Powerful story on radio today

Press, 12 February 1982, Page 11

Powerful story on radio today

Three itinerant vagrants wander the steppes of prerevolutionary Russia foraging like beasts for scraps of food, in a story broadcast on Concert radio today at 4 p.m. The debilitating and demeaning effects of extreme hunger and the violence it can provoke in men forced to behave ■ like animals are powerfully expressed “In the Steppes” by Maxim Gorky. The story has been dramatised for radio by Bill Baer and forms part of the Concert programme’s current Friday Russian story season. Hunting theme Hunting is the theme for the whole of this week’s "Time for Music" (7.30 tonight) on the National programme with songs and orchestral music from a wide range of contributors. There is the Hunting Chorus from Weber’s "Der Freischutz," the Royal Hunt and Storm from “The Trojans” by Berlioz and the "Nimrod” vana-

tion from Eiger’s Enigma Variations. Grieg symphony Until fairly recently it was assumed that Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote no symphonies, but a Symphony in C minor has now been discovered. It can be heard on its first recording. made by the Bergen Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karsten Andersen, on Concert at 7.42 tonight. Two-act opera Haydn’s two-act opera "L’lsola Disabitata" has been recorded for the first time with Antal Dorati conducting soloists with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. The opera is introduced for Radio New Zealand on the Friday Concert programme by Fiona McAlpine, at 9 o’clock tonight.

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