Today's the Day

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4th August

The Lutheran and Eastern orthodix Churches celebrate this as the Feast Day of Moses and Aaron. A prompt to give the Gielen recording of St Arnold's opera a play.

Also on This Date: the traditional end of the Western Roman Empire, as barbarian Odoacer deposes Emperor Romulus Augustus, and proclaims himself King of Italy (476); Irish noblemen defeated in the Nine Years' War and their followers leave their homeland for Mainland Europe in the Flight of the Earls (1607); St Paul's Cathedral is destroyed in the most destructive day of the Great Fire of London (1666); 10-year-old Irish-American Barney Flaherty is hired by the New York Sun and becomes the world's first newspaper delivery boy (1833); the first armed conflict of the First Opium War, the Battle of Kowloon begins as British ships open fire on Chinese junks maintaining an embargo on food supplies (1839); worn out after 30 years fighting the US Army, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson "Long Nose" Mills (1886); the Kodak camera company is founded by George Eastman (1888 - on the same day, Eastman receives a patent for his roll film camera); Beatrix Potter sends an illustrated letter to 5-year-old Noel Moore, who has been poorly - it is the first version of the Peter Rabbit story (1893); William J Murphy becomes the first RAF pilot to be killed in action in WW2 as he takes part in the first RAF bombing raid on German Navy ships (1939 - his colleagues Larry Slattery and GF Booth are also shot down, but survive and become the first British Prisoners-of-War, and the longest PoWs of the War); British troops liberate Antwerp (1944); following a civil rights benefit concert in Peekskill City in New York State given by, among others, Paul Robeson & Pete Seeger, US Veteran groups form a gauntlet along the roads leading from the venue, throwing rocks and insults at the audience as they try to make their way home (1949); the racist Governor of Arkansas orders the National Guard to prevent black students from entering Little Rock Central High School, defying a US Supreme Court ruling (1957); the Forth Road Bridge is opened to traffic (1964); Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games (1972); Israel and Egypt sign the Sinai Interim Agreement in Geneva, reolving that future conflicts between the two countries "shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means" (1975); the first of the Monday Demonstrations, weekly peaceful protests for greater democracy, is held in Leipzig (1989); after 2-and-a-half years development, 25-year-old PhD students Larry Page & Sergey Brin incorporate their company, Google (1998 - the company is based in the garage of one of their friends); Chris Tarrant hosts the first broadcast of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998).

Birthdays Today include: Constantijn Huygens (1596); François-René de Chateaubriand (1768); Bruckner (1824); Darius Milhaud (1892); Antonin Artaud (1896); Mary Renault (1905); Ivan Illich (1926); Jacqueline Hewitt (1958); Beyoncé (1981).

Final Days for: Robert Dudley (1588); John Ogilby (1676); César-François Cassini de Thury (1784); Edvard Grieg (1907); Charles Péguy (1914 - shot in the head whilst on active service in the French army, aged 41); Albert Schweitzer (1964); E. F. Schumacher (1977); Georges Simenon (1989); Joan Clarke (1996); Vlado Perlemuter (2002); Steve Irwin & Astrid Varnay (2006); Ian Parrott (2012); Joan Rivers (2014).


... and the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Monday, 4th September, 1989 were:

Morning Concert: Prokofiev "Classical" Symph; Schubert 12 German Dances; Schubert/Webern 6 German Dances; Bruch "Swedish Serenade"; Haydn Symph #104.
Composer of the Week: Rimsky-Korsakoff (Dance of the Tumblers; In the Silence of the Night; Symph #1).
Sacred & Profane: Debussy Danse sacree et danse profane; George Lloyd Symph #10; Debussy En Blanc et Noir; Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps ( & psalms & canticles by Clarke, Howells, & Britten).
Ulster Orchestra conducted by Simon Joly (Warren Seaside Sketches; Britten 4 French Songs [with Janis Kelly, soprano]; Panufnik Sinfonia Rustica).

[vinteuil]

Also on This Date: the traditional end of the Western Roman Empire, as barbarian Odoacer deposes Emperor Romulus Augustus, and proclaims himself King of Italy (476); I]).

... poor Romulus Augustulus. He was aged sixteen when he gave up as the Last Roman Emperor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus

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5th September

International Day of Charity - a UN initiative begun in 2012 "to raise awareness and provide a common platform for charity related activities all over the world for individuals, charitable, philanthropic and volunteer organizations for their own purposes on the local, national, regional and international level".

Also on This Date: Pope Gregory XV grants Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richlieu a Cardinalate (1622); Nicolas Fouquet, corrupt Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV, as arrested by Captain of the Musketeers, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1661); the Great Fire of London ends (1666 - WIKI gives both 5th & 6th in the same article); Peter the Great introduces a tax on beards of 100 roubles a year for all men in cities (the clergy are exempted, and peasants entering a city have either to pay a 1 kopek charge or get shaved: those who had paid the tax were given a Beard Token which they have to produce on demand - if they cannot do so, they are forcibly shaved); delegates from the 13 colonies later to make up the United States gather in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress (1774); playwright & political activist Olympe de Gouges publishes her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in Paris (1791 - as a result of this and her other political writings, she is beheaded 14 months later, one of only three women so executed during the Reign of Terror, and the only woman so treated for her political writings); Liszt's Faust Symphony is premiered in Weimar, conducted by the composer, as part of the celebrations for the inauguration of the Goethe-Schiller statue (1857 - bit of a snub for Schiller?); Lakota Chief Tȟašúŋke Witkó [="his horse is crazy"/"Crazy Horse"] is bayoneted to death by a US Army guard (1877); Hotspur Football Club is founded in Totenham by a group of schoolboys who are given permission to play on the local Cricket Ground, when it isn't being otherwise used (1882); Dresden physiotherapist, Christine Hardt receives a patent for her design for a Frauenleibchen als Brustträger, "the purpose of this bodice is chiefly to maintain the breasts without somehow affecting the function of a healthy breast" as had been the case with traditional corsets - she has invented a prototype brassiere (1899); the Portsmouth Peace Treaty is signed by the Russian and Japanese Foreign Ministers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ending the Russo-Japanese War (1905); Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle throws a party in his hotel suite, during which actress Virginia Rappe dies from peritonitis caused by a ruptured bladder (1921 - amongst the less repulsive subsequent newspaper stories it is claimed that Arbuckle has crushed her whilst whilst raping her: these stories, completely untrue, destroy his reputation and career after 3 highly publicised criminal trials); Poulenc's Concerto for 2 Pianos is premiered at the ISCM Fetival in Venice, with the composer & Jacques Fevrier soloists, and the La Scala Orchestra conducted by Désiré Defauw (1932); New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, dying of cancer of the colon, makes a public declaration of solidarity with Britain at the start of the War (1939 - "With gratitude for the past and confidence in the future we range ourselves without fear beside Britain. Where she goes, we go; where she stands, we stand. We are only a small and young nation, but we march with a union of hearts and souls to a common destiny" - he dies 6 months later; on the very same day, South African Prime Minister Herzog is forced to resign when his attempts to maintain neutrality in the War is rejected by parliament - these "attempts" including dissolving parliament and calling a General Election); Igor Gouzenko, a clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Canada defects, bringing evidence of Soviet espionage activities on Western governments (1945); Jack Kerouac's On the Road is published by Viking Press in New York (1957); poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected the first President of Sengal (1960); Bussotti's La Passion selon Sade is premiered in Palermo, with Cathy Berberian, and conducted & directed by the composer (1965); Palestinian terrorists hold 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage at the Olympic Village in Munich (1972); NASA launches space probe Voyager-1 to study the outer Solar System (1977); Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin begin secret peace negotiations hosted by US President Jimmy Carter at Camp David (1978).

Birthdays Today include: František Antonín Míča (1694); JC Bach (1735); Caspar David Friedrich (1774); Anton Diabelli (1781 - WIKI also gives 6th Sept as a variation); Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791); Aleksey Tolstoy (1817); Victorien Sardou (1831); Jesse James (1847); Amy Beach (1867); Otto Deutsch (1883); Joseph Szigeti (1892); Darryl F. Zanuck (1902); Arthur Koestler (1905); Bernard Delfont (1909); John Cage (1912); Peter Racine Fricker (1920); Joyce Hatto (1928); Dick Clement (1937); Raquel Welch (1940); Werner Herzog & Eduardo Mata (both 1942); Freddie Mercury (1946); Michael Keaton (1951); Marc-André Hamelin (1961); Johnny Vegas (1970) ... and Bob Newhart is 90, George Lazenby 80, and Dweezil Zappa & Mark Ramprakash both 50 today.

Final Days for: Catherine Parr (1548 - aged 36 surviving her most famnous husband by just over 20 months [still considerably more than any of his other wives managed]); Nicolas Bernier (1664); Don Banks (1980); Douglas Bader (1982); Wolfgang Fortner (1987); Jerry Iger (1990); Claude Renoir (1993); Georg Solti & Mother Theresa of Calcutta (1997).

... and the Radio 3 Schedules on Friday, 5th September, 1969 were:

Overture ("gramophone records")
Morning Concert: ("gramophone records")
This Week's Composer: Chopin ('cello Sonata; Waltz in Ab; Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C)
British Concertos: Mathias Pno Conc (the Composer/BBCWSO/Rudolf Schwarz)
Music Making (the Aeolian S4tet)
From the Proms: BBCSSO/Loughran (Beethoven Symph #2; Ravel Concerto in G [with Jean-Rudolphe Kars]; Wilson Touchstone; DSCH Symph #5)

[gurnemanz]

... poor Romulus Augustulus. He was aged sixteen when he gave up as the Last Roman Emperor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus

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My only ever acting appearance was about 50 years ago in Durham University German Department's staging of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play "Romulus der Große". Only very loosely based on the historical life of the last Roman Emperor who is not 16 and spends his time keeping chickens. I can't remember which role I played.

[johncorrigan]

[B]Bob Newhart is 90

Happy birthday to a comedy genius. He used to get played on Children's Favourites with Uncle Mack and I loved him, and still do. Here's 'Defusing a Bomb'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMf6xbMsLI

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[LMcD]

My only ever acting appearance was about 50 years ago in Durham University German Department's staging of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play "Romulus der Große". Only very loosely based on the historical life of the last Roman Emperor who is not 16 and spends his time keeping chickens. I can't remember which role I played.

In 1966, the German Department at Southampton staged a production of 'Romulus der Grosse' at the Nuffield Theatre (I manned the temporary box office and helped out generally). The following year we did Grillparzer's 'Weh dem, der luegt!'. In one of these - I think it was 'Romulus' - my solitary on-stage line was 'Die Germanen kommen!' to which, if memory serves, the response was something like 'So what? They've been coming for years'.

[cloughie]

Happy birthday to a comedy genius. He used to get played on Children's Favourites with Uncle Mack and I loved him, and still do. Here's 'Defusing a Bomb'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMf6xbMsLI

Not heard him or of him for years - where’s he been - is he still in good health?

[LMcD]

Not heard him or of him for years - where’s he been - is he still in good health?

Bob Newhart is still with us - he's 92. I love the interviewer's reaction to 'Walt' Raleigh's explanation of smoking tobacco - 'You roll it into a tube, stick it in your mouth and set fire to it?'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bob Newhart is still with us - he's 92.

Oooooooooh no, he's not!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/arts/television/bob-newhart.html

https://www.apnews.com/c3c9e80ce1ff4038ae616c25a6e2b3c3

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

[johncorrigan]

Not heard him or of him for years - where’s he been - is he still in good health?

Every so often he turned up in the Big Bang Theory as Professor Proton, Sheldon's childhood hero - just great. He also played Papa Elf in 'Elf' the movie - that is a funny Christmas film, in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMj6AuycRfE

[LMcD]

Oooooooooh no, he's not!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/arts/television/bob-newhart.html

https://www.apnews.com/c3c9e80ce1ff4038ae616c25a6e2b3c3

Quite so - perhaps I inadvertently reversed the last 2 numbers of 1929 - here's hoping I can repost my message in 2021!
From 'The Driving Lesson' (or was it ' The Driving Instructor'?), I remember something along the lines of 'Precisely what manoeuvre were you performing when Mr (X, the instructor) jumped out of the car?'

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6th September

On This Date: the Victoria, the only ship of the five commanded by Ferdinand Magellan to complete his expedition to circumnavigate the world returns to Spain, becoming the first craft to do so (1522 - Magellan himself does not complete the Expedition: he had been killed 16 months earlier by islanders resisting his offers to convert them to Christianity); after several delays, the Mayflower sets off from Plymouth on its voyage taking Puritan pilgrims to the New World (1620); the Puritan Government orders the closure of all London theatres, to discourage "lascivious mirth and levity" which is unbecoming in "the current times of humiliation" (1642); Charles II spends most of the day hiding in an oak tree following his defeat at the Battle of Worcester 3 days earlier (1651); Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito is given its public premiere at the Estates Theatre in prague (1791); on his 37th birthday, John Dalton sets out a table of the Atomic Weights of various elements (1803); after 2 years, 2 months, & 2 days, Henry Thoreau leaves his cabin in Walden Woods (1847 - he is immediately "employed" by Ralph Waldo Emerson [who has been helping to support him throughout his time in the woods] to help his wife look after his house whilst he is on a lecture tour of Europe); 69-year-old Louisa Swain becomes the first woman to vote in an American General Election (1870 - she hasn't intended to make history - she's gone into town to buy yeast, and sees the Polling place as she passes it and decides she might as well: she's first because the Polling station wasn't opened when she saw it, but the officers ask her to vote anyway, for fear that she might change her mind); the Principality of Bulgaria unites with the Province of eastern Rumelia to create an independent, unified Bulgaria (1885); Queen Victoria introduces the Distinguished Service Order decoration for meritorious service during wartime by officers in the British Army or Navy (1886 - the first medals are awarded in november); an anarchist insurrectionist shoots US president William McKinley twice in the stomach (1901 - McKinley dies 8 days later: the assassin outlives him by seven weeks when he is executed); RVW's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is premiered by the LSO conducted by the composer in Gloucester Cathedral (1910); the world's first self-service grocery store, Piggly-Wiggly, opens in Memphis, Tennessee (1916); Hurricane pilot Montague Hulton-Harrop becomes the first British fighter pilot to be killed in WW2, when he is shot down - by other British fighter pilots, who believe that it's a Luftwaffe attack (1939); US Secretary of State James F Byrnes delivers his Speech of Hope in Stuttgart, promising US help with German economic recovery (1946); Federico Fellini's film La Srada, starring Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina is premiered at the Venice Film Festival (1954); 2 days of Government-sponsored pogroms in Istanbul begin (1955 - predominantly against Greek citizens, but Armenians & Jews are also targetted: around 30 people are killed); a 2nd Century ship is discovered on the banks of the River Thames in the Blackfriars area of London by archeologist Peter Marsden (1962 - the earliest-known indigenous ship found in Northern Europe); South African President Hendrik Verwoerd, who had implemented the "policy of good neighbourliness" known as Apartheid, is assassinated by a uniformed parliamentary messenger, who stabs him several times (1966); on the second day of the Munich Olympic massacre, the 9 surviving Israeli athletes taken hostage by the Palestinian Black September terrorists the day before are murdered - three of them shot at point-blank range with a Kalishnikov assault rifle, the others when a hand grenade is thrown into the cockpit of the helicopter in which they are held (1972 - 5 of the terrorists, and a German police officer are also killed); Milos Forman's film of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, starring F Murray Abraham, is premiered in Los Angeles (1984); the funeral of Princess Diana is held (1997); the Israeli Air Force destroys a nuclear reactor in Syria (2007); Tom Hooper's film The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth & Geoffrey Rush, is premiered at the Telluride Film Festival (2010); 103 animals, including the targetted 41 elephants, are killed after poachers poison a watering hole in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, with cyanide (2013); ... and, this time last year, the Supreme Court in India legalizes gay sex between consenting adults.

Birthdays Today include: Moses Mendelssohn (1729); John Dalton (1766); Vincent Novello (1781); Frances Wright (1795); Walford Davies & Felix Salten (both 1869); Max Schreck (1879); Billy Rose (1899); Andrea Camilleri (1925); Arthur Oldham (1926); Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928); Gilles Tremblay (1932); Joan Tower (1938); Jackie Trent (1940); Roger Law (1941); Roger Waters (1943); Detlev Glanert (1960); Alice Sebold (1963); Emily Maitlis (1970).

Final Days for: Suleiman the Magnificent (1566); Arthur Rackham (1939); Walter Widdop (1949); Gertrude Lawrence (1952); Kay Kendall (1959); Hans Eisler (1962); Karl Rankl (1968); Ronald Binge (1979); Léon Orthel (1985); Len Hutton (1990); PH Newby (1997); Akira Kurosawa (1998); Luciano Pavarotti (2007); Terry Nutkon (2012); Derek Bourgeois & kate Millett (both 2017); ... and, this time last year, both Burt Reynolds & Liz Fraser.


... and thenRadio 3 Schedules for the Morning of Thursday, 6th September, 1979 were:

Overture: Bach Brandenburg #6; Beethoven Choral Fantasia; Liszt Hamlet; Boccherini 5tet for Guitar & Strings in e; Tosti Serenata; Respighi Feste Romane.
This Week's Composer: Schubert (Die Zwillingsbriider, D 647 - that's the whole one-act opera; none of this "a movement from a Symphony, followed by a movement from a Mass, and then a movement from a S4tet" mallarky that we get these days!)
Piano Recital by Daniel Adni: Mendelssohn Songs Without Words selection; Liszt Sonata in b minor; Chopin 4 Ballades.
Purcell & the English Tradition: Anthems by John Blow

[Richard Tarleton]

South African President Hendrik Verwoerd, who had implemented the "policy of good neighbourliness" known as Apartheid, is assassinated by a uniformed parliamentary messenger, who stabs him several times (1966)

...prompting one of the great Private Eye covers - " Verwoerd - A Nation Mourns", over a photo of dancing Zulu tribesmen.

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7th September

On This Date: Richard I's forces defeat those of Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf in the Third Crusade, leading to the Treaty of Jaffa, and a 3-year-long ceasefire (1191); Perkin Warbeck lands in Cornwall at the start of his second attempt to claim the English crown (1497 - he is declared "Richard IV" on Bodmin Moor); Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk is arrested for his part in the Ridolfi Plot to depose Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots (1571 - not exactly a disinterested part; he'd been intending to marry Mary); in the American War of Independence, American army Sgt Ezra Lee attempts the first recorded assault on a ship using a submarine (1777 - his craft, the Turtle is a [just about] submersible pedalo, and he is exhausted by pedalling against the flow of the Hudson river: his attempts to to screw a time bomb onto the hull of the British ship Eagle is thwarted by the fact that it is made of copper, not wood - but full marks for effort!); the Battle of Borodino, the deadliest single day's combat in the Napoleonic Wars, is fought between the Russian Imperial Army and Napoleon's Grande Armée (1812 - over 70,000 casualties; the Russian's last, and failed, attempt to prevent the French from taking Moscow); the Utah Territorial Militia, seeking to preserve their territory as an exclusively Mormon enclave, begin a 4-day assault on peaceful emigrés trying to reach California (1857 - by the end of the attacks, all 140 adults are killed, and only the 17 children are allowed to live); premature baby Edith Eleanor McLean [weighing 2lb 7oz] becomes the first baby to treated in a "hatching cradle", [later known as an incubator] (1888 - the child of immigrants, she is born in the State Emigrant Hospital on Wards Island, New York); following the supression of the Boxer Rising, the ruling Chinese Qing dynasty is compelled to sign the Boxer Protocol, imposing heavy reparations and significant arms reductions (1901 - there are 11 signatories representing the victorious allies; the two Chinese signatories are the Prime Minister, and the tutor of the Heir Apparent); Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die when the plane they arre piloting crashes (1909); Guillaume Apollonaire is arrested by French police who suspect him of having stolen the Mona Lisa two weeks earlier (1911 - Apollonaire helps the police with their enquiries by suggesting that they should question Picasso, who was in possession of two statues stolen from the Louvre); Bliss' A Colour Symphony is premiered in Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival, with the LSO conducted by the composer (1922 - in the same concert was Elgar's transcription of Bach's Fantasia & Fugue in c, and Howells' Sine Nomine - the choral forces for which meant that not all the instruments of Bliss' orchestra can be fitted on the stage, so they have to be omited); INTERPOL is founded at the International Criminal Police Congress in Vienna (1923); the last of the Thylacine species in captivity dies in its cage in a zoo in Tasmania (1936 - the keepers had forgotten to unlock its shelter, so it had spent the night in open air; the only possible later and unconfirmed Thylacine sightings were those reportedly shot by hunters - it is declared extinct in 1982); the first bombings of the Blitz occur (1940); the Allies mount the Berlin Victory Parade (1945 - the last time that Soviet troops share such activities before the Cold War); whilst waiting for a bus on Waterloo Bridge to take him to work at the BBC, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is injected in the thigh with ricin from a KGB assassin's umbrella (1978); Desmond Tutu is installed as the first black Archbishop of Cape Town (1986); the US Government sponsored Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ["Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac"] are put into Conservatorship in the ongoing Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2008); all but 6 of the entire staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice Hockey squad [senior and junior teams and coaching staff - 37 people altogether] are killed in a plane crash, together with 8 of the air crew (2011); Asteroid 2014-RC, measuring about 80ft in diameter, and the fastest of the known rotator asteroids makes its closest approach to earth at less than 25,000 miles (2014).

Birthdays Today include: Elizabeth I (1533); François-André Danican Philidor (1726); Heinrich Stölzel (1777); John William Polidori (1795); William Friese-Greene (1855); Grandma Moses (1860); Edith Sitwell (1887); Elia Kazan (1909); Anthony Quayle (1913); James Van Allen (1914); Harri Webb (1920); Laura Ashley (1925); Graham Whettam (1927); Sonny Rollins (1930); Malcolm Bradbury (1932); Buddy Holly (1936); Curtis Price (1945); Julie Kavner (1950); Chrissie Hynde (1951); Jean-Yves Thibaudet (1961); Angela Gheorghiu (1965); Toby Jones (1966); ... and Mary Bauermeister is 85, and Gloria Gaynor 70 today

Final Days for: William Holman Hunt (1910); Bud Fisher (1954); CB Fry (1956); Karen Blixen (1962); Ludwig Suthaus (1971); Cecil Aronowitz & Keith Moon (both 1978); IA Richards (1979); Christy Brown (1981); AJP Taylor (1990); Eric Crozier & Terence Young (both 1994); Igor Buketoff (2001); John Maxwell Geddes (2017).


... and the Radio 3 Schedules for the Morning of Thursday, 7th September, 1989 were:

Morning Concert: Mozart Flute Concerto in G; Strauss Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite; Chopin 3 Nouvelles Preludes; Bach Brandenburg #2.
Composer of the Week: Rimsky-Korsakoff (Sinfonietta in a; My Days Run Slowly; Invisible City of Kitezh suite; Polonaise (from "Xmas Eve").
Plucked & Struck: Music for Harpsichord and/or Fortepiano (JC Bach Sonata in E Op5 #5; Haydn Sonata in c H xvi 20; Muthel Duo in Eb )
Langham Chamber Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves (Mozart Symph #25; Kodaly Summer Evening)
Beethoven 'cello Sonata in F, Op5 #1
BBCSSO conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk (Beethoven Symph #4; Lutoslawski Chain 2; Berg Vln Conc [with Kryzstof Jakowicz])