Listings
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
Contributors
Musicians:
Naples Chorus and
Orchestra
Conductor:
Denis
Vaughan
Musicians:
Suisse Romande
Orchestra
Conductor:
Ernest
Ansermet
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
Contributors
Introduces:
John
Betjeman
Unknown:
Derrick
Cantrell
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
Contributors
Played By:
Natalia
Karp
Conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY with JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano)
Broadcast on August 19. 1966 from the Royal Albert Hall, London followed by an interlude
Contributors
Conducted By:
Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet
Baker
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
Contributors
Singers:
John
McCarthy
Leader:
Arthur
Leavins
Conducted By:
Stanford
Robinson
Produced By:
Michael
Moores
Learned Judge:
George
Baker
Plaintiff:
Cynthia
Glover
Defendant:
Kenneth
Bowen
Counsel for Plaintiff:
Denis
Dowling
Usher:
William
Parsons
and the English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
MORAG NOBLE (soprano)
Part 1
Contributors
Leader:
Emanuel
Hurwitz
Leader:
Morag
Noble
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Sonata in B flat major. Op. 106
(Hammerklavier) gramophone record
Contributors
Piano:
Daniel
Barenboim
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
Contributors
Unknown:
Felice
Romani
Play By:
Victor
Hugo
Conducted By:
Jonel
Perlea
Friends of Gennaro and Orsini Apostolo Gazella:
Franco
Romano
Ascanio Petrucci:
Ferruccio
Mazzoli
Jcppo Liverotto:
Franco
Ricciardi
Oloferno Vitellozzo:
Fernando
Iacopucci
Maffio Orsini, a young nobleman:
Shirley
Verrett
Gubetta, secret agent of Lucrezia Borgia:
Vito
Maria Brunetti
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara:
Montserrat
Caballé
Don Alfonso, her husband:
Ezio
Flagello
Rustighello, the Duke's follower:
Giuseppe
Baratti
Gennaro, a young soldier of unknown birth:
Alfredo
Kraus
Astolfo, secret agent of Lucrezia:
Robert
El Hage
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.
Contributors
Unknown:
Idris
Parry
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
Contributors
Unknown:
Maxim
Gorky
Translated By:
David
Magarshack
Adapted By:
Bennett
Maxwell
Unknown:
Ian
Bannen
Bass:
Paul
Daneman
Bass:
Peter
Jeffrey
Bass:
Andre
Morell
Played By:
Henry
Krein
Produced By:
John
Gibson
Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylyov, keeper of a doss-house:
Peter
Claughton
Vassilisa Karpovna, his wife:
Gudrun
Ure
Natasha, her sister:
Carol
Marsh
Abram Medvedev, their uncle a policeman:
Denis
Shaw
Vassily Pepel:
Paul
Daneman
Andrey Mitrich Kleshch, a locksmith:
Alfie
Bass
Anna, his wife:
Margaret
John
Nastya, a girl:
Barbara
Mitchell
Kvashnya, meat - dumpling Seller:
Margaret
Robertson
Bubnov, a hatter:
Alexander
John
The Baron:
Peter
Howell
Satin:
Peter
Jeffrey
The Actor:
Ian
Bannen
Luka, a pilgrim:
André
Morell
Alyoshka a shoemaker:
Christopher
Bidmead
Krivoy Zob:
Anthony
Jackson
The Tartar:
Humphrey
Morton
Narrator:
Alexander
John
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
Contributors
Unknown:
Rodolphe
Kreutzer
Violin:
Erich
Gruenberg
Piano:
Eric
Harrison
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
Contributors
Translated By:
Frederick
May
Read By:
Robert
Rietty