianist's records of music by Schubert.
Allegro in A minor
(Lebensstiirme) (D 947) ARTUR and KARL ULRICH SCHNABEL (piano duet) Die Stadt
THERESE BEHR (contralto) ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano)
Four Impromptus (D 935) ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano)
Saint Saens Violin Concerto No 2, in c ULF HOELSCHER NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
Stravinsky Persephone VERA ZOBINA (reciter)
MICHELE MOLESE (tenor) ITHACA COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR, TEXAS BOYS CHOIR OF FORT. WORTH
GREGG SMITH SINGERS COLUMBIA SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Schnabel's Schubert, by BRYCE MORRISON.
Mozart's brother-Masons: a discovery by H. C. ROBBINS LANDON.
The music of Elizabeth Maconchy : a talk by ROGER WRIGHT
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor SIR GEORG SOLTI concertmasters VICTOR AlTAY and SAMUEL MAGAD Part 1
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
Barber Essay for Orchestra, No 1
Beethoven Symphony No 8, in F major
Gerald Long (3)
Part 2
Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
(Given on 4 September 1981 in the Royal Albert Hall , London) A BBC digital recording
Piano Sonata in A minor (D 537)
Hungarian Melody in B minor (D 817)
Piano Sonata in A major (d664)
A BBC digital recording
Lyric poem in three acts by RENE FAUCHOIS Music by Fauri (sung in French: gramophone records)
Fauré's only full-length opera retells the classic Greek legend of Ulysses' homecoming to his faithful wife and his routing of the importunate suitors who have clustered round her.
JEAN LAFORGE VOCAL ENSEMBLE
MONTE CARLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT Act 1
A sequence of poems compiled round a theme by PATRIC DICKINSON and read by Jill Balcon , Michael
Spice, Godfrey Kenton
Acts 2 and 3
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÈ-LUIS GARCIA ECO WIND ENSEMBLE director MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Piano Concerto No 5, in D (K 175)
Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments (K 361) (unconducted)
The second extract from Volume 1 of the correspondence between George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis in 1955-56. Readers CYRIL LUCKHAM and JOHN JULIUS NORWICH Compiled by DONALD BANCROFT
Part 2
Piano Concerto No 21, in C (K 467)
(Given on 25 September
1981 at the Royal Festival Hall, London)
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Adapted by ANTHONY VIVIS from the translation by louis
MACNEICE and E. L. STAIIL Part 1
The medieval folk-legend of a Magus who makes a pact with the devil.
Music composed by CHRISTOS PITTAS Directed by DAVID SPENSF. R
(Simon Callow is in ' The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B ' at the Duke of York's Theatre) (Part 2: next Sun at 6.45)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor EDWARD DOWNES Graham Whettam Sinfonia drammatica
George Lloyd Symphony No 6. BBC Manchester
by PETER BARNES
adapted from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by MAXIM GORKI
Read by David Suchet
Reflecting on his friendship with Tolstoy, Gorki found it difficult to remain unimpressed by his friend's kindness and tyranny.
Producer MARGARET WINDHAM
(David Suchet is an associate member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
The fifth of seven programmes Penitential Psalm No 5 MUSICA SACRA
REDIVIVA conductor
EDGAR FLEET
Marini Passacaglio a 4; Sonata sopra la Monica gramophone record