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: Alfred Cortot
(piano) bern 26 September 1877 Chopin Andante spianato and Polonaise in E flat8.15* Chopin Three Nocturnes
8.27* Schumann Kreisleriana gramophone records
Contributors
Unknown:
Schumann
Kreisleriana
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: Your Concert Choice
Listeners' record requestsSuppé Overture: Poetand Peasant VIENNA PHILBARMON'IC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
9.14* Sammartini Symphony in G: MILAN ANGELICUM ORCHESTRA conducted by NEWELL JENKINS
9.24* Brahms Piano Quintet in p minor, Op 34 (mono) ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
GUARNERT STRING QUARTET
10.2* Haydn Cello Concerto in c MSTISLAV ROSTR. OPOVICH
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Contributors
Conducted By:
Sir Georg
Solti
Conducted By:
Newell
Jenkins
Unknown:
Arthur
Rubinstein
Unknown:
Mstislav
Rostr.
Conducted By:
Benjamin
Britten
: Music Now
' We're all tremendous rabid individualists....'Natalie Wheen investigates music in Ireland.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Contributors
Unknown:
Natalie
Wheen
Producer:
Denys
Gueroult
: Colin Davis
born 25 September 1927 conducts music by Tippett and Sibelius on recordsPt 1 Tippett Symphony No 3 HEATHER HARPER (Soprano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Contributors
Soprano:
Heather
Harper
: * pm Words ...
Anthony Thwaite. poet. editor (Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)Contributors
Unknown:
Anthony
Thwaite.
: * Concert
Pt 2 Sibelius Symphony No 4 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Let the Peoples Sing Bernard Keeffe introduces the
11 finalists, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the winners. School ClassHungary: CHOIR OF THE NO I PRIMARY SCHOOL, MISKOLC
Bulgaria: TOLBUHIN CHILDREN's CHOIR
Mixed Voice Class
UK: NEW LONDON SINGERS
France: JEAN DE OCKEGHEM
VOCAL ENSEMBLE Youth Class
Netherlands: HELMOND CITY CON
CERT CHOIR
Hungary: MIXED CHOIR OF the TEACHER'COLLEGE, PECS Contemporary Class
Finland: POLYTECH CHOIR
Hungary: MIXED choir OF THE TOWN OF VESZPREM
UK: LONiDON CHORALE Equal Voice Class
West Germany: ERNST SENFF WOMEN'S CHAMBER CHOIR
Bulgaria: LUBOMIR Pipnev WOMEN'S CHAMBER CHOIR
Contributors
Unknown:
Lubomir
Pipnev
: Valda Aveling
(piano)Rachmaninov Moments musicaux, Op 16 Nos 3, 4 and 6 Szymanowski Mazurkas, Op 54 Nos 1-6 and No 11
Falla Fantasia Baetica
: La Traviata
Opera in three acts by Verdi Libretto by FRANCESCO MARlA PIAVE after DUMAS(sung in Italian: records)
Violetta Valery. a courtesan
MIRELLA FRENI (soprano)
Alfredo Germont
FRANCO BONISOLLI (tenor)
Giorgio Germonit
SESTO BRUSCANTINI (baritone)
Flora Bervoix, Violetta's friend
HANIA KOVICZ (mezzo-soprano)
Annina, Violetta's servant
GUDRUN SCHÄFER (soprano)
Marquis d'Obigny
HEINZ REEH (bass',
Baron Douphol RUDOLF JEDLICKA (baritones
Doctor Grenv.i.l
HANS-JOACHlM I.UKAT (bass)
Gastone d,i Letorieres
PETER BINDSZUS (tenor)
IBBUKSTATEOPERACHORUS
BERLINSTATEORCHESTRA conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI
3.15* The Role of the Courtesan by Louis Allen
Verdi's La Traviata is based on the play La Dame aux Camélias by the younger Dumas. But Dumas's play is in turn based on the real figure of the celebrated courtesan of Paris society, Marie Duplessis. The type she embodies is not coniined to France: women like her have played a crucial role in other societies.
3.35* La Traviata Act 2
4.40* Interval Reading
4.45 La Traviata Act 3
Contributors
Unknown:
Verdi
Libretto
Unknown:
Francesco
Marla
Unknown:
Violetta
Valery.
Soprano:
Alfredo
Germont
Tenor:
Franco
Bonisolli
Tenor:
Giorgio
Germonit
Baritone:
Sesto
Bruscantini
Bass:
Heinz
Reeh
Baritones:
Baron Douphol Rudolf
Jedlicka
Conducted By:
Lamberto
Gardelli
: Irish' Evening
Seamus Heaney introduces a sequence of programmes designed to reflect Ireland, North and South.Editor BRIAN BARFIELD
BBC Northern Ireland Preview: page 19
Contributors
Introduces:
Seamus
Heaney
Editor:
Brian
Barfield
: John Bull's Other Island
An enquiry by Seamus Heaney into the history of the English language in Ireland. Is the image of the silver-tongued Irishman more apparent than real? Producer PAUL MULDOONContributors
Unknown:
Seamus
Heaney
Producer:
Paul
Muldoon
: Music of the Irish Harpers
Grainne Yeats introduces, sings and pLays on the Irish harp a programme of music by Carolan and others.Contributors
Introduces:
Grainne
Yeats
: John Field
1782-1837Two Nocturnes for piano: No 5, in B flat; No 18, in E major (Le midi): WILLIAMYOUNG
: Ireland: Images and Signatures
This programme will be discussing certain themes which live in Ireland somewhere between history and mythology: nationalism in its several forms and tones; a politics fatally construed as religion; and the question of national identity.'Denis Donoghue , Professor of Modern English ,and American Literature at University College, Dublin, explores these topics with F. S. L. Lyons. Provost of Trinity College, Dublin: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien: Professor Richard Ellmann; Sean MacReamoinn;
Jack White; and Douglas Gageby, Editor of the Irish
Times. Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Contributors
Unknown:
Denis
Donoghue
Producer:
Brian
Barfield
: Howard Ferguson: Octet
played by the NASH ENSEMBLE Introduced by THE COMPOSER: Attracta
by WILLIAM TREVORwith Mary Wimbush, Kate Binchy, Kevin Flood, Allan McClelland
'She didn't know he was dead, not even missing. She opened the biscuit-box, maybe thinking it contained a present. Can you see her doing that? Can you imagine her, a girl in a flowered dress, pausing as she hurried out to her office, her fingers tearing off brown paper?'
An old Irish schoolteacher re-assesses her life. 'There are the three places: Belfast, Haslemere and that town.'
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Contributors
Unknown:
William
Trevor
Unknown:
Marv
Wimbush.
Unknown:
Kate
Binchy
Unknown:
Kevin
Flood
Unknown:
Allan
McClelland
Directed By:
Michael
Heffernan
Sarah Crookham:
Sylvia
Coleridge
Mrs Bamford:
Anne
Jameson
MrS Marsh-Hall:
Betty
Baskoomb
Lady Faste:
Grizeilda
Hervey
Dr Friendman:
Douglas
Blackwell
Attracta:
Mary
Wimbush
Aunt Emmeline:
Eithne
Dunne
Archdeacon Flower:
Haydn
Jones
Geraldine:
Heather
Bell
Attracta, as a child:
Kate
Binchy
Mr Devereux:
Kevin
Flood
Mr Ayrie:
P G
Stephens
Maisie:
Roisin
Donaghy
Mr:
Puree
AllanmcClelland
Barbara:
Judy
Bennett
Penelope Vade:
Elizabeth
Bell
Gangster:
Stan
McGowan
Mr Jameson:
Denys
Hanvthorne
: New Irish Chamber Orchestra
conductor ANDRÉPRIEUR BRIAN O'ROURKE (clarinet)
Introduced by brian boydeli.
Francesco Geminiani Concerto Grosso, Op 2 No 2, in c minor
Seoirse Bodley Music for strings Brian Boydell Elegy and Capriccio, for clarinet and strings Arthur Duff Irish Suite
Contributors
Clarinet:
Prieur Brian
O'Rourke
Introduced By:
Brian
Boydeli.
: A State of Disunion
The intensity of the quarrel between Unionist and Nationalist within Northern Ireland has defied several attempts at political settlement, despite a spirit of unprecedented agreement between Britain and the Irish Republic. Nevertheless, reappraisals and new attitudes are emerging which could contribute towards a settlement.Brian Walker examines the influence of the current thinking on the Irish problem, with the help of leading politicians, historians, and others.
Producer DOUGLASCARSON
: Such Was My Country
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, but spent much of his life outside Ireland. Denvs Hawthorne reads some of MacNeice's bitter-sweet verses about his country,: Late Night Folk
The unique sound of the BOTHY BAND, an outstanding group of Irish musicians, in a programme of traditional music and song.Producer TONY MCAULEY
Contributors
Producer:
Tony
McAuley
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