Sixth of seven programmes marking the centenary of the birth of ARTUR SCHNABEL and including all the pianist's records of music by Schubert.
March In B minor (D 819 No 3)
ARTUR AND KARL ULRICH SCHNABEL (piano duet) Erlkonig
THERESE BEHR (contralto) ARTUR SCHNABEL (piano) March in E (D 606)
Allegretto in c minor
(D 915): ARTUR SCHNABEL Divertissement a la hongroise, in G minor ARTUR AND KARL ULRICH SCHNABEL (piano duet)
Dvorak Piano Trio in G minor. Op 26
BEAUX ARTS TRIO
9.37* Faurg Cinq mélodies Op 58 (Chansons de Venise)
GERARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
9.50' Martinu Symphony NO 4: PRAGUE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JIRI belohlavek : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
The symphonies of Charles Ives : a talk by PETER DICKINSON.
Bliss and the concerto:
1970 archive recording of Sir Arthur Bliss in conversation with EDWARD GREENFIELD.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)
First in a weekly series of concerts from the orchestra's recent seasons.
This programme is conducted by its former
Music Director ERICH LEINSDORF
DANIEL MAJESKE (violin) Part I
Mozart March in D major (K 249); Serenade in D major (Haffner) (K 250)
Peter Levi (3)
Part 2
Strauss, arr Leinsdorf Suite (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)
(WCLV, Cleveland, Ohio, recording)
CHILINCIRIAN STRING QUARTET
Quartet in B flat major, Op IS No 6
Quartet in F major. Op 135 (Given in St John's, Smith .Square, London in February 1981)
Opera in four acts Music by Friedrich von Flotow Libretto by WILHELM FRIEDRICH
(sung in German: records)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ WALLBERG
The action takes place in and near Richmond,
Surrey, about the year 1710. Act 1
A sequence of poems compiled round a theme by Patric Dickinson and read by JILL BALCON ,
STEPHEN THORNE and HUGH BURDEN
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Act 2
3.35* Interval Reading
3.40* Martha Acts 3 and 4
' The picture's finished to me when it surprises me. It's essential to be surprised by your picture.
Ifapicturedoesn't surprise you, then it's just an academic work.' The painter
Victor Pasmore , who was made a Companion of Honour in last year's Honours
List for his services to art. Is in conversation with with Edward Lucle-Smith Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
This Votive Symphony dedicated to the Black Madonna of Czestochowa formed the centrepiece of a Boston Symphony
Orchestra concert a few weeks ago. It was commissioned for the orchestra's centennial season.
Handel Concerto Grosso In D major. Op 6 No 5
JOSEPH SILVERSTEfN , MARY LOU SPEAKER (violins) JULES ESKIN (cello) Andrze) Panufnik Symphony No 8
(Sinfonia Votiva: first performance)
Schumann Symphony No 4, in D minor
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA. (Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording of a concert in Symphony Hall)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A new translation by Alan and Sandy Brownjohn
with Michael Pennington as Tasso, David Buck as Prince Alfonso, David Suchet as Antonio, Eileen Atkins as the Princess, Rosalind Shanks as Leonora
"Here other men must suffer grief in silence,
A god gave me the power to speak my pain.
The poet Tasso lives in the palace of the enlightened Duke Alfonso in 16th-century Ferrara. He has finished his masterpiece, 'Jerusalem Liberated' and is
symbolically crowned by his admiring patrons. Goethe presents a highly-cultured Court, dedicated to the pursuit or artistic excellence. The play is centrally concerned with the discrepancy between the artist and the rest of the world. Music by Michael STEER. Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(David Suchet is an Associate Artist of the HSC)
During the interval
7.35.7.45' A Tasso setting by Monteverdi Vattene pur. crudel (Third Book of Madrigals) conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD: record
conducted by GEORGE HURST
DAVID THOMAS (bass)
Mozart Symphonv No 36. in c (Linz) (K 425)
Stephen Dodgson Song-Cycle: Last of the leaves Uindemith Symphonic metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber BBC Manchester
played by Peter Hurford Fantasia in G (bwv 572); Fugue in B minor (bwv
579): Prelude and Fugue in E minor (bwv 533); Chorale Preludes: Wir Christenleut' (bwv 710); Wir glauben all' (BWV 740); Trio In D minor (bwv 583); Allabreve i bwv 589)
(born 18 April 1882) conducts the NEW
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA in his own transcription of Debussy's prelude: La cathédrale engloutie gramophone record