Literacy, Education and Society
Strauss Suite: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Mono)
RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
7.32* Tartini, arr Kreisler Fugue
OSCAR SHUMSKY (violin) MILTON KAYE (piano)
7.36* Bax Saga Fragment MARGARET FINGERHUT (piano) LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
7.46* Elgar Imperial March RLPO/CHARLES GROVES
8.0 World Service News
8.10 Fibich Overture: A Night at Karlstein
PRAGUE RSO/FRANTISEK VAJNAR
8.20* Arthur Foote Suite in E, for strings (Mono)
BOSTON SO/SERGE KOUSSEVTTZKY
8.35* Czemy Study, Op 740 No 20
HARVEY DAGUL (piano)
8.37* Scarlatti, arr Tommasini Suite: The Good-Humoured Ladies
CONCERT ARTS ORCHESTRAl
ROBERT IRVING Records
Poulenc Sonata
SETATANYEL and JEREMY BROWN (pianos) Bax Nympholept
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
Deodat de Severac En vacances (Book 1)
PHILIPPE CORRE and EDOUARD EXERJEAN (piano duet) Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5
RLPO/VERNON HANDLEY. Records
Piano Sonata in B minor played by BARBARA NISSMAN BBC Pebble Mill
NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS PAUL TORTEUER (cello) Haydn Cello Concerto in c major
11.55* Interval Reading
12.0* Strauss An Alpine Symphony
(North German Radio recording)
Kinderszenen, Op 15 Kreisleriana, Op 16
Nine programmes marking the tenth anniversary of the soprano's death on 16 September 1977. The series begins with the opera in which Callas made her greatest number of stage appearances.... Norma
Lyric tragedy in two acts Libretto by FELICE ROMANI Music by Bellini
(sung in Italian) Records: 1954
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
TEATRO ALLA SCALA. MILAN; TULLIO SERAFIN Act
3.35* Interval Reading
3.40* Act 2
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Introduced by Peter Clayton
Seven documentaries by John Keay about the Asian frontier 1: Mountains of God
Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam mingle and co-exist in the high valleys and passes from
Baluchistan to Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. How have these traditions been influenced or changed by the topography of the world's mightiest mountain range?
Contributors include HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA, KARAN SINGH
PURUSHOTTAMA LAL. ROMILA THAPAR Producer DAVID PERRY (R)
('The Great Wallof India tomorrow at 5.15pm)
Last of six programmes Improvisations on Two Norwegian Songs, Op 29 Lyric Pieces, Op 54 DANIEL ADNI (piano) BBC Wales
First in a series of programmes on The Art of the English Madrigal
Music from Nicholas Younge 's Musica Transalpina (1588)
Marenzio Liquide Perle; Liquid and Wat'ry
Pearles Palestrina Joy So Delights My Heart
Ferrabosco I Saw My Lady Weeping
Marenzio I Soung Sometime; Dolorous Mournful Cares (Musica Transalpina 1597) CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY (R)
direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London PHILIP FOWKE (piano) HALLE ORCHESTRA led by PAN HON LEE conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Parti
Sullivan Overture di ballo Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song Strauss Suite:
Der Rosenkavalier
As the 1987 season gets under way, Michael Berkeley
Alan Blyth and Malcolm Hayes compare their impressions and anticipations in conversation with this year's Prom planner, John Drummond.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Part 2
Johann Strauss (son) Overture: The Gypsy Baron; Waltz: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Lumbye Champagne Galop Lehar Gold and Silver Waltz
Johann Strauss (son) Thunder and Lightning Polka
(cello and piano)
Alexander Goehr Sonata (first broadcast)
Brahms Sonata No 2 in F, Op 99
conducted by JOHN POOLE
First of four programmes of 20th-century music including works by Elizabeth Maconchy who is 80 this year.
Grace Williams Ave maris stella William Schuman Carols of Death (poems by WALT WHITMAN ) Elizabeth Maconchy Still Falls the Rain (poem by EDITH SITWELL )
11.5* Interval Reading
11.10* David Bedford The
Golden Wine is Drunk (poem by ERNEST DOWSON )
Thea Musgrave For the Time Being: Advent (poem by w.
H. AUDEN ) (BBC commission: first performance) with JOHN rowe (narrator)
(Given on 27 April in St John 's. Smith Square. London)
