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The fifth of eight programmes Walter Leigh A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts) LPO/NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE Purcell The Fairy Queen (excerpts) MARY WELLS (soprano) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN Bridge Impression: There Is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook ECO/JEFFREY TATE Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music (Mono: 1956) ELSIE MORISON (soprano) MARJORIE THOMAS (contralto) DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) TREVOR ANTHONY (bass) CHORUS LSO/MALCOLM SARGENT Also including music by Elgar, Grainger, Quilter and Arne. RecordsContributors
Unknown:
Walter
Leigh
Soprano:
Elsie
Morison
Contralto:
Marjorie
Thomas
Tenor:
Duncan
Robertson
Bass:
Trevor
Anthony
: Lili Kraus
(piano) Mozart Variations on 'Unser dummer Pobel meint' (K 455) Fantasia in d minor (K 397) (R) Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat (K271) VIENNA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAl STEPHEN SIMON. RecordContributors
Unknown:
Stephen
Simon.
: News
: Your Concert Choice
Smetana Scherzo (Festive Symphony) CZECH PO/KARELSEJNA Szymanowski Violin Concerto Nol KONSTANTYKULKA POLISH RSO'JERZY MAKSYMIUK Vaughan Williams Magnificat HELEN WATTS (contralto) CHRISTOPHER HYDE SMITH (flute) AMBROSLAN SINGERS ORCHESTRA NOVA OF LONDON/ MEREDITH DA VIES Field Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by JOHN O'CONOR (piano) RecordsContributors
Unknown:
Jerzy
Maksymiuk
Unknown:
Vaughan
Williams
Directed By:
John
O'Conor
: Music Weekly
Presented by Michael Oliver How Rusalka ' Became Czech: John Tyrrell examines national elements in Dvorak's opera. On Playing the Bach Cello Suites: a conversation with Ralph Kirshbaum. Repertoire for Singers: Simon Carrington and Alastair Hume discuss the King's Singers' commissioning policy. Letters of a Creative Life: Robert Anderson reviews two volumes of Elgar's correspondence with his publishers. Producer ANDREW LYLEContributors
Presented By:
Michael
Oliver
Presented By:
How
Rusalka
Unknown:
John
Tyrrell
Unknown:
Ralph
Kirshbaum.
Singers:
Simon
Carrington
Singers:
Alastair
Hume
Unknown:
Robert
Anderson
Producer:
Andrew
Lyle
: Steven de Groote
(piano) Schubert Sonata in G (D 894) Debussy Images: Book 2 (A re-broadcast of last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert) MW joins at 11.35*: Words
Dr Mark Elvin , Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, reflects on some aspects of language and how we use it.Contributors
Unknown:
Dr Mark
Elvin
: Academy of Ancient Music
led by CATHERINE MACKINTOSH directed by the Belgian violinist SIGISWALD KUIJKENBach Suite No 1 in c (BWV 1066); Violin Concerto No 2 in E (bwv 1042)
1.00* Interval Reading
1.05* Rameau Suite: Zoroastre (Given in 1985 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London)
Contributors
Unknown:
Catherine
MacKintosh
: From the Festivals 1987
City of London Festival PETER SCHREIER (tenor)GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Schubert Schwanengesang (D 957): Liebesbotschaft; Kriegers Ahnung;
Friihlingssehnsucht;
Standchen; Aufenthalt; In der Ferne; Abschied (to poems by RELLSTAB); Der Atlas; Ihr Bild;
Das Fischermadchen ; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelganger (to poems by HEINE)
2.55* Interval Reading
3.00* Schubert Rastlose Liebe ; Schafers Klagelied; Geheimes; Ganymed; Three Songs of the Harper (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre); Wanderers
Nachtlied (Uber alien Gipfeln); Der Musensohn
(to poems by GOETHE)
(Given on 23 July in Goldsmiths' Hall. London, in association with Hill Samuel Group pic)
Contributors
Tenor:
Peter
Schreier
Piano:
Geoffrey
Parsons
Unknown:
Das
Fischermadchen
Unknown:
Schubert Rastlose
Liebe
Unknown:
Hill Samuel
Group
: The Alhambra Tales
by WASHINGTON IRVING abridged in three parts and read by Neville Jason 3: The Legend of the Moor's Legacy'This manuscript', said the Moor, 'is a form of incantation for the recovery of stolen treasure. But it must be read at midnight by the light of a taper.'
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
Contributors
Read By:
Neville
Jason
Producer:
John
Theocharis
: Mozart
Divertimento in F (K 213) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC WIND ENSEMBLE. Record: Segovia
From my youthful years I dreamed of raising the guitar from the sad artistic level in which it lay....The first of five programmes of recordings by the great guitarist who died in June. Frescobaldi, arr Segovia Aria and Corrente Ponce Suite in A Sor Andantino
Rodrigo Fantasia para un gentilhombre
With SYMPHONY OF THE AIR'
ENRIQUE JORDA. Mono records Producer GARETH WALTERS
Contributors
Unknown:
Sor
Andantino
Unknown:
Rodrigo
Fantasia
Unknown:
Enrique
Jorda.
Producer:
Gareth
Walters
: An Afternoon with Ravel
by ROGER NICHOLS opening Radio 3's season to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ravel s deatn. October 1928: Roland-Manuel, friend and one-time student of Maurice Ravel , visits the master to conduct an interview.Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
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Contributors
Unknown:
Roger
Nichols
Unknown:
Maurice
Ravel
Producer:
Arthur
Johnson
Roland-Manuel:
Ian
Thompson
Ravel:
John
Church
Critics:
Alan Dudley John
Samson
: French Christmas Music
Poulenc Four Christmas Motets Saint-Saens Oratorio de Noël SALLY BRADSHAW (soprano) CATHERINE DENLEY (meZZO) AMERAL GUNSON (contralto) MARTYN HILL (tenor)STEPHEN ROBERTS (bass) RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA conducted by RICHARD hickox (R)
Contributors
Soprano:
Sally
Bradshaw
Contralto:
Ameral
Gunson
Bass:
Stephen
Roberts
Singers:
Richard
Hickox
Conducted By:
Richard
Hickox
: Parodies Lost
by MALCOLM BURGESSThe first of six programmes Is There Pernod on Mars?
Not many people know that Jean Rhys was working on an epic science-fiction novel during the 1950s.
Read by Eleanor Bron
Contributors
Unknown:
Malcolm
Burgess
Unknown:
Jean
Rhys
Read By:
Eleanor
Bron
: Bach Cello Suites
The first of six programmes played by RALPH KIRSHBAUM Suite No 1 in G (BWV 1007) Producer MISHA DONATContributors
Played By:
Ralph
Kirshbaum
Producer:
Misha
Donat
: BBC Symphony Orchestra
led by RODNEY FRIEND conducted by ANDREW DAVIS BBC SINGERSBBC SYMPHONY CHORUS director GARETH MORRELL direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Debussy Nocturnes
Respighi Symphonic poem: The Pines of Rome
8.15* Looking over Shoulders
Colette's memories of Debussy and Ravel and company. Compiled and translated by MIKE STEER with Margaret Wolfit as Colette Producer DAVID JOHNSTON (R)
8.35* Ravel
Ballet: Daphnis et
Chloe Mon oeuvre le plus important.
RAVEL, 1914
Contributors
Unknown:
Rodney
Friend
Conducted By:
Andrew
Davis
Director:
Gareth
Morrell
Unknown:
Margaret
Wolfit
Unknown:
Chloe
Mon
: The 1987 Reith Lectures
The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by Alexander Goehr 5: Let the People SingIn democratic as well as totalitarian societies, composers have tried to link their music to an ideal of service. But neither Utopian aspirations nor politics are the way for composers to make music central to life.
Contributors
Unknown:
Alexander
Goehr
: A Direct and Simple Style
To complement the fifth Reith Lecture, three varied responses to a concern with the spiritual aspects of music-making in the community.Steve Reich Drumming: Part 1 STEVE REICH AND MUSICIANS
Carl Orff Schulwerk (excerpts) TOLZ BOYS' CHOIR AND INSTRUMENTAL
ENSEMBLE/THE COMPOSER
Kurt Weill Der Jasager (Mono) Opera in two acts based on a Japanese Noh play
Text by BERTOLT BRECHT Cast includes
DUSSELDORF CHILDREN'S CHORUS
AND CO/SIEGFRIED KOHLER. Records
Contributors
Unknown:
Steve
Reich
Unknown:
Steve
Reich
Unknown:
Carl Orff
Schulwerk
Student:
Joseph
Protschka
Mother:
Lys
Bert
Teacher:
Willibald
Vohla
: Bach on the Lute
The second of four programmes Suite in E minor (BWV 996)MAGGIE COLE (lute-harpsichord) Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat (bwv 998)
NIGEL NORTH (baroque lute) (R)
: Faure Piano Music
The first of five programmes this week containing vintage and modern recordings. Prelude No 3 in G minor (Mono: 1913): THE COMPOSER Barcarolle No 12 in E flatJEAN PHILIPPE COLLARD
Barcarolle No 1 in A minor (Mono: 1913): THE COMPOSER Records
Series producer JANE BEVAN
Contributors
Producer:
Jane
Bevan
: News
: Test Match Special
Third TestPakistan v England
Commentary from Karachi on the fifth and final day's play MWonly from 6.55
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