Foreground Battles and Rearguard Action
Liszt Symphonic poem: Les preludes
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURTMASUR Rodrigo Fantasia para un gentilhombre
CARLOS BONELL (guitar)
MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT Gade Novellette No 1, in F
ARHUS CO/OVE VEDSTEN LARSEN
Arnold Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril: PHYLLIS SELLICK and CYRIL SMITH (two pianos) CBSO/THE COMPOSER
Elgar The Black Knight
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PO/
SIR CHARLES GROVES records
with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts by STEPHEN DODGSON. New piano records reviewed by JOAN CHISSELL.
EDWARD SECKERSON on recent records of American music. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Faurt Two Barcarolles: No 1, in A minor, Op 26; No 7, in d minor, Op 90 PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)
Mendelssohn Sonata in E, Op 6 MURRAY PEKAHIA (piano) Copland Quiet City
MEXICO CITY PO/ENRIQUE BATE
Barber Meditation and Dance of Vengeance (Medea) LSO/ANDREW SCHENCK records
leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor SIR JOHN PRITCHARD Chabrier Joyeuse Marche
Beethoven Symphony No 8, in F
11.45* Interval Reading
11.50* Shostakovich Symphony Noll
(Given on 22 April in Teatro Real, Madrid)
directed by KALMAN BERKES
Krommer Partita in F, Op 57 Matyas Seiber Serenade
Mozart Serenade in E flat (K 375)
EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano) AMERAL GUNSON (contralto) MALDWYN DAVIES (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) JOHN SCOTT (organ) BBC WELSH CHORUS chorus-master JOHN HUGH THOMAS
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
Organ Concerto No 10, in d minor, Op 7 No 4
2.35* Interval Reading
2.40* Haydn Missa in honorem Sancti Bernardi de Offida (Heiligmesse)
(Given in March at the Musikvereinsaal. Vienna. as part of Haydntage 1985)
NOEMY BELINKAYA (piano) Tchaikovsky Dumka Schubert, transc Liszt
Auf dem Wasser zu singen: Der Doppelganger
Grieg Vanished days, Op 57 No 1; Ballad in the form of variations on a Norwegian folk tune. Op 24
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader GEOFFREY THABICHOFF conductor JERZY MAKSYMIUK
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Stravinsky Symphony in c BBC Scotland
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with Barbara Bray
Owen Dudley Edwards and Alexander Walker.
This week's subjects:
Jack Gold 's film The Chain;
The Overgrown Path by Robert Holman at the Royal Court Theatre, London; Richard Murphy 's new collection of poems, The Price of Stone; The Painter and the Pest on Channel 4 last Sunday;
American Images: Photography 1945-1980 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
played by James Dalton (organ) in the Chapel of Coimbra University, Portugal
S. Aguilera de Heredia Salve (Regina) de 1" tono por delasolre; Tiento de 4" tono de falsas: Vajo 1" tono
Gaspar dos Reis Concertado sobre Ave Maris Stella; Tencao sobre o 5° Kyrio de Missa de Sancta Maria
Pablo Bruna Registo alto de 8° tono de Clarin; Tiento de falsas de 2" tono
Pedro de Araujo Obra de 6° torn
led by JACK MCGUIRE conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Frank Bridge Dance Rhapsody Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9 BBC Bristol
direct from the Snape Maltings Murray Perahia (piano) Vermeer String Quartet
Shmuel Ashkenasi (violin) Pierre Menard (violin) Bernard Zaslav (viola) Marc Johnson (cello) Parti
Mendelssohn Andante, Scherzo and Capriccio (Four pieces, Op 81)
Berg Lyric Suite
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compiled by MICHAEL FFINCH with David Brierley as John Drinkwater
I do not think that shires and meadows are
Moral, or that the fixture of star
Comes of a quiet spirit, or that trees
Have wisdom in their windless silences ...
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol, mono
Part 2 Dvorak
Piano Quintet in A, Op 81 BBC Birmingham
WTTOLDLUTOSLAWSKI .
Lutoslawski Novelette; Chain I, for chamber ensemble
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Symphony in one movement (first UK broadcast) (SF Berlin recording)
A translation of the 12th-century epic, in seven parts, by c. H. SISSON
Incidental music composed by NIGEL OSBORNE and performed by LONTANO. Part 2
Marsilie, the pagan King Talks to Ganelon
Who is a traitor. All their scheming
Is, to bring Roland down Narrator
John Franklyn-Robbins Readers Geoffrey Banks
Garard Green, Christopher Neame , Andy Rashleigh and Ann Rye
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
(died 8 June 1984)
Quartet for oboe and strings (1938); Six Shakespearean
Sketches for string trio (1946); Quartet for piano and strings (1969)
SARAH FRANCIS (Oboe)
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano) CUMMINGS STRING TRIO
Diana Cummings (violin) Luciano Iorio (viola)
Geoffrey Thomas (cello)