Radio diary

Press, 10 March 1988, Page 11

Radio diary

Back to 8.8. C. drama on National Radio this evening with an eerie and unusual comedy, The Lie, by John Antrobus. June Whitfield is |Jane, and Geoffrey Matthews is Henry. Listen right after the 9 p.m. news.

Maxim Shostakovich conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in an International Festival of the Arts concert at Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre on the Concert programme I tomorrow evening at 8. The programme is the overture to Weber’s "Euryanthre,” Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Prokofiev’s "Alexander Nevsky” cantata. Soloists are violinist Mark Menzies and mezzo Heather Begg! Five thousand Welsh voices belting out the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah” in the Royal Albert Hall should sound pretty inspiring. This is one offering in Time for Music on National Radio at 8.05 tomorrow evening. And for good measure they will also develop the choral finale to I Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Legendary Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky was born 100 years ago. His ballet genius tragically declined

into mental instability, but as master of technique, characterisation [ and interpretation his name is immortal. Marking the centenary of his birth, Paul Schofield reads passages from Nijinsky’s diary on the Concert Programme at 8 p.m. Saturday. Nijinsky’s wife Romola introduces 1 the programme.

American , organist Carlo Curley has a mission to “establish the organ at the forefront off musical instruments.” If you are awake. around 9 on Sunday morning you can hear this "Pavarotti of the organ” in a 1985 Edinburgh Festival recording playing Wagner, Widor, Dupre and Reger on the Concert Programme. His recital was recorded in Edinburgh’s magnificent : McEwan Hall.

British cellist Jacqueline du Pre, who died late last year, made her public debut at age seven with the promise of a long and brilliant career. Twenty years later She was stricken with 1 multiple sclerosis. The first of five programmes from the 8.8. C. on Jacqueline du Pre can be heard Sunday evening on the Concert programme at 9.

— Janies Homes