Listening

Press, 2 September 1981, Page 18

Listening

Symphony No. 3. Then they are joined by veteran international pianist Shura Cherkassky for a performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor. Concert. 8.18 p.m. Fantasy It is the year 2300 in a world where all emotion has been suppressed by the scientific. rationalist bureaucracy of the State. But Maria, the poetess, has been kept alive for 300 years, since “Before the Silence." the title of tonight's Julian Dickon play. Her history is being recorded for study, from her pantheistic romantic years through a bloody revolution, perverted and betrayed by the ruling elite. Maria survives and relives her past for twentythird century historians before. disillusioned and broken, she is finally allowed to die. Electronic music The Victorian University Electronic Music Studio has run for 15 years. To mark that achievement the Concert Programme at 9.15 tonight has scheduled three programmes. The first this Wednesday looks at the history of the studio and its achievements through the eyes of Jack Body and Ross Harris. Schumann From the 1980 Helsinki Festival comes a performance of Robert Schumann’s Symphonic Studies, Op. 13, including the Five Variations. Op. Posth. The pianist is Alexis Weissenberg and the recording is courtesy of Finnish Broadcasting. Concert. 9.45 p.m.