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Weather: Jascha Heifetz
A series of records, many of which are currently generally unavailable in this country, to celebrate the great violinist's 75th birthday.Wienlawski Polonaise brillante in D, Op 4: with EMANUEL BAY (piano)
Beethoven Romances in G, Op 40, and F, Op 50
With RCA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLIAM STEINBERG
Chausson Concerto in D, for violin, piano and string quartet: with JESUS MARIA SANROMA MUSICAL ART QUARTET
Contributors
Unknown:
Wienlawski
Polonaise
Conducted By:
William
Steinberg
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Weather: Your Concert Choice
Listeners' record requestsBach. transc Ormandy Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
9.15* Schutz Deutsches Magni ficat: SCHLTZ CHOIR conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
9.26* Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1. in b flat minor
GARY GRAFFMAN , CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGE SZELL
10.2* Delius A song of the high hills: ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Contributors
Conducted By:
Eugene
Ormandy
Conducted By:
Roger
Norrington
Piano:
Gary
Graffman
Conducted By:
George
Szell
Conducted By:
Sir Charles
Groves
: Music Weekly
Introduced by Michael OliverDvorak's opera The Jacobin, by DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR .
The work of an international tenor: a conversation with NICOLAI GEDDA.
Frank Bridge: PETER PIRIE looks at some of the large-scale orchestral pieces.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
Contributors
Introduced By:
Michael
Oliver
Unknown:
Desmond
Shawe-Taylor
Unknown:
Nicolai
Gedda.
Producer:
Christine
Hardwick
: Bruckner
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONICCHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK Part 1
Mass No 2, in E minor
Contributors
Conducted By:
Bernard
Haitink
: * Words....
Ian Robinson , author of The Survival of English.(Repeated: Wed 12.15 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Ian
Robinson
: * Bruckner
Part 2Symphony No 4, in E flat (Romantic) (first definitive version) (Netherlands Radio recording)
: Couperin
Troisième livre de clavecin, 1722: Ordre No 15KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord) MARTHA BRICKMAN
: record
Contributors
Harpsichord:
Kenneth
Gilbert
Harpsichord:
Martha
Brickman
: Voices
A short story by MADGE HALES Read by Freddie Jones' I may be sitting on my homeward-bound bus. or walking on the pavement in the Charing Cross Road, when, quite clearly, words are spoken.... and I almost answer. Then I realise it's in my head.'
Contributors
Story By:
Madge
Hales
Read By:
Freddie
Jones
: The Jacobin
Opera in three acts: Libretto by M. CERVINKOVA-RIEGROVA Music by Dvorak (sung in Czech)(first broadcast in this country)
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO CHOIR chorus-master MILAN MALY KANTILENA CHILDREN'S CHOIR chorus-master IVAN SEDLACEK
BRNO STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by FRANTISEK JILEK Introduced by BRIAN LARGE (Czech Radio recording) Act 1
Contributors
Unknown:
M.
Cervinkova-Riegrova
Conducted By:
Frantisek
Jilek
Introduced By:
Brian
Large
: The Simple Thing
A selection from poems by the Czech lyric poetJan Skacel (born 1922) translated by ROBIN MUNRO
It thundered in the distance.
The wind lifted dust high into the sky.
Then rain fell
It was falling like a young bricklayer from scaffolding and stayed lying.
Earth was drinking water and death.
Readers GABRIEL WOOLF and PRUNELLA SCALES
Czech reader BENJAMIN M. KURAS Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (Rpt)
Contributors
Unknown:
Jan
Skacel
Translated By:
Robin
Munro
Readers:
Gabriel
Woolf
Readers:
Prunella
Scales
Reader:
Benjamin M.
Kuras
Producer:
John
Theocharis
: Talking about Music
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.(Repeated: Monday 9.40 am)
: Music of Tchaikovsky's Russia
Fifth of 13 programmes of songs, piano and chamber music written by 19th-century Russian composers. This week ELAINE PADMORE introduces chamber works with piano by Glinka and by two members of the nationalist group known as the ' Mighty Handful.' NASH ENSEMBLEGlinka Trio pathétique. for clarinet, bassoon and piano Balakjrev Octet. Op 3
Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in B flat, for piano and wind
Contributors
Introduces:
Elaine
Padmore
Piano:
Balakjrev
Octet.
: Wrong Priorities in Health
Emanuel de Kadt, Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, argues that. in the poor countries of the world and even in Britain, ' health has less to do with medicine than with economics, class and politics.": Schubert
Symphony No-3, in DROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM : record
Contributors
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas
Beecham
: The Cookham Resurrection
by PETER EVERETTA kaleidoscopic impression of the life. thought and works of the painter Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) freely based on the biography by MAURICE COLLIS. with Donald Pleasence as Stanley Spencer
'Sometimes when I pose for him he just arranges my limbs whichever way he wants them ... twisted, sensual ... All my niides, he says, the ones he does of me, will come together, in Cookham Meadow, dotted about like recumbent cows, with lots of black crows in the foreground.' (PATRICIA)
Technical team LEO FEORD ,
CEDRIC JOHNSON , JOCK FARRELL, LLOYD SILVERTHORNE, ENYD CLOWES Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Everett
Unknown:
Stanley
Spencer
Unknown:
Maurice
Collis.
Unknown:
Donald
Pleasence
Unknown:
Stanley
Spencer
Unknown:
Leo
Feord
Unknown:
Cedric
Johnson
Producer:
Richard
Wortley
Hilda:
Freda
Dowie
Dorothy:
Oari
Hedderwick
Patricia:
Jane
Knowles
Elsie:
Emily
Richard
Captain Childe:
David
Ryall
Landlady:
Katherine
Parr
Pa CHARLES:
E
Stidwill
Annie MARY:
Clare
Nash
Eliza:
Susan
Colgrave
Pryce-Jones:
Geoffrey
Matthews
Man:
Nigel
Anthony
Woman:
Karen
Archer
Nurse:
Anne
Jameson
: Tudor Church Music
First of four programmes given by the BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLEWilkinson Salve Regina
Browne Stabat iuxta Christi crucem
Lambc Salve
Regina Taverner Magnificat III
Contributors
Conductor:
John
Poole
Conductor:
Wilkinson Salve
Regina
Conductor:
Browne
Stabat
Unknown:
Regina
Taverner
: Letter from Barcelona
David Mackay. a British architect who has lived in Barcelona for 16 years, reflects on some aspects of the cultural and social scene in Spain after Franco.Contributors
Unknown:
David
MacKay.
: Mozart
String Quartet in E flat (K 428) ITALIAN QUARTET gramophone record: Sounds Interesting
This week Derek Jewell reveals that SIMON AND GARFUNKEL came after MARTIN CARTHY , takes a took at the North American passion for songs about railroads - especially GORDON LIGHTFOOT 'S Canadian Railroad Trilogy - and, after a two-year pause, goes back to Montana again with DAVID ACKLES. Salsa, the music of New York's Puerto Ricans, gets a hearing too, along with the impressionistic sounds of EBERHART WEBER : recordsContributors
Unknown:
Derek
Jewell
Unknown:
Martin
Carthy
Unknown:
Gordon
Lightfoot
Unknown:
David
Ackles.
Unknown:
Eberhart
Weber
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