... therefore propose to devote this column to making some suitable suggestions from the current catalogues. For the very highbrows. Beethoven Symphony No. 3, by Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Bach Flute Sonatas (Vol. a), by Jean Pierre Rampal. Mozart ...

... for Piano and Cello by Beethoven (mono and stereo) has worked out wonderfully well and has re sulted in a series of perform ances of quite remarkable ex uberance and vitality. The five cello sonatas between them represent Beethoven's early, middle and late ...

... trumpets, and timpani. Occasionally they will join forces with the BBC olayers. But mostly the 37-strong team will tackle Beethoven, Brahms, Tchai kovsky, and even Vaughan Williams and Bartok unaided. Two useful policy principles have already been laid ...

... Henry Carr. Tessa Worsley as Lenin's mate and Roger Frost complete the valiant (fompanv. The music used in this play is by Beethoven and Hossack and is well played by Joan McGowan, with choreography by Pat Rossiter. An excellent dual set is designed by Glenn ...

... subsidy. Unfortun ately the scheme, designed to spread audiences over less popular programmes as well as Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, takes no account of specially expensive occasions, like the von Karajan appearance. For this, a 1 guinea ticket would have ...

... Queen's Dolls House as a child but a tiny Chopin mazurka does as much for me as the whole symphony orchestra belting out the Beethoven/Schiller 'Ode to Joy'. I am already favourably predisposed therefore to a pantomime played by some half dozen actors even ...

... he's serious. But he doesn't despise the bread-and- butter chores. Good music is worth playing whether it's Bart or Beethoven. richnrd last ...

... the Matisse collage in the Tate which radiates and spins between us and heaven with the magisterial assurance of a late Beethoven variation. Each of us collects our own. I often wish that an exhibi tion could magically reappear six months later, but on ...

... FIVE: 1 Der R osenkavalier, Covent Garden (Thurs, Sat, Tiles). 2 Die Fledermaus, Sadler's Wells (Sat). 3 LSO with Maazel (Beethoven's 9th), Festival Hall (Sun). 4 Menuhin Birthday Concert, Festival Hall (Tues). 5 BBC Symphony Orchestra (Mahler's 3rd), Festival ...

... BBC Sym phony Orchestra, and no leader is more respected by the players, as will probably be evident in the orchestra's Beethoven-Bruckner concert on 7 December at the Festival Hall. Very few, if any, English composers can claim to have had two operas ...

... Reginald Smith-Brindle, is mezzo- soprano Josephine Nendick, my ex-piano tutor who was never able to understand why I found Beethoven so difficult. Probably best known as an opera conductor, Georg Solti leaves his opera pit on 17 November and turns to orchestral ...

... Nos. 1 to 4 at his leisure afterwards. For there's no doubt that fifth symphonies have a peculiar popular appeal think of Beethoven's, Tchaikovsky's, Dvorak's New World (I can't help it if it's now called No. 9 it first became popular as No. 5); then ...