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William Schuman and his Contemporaries
Schuman Carols of Death Choir of King's College, Cambridge/
Stephen Cleobury Copland Inscape New York PO/
Leonard Bernstein
Schuman Symphony No 9 (The Ardeatine Caves) Philadelphia Orchestra/ Eugene Ormandy Records
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 Solomon (piano)
10.07 Dvorak, arr Ingman
Octet Serenade
Members of the Czech
Nonet
Helena Hnykova (violin) Frantisek Kuda (piano)
10.37
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Peter Damm (natural horn) Slovak CO/
Bohdan Warchal
11.02 Bridge Meditation
Spring Song
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Yolande Wrigley (piano)
11.09 Liszt
Hungarian Fantasy Solomon (piano) Philharmonia/
Walter Susskind Records
conductor Armin Jordan Radu Lupu (piano)
Edith Wiens (soprano) Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 3 in C minor
Mahler Symphony No 4 in G
The second of two programmes introduced by Piers Burton-Page . Dvorak Cypress No 1
Martinu String Quartet No
Debussy String Quartet in G minor
Rigoletto
The fourth of five programmes from a memorable period in her career features
Maria Callas in a recording of Verdi's opera made in September 1955. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alia Scala, Milan/Tullio Serafin Act
3.05 The Earl of Harewood reflects on this recording of Rigoletto and on Callas's performance as Gilda.
3.10 Acts 2 and 3
Margaret Fingerhut plays Bliss Masks
Elgar In Smyrna
Howard Ferguson Five Bagatelles, Op 9
John Ireland Three London Pieces
Radio 3's early-evening programme of music with arts news, weather, travel and headlines. Presented by Richard Baker. Producer Ray Abbott
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Della Jones (mezzo)
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Colin Carr (cello)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Peter Maxwell Davies
Mozart is less prominent in this season of Proms. Here one of his shorter works - a memorial piece composed in 1785 for two fellow masons - precedes conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's own Black Pentecost of 1982, commissioned by the Philharmonia and written in response to the threat of uranium mining in the Orkneys. It offers a bleak vision of a community destroyed for financial gain.
Mozart Masonic Funeral Music (K477)
Peter Maxwell Davies Black Pentecost
8.25 Anthony Burton talks to Peter Maxwell Davies about his approach to interpreting music and conducting, not just his own compositions, but the music of earlier great composers.
8.45 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F
by James Joyce.
The sixth instalment of a 16-part adaptation.
Readers Stephen Rea and James Greene.
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) Schubert Aufdem
Wasser zu singen; Am
Strome; Aufdem See; Die Forelle; Des Fischers Uebesgluck; An eine
Quelle; Derjungling am
Bache; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Erlafsee; Der Schiffer
Composer and pianist
Mike Westbrook talks to Geoffrey Norris in the second of eight programmes. Though he had a regular sextet in the late sixties, it was
Westbrook's Concert Band that his record company wanted to record. After the albums Release and Marching Song, he wrote the even more ambitious
Metropolis, which includes sections of collective improvisation.
Donizetti PoUuto; La Fille du Régiment; La Favorita (excerpts)
