Grieg Old Norwegian
Romance with Variations BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
8.25. Schumann Variations on the allegretto from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano)
8.42. Louis Gouvy Petite Suite Gauloise
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM pragense, directed by FRANTISEK VAJNAR : records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Bach'sViolinConcertos in A minor and E major, by WILLIAM MANN ; Miscellaneous new records reviewed by ANDREW KEENER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
C. P. E. Bach Trio-Sonata in G (Wq 157)
ITZHAK PERLMAN , PINCHAS ZUKEFTMAN (violins) SAMUEL SANDERS (harpsichord)
TIMOTHY EDDY (cello)
Chopin Twelve Studies.
Op 10: IAN HOBSON (piano) Haydn Octet in G (H X 5) MUNICH BARYTON TRIO, With JAN SCHROEDER , GOTTFRIED LANGESTEIN (horns) WERNER GROBHOLZ ,
GONTER KLEIN (violins)
BERNHARD MAHNE (violone) Poulenc Clarinet Sonata
CLAUDE FRAUCOMPREZ
ALAIN RAES (piano): records
ALFREDA HODGSON (mezzo-soprano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by GUNTHER HERBIG
Webern Passacaglia. Op 1 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* pm Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c BBC Manchester
An 11-part series of music from the Middle
Ages to the Romantic era which has only recently been brought to Light. 2: Italia mia
Introduced by Colin Slim Around 1528. the City of Florence sent a collection of madrigals and motets as a state gift to King
Henry VIII of England. It included many pieces by their maestro di cappella. Philippe Verdelot. Music from this manuscript is combined with instrumental pieces from the published collection Musica Nova of 1540. Julio da Modena Ricercar No 9 attrib Verdelot Nil maius superi vident
Verdelot Da pacem, Domine
Girolamo Parabosco Da pacem
Verdelot Quando nascesti, amore?; Donna leggiadr'et bella
Parabosco Ricercar No 18 Gabriel Coste Ricercar Verdelot Quanta sia lieto il giorno attrib Verdelot Si suave e I'inghanno
Julio da Modena Ricercar No 8 attrib Verdelot Se ben'li occhi
Verdelot Italia mia LANDINI CONSORT director PETER SYRUS followed by an interlude
It was not such a bad age; in fact. it was a perfect forest of giants (THOMAS MANN) Verdi Aida Prelude and Act 1, Scene I (excerpt)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICCARDO MUTI
2.24* Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Act 2 (excerpt)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
2.53* Smetana Sarka (Ma Vlast): CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN
3.4* Dvorak Moravian Duets, Op 32 Nos 1-3
EVA zikmundova (soprano) VERA SOUKUPOVA (mezzo-sop) ALFRED HOLECEK (piano)
3.10' Wagner Forest Murmurs (Siegfried) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT
3.18* Fauré Piano Quartet No 1, in c minor
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD
AUGUSTIN DUMAY (violin) BRUNO PASQUIER (viola) FREDERIC LODEON (cello)
3.51* Bizet Carmen , Act 3 (excerpt)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
4.10* Brahms Symphony No 1, in c minor BERLIN FHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN and a late piano work by Liszt, a scene from
Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov and movements from Janacek's Suite for string orchestra: records Producer RAY ABBOTT
with Peter Clayton
Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with John Carey , Peter Porter and Marina Valzey.
This week's subjects:
Sheridan's The School for Scandal, directed by John Barton , at the Haymarket Theatre, London;
Vol. a film by Yilmaz Güney;
The Channel 4 series on The Spanish Civil War;
The Murillo exhibition at the Royal Academy; and Bernard MacLaverty 's new novel Col.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
played by KLARA KORMENDI Kodaly Meditation on a theme of Debussy Zsolt Durko Son et lumiere
(first UK performance) Attila Bozay Piano piece VII (first UK performance)
Kodaly Dances from Marosszek
A celebration of the life of Brian O'Nolan. alias
Flann O'Brien , alias Myles na Gopaleen (1911-66) Written and narrated by Aldan Higgins
'Irish, properly managed. is a far, far more exact language than English. The Irish mind, when there was such a thing, an uncontaminated, simple one, was very much more subtle. I think, than the Saxon mind.'
Readings by JIM Norton with the voices of CIARON O'NOLAN, KEVIN O'NOLAN , LlAM REDMOND, BARBARA REDMOND
BEN KIELY, TIM O'KEEFE,
JOHN RYAN, ARTHUR POWER and ANTHONY CRONIN
Producer MAURICE LEITCH (Revised repeat)
Konzertstuck in r minor ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GLAUMO ABBADO gramophone record
A performance given on 20 December at St David's Hall, Cardiff
FELICITY LOTI (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) OWEN WEBB (treble) AHDWYN SINGERS director
HELENA BRAITHWAITI CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR director
RICHARD ELFYN JONH SWANSEA BACH CHOIR director JOHN HUGH THOMAS
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Introduced by Brian Kay
9.30. Interval Reading
9.35. Elijah Part 2
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. See also page 37
Suite No 5, in c minor WIELAND KUIJKEN (viola da gamba) SICISWALD KUIJKEN (viola da gamba) GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) gramophone record
