Radio diary

Press, 18 May 1989, Page 11

Radio diary

James Homes

Twenty-nine-year-old Belfast-born pianist Barry Douglas, 1987 Tchaikovsky Prize winner, has a fast-growing reputation in the international concert world. His interpretation of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata has been rated highly. Hear him in Barry Douglas Plays Beethoven, Concert Programme 10.10 this evening. Readings of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, about schoolboys stranded on a desert island, begin on National Radio at 10.30 this evening. Some see this classic story as a savage comment on the optimistic assumptions about the blessings of civilisation. Michael Williams is the reader.

Singer Ella Fitzgerald celebrated her fortieth birthday in 1958 with a concert in Rome. Jazz Scene, National Radio 9.05 tomorrow evening,

has a recording, not previously released, of part of that concert. Tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson, who toured the Soviet Union with his quartet four times in the last 10 years, is also heard in the programme. Good listening for country music fans can be heard in U.R. Country, Plains FM 3 p.m. Saturday. Relaxed presentation of country rock and modern country music. Western music on traditional Japanese instruments and Western interest in Japanese music has been an interesting musical development over the last decade. Concert from Auckland, Concert Programme 8 Saturday evening, has shakuhachi (bamboo flute) player Kifu Mitsuhashi as soloist with the N.Z.S.O. in a concerto by Riyohei Hirose. Kenneth Young, usually the principal tuba player, is guest conductor. Mozart and Bartok fill out the programme.