Musical life in Restoration England
(FM only)
Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33 PAUL TORTELIER (cello) RPO/CHARLES GROVES
7.19 Strauss Interlude for'Idomeneo'
HONG koni, PO/
KENNETH SCHERMERHORN
7.35 Mozart Flute Quartet in D (K 285)
WILLIAM BENNETT (flute) GRUMIAUX TRIO
7.49 Beethoven Triple Concerto in c, Op 56 TRIO ZINGARA
ENGLISH CO/
EDWARD HEATH Records
Rimsky-Korsakov
Overture: May Night SNO/NEEME JARVI
Fantasy on Serbian Themes, Op 6
USSR SO/YEVGENY SVETLANOV Russian Dance (Jour de fete)
VARSOVIA QUARTET
Symphony No 2 (Antar) (1897 version)
USSR NATIONAL ORCHESTRAl
YEVGENY SVETLANOV Records
The first of two programmes.
Pierre Attaignant Pavan and Galliard
D'Anglebert Gavotte (Oil estes-vous alle?)
Chambonnieres Rondo and Chaconne in F
Poulenc Suite francaise
DAVID ROBLOU (harpsichord) DAVID MASON (piano)
LSO/ISTVAN KERTESZ
Brahms Serenade No 1 in D, Op 11 Records
The first of two programmes.
IRIS DELL'ACQUA (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Pizzetti Three Petrarch Sonnets
Respighi Six Melodies Ghedini Three Songs of Shelley
BBC Pebble Mill (R)
led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GYORGY LEHEL
CAROLYN WATKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
Korngold Symphonic Serenade for strings
Mahler Kindertotenlieder Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat (K 543)
BBC Manchester (R)
from the University of Wales. JOHN LILL (piano)
Mozart Sonata in D (K 576)
Prokofiev Sonata No 6 in A minor, Op 82
1.55 Interval Reading
2.00 Brahms Two Rhapsodies, Op 79
Schumann Carnaval, Op 9 BBC Wales
The third of six programmes of music by British composers. Butterworth Six Songs (A Shropshire Lad) STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) Britten Suite for violin and piano, Op 6
CHARLES LIBOVE (violin) NINA LUGOVOY (piano)
Parry Four Songs from English Lyrics
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) Hoddinott Violin Sonata No 3, Op 78 No 1
CHARLES LIBOVE (violin) NINA LUGOVOY (piano) Warlock Four Songs: Autumn Twilight;
Walking in the Woods;
Spring (Peterisms: Set 2); Late Summer
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
conducted by PETER HIRSCH
COLIN CARR (cello)
Haydn Symphony No 46 inB
Webern Five Movements, Op 5
Schumann Cello Concerto BBC Bristol
The second of two programmes.
IRIS DELL'ACQUA (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Pizzetti Three Greek Songs
Ghedini Four songs on old Neapolitan texts
Wolf-Ferrari Four Italian Folk Poems, Op 11 (R)
A la maniere de....
Musical flattery and dedications, presented by Rodney Slatford.
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
3: Charles Panzera
Though Panzera was born in Geneva, he volunteered for the French Army during the First World War and then made France his home.
Roger Nichols recalls, with records, the career of this baritone, one of the foremost recitalists of his time. Mono (R)
(Marguerite Long :
Wednesday at 7.05pm)
live from the Royal Albert Hall ,
London. MIKHAIL RUDY (piano) LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by ALEXANDER BARANTSCHIK conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
Prokofiev Scythian Suite Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor
8.25 The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor translated by N. J. DARWOOD
Sheherazade draws strongly on the moods and subjects of The Arabian Nights.
To preface tonight's performance,
Andrew Sachs reads the story of Sindbad's adventures on the Island of Cannibals ... Mono
8.45 Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade
From the Lion Rock by CAREY HARRISON. With and Virabahu, King of fifth-century Sri Lanka, demands to know if he will survive the onslaught of the armies of his dispossessed brother
Mahinda. Hormazdyar , court astrologer, knows the outcome but refuses to reveal it. Second sight is a sacred trust, not to be betrayed lightly.
Music specially composed and performed by MAX EARLY
Directed by GORDON HOUSE A BBC World Service production (R)
Thom Gunn introduces and reads a selection of his own work. Mono
Aaron Copland
El salon Mexico (1933-6) (Mono record: 1938)
Piano Variations (1930)
Ballet: Billy the Kid (1938)
