Today's time: 8.0 am
A programme of recent records
arr Barbirolli An Elizabethan Suite - BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
8.17* Field Piano Concerto No 2, in A flat major - Rena Kyriakou, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conducted by C.A. Bunte
8.47* Bai Symphonic Poem: The Happy Forest - London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Downes
No 62: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
No 36: Schwingt freudig euch empor
ILSE WOLF (soprano)
HELEN WATTS (contralto) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
NIGEL WICKENS (baritone) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ANDREW DAVIS (organ continuo) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader KENNETH SILLITO conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
A record request programme
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 1
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
10.11* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Ein Heldenleben LOS ANGELES
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
Sir John Barnirolli
A 70th birthday tribute by SIR ASHLEY CLARKE MICHAEL KENNEDY LAURANCE TURNER
Donizetti and opera buno by CHARLES OSBORNE
The Man Liszt: book review by MARTIN COOPER
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Mozart Quartet in G major (K 387)
12.27' Borodin Quartet No 2, in d major
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
Lo speziale Comic opera in three acts music by HAYDN libretto after GOLDONI English version by BRIAN TROWELL
Cast in order of singing
Narrator RONALD HARVI Harpsichord continuo JOHN CONSTABLE
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Produced by BRIAN TROWELL Act 1
Scene 1 The apothecary's shop Scene 2 A room behind the shop Act 2
Scene 1 A room behind the shop Scene 2 The shop Act 3
Scene 1 The street outside the shop
Scene 2 The shop Scene 3 The Street
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
Michel Block
Schumann Bunte Blotter Nos 1-8 (Op 99)
Brahms Variations on a theme of Schumann, Op 9
Johann Strauss The Blue Danube (arr Schulz-Evler)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader EMANUEL HURWITZ conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
Part 1
Hindemith Concert Music, for brass and string orchestra
3.33* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3. in C minor
(Stereo)
... for the Time
Part 2
Dvorak Symphony No 7, In B minor
Christina of Sweden belongs to that company of female monarchs which includes Cleopatra, Mary Stuart , and Catherine the Great, whose colourful personalities continue to provoke the curiosity and stimulate the imagination of both scholars and romanticists. Vilified by scandal-mongers but admired for her intelligence and learning, Christina's cultural interests included a passion for music. This attracted many of the best musicians of the 17th century to her service.
DR JOHN BERGSAGEL discusses the place of music in the life of this fascinating woman and introduces music by some of the composers - among them Andreas Diiben , Albrici, Corelli, Pasquini, and Alessandro Scar latti - with whom she was associated,
Me.s.s-iut'n
La rousserolle effarvatte (Catalogue d'oiseaux) YVONNE LORIOD (piano)
(Franck, Chabrier, and Poulenc played by Eric Harrison : 6 Dec)
Four talks by DR G. J. WHITROW , Reader In Mathematics, Imperial College of Science and Technology 4: The Significance of Time
The first of two programmes taken from the letters of Horace Walpole selected by TERENCE COOPER Introduced by DAVID LLOYD JAMES
Read by Carleton Hobbs
' I walked as a rag of quality. which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it '
Horace Walpole (1717-1796) was the son of the great Whig Prime Minister and he invented the neo-Gothic style with the building of Strawberry Hill. He was also a great wit and his letters provide a running commentary on the absurdities of the ' age of reason.'
COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader bela dekany conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN Part 1
Mozart Adagio and Fugue In c minor for string orchestra (K546)
8.20* Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2. in E flat major
JOHN B. WOOD , an economist, examines some of the points arising from the Report of the Pearson Committee on the experience gained in providing aid to the developing countries over the past twenty years, and points to the more controversial aspects of its recommendations,
Part 2
Goehr Little Symphony
9.33* Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
(Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London)
R. W. LAST introduces a selection of his own translations from the poet and sculptor who first became known with the Dadaists during the 1914-18 war. He argues that Arp's verse makes much more sense when read and studied in bulk, and that it matches his work in the visual arts for sustained interest and power.
Readers HUGH DICKSON and denis goacher
Quintet in E flat major, Op 4 ENDRES STRING QUARTET
SIEGFRIED MEINEKE (viola)
gramophone record
R3 VHF Stereo transmitters ø join Rl for Humphrey Lyttelton
