First Test
Australia v England at Brisbane
Commentary on the post-tea session of the second day by Christopher Martin-Jenkins ,
Jim Maxwell and Neville Oliver with expert comments from Norman O'Neill
Produced and presented by Peter Baxter
(By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) MWonlyfrom 6.55am
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Handel Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE ECO/SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS Elgar Serenade in E minor ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/ SIR NEVILLE MARRINER Robert Johnson The Temporiser Byrd Sermone blando AMSTERDAM LOEKI STARDUST QUARTET Larsson Incidental music: The Winter's Tale STOCKHOLM SINFONIETTA/ JANOLAVWEDIN Lehar You are my heart's delight (The Land of Smiles) jussi BJORLING (tenor) INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Johann Strauss (son) Tales from the Vienna Woods ANTON KARAS (zither) VIENNA PO/WILLl BOSKOVSKY Liszt Liebestraum No 3 CLIFFORD CURZON (piano) Canteloube Hymne dans I'aurore (Triptyque) FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-soprano) RPO/ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA Rodrigo Fantasia para un gentilhombre CARLOS BONELL (guitar) MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT trad, arr Vaughan Williams The Turtle Dove LlNDSA HEATHER (baritone) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE/ SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS Bax Symphonic poem: Tintagel ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON records. MW joins at 7.35* am
Paul Vaughan presents a Russian edition.
Building a Library:
Stravinsky's ballet, The
Firebird, by Roger Nichols. John Warrack reviews some recent Russian recordings including two Tchaikovsky operas, Mazeppa and The Oprichnik, and music by Mosolov and Stravinsky. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Stravinsky Septet
SOLOISTS' ENSEMBLE OF THE USSR
BOLSHOI THEATRE/
ALEXANDER LAZAREV
Mosolov Piano Concerto No 1
RUSUDAN KHUNSARIA
USSR SO/VLADIMIR KOZHUKHAR Stravinsky Pribaoutki
GALINA KALININA (soprano)
SOLOISTS' ENSEMBLE OF THE USSR
BOLSHOI THEATRE/
ALEXANDER LAZAREV
Mosolov Iron Foundry
USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV: records
TOMOTADASOH and DENNIS LEE
Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
Chausson Poeme Franz Waxman Carmen Fantasy
(Given on 7 July as part of the Warwick Arts Festival, in association with Mitaka (Japanese Translations) of Leamington Spa) BBC Pebble Mill
conducted by Andrew Massie Berlioz Overture:
Benvenuto Cellini
Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op 47, for string orchestra
Debussy La mer (WCLV V recording)
Settings by Hugo Wolf ,
Joseph Marx and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari of Italian folk poetry, either in Paul Heyse 's 19th-century translations or in the original.
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) (R)
In 1933 the American composer Charles Ives was 60 and had given up composing for almost a decade. On a visit to London he recorded his trenchant opinions about English musical fare. with Bruce Boa as Charles Ives Adapted by MIKE STEER
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)
played by martino tirimo Sonata in c (D 279)
(completed Tirimo) Sonata in A (D 664)
Shostakovich Two film scores: Pirogov; The Young Guard BBC SO/LIONEL FRIEND
Between them records of music by Prokofiev, Slonimsky Sviridov and Tishchenko Denisov Ballet suite: Ispoved (Confession)
LITHUANIAN STATE SO/
VASILY SINAISKY
(Soviet Radio recording)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with Michael Coveney Blake Morrison and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects:
Tons of Money by Will Evans and Valentine at the National Theatre; Federico Fellini 's film Ginger and Fred; David Cook 's TV play, Love Match, on BBC2; sculpture by David Smith at the Whitechapel Gallery; The Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Helen Vendler. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
A sequence of originals and arrangements by Charles Ives , including three realisations of his'Ear Study',
Chromatimelodtune. JAN DEGAETANI (mezzo-soprano) GILBERT KAUSH (piano) AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET YALE THEATER ORCHESTRA
JAMES SINCLAIR ORCHESTRA/ GUNTHER SCHULLER : records
leader JAMES CLARK conducted by Mariss Yansons direct from the Stadthalle, Wuppertal, West Germany Iona Brown (violin) Josef Suk (viola) Parti
Rossini Overture:
The Thieving Magpie
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major (k 364)
An anthology of poems compiled by PETER ORR Readers Marion Bailey
Ronald Pickup and Peter Orr Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World)
Three cautionary tales by MIKHAIL SALTYKOV SHCHEDRIN (1826-89) dramatised byJACK WINTER
A Deputy Governor, a literary editor, a novelist and above all a satirist, Saltykov used his allegorical tales to attack the hypocrisy, greed and brutality of Tsarist Russia. 1: The Two High Officials
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS
The complete string quartets BORODIN STRING QUARTET
The main task facing me at the moment is to write music which reflects our age - the age of joyful, exuberant endeavour.
(PRAVDA, 1941)
Parti
Quartet No 9, in E flat, Op 117
Two talks on Soviet official literature under the current leadership. 1: On Ice
Mary Seton-Watson , who has made a close study of Russian literary journals, detects a slow but growing relaxation of censorship.
Part 2 Piano Quintet, Op 57 With PETER DONOHOE
(Given on 2 March in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London) )
Last of six programmes Be Not Afraid
An anthology of prose, verse and music on the theme of 'The Sixth Sense', compiled and performed by The Barrow Poets
Mixtur
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER EOTVOS
(South German Radio recording)
from his Italian period
Manca pur quanto sai; Mentre il tutto; Care selve
SALLY BRADSHAW (soprano)
ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord) RICHARD BooTHBY (gamba) (R)
First Test at Brisbane Australia v England
Commentary on the third day