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Pachelbel Suite in G
MUSICA ANTIQUA COLOGNE Bach Cantata No 75:
Die Elenden sollen essen MARKUS KLEIN (treble), PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor), ADALBERT KRAUS
(tenor), MAX V AN EGMOND (bass), HANOVER BOYS'
CHOIR, COLLEGIUM VOCALE,
GHENT, LEONHARDT CONSORT. directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
Buxtehude Sonata In G major: MUSICA ANTIQUA COLOGNE: records
Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
Shostakovich String
Quartet No 8. in c minor: FITZWILLIAM QUARTET
Galuppl Magnificat in G ANA-MARIA MIRANDA (soprano)
BERN CHAMBER CHOIR SOUTH WEST GERMAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JORG EWALD DAHLER
Dohnanyi Piano Concerto No 2, in 8 minor (mono) THE COMPOSER
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records
Presenter
Michael Oliver
Beethoven and the variation: a talk by ROBERT SIMPSON.
Léon Goossens at 85: a birthday tribute by EVELYN BARBIROLLI.
Prokofiev, Satire and an Orange: peeled by GEOFFREY NORRIS
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
conducted by LOUIS LANE A concert given at the 1980 Blossom Festival to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of George Szell , the orchestra's Music
Director for many years. Broadcast this morning to mark the 85th anniversary of his birth, on 7 June 1897. Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (it 550)
Hindemith Symphonic
Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber
John Baxter , the novelist and film historian. reflects on some of the ways we think about language and use it (3).
Part 2
Bach Air from Suite No 3 in D (unconducted)
Schumann Symphony No 3, in E flat (Rhenish)
(Radio WCLV, Cleveland recording)
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) Wolf Ich hab' in Penna Marx Wofiir ?
Wolf-Ferrari Mamma , non mi mandate: Ninna-nanna la malcontenta
Wolf Wer rief dich denn?; Wie lange schon; Du sagst mir, dass ich keine Furstin sei
Marx Die Verlassene: Die Begegnung
Wolf-Ferrari Come tu mi fai rabbia; Dimmilo Nino mio
Wolf Heut 'Nacht erhob' ich mich
Marx Die Lilie
Wolf Mein Liebster ist so klein; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen Marx Venetianisches
Wiegenlied Wolf Gesegnet sei das
Wolf-Ferrari Giovanottino Marx Die tote Braut
ISRAEL PIANO QUARTET Part 1
Beethoven Quartet in E flat major, Op 16
2.5* Interval Reading
2.10* Part 2 Brahms
Quartet in A major, Op 26
MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND orchestra, conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
EIDDWEN HARRIIY (soprano) CATHERINE DENLEY (mezzo-soprano)
LAURENCE DALE (tenor) RODNEY MACANN (bass) Part 1 Haydn Salve Regina
Symphony No 44, in E minor (Trauersymphonie) (Given yesterday in Wells Cathedral, in association with IBM (UK) Ltd)
A sequence of poems compiled by Patric Dickinson. Readers JILL BALCON. HUGH BURDEN,
STEPHEN THORNE. Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Part2 Haydn
Mass in B flat (Theresa)
Man of Masks
' He knew that he was a great composer. He knew that he had achieved something and he was very serene and happy and on top of everything.'
(SIR ISAIAH BERLIN)
' He had this ferocious look at times, a sort of grin of a bird of prey. He could be fierce, extremely unpleasant to people.'
(FERNAND AUBERJONOIS )
To mark the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's birth,
Michael Berkeley presents a portrait of the composer by those who knew him, with contributions from ROBERT CRAFT, ROBERT FIZDALE ,
LILLIAN LIBMAN , MADELEINE MILHAUD , ARTHUR MITCHELL , JEROME ROBBINS , SOULIMA AND THEODORE STRAVINSKY , ALEXANDER TANSMAN and VERA ZORINA.
Producer ANN STANGAR BBC Manchester
leader BELA DEKANY conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
HEATHER HARPER (SOpranO) Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Malcolm Williamson
Hammarskjold Portrait
6.45* Interval Reading
6.50* Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 4. in G
(Given on 12 May in the Melbourne Town Hall.
Recorded by courtesy of the Australian
Broadcasting Commission)
written for radio by ROBERT FORREST with Sandra Clark Bill Paterson
David Hayman and Vivienne Dixon
1 sipped my drink and for a few seconds he seemed utterly motionless, standing with his hands lightly clasped in front of him, unsmiling after the faintest smile and nod when he came in. His hair was cropped close to his skull but he was lightly bearded and in his left ear was a tiny earring. He seemed to be offering himself for my inspection, with something too confidently passive to be defiance.
Not even his eyes evaded mine.'
Subtlety, wit and natural dramatic grace ... a talent of quite remarkable capacity (GLASGOW HERALD) Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
(born 6 June 1922)
Mass in A (first broadcast) performance)
BBC SINGERS, conductor JOHN POOLE
Peter Howell reads a short story by SAKI
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Isang Yun Quartet No 3 (first UK broadcast)
Mozart Quartet in D (K 499)
(Giren on 22 February in the Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music) BBC Manchester
played by PETER HURFORD at New College Chapel, Oxford
Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 543)
Fugue in G (BWV 576)
Toccata and Fugue in E major (BWV 566)
Three partsongs: Parting gleams; Echoes; The long day closes
BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE