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… Carole Bogard (soprano) Andronicus, a Grecian prince, Tamburlaine’s confidante … Sophia Steffan (contralto) Irene, Princess of Trabiscond, bethrothed to Tamburlaine … Joanna Simon (mezzo-soprano) Leo, friend of Andronicus … Marius Rintzler (bass) Copenhagen Chamber Orchestra Conducted by John Moriarty
1978 Issue Dated 14-20 January 1978 265, 266 [Picture Caption, page 24] Why did the pawnbroker’s wife kill herself by jumping from the window of her flat – holding an icon? He seeks the answer in John Tavener’s opera A Gentle Spirit [Programme Details] Saturday 14 January 1978, 7.5 pm, Radio 3 Tavener and Stravinsky Double-Bill A performance given on 4 July 1977 at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, as part of the Cheltenham Festival Part 1 A Gentle Spirit Chamber opera in one act by John Tavener. Libretto by Gerald McLarnon, based on a short story by Dostoevsky Wife … Elise Ross (soprano) Husband … Kenneth Wollam (tenor) Nash Ensemble Conducted by Simon Rattle Part 2 The Soldier’s Tale (staged version) Music by Stravinsky. Words by C F Ramuz, translated by Donald Flanders and Kitty Black Narrator … Christopher Hancock Devil … Edward Atienza Soldier … Kevin Williams Nash Ensemble Conducted by Simon Rattle Issue Dated 28 January-3 February 1978 267 [Picture Caption, page 42] The Anathemata: a voyage ‘through the whole inheritance of Western civilisation’. A classic radio production from 1953 of David Jones’s poetical work [Programme Details] Tuesday 31 January 1978, 9.20 pm, Radio 3 The Anathemata By David Jones Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon who introduces the programme I: Rite and Fore-Time II: Middle-Sea and Lear-Sea III: Angle-Land IV: Redriff V: The Lady of the Pool VI: Keel, Ram, Stauros VII: Mabinog’s Liturgy VIII: Sher Tuesday and Venus Day
The English Voices: Valentine Dyall, Carleton Hobbs Frank Duncan James McKechnie The Welsh Voices: Dylan Thomas, Rachel Thomas Sulwen Morgan, Gwenilian Owen The Lady of the Pool … Diana Maddox Eb Bradshaw, shipwright … Norman Shelley The Sailors … Peter Lindsay …Neville Hartley With a section of the Schola Polyphonica Director Henry Washington The Deller Consort The Looe Singers Though still comparatively unknown, The Anathemata is increasingly recognised as one of the major poetic works of the century. Within the framework of the Mass, and thus of the Crucifixion, it reflects the whole inheritance of our Western civilization, with its deposits from pre-history, from Greece and Rome, from Welsh and English mythology, and above all from the Christian tradition: now threatened by the breakdown of a culture for which signs and symbols are no longer valid. (First broadcast on 5 May 1953) Issue Dated 16-22 September 1978 268 [Picture Caption, page 34] A lovers’ rendezvous in the palace gardens, a sword stained with the blood of Xerxes, King of Persia, and the music of Thomas Arne in his opera Artaxerxes [Programme Details] Sunday 17 September 1978, 2.5 pm, Radio 3 Artaxerxes Opera in three acts Music by Thomas Arne (died 1778) Arne wrote his operatic masterpiece in 1762, using his own English translation of a Metastasio libretto. It is a unique amalgam of the Italian and English styles; and the most ‘national’ of the tunes were reproduced in numerous barrel-organ rolls. Haydn was delighted by it: he ‘had no idea we had such an opera in the English language’. Listeners today may be similarly surprised. Mandane … Elizabeth Vaughan (soprano) Arbaces … Sandra Browne (mezzo-soprano) Artaxerxes … Margaret Cable (contralto) Artabanes … John Brecknock (tenor) Semira ... Sandra Dugdale (soprano) BBC Singers Director John Poole Continuo: Peter Halling (cello) Ian Anderson (double-bass) John Constable (harpsichord) New Chamber Soloists Leader John Willison Conducted by Maurits Sillem Technical presentation John Rushby-Smith Producer Elaine Padmore
1979 Issue Dated 30 June-6 July 1979 269, 270 [Picture Caption, page 63] Winchester’s celebrations of its cathedral’s 900th anniversary include tonight’s concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra [Programme Details] Thursday 5 July 1979, 7.30, Radio 4 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Direct from Winchester Cathedral Conductor George Hurst Martin Neary (organ) Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K550) Part 2 Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3, with organ