Belatedly, two programmes I intended to highlight and almost forgot to set the recorder until a few moments before they started earlier;
Chamber Music at the BBC, BBC 4, 20.00-21.00hrs. A delightful compilation with colour and monochrome sequences performed by the Amadeus Chilingarian, Borodin and Kronos quartets playing Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven - and even Stockhausen in helicopters! - wish we'd seen more complete performances from the 50s onwards. A particular thrill for me was to see the performance at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke in Trent, 1964, a year after I'd done a rep season there and my first experience of Theatre in the Round, and its communal Dressing Room which I shared with Alan Ayckbourn, Heather Stoney (later to become Lady Ayckbourn) and Elizabeth Bell.
The next programme tonight, now being transmitted, was a prequel to Heimat which forumites may recall in the early 90s and first recorded by me on video. The present programme, almost four hours, Home from Home, Chronicle of a Vision, continues until 00.40 hrs. I anticipate an early repeat screening.
Chamber Music at the BBC, BBC 4, 20.00-21.00hrs. A delightful compilation with colour and monochrome sequences performed by the Amadeus Chilingarian, Borodin and Kronos quartets playing Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven - and even Stockhausen in helicopters! - wish we'd seen more complete performances from the 50s onwards. A particular thrill for me was to see the performance at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke in Trent, 1964, a year after I'd done a rep season there and my first experience of Theatre in the Round, and its communal Dressing Room which I shared with Alan Ayckbourn, Heather Stoney (later to become Lady Ayckbourn) and Elizabeth Bell.
The next programme tonight, now being transmitted, was a prequel to Heimat which forumites may recall in the early 90s and first recorded by me on video. The present programme, almost four hours, Home from Home, Chronicle of a Vision, continues until 00.40 hrs. I anticipate an early repeat screening.
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