Graphs and Equations
Larsson Lyric Suite STOCKHOLM PO/
ULF BJORLIN
Dvorak Five Bagatelles for two violins, cello and harmonium
MEMBERS OF THE BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC OCTET
William Brade Suite
LOCKE BRASS CONSORT
Bruch Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola and orchestra THEA KING (clarinet) NOBUKO IMAI (viola) LSOJALUN FRANCIS
Hoist Suite No 2, in F
LONDON WIND ORCHESTRA;
DENIS WICK
Glazunov Ballet: The Seasons
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/ EVGENYSVETLANOV records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Elgar's Symphony No 2 by ROBERT PHILIP.
denis ARNOLD on new recordings of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 and Orfeo.
Recent records of contemporary music reviewed by ROGER WRIGHT. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Arvo Part Fratres
GIDON KREMER (violin) KEITH JARRETT (piano)
John Adams Harmonium SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS/ EDO DE WAART Alan Bush
Six short pieces, Op 99 THE COMPOSER (piano) records
leaders MARTIN MILNER and PAN HON LEE conducted by STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major
BBC Manchester
HOWARD SHELLEY and HILARY MACNAMARA
William Reed Three Surrey
Impressions (first performance) Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45
BBC Birmingham
Casella Scarlattiana , Op 44 MARISA TANZINI (piano)
BERLIN RADIO SO/GERD ALBRECHT Hindemith
Die Serenaden , Op 35
CHARLOTTE LEHMANN (Soprano) WILLI BACHERT (oboe)
JURGEN KUSSMAUL (viola) JURGEN WOLF (cello)
Bach, transc Bartok
Trio-Sonata No 6, in G (bwv 530) GYORGY SANDOR (piano) Bach, orch Webern Ricercare a 6 (The Musical Offering) (BWV 1079) LSO/BOULEZ
Stravinsky Chorale Variations on Bach's Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
FESTIVAL SINGERS OF TORONTO CBC SO/THE COMPOSER
Schoenberg Concerto for string quartet and orchestra after Handel's Concerto Grosso, Op6No7
LENOX QUARTET
LSO/HAROLD FARBERMAN
Bach Cantata No 60: 0 Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) kurtequiluz (tenor)
RUUD VAN DER MEER (bass) TOLZ BOYS'CHOIR
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS/ NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Berg Violin Concerto KYUNG-WHACHUNG CHICAGO SO/SOLTI records
colin PARR (clarinet) FRANK WIBAUT (piano)
Debussy Premiere rapsodie Stanford Sonata, Op 129 BBC Birmingham
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
J W Lambert (in the Chair) talks with Michael Coveney. Christopher Frayling and Marina Warner.
This week's subjects:
The five-part television series
The Detective by Ted Whitehead (BBC1, Fridays); Old Times by Harold Pinter at the Haymarket Theatre, London;
Andrzej Wajda 's fùmA Love in Germany;
The Hayward Annual 1985 at the Hayward Gallery, London; Mario Vargas Llosa 's novel
The War of the End of the World. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
String Quartet in G major (K 387) MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
(Hess Radio recording from the 1984 Mozart Festival in Frankfurt)
Since his death a year ago
Sir John Betjeman has been the subject of memorials and memorabilia — but little fresh critical attention has been given to his poetry and the issues it presents.
Anthony Thwaite assesses the achievement of Betjeman as a poet, with contributions from Kingsley Amis. John Bowie,
Donald Davie , Roy Fuller , Alan Hollinghurst , Philip Larkin. George MacBeth , Tom Paulin and Peter Porter.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
0 FEATURE: page 24 and WODDIS ON: page 95
3: Siegfried
A recording from the 1980 Bayreuth Festival (sung in German)
Asimultaneous broadcast with BBC2 Full details: page 32
Act
(Gotterddmmerung: next Saturday)
