Today's Time: GTS 7.0 am
Glinka Overture: A Life for the Tsar
7.14* Rimsky-Korsakov Sym phonic Suite: Sheherazade
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records
8.4 Haydn Overture: Acids Galatea
ACADEMY OF ST MARTW-
IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
8.12* Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491) CLIFFORD CURZON
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
8.43* Telemann Suite in r sharp minor for string orchestra
COLOGNE SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE conducted by HELMUT MULLER-BROHI . gramophone records
Beethoven
Overture: The Ruins of Athens ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.9* Concerto in c major, for piano, violin, cello, and orchestra
EUGENE ISTOMIN , ISAAC STERN LEONARD ROSE
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records
Sixth of a series of programmes of music for piano duet and two pianos
JUNE CLARK and JOAN RYALL
(two pianos)
Rachmaninov Suite No 2 Britten Mazurka elegiaca
Lutoslawski Variations on a theme of Paganini
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE
J. C. Bach Sinfonietta in A major
Dvorak Serenade in c major
A recording of one of the recitals given by the semi-finalists during the recent competition
This week
Georges Pludermacher (France)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2, in E minor (unabridged version)
1.0
News; Weather
1.4 Beethoven Movements from the Ballet: Prometheus
Opera serta in three acts music by MOZART libretto by GIAMBATTISTA VARESCO sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing
Trojans, Cretans BBC CHORUS
Continuo:
JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord) DENIS VIGAY (cello)
GERALD BRINNEN (double-bass) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conductor COLIN DAVIS
(A concert performance broadcast from the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 8 May 1968)
The action takes place at Cydonia, in Crete, soon after the end of the Trojan War Acts 1 and 2 3.35* during the interval Dame Nellie Melba
Reminiscences by BEATRICE OAKLEY and BEVERLEY NICHOLS
(BBC Sound Archive recordings)
3.55* Idomeneo
Act 3
by Semyon Kruchin
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in D flat major. Op 87 No 15
Liszt Chasse-neige (Etudes d'execution transcendante): Concert Study: Gnomenreigen Beethoven Sonata in A major, Op 101
Bartok Sonata
Huddersneld School of Muslt Orchestra conductor JOHN GULLEY
Mozart Overture: The Seraglio Fauri Prélude (Pélleas et Melisandei
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber (first and third movements)
Hoist Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool
Introduced by ERNEST WARBURTON
(Eleventh in a weekly series)
ERIC MASON takes a look at some musical events in the West, Wales, and Scotland during the next seven days
A series prepared in association with BBCtv, particularly for those taking courses in legal and business studies 10: Summing L'p
Written by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX and produced by IAN GRIMBLE
10: The Musical
Renascence ARTHUR HUTCHINGS talks about the changes which composers such as Parry. Stanford, Elgar, and Delius wrought in the English musical climate and discusses the sudden renewal of interest in British music at home and abroad.
Produced by DAVID EPPS
Andel Strazny by VACLAV HAVEL translated from the Czech by VERA BLACKWELL with Maurice Denham as Vavak and John Gabriel as Machon
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
7.55 Interlude
LSO Gala Concert from the Royal Festival Hall
London in the presence of M The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bass) LSO CHORUS chorus-master ARTHUR OLDHAM LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Part 1
National Anthem (arr Britten) Symphony No 8, in r major
Animal behaviour studies are a new subject attracting much interest. Initially, ethology has been much concerned with aggression and its social functions: this pair of talks suggests that ' showing off' may be even more important as a force shaping animal and human society.
STANLEY WINDASS, Research Associate with the Sub-Department of Ethology, University of Birmingham, talks about Human Display
Symphony No 9, in d minor (Choral)
Four talks by MICHAEL PODRO
1: Schiller's Order of Release
Theories of art since the 18thcentury have questioned the importance of subject matter in painting, and have made various claims for art as revealing a distinctive use of our mind and perception.
Michael Podro , Head of the Department of Art and Crafts, examines this idea of distinctive use of mind In the aesthetics of Schiller.
Adagio in F major (K 410)
LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
Serenade No 12, in c minor (K 388): NEW PHILHARMONU
WIND ENSEMBLE conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone records
