Listening

Press, 15 August 1980, Page 11

Listening

Elgar Music by the English composers, Elgar and Rawsthome, features on the Concert programme at 9.05 p.m. tommorow. The former principal conductor of the N.Z. Symphony, Brian Priestman, conducts the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra first in the Elgar Concert Overture, in the South. Then they are joined by an expatriate New Zealand pianist, Colin Horsley, in a performance of Alan Rawsthome’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Mozart

The midday Concert programme series of music for children concludes tomorrow with a h a 1 f-hour programme made up of compositions by Mozart; the American composer, Nevin; and by the Frenchman, Jacques Ibert. The Mozart is Variations on “Ah, vous diraije, Maman.” nevin’s Little Boy Blue follows, and the programme ends with Ibert’s Stories. Concert programme, noon tomorrow.

“Scrapbook’ The three-and-a-half hours of Saturday evening entertainment on the National programme designed specially for older listeners will again be hosted tomorrow by Graeme Thomson. Much of the music through the evening is requested by listeners themselves, and requests can be sent into “Saturday Scrapbook” at P. O. Box 2092, Wellington. The radio series from the past recalled tomorrow at 9 p.m. is “The Adventures of Charlie Chan.” The episode from the case-book of the famous fictional detective chosen Is sub-titled “Snow White and the Eighth Dwarf.” . Walton’s ‘Feast’ Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast is the main, work to be performed in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra broadcast tomorrow’ evening from Christchurch. Sir William Walton wrote his Belshazzar’s Feast for baritone, chorus, and orchestra in 1931 to words by Osbert Sitwell taken mainly from the Biblical text of the story. A notable performance of the work was given with the composer conducting when Walton visited New Zealand in 1964. Tomorrow on the Concert programme at 8 p.m. another Englishman, Sir David Willcocks, will conduct, along with Robert Field-Dodg-sbn. The baritone soloist is a New Zealander, Barry Mora, who is at -present under contract with the Hamburg Opera. The chorus is provided by the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, the fine choir which is this year celebrating its 120th anniversary. The Walton occupies the second half of the programme.

Italian opera The two 18th-century Italian composers, Giovanni Paisiello and Domenico Cimarosa; are featured together on the Concert programme as “Composers of the Week” from Sunday at 10 a.m. Both men were prolific composers of opera, and both served in court posts in St Petersburg and elsewhere though dying back in Italy early in the next century. John Steele discusses Paisiello and Cimarosa on the Sunday morning Concert programme, and samples of their music, chiefly from their operatic output, can be heard during the week.