(piano)
The fifth of six
Brogrammes Dvorak Dumka (Piano Quintet In A) (mono) with the BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET Schubert Sonata in B flat (D 960): recorda
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ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON
Field Piano Concerto No 1, In E flat: JOHN O'CONOR NEW ULSTER CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JANOS FURST
Biber Rosary Sonata No 2, in A
EDUARD MELXUS (Violin) GERALD SONNECK
(viola da gamba) KARL SCHEIT (lute)
Borodin Symphony No 1, In E flat
TORONTO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
with Michael Oliver
'Parentem nostrac musicae modernae'
Nicholas Kenyon considers the music of Heinrich Schutz; Tchaikovsky and the dance: a conversation with John Wiley; The Musician's Bookshelf: a review of some recent publications.
(Repeated: Tues 2.0 pm)
On 13 September,
Roy Thomson Hall , a visually remarkable building, was inaugurated with this gala concert.
TORONTO MENDELSSOHN CHOIR conductor ELMER ISELER TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor ANDREW DAVIS
Raymond Luedeke Fanfare (first performance)
Walton Belshazzar 's Feast VICTOR BRAUN (baritone)
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5 pm* Murray Schafer Sun (first performance) conducted by ELMER ISELER Poulenc Concerto for organ, strings and timpani
HUGH MCLEAN (organ)
Ravel Suite No 2 (Daphnis and Chloe)
(CBC recording)
PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KIRSHBAUH (cello) Andre Tchaikowsky Trio
Notturno Ravel Trio in A minor
A BBC digital recording
A Latin festival cantata from 1768, with the first two movements of Symphony No 38 as an overture.
MERYL DROWER (soprano) EIRIAN JAMES (contralto) NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
STEPHEN VARCOE (bass)
LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS leader JOHN HOLLOWAY
JOHN TOLL (harpsichord) conductor
ROGER NORRINGTON
Four pages from the scrapbooks of GEORGE SAINTSBURY selected by ALAN BELL and read by Sir Ralph Richardson
1: Some Random Merton Memories
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Also tonight: Richardson at 80, 10.15 pm on Radio 4
THEA KING (clarinet)
ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Peter Carter (violin) David Roth (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello) Cyril Scott Clarinet
Quintet (first broadcast) Bliss Clarinet Quintet
The Arts Without Mystery Denis Donoghue , the Henry James Professor of Letters at New York
University, gives the last of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
A Talent for Conviction
David James ,
Ashley Stafford (counter-tenors) Paul Elliott (tenor) Leigh Nixon (tenor)
Paul Hilller (baritone) Michael George (bass)
Lena-Liis Kiesel (piano) Britten Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi) Richard Stoker A
Landscape of Truth (first performance) Christopher Brown Herrick Songs
Donald Aird Night Voyages (first UK broadcast)
by TOM MCGRATH
The third of McGrath's brilliant trilogy 1-2-3 written for Radio/Theatre 81. Moondog is a tragi-comic account of one man's attempt to opt out of his society and his society's attempt to ensure that he cannot do so. Gloriously comical (THE SCOTSMAN)
Rich and brilliant (GLASGOW HERALD)
Chilling plunge into neo- Greek tragedy (THE GUARDIAN)
Directed by TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. Full details and cast: page 25
A short story written by DESMOND STUDDERT Read by Denys Hawthorne Producer ALEC REID
Records of the Polish violinist, born
19 December 1882
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A. Op 47 (Kreutzer) with IGNACY FRIEDMAN (piano)
Lalo Symphonie espagnole with the VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
Nos 19-21
The last of six programmes devoted to Lassus's last-known composition
19: Queste opre e piu
20: Negando it mio signor 21: Vide homo
CONSORT OF MUSICKE director ANTHONY ROOLEY gramophone record
