Korngold Theme and Variations
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLY MATTES
Dvorak Two Waltzes, Op 54 GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Liszt Liebestraum No 3 PAUL CROSSLEY (piano) Oscar Straus Three
Extracts from Les Trois Valses YVONNE PRINTEMPS (sop) PIERRE FRESNAY (tenor) ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCEL CARIVEN
Poulenc Suite: Les Biches PARIS CONSERVATOIRE
ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRETRE records
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:
Vivaldi's 12 Concertos,
Op 3 (L'Estro Armonico) by NICHOLAS KENYON New opera records, reviewed by RODNEY MILNES. Producer
ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON
Bach Trio-Sonata in c minor (The Musical Offering)
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) ISAAC STERN (violin) JOHN STEELE RITTER (harpsichord)
LESLIE PARNAS (cello)
Chopin Nocturne in A flat, Op 32 No 2; Four Mazurkas Op 33
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) Hindemith Symphony in B flat for concert band
EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by FREDERICK FENNELL : records
leader BELA DEKANY conducted by DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES CENEK PAVLIK (violin)
Haydn Symphony No 91 in E flat
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 in F minor (Given on 16 May in Smetana Saal, Prague)
ANTONY PEEBLES
Schubert Sonata in E flat major (D 568)
Wagner, transc Liszt
Isoldes Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Debussy Images, Book 2
A series of 16 programmes 14: Gustav Holst
(died 25 May 1934) Egdon Heath LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Third Group
PURCELL SINGERS (women's voices) conducted by IMOGEN HOLST OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
Savitri: an episode from the Mahabharat libretto by the composer)
PURCELL SINGERS (women's voices)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
Choral Symphony FELICITY PALMER (soprano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records
TRIO FONTENAY
Wolf Harden (piano)
Michael Muecke (violin) Niklas Schmidt (cello)
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in c minor, Op 66
Brahms Piano Trio in c, Op 87
(A Rodewald Society concert)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with Owen Dudley Edwards , John Higgins and Claire Tomalin.
This week's subjects:
Alan Bleasdale 's TV series Scully (Mondays, 8.0 pm, Channel 4)
Zelda Barren 's film Secret Places.
Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Golden Boy by Clifford Odets at the National Theatre.
Milan Kundera's new novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Fourth of five programmes of his music for organ played by GILLIAN WEIR on the 1889 Cavaille-Coll organ in the Basilica of St Sernin, Toulouse. Prelude, Fugue et
Variation: Pastorale;
Choral No 2, in B minor A BBC digital recording
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) FELICITY PALMER (mezzo-sop) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (bass) RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA conductor RICHARD HICKOX Handel Sacred Oratorio: Solomon: Part 1
George MacBeth introduces and reads a selection of new poems arising from his recent conversion to the pleasures of country living.
Producer FRASER STEEL
Solomon Part 2
by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY adapted in four parts and read by Manning Wilson 3: Country Snobs
The buxom gardener's wife opened the gate at the ivy-covered lodge.
'Here' I exclaimed with joy, 'I shall be rid of Snobs in the charming Arcadian spot.'
Producer JOHN CARDY
Solomon Part 3
(Arranged in association with HTV West)
A BBC digital recording
born 26 May 1904 (piano)
Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor
Ravel Alborada del gracioso; Jeux d'eau;
Gaspard de la nuit: records