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Index of rare broadcasts from long ago

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« on: July 15, 2009, 11:11:39 am »

Here is a running list of all the old broadcasts mentioned, together with a link to monophonic recordings made at the time should members wish to study review or compare these broadcasts in more detail. The "Q" ratings are an indication of the quality of each recording (not of the work or the performance), on a scale from 1 to 10:

Karl-Birger Blomdahl: Forma Ferritonans for orchestra (first broadcast performance)
Karl-Birger Blomdahl: Aniara (opera)
Donald Banks: Divisions for orchestra (first performance)
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Séquences for violin and small grouped orchestra
Igor Strawinsky: Elegy for JFK (baritone and 3 clarinets) (first broadcast performance)

Arnold Schönberg: Six Pieces for Male Chorus opus 35 (first broadcast performance)
Alexander Goehr: Violin Concerto opus 13
Lukas Foss: Improvisations (magnetic tape and small group)
Roger Sessions: Sonata for violin solo
Gunther Schuller: Dramatic overture

Hans Henze: Fifth Symphony (first broadcast performance)
Cornelius Cardew: Bun for Orchestra number 2 (1964) (first British broadcast)
Henri Pousseur: Symphonies for 15 Soloists (1955) (first British broadcast)
Luigi Nono: Le Terre e la Campagna [sic] (1957)
Luigi Nono: Canciones para Silvia (1960)

Morton Feldman: De Kooning (1963) (first British broadcast)
Virgil Thomson: Sonata da Chiesa (1926) (first British performance)
Dieter Schnebel: Analysis (1953) (first British broadcast)
Franco Donatoni: Movement for Piano, Harpsichord, and nine wind instruments (1959)
Donald Banks: Sonata da Camera (1961)

Hans Apostel: Piano Concerto opus 30 (1958) (first British broadcast)
Hans Apostel: Chorus - Um Mitternacht opus 16 (1957)
Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning (paragraphs 1 and 2, revised version) (1972)
Harrison Birtwistle: Narration (1963) (first British performance)
Alexander Goehr: Two Choruses opus 14 (1962)

Gilbert Amy: Epigrammes for pianoforte (1961)
Egon Wellesz: Violin Concerto opus 84 (1961) (first British broadcast) [Q: 6/10]
Michel Philippot: Sonata 1 for pianoforte (1946) (first British broadcast)
Pierre Boulez: Sonata 1 for pianoforte (Claude Helffer) (1946)
Hanns Eisler: Cantata "No War!" ("Gegen den Krieg," opus 51, 1936)

André Jolivet: Mana, for pianoforte (1935)
Hans Henze: Lucy Escott Variations (1963) arranged for pianoforte by Klaus Billing
Luigi Nono: Canti per 13  (1955)
Albert Roussel: Sonatina opus 16 (1912)
Luigi Dallapiccola: Cinque Canti (1956)

Luigi Dallapiccola: Canonic Sonatina (1943)
Ferruccio Busoni: Sonatina 2 (1912)
Goffredo Petrassi: String quartette (1958)
Franco Donatoni: Composizione in 4 movimenti (pianoforte, 1954)
Wireless talk about Moses and Aaron, transmitted the day before its first British performance - includes the voice of the second Mrs. Schönberg; and here for completeness' sake is that of the composer himself

Igor Strawinsky: Four studies for pianoforte, opus 7 (Spring 1908)
Ludwig Zenk: Second pianoforte sonata (date of composition suppressed)
Josef Hauer: Divertimento opus 61 (1930)
Klaus Huber: La chace for harpsichord (1963)
Arnold Schönberg: Herzgewächse opus 20 (1911)

Jean-Louis Martinet: Three poems of René Char (1950)
Roberto Gerhard: Wind quintet (1928)
Cornelius Cardew: Three winter potatoes for pianoforte (1961-65)
Charles Ives: The unanswered question (1906)
Charles Ives: The tone roads number three (1915)

Arnold Schönberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (version for string orchestra, 1944)
Herbert Howells: Phantasy String Quartet opus 25 (1916)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Wind quintet (1956) [Q: 8/10]
Alexander Scryabine: Piano Sonata 7 (1912) [Q: 7/10]
Alexander Scryabine: Poème: Vers la Flamme (1914) [Q: 7/10]

Arnold Schönberg: Jacob's Ladder (1917-22) (first British performance) [Q: 6/10]
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Pianoforte pieces 5, 7 and 8 (1954) (first broadcast performance in England) [Q: 10/10]
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Les symphonies de timbres (1957) [Q: 9/10]
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Momente 1965 (1965) [Q: 3/10]
Arnold Schönberg: Four Orchestral Songs opus 22 (1913-16) [Q: 8/10]

Pierre Boulez: Éclat (1965 version) [Q: 8/10]
Arnold Schönberg: Orchestral songs opus 8 nos. 1, 2 and 5
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Carré (1960) (extract - introduced by its composer) [Q: 8/10]
Alexander Goehr: 3 Pieces for pianoforte opus 18 (1964) [Q: 9/10]
John Cage: Amores (1943) [Q: 9/10]

Olivier Messiaen: Cantéyodjayâ for pianoforte (1949) [Q: 9/10]
Sylvano Bussotti: Fragmentations (1962) [Q: 9/10]
Elmar Seidel: Fantasie for pianoforte (1954) [Q: 9/10]
Arrigo Benvenuti: 5 Inventioni for pianoforte (1955) [Q: 9/10]
Reginald Smith Brindle: Genesis Dream (1961) [Q: 9/10]

Marcello Panni: Arpèges for harp and three percussionists (1963)
Franco Evangelisti: Proporzioni for solo flute (1958)
Ottavio Negro: Dialoguo for flute and harp
Kazimierz Serocki: A piacere for pianoforte (1963)
Niccolò Castiglioni: Tropi for six players (1959) (first performance in Great Britain)

Henri Pousseur: Madrigal II for baroque ensemble (1961) (first performance in Great Britain)
Luciano Berio: Différences for five instruments and tape (1960)
Arnold Schönberg: Two songs opus 14 (1908)
Pierre Boulez: String quartette ("Book") (1949)
Anton Webern: Three Lieder opus 25 (1935)

Jürg Wittenbach: Divisions for pianoforte and nine other instruments (1964)
Pierre Boulez: Sonata 1 for pianoforte (Katharina Wolpe) (1946)
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 04:30:20 pm »

Would it be possible to include the dates of the broadcasts themselves, or even (if there is time and the information is available), the dates of the first British performances in question? I would be interested at some point to study the critical reception to various of these works when they were first heard in this country (as some scholars, including one known to some on other boards and by his blog, have started doing elsewhere with respect to European modernist music in Britain).
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 05:44:45 pm »

Good idea Mr. P - I'll do what I can over the next few days. But in many cases my information is rather vague - I can give the approximate year only - (ninety per centum so far have been from 1964 and 1965) - but in some cases the announcer gives helpful clues.

- Could you give a link to the blog you mention as an example please?
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