and Weather Forecast
A weekly programme of recent records
Overture Andantino, and Final Chorus (The Magic Harp) (Schubert)
Naples Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Denis Vaughan
8.21 Ballet: The Seasons (Glazunov)
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Conducted by Ernest Ansermet
and Weather Forecast
JOHN BETJEMAN introduces the sixth in a series of eleven weekly programmes
Manchester Cathedral CHOIR OF MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Choristers. DERRICK CANTRELL
Assistant organist, JOHN GITTINS
A request programme of gramophone records
played by NATALIA KARP
Polonaise in C sharp minor
Two Nocturnes, Op. 32
B major
A flat major
11.18* Sonata in C minor
Three Mazurkas (Op. 33)
G sharp minor D major B minor
Polonaise in A major
Tenth of a weekly series
Conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY with JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
Broadcast on August 19. 1966 from the Royal Albert Hall, London followed by an interlude
A complete performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous Savoy opera
JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by Michael Moores
Broadcast on January 16. 1966
Denis Dowling broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
and the English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
MORAG NOBLE (soprano)
Part 1
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Sonata in B flat major. Op. 106
(Hammerklavier) gramophone record
and the English Chamber Orchestra
Part 2
The last in a series of six concerts in which Daniel Barenboim conducts the English Chamber Orchestra
Opera in a prologue and two acts
Music by Donizetti
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI after the play by Victor Hugo First broadcast performance
Sung in Italian gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
RCA ITALIANA OPERA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JONEL PERLEA PROLOGUE
Acr 1
by IDRIS PARRY
Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Manchester
When the armies of the French Revolution repulsed the Prussians at Valmy, Goethe sensed at once that historical change had broken through into a new dimension. His presence and reaction there symbolise a process of involvement with the world which is central to his genius.
ⓢ ACT 2
by Maxim Gorky
Translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK
Adapted by BENNETT MAXWELL with Ian Bannen , AIRe
Bass Paul Daneman , Peter Jeffrey Andre Morell
Music composed and played by HENRY KREIN
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
To be repeated on October 20
Two works associated with leading performers
Beethoven
Sonata in A major, Op. 47 dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer ERICH GRUENBERG (violin) Eric HARRISON (piano)
10.18* Britten
Suite for cello, Op. 72 a recording of the work's first performance, given by the man who inspired It
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
Seventh of eight fortnightly programmes
The Cello Suite was first broadcast on June 26, 1965
by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by Frederick May
Read by ROBERT RIETTY
Written in 1911, this story was the germ of Pirandello's famous play Six Characters in Search of un Author, first produced ten years later.
The Cooper's Cockerels, by Pirandello: October 6
