Listening

Press, 28 August 1980, Page 15

Listening

Serenades : ? Serenade. The word is French for “evening music’’ .and commonly used to describe the songs lovers might sing beneath their ladies’ windows. It is also frequently applied to orchestral music, an example of which is Mozart’s orchestral “Haffner Serenade” which he wrote to commemorate the wedding of the daughter of a friend. Here the word means nothing more •than a suite in a good many movements, which i 5 lighter in style than a Classical suite. This is the sbrt of music that can be heard in “Time for Music” tomorrow. The programme features a selection of tnodern serenades played by the Ron Goodwin Orchestra. National programme, 7.30 p.m. tomorrow.

Israeli poet '■ The German-bom Israeli, Yehuda Amichai, is a lyrical love poet who has addressed many of his poems to women. He also writes about . Jewishness and Jerusalem. Many of his poems are sad jokes about himself, the fighting life, of a. splider forming a background for them all. A selection of his poems -read by ’ Ted Hughes, perhaps Britain’s finest fiying.poet, can be heard ■tomorrow. Hughes reads ithe poems from Amichai’s own English translation. There is also a recording of Amichai himself reading in Hebrew at the 1967 jPoetry International in ‘London in this 8.8. C. programme. Concert programme, 8.12 pun. tomorrow.

Elgar . i'i The Concert programme’s composer of the. week is Sir Edward Elgar, His Music: for Strings: Serenade , in E minor, 'Opus 20 and Suite from ■the Spanish Lady are the ■Elgar works that can .be heard tomorrow. They will be performed by the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-fields, conducted by Neville Mariner. Concert Programme, 8.40 p.m. tomorrow. ■ Grapelli

.' “Jazz Scene” tomorrow features jthe famous jazz Violinist, Stephane Grappelli.' Particular attention is paid to his music in the seventies. During this time Grappelli suddenly re-appeared-on the inter- ■ national scene after years ; ibf obscurity and began a prolific series of recordtings. -These are well illustrated on “A.. Decade of Stephane Grappelli,” one of his albums which can be heard on tomorrow’s programme, which is presented for Radio New Zealand by Keith Edmondston. National Programme, 9.15 p.m. tomorrow. Janacek

The Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Vaclav Neumann, can be heard per* ' forming Janacek’s overture to • “House of the Dead" and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 in D minor tomorrow. This recording will be broadcast courtesy c-f Czechoslovak .Radio. Concert Pro* gramme, 9.40 p.m. tomor- . row. f'i. • ■■ . ■■■