Johann Slamllz Violin
Concerto in c: THOMAS FüRt CAMERATA BERN
Bach Cantata No 186
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano)
HELEN WATTS (C'altO), KURT eqliiluz (tenor), Philippe IIUTTENLOCIIER (bass) STUTTGART GACHINGER KANTOREI STUTTGART
BACH COLLEGIUM , conducted by helmuth RILLING : records
Rossini Overture: The
Thieving Magpie: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Tallleferre Harp Sonata NICANOR ZABALETA
Chopin Variations on La cl darem la mano (Don Giovanni ) ALEXIS
WEISSENBERG (piano), PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI Virgil Thomson Suite : The Plow that broke the Plains LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor:SALVATOREACCARDO AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conduoted by SIR COLIN DAVIS : records -
with Jeremy Slepmann Compassion forged with Steel: YEHUDI MENUHIN on his friend, BELA BARTOK
On singing Wagner (and others): a conversation with the soprano LINDA ESTHER GRAY Producer
PIERS BURTON-PAGE
First of six programmes recorded at concerts of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Beethoven Symphony No 9, in D minor, Op 125 (finale to a text from Schiller's
Ode to Joy), conducted by SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY , MUSIC Director 1924-49 with SOLOISTS
HARVARD GLEE CLUB
RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY (Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording)
Colin MacCabe (3)
Part 1
Haydn Quartet In D, Op 71 No 2
Barber Quartet, Op 11
1.0' Interval Reading
1.5* Part 2 Borodin Quartet No 2, in D
BBC Birmingham
(piano)
Chopin Andante splanato and Polonaise In E flat Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales: records
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by GENNADI ROZIIDESTVENSKY (BBC commission: a second broadcast)
Sacred music drama In three acts by Wagner direct from the Festsplelhaus, Bayreuth (sung in German)
Voice from on high
HANNA SCHWARZ (mezzo-sop) Bayreuth Festival Chorus chorus-master
NORBERT BALATSCH Bayreuth Festival
Orchestra, conducted by James Levine Act 1
A Satire on Contemporar) Society written In 1748 by WILLIAM BLAKE
Neville Jason as William Blake. Other parts played by JOHN RYE. MARK WING-DAVEY, GORDON REID ,
GODFREY KENTON , JOHN CHURCH, GILLIAN JASON. ALISON TRUEFITT , SONIA FRASER
Music reconstructed and arranged by PETER HOLMAN. who directs THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS with ROY GOODMAN. Directed by JENYTH WORSLEY (KepcaU
Act 2
The third of nine talks by Bernard Levin
' There is too much sky in the country for my taste; I feel weightless there, unlocated, as though I might float away. But In the city the sky is firmly tethered to the spires and the roofs and the domes and ttve lamp posts, and becomes a friendly canopy instead of an awful infinity.'
Piano Quintet in E flat IK 452)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON AND SOLOISTS gramophone record
Act 3
by JAMES SAUNDERS
A successful writer compiling material for a radio programme records his thoughts and conversations on a tape recorder disguised as a pen. The new ' toy bears witness to a disturbing encounter with Tim, the son of the writer's common law wife, who stages a dramatic attempt to move the world's conscience against nuclear war.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
played by PETER HURFORD Prelude and Fugue In G minor (BWV 535); Fugue in c minor (bwv 575);
Fantasia In G (BWV 571) Preludes and Fugues: I minor (bwv 555); G (BWV 557); B flat (BWV 560); G minor (bwv 558)
(violin)
Massenet Meditation (Thais): BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone record