Marx, Engels and Manchester
Rossini Overture: William Tell
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN-THE FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
1. 16* Brahms Two Songs, Op 91 BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) IAN JEWEL (viola)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
7.28* Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op 83
MEDICI STRING QUARTET
8.0 News
8.5 Liszt Rakoczy March (arr Horowitz)
Au bord d'une source
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (piano)
8.14* Bach Sonata in G, for two flutes and continuo (BWV 1039) MUSICA ANTIQUA. COLOGNE directed by REINHARD GOEBEL
8.27* Stravinsky Ballet: Apollo COLUMBIA SO/THE COMPOSER records
Paganini Sonatas , Op 2: No 5, in D; No 6, in A minor
JEAN JACQUES KANTOROW (violin) ANTHEA GIFFORD (guitar)
Liszt Paganini Studies: No 1, in G minor; No 2, in E flat CECILE OUSSET (piano)
Paganini Violin Concerto No 3, in E
HENRYKSZERYNG LSO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON records
Symphonic Poem: Orpheus Psalm 13 (sung in English) WALTER MIDGLEY (tenor) BEECHAM CHORAL SOCIETY
RPO SIR THOMAS BEECHAM records
(cello)
A programme of music from his native Hungary with Alain Planes (piano) David Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op 68
Dohnanyi Sonata in B flat, Op 8
with David Munrow
Berlioz is thwarted in love and channels all his passions into the Fantastic Symphony. (R)
(Nextprogmmme: tomorrow at 11.55am)
led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by Bryden Thomson Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Liszt Symphonic Poem: Tasso, lamento e trionfo
Saint-Saens Fantasy for piano and orchestra: Africa, Op 89
Liszt Symphonic Poem: Heroide funebre
The last of eight concerts direct from Studio 7, Manchester
BBC Northern Singers conductor Stephen Wilkinson Peter Noke and Helen Krizos (piano duet) Mendelssohn Andante and Variations in B flat, Op 83a; Frilhlingsahnung, Op 48 No 1; Der Primel, Op 48 No 2;
Friihlingsfeier, Op 48 No 3; Morgengebet, Op 48 No 5;
Der Gliickliche, Op 88 No 2; Allegro brillant, Op 92
Brahms Neue Liebeslieder , Op 65 (Ticket information from
BBC Concerts Promotion. PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ) BBC Manchester (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
Series producer MARK ROWLINSON
Quintet in A
THEA KING (clarinet)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
MEMBERS OF THE ALLEGRI QUARTET Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello) (R)
ou Le chateau d'amour Opera in one act
Libretto by THEAULON and DE RANCE
Music by Franz Liszt edited by Guy Woolfenden (sung in French)
Liszt was three days short of his 14th birthday when his only opera was first performed on 17 October 1825, but he grasped the opportunities this conventional tale of courtly love provided for music, expressing every passion with astounding assurance, inventiveness and wit.
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorus-master IAN ROBERTSON BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by GUY WOOLFENDEN French coach JEANNE HENNY Repetiteur IAIN LEDINGHAM
Technical presentation TONY KIME Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA (R)
Presented by Michael Berkeley Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
LEYLAND VEHICLES BAND conductor RICHARD EVANS
(BBC Band of the Year, 1985) with KEITH SWALLOW (piano)
Thomas Keighley A Northern Rhapsody
Edward Gregson Concertante, for piano and band BBC Manchester
An occasional series of talks reflecting life beyond London and the Home Counties.
Tony Gould , biographer and literary editor of New Society, reflects on some perennial Devonian characteristics.
Piano Concerto No 2, in A A Faust Symphony direct from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Krystian Zimerman (piano) Robert Schunk (tenor)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus chorus-master NORBERT BALATSCH Bayreuth Festival Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 For details see page 67
A portrait of James Henry Leigh Hunt by MELISSA BAKEWELL
Hunt is an extraordinary character, and not exactly of the present age. He reminds me more of the Pym and Hampden times - much talent, great independence of spirit.... a man worth knowing
(LORD BYRON)
Music arranged and conducted by MICHAEL HURD
INGRID CULUFORD (flute) MARTYN PARRY (piano)
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)
A concert given earlier this evening in the Royal Albert Hall, London, marking the 100th anniversary of Liszt's death.
Jorge Bolet (piano)
Finchley Children's Music Group, director Ronald Corp
London Symphony Orchestra, leader Michael Davis, conducted by James Conlon
Liszt Two Legends
Schubert, orch Liszt Fantasia in C (D 760) (Wanderer)
John Deathridge , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, reflects on evaluations of Franz Liszt 's music ranging from the view that he was 'a bungling
Berlioz who thinks he's Goethe' to the claim that he was one of the fathers of modern music. I
Part 2 Liszt
Dante Symphony
(Tonight 's other Liszt Prom, an organ recital by Simon Preston , will be recorded for transmission at a later date)
Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen; Blume und Duft; J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie (Tristesse)
DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (bar)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano): record
