Today's time GTS 8.0 am
JOHN LADE introduces
Summer Retrospect - 2 contributed by ALAN BLYTH
EDWARD GREENFIELD , STANLEY SADIE
Zino Francescatti (Violin)
Orchestra National de l'ORTF conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
Mussorgsky Prelude: Khovanshchina
9.10* Brahms Violin Concerto in D major
9.50* Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
(Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
BARTOK STRING QUARTET Peter Komlos (violin) Sandor Devich (violin) Geza Nemeth (viola) Karoly Botvay (cello) Part 1
Mozart Quartet in D minor (K 421)
Bartok Quartet No 3
Songs by Verdi SANDOR KONYA (tenor) OTTO GUTH (piano) gramophone record
Part 2
Verdi Quartet in E minor
introduced by STEVE RACE
Introduced by Peter Jones
Timings may be altered by events
12.30 Sports Parade
Including Weather and previews of Soccer, Racing at Kempton Park. and latest news of the European Athletics Championships and the Ryder Cup Golf from Southport
1.0 The fighting life of Henry Cooper, OBE recalled by Liam Nolan, and illustrated with highlights of commentary on Our 'Enery's most famous fights
1.30 2.5 2.25 3.45 4.50 International Golf: Ryder Cup Matches 1969: Great Britain v USA
TOM SCOTT and PERCY HUGGING report on the closing stages, from Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Lancashire
1.40 Talking Sport
Topics and personalities in the news
2.5 Sports News with news of the Ryder Cup
2.10 2.40 3.10 Racing from Kempton Park
Commentary by Michael Seth-Smith on the 2.10 Duke of York Stakes (Handicap); 2.40 Florizel Stakes (Handicap); 3.10 Imperial Stakes
2.30 Athletics: IX European Championships
HAROLD ABRAHAMS and Liam Nolan report from the Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens (by arrangement with Greek Radio)
Further commentaries in Sports Report:
5.18* Women's 1,500m Final
5.30* Men's 200m Final and on Radio 1 and 2
2.55 3.25 4.55 Rugby Union: South Africa v Australia
Commentary by Charles Fortune and Kim Shippey from Bloemfontein, broadcast by arrangement with the SABC
3.50 4.45 Association Football
Commentary by Bryon Butler and Maurice Edelston during the second half of an English League match, and at 4.45 results as they come in
5.0 Sports Report
Including classified Racing Results, reports on selected Soccer matches, Athletics, and news of the rest of the afternoon's sport: and at 5.55 Classified Football results
Produced by JACOB de VRIES and ANGUS MACKAY
PETER FRANKL (piano)
Schubert Sonata in b (d575)
6.24* Bartok Three Rondos on Folk Tunes
6.32* Schumann Carnaval. Op. 9
Walter Savage Landor An account of his ninety tumultuous years written and compiled by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN
Narrator felix
FELTON Landor ANTHONY JACKSON Others taking part: PATRICIA GALLIMORE
PAULINE LETTS , FREDERICK BENNETT WILFRID CARTER , MICHAEL DEACON KERRY FRANCIS , PETER PRATT FREDERICK TREVES
Produced by TERENCE TILLER (To be repeated on 15 October)
Opera In a prologue and two acts
Music by DALLAPICCOLA English translation by BRIAN TROWELL
This opera, based on Homer not Joyce, was the culmination of thirty years' planning by the. composer, and was given its first performance rn Berlin under Lorin Maazel in Apiil 19G8 It was described in The Times as ' metaphysical. dealing with the nature of man's quest in life, for self-knowledge, for fulfilment ... as music it is quite exceptionally beautiful....'
This evening's broadcast is its first in English, and is a recording of a studio performance under the same conductor mounted by the BBC in July this year
Cast in order of singing Calypso a goddess
ANNABELLE BERNARD (soprano)
First maid, attending
Nausicaa ANN HOWARD (mezzo-soprano)
Nausicaa, Alcinous' daughter
CATHERINE GAYER (soprano)
Second maid, attending Nausicaa PATRICIA HOOPER (soprano)
Ulysses, King of Ithaca
GUNTHER REICH (baritone)
Alcinous, King of Phaeacia DON GARRARD (bass)
Demodocus, a blind Phaeacian bard GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
Circe, an enchantress
JEAN MADEIRA (mezzo-soprano)
The shade of Anticlcia, Ulysses' mother JOAN CARLYLE (soprano)
Tiresias. a seer
GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
Penelope's suitors: Antlnous,
Peisander, and Eurymachus DONALD BELL (baritone)
NEILSON TAYLOR (baritone) GREGORY DEMPSEY (tenor)
Melantho. one of Penelope's maidservants
JEAN MADEIRA (mezzo-soprano)
Eumaeus, an Ithacan swine-herd LOREN DRISCOLL (tenor)
Telemachus, Ulysses' son
PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor)
Penelope, Ulysses' wife
ANNABELLE BERNARD (Soprano)
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conducted by LORIN MAAZEL Repetiteurs SUSAN BRADSHAW Richard NUNN
Produced by BRIAN TROWELL assisted by JOHN MCCULLOCH
Prologue (in three episodes)
1 (Calypso): The shore of the island of Ogygia
2 (Poseidon): Symphonic Intermezzo
3 (Nausicaa): A wooded beach on the island of Phaeacia
Act 1 Scene 1: A great hall In Alcinous' palace
Scene 2 (The Lotus-eaters): The coast of Libya
Scene 3 (Circe): The Island of Aeaea
Scene 4 (The Cimmerians): A river bank in Hades Scene 5: as Scene 1
Dorothy Pickles, lecturer, broadcaster, and author of The Fifth French Republic, gives the last of three fortnightly talks
Act 2 Scene 1: Near Eumaeus' hut in Ithaca
Scene 2: The forecourt of Ulysses' palace
Scene 3: The banqueting-hall
Symphonic Intermezzo (Ulysses and Penelope)
Epilogue: The open sea
(Ann Howard , Don Garrard , and Gregory Dempsey broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
