Faure Masques et
Bergamasques, Op 112 NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor) ALIX BOURBON VOCAL
ENSEMBLE, TOULOUSE CAPITOLE ORCHESTRA. conducted by MICHEL PLASSON
8.35* Massenet Suite No 1 for two pianos Op 11
CHRISTIAN IVALDI, NOfiL LEE
8.41* Inghelbrecht La Nursery (mono)
ORCHESTRA OF THE THtÅTRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES conducted by DESIRE-EMILE INGHELBRECHT gramophone records
Introduced by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:
Schumann's Carnaval, by BRYCE MORRISON ;
The Compact Disc: a preview and demonstration of the new digital disc equipment by BARRY FOX ; New choral records reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Producer Arthur JOHNSON
Monteverdi Magnificat in six parts (1610): CHOIR OF THE CARMELITE PRIORY, LONDON, conducted by JOHN MCCARTHY Frank Bridge
Symphonic Poem: Isabella Two Tagore Songs
SARAH WALKER (meZZO-SOp) CHELSEA OPERA GROUP
ORCHESTRA. PROSPECT MUSIC group, conducted by HOWARD WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams
Cantata: The Sons of Light: BACH CHOIR, ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHORUS LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone records
leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
YOURI EGOROV (piano) Vaughan Williams
Overture: The Wasps
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, In c minor
Dvorak Symphony No 4, In D minor
BBC Scotland
Secular music from 17th-century Italy by Claudio Monteverdiandhis contemporaries. CONCERTO VOCALE
COLLEGIUM VOCALE, COLOGNE PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES director GRAYSTON BURGESS HEINRICH SCHOTZ CHOIR director ROGER NORRINGTON gramophone records
LONDON BAROQUE
plays French music
Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales conducted by JEAN MARTINON
Berlioz Romeo et Juliette YVONNE MINTON (meZZO-SOp) Francisco ARAIZA (tenor) JULES BASTIN (bass)
PARIS ORCHESTRA CHORUS conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM : records
1 He knew that he was a great composer. He knew that he had achieved something and he was very serene and happy ana 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)
Michael Berkeley presents a portrait of the composer by those who knew him, with contributions from ROBERT CRAFT, MADELEINE MILHAUD , ARTHUR MITCHELL ROBERT FIZDALE. LILLIAN LIBMAN , JEROME ROBBINS , SOULIMA and THEODORE STRAVINSKY ,
ALEXANDER TANSMAN and VERA ZORINA Producer ANN STANGER
with Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Paul Barker (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork , Allan Massie and Helen McNeil.
This week's subjects: The National Theatre production of The
Importance o/ Being Earnest; John Sell
Cotman 1782-1842 at the Victoria and Albert Museum ; The Last
Visitor, a dramatisation of Elizabeth Taylor 's
Sleeping Beauty on BBC2; Ridley Scott 's sci-fi film Blade Runner; and Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
RICHARD
MAPP Bach , transc Busonl Chaconne
Granados Escenas romanticas
Opera seria in three acts Music by Handel Libretto by NICOLA HAYM SUng in ROBERT DAVID MACDONALD'S English translation
The new Welsh National Opera production direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff
Handel wrote Tamburlaine a year after Julius Caesar for tome of the world's greatest singers.
The plot involves the machinations of the upstart conqueror
Tamburlatne against the Emperor Bajazet he has deposed, and Princess Asteria, his raging disdainful prisoner, whom he now loves.
Bajazet, Ottoman Emperor,
Tamburlalne's prisoner
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON
(tenor)
Tamburlaine. Emperor of the Tartars
ROBIN MARTIN-OLIVER
(counter-tenor)
Andronicus, a Greek prince, allied to Tamburlalne
BRIAN CORDON
(counter-tenor)
Asteria. daughter of Bajazet, In love with Andronicus
EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano)
Irene, princess of Treblzond, betrothed to
Tamburlalne CAROLINE BAKER
(mezzo-soprano)
Leone, confidant of Andronicus and Tamburlalne
PETER savidge (bar)
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera leader ANTONY tarlton
Continuo Michael Pollock (harpsichord)
Dcwi Watkins (cello) conducted try Julian Smith (Sponsored by the Development Board for Rural Wales) Acts 1 and 2
A short story by PHILIP OAKES
Read by Michael Gamben A man recalls how he came to be estranged from his childhood friend when. playing together in an allotment, their game of Big Game Hunting led to a real and bloody death.
Act 3
A sequence of poems arranged round a theme by PATRIC DICKINSON and read by JILL BALCON , deny* HAWTHORNE and MICHAEL SPICE.
Producer PIERS plowrighi
The second of three programmes recorded during the 1979 Durham Oriental Music Festival Introduced by Robert Provine
NATIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTITUTE, SEOUL, KOREA Suiech'on; Sijo;
Ch onnyon Manse; P'ansorl; Sinawi
