Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am

A programme of recent records Boyce Overture: Cambridge Ode NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.14* Mozart Piano Concerto No 5, in D major (K 175)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) who also directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.37* Hummel Adagio, Theme, and Variations in F major HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.52* Milhaud Little Symphony No 4, for ten string instruments
RADIO LUXEMBURG ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER

Cantata No 1: Jauchzet, frohlocket!
9.35* Cantata No 2: Und es waren Hirten in der selben Gegend
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) FRITZ WUNDERLICH (tenor) FRANZ CRASS (bass) MUNICH BACH CHOIR and ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone records

A record request programme
Beethoven Sonata in c minor. Op 111
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
10.36* Brahms Die Mainacht;
Nachtigall; Von ewiger Liebe
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
10.49* Alkan Le festin d'Esope, Op 39 No 12
RAYMOND LEWENTHAL (piano)

Peter Grimes: an operatic prototype, by Patricia Howard

Lamoureux (1834-1899) and his Orchestra, by Robert Anderson

Musical Profile: Christa Ludwig, by Charles Osborne

For the Christmas stocking book review by Stephen Dodgson

Introduced by Julian Herbage

Mozart Quintet in E flat major (K 614)
12.27* Beethoven Quartet in A major, Op 18 No 5
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with KENNETH ESSEX (viola)
; Beethoven, Quartet,
Op 18 No.6)

COLIN WHEATLEY (baritone)
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CIIOIR chorus-master Edmund Walters ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES
Part 1: Delius
The walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
1.11* Appalachia, for baritone, chorus, and orchestra

See-Through Music
The music, of trance, communal ritual, and white magic Introduced by ANNA LOCKWOOD Produced by MADEAU STEWART
(BBC Sound Archives recordings)

Part 2
Bliss Music for Strings
2.32* Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

An opera in three acts with a prologue after the poem by George Crabbe Words by MONTAGU SLATER
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Cast:
The Boy, Grimes's new apprentice.............PETER WEBBER (treble) Townspeople, fisherfolk of the Borough
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master Douglas Robinson ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by COLIN DAVIS
Recording of a performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 30 May
The action takes place in the Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast of England, about 1830
Prologue The Court Room at the Moot Hall
Act 1
Scene 1 The village street and beach
Scene 2 Inside The Boar, the same night

Beethoven
Sonata in A minor, Op 23 DAVID OISTRAKH (violin) LEV OBORIN (piano) gramophone record

Act 2
Scene 1 The village street and beach
Scene 2 Peter Grimes 's hut, an upturned boat, later the same morning
(Act 3: 5.35 pm, Third)

Four talks by MICHAEL PODRO 3: Equivocation
Theories of art since the 18th century have questioned the importance of subject-matter in painting, and made various claims for art as revealing a distinctive use of our mind and perception.
In the third talk of this series, Michael Podro , Reader in Art at the University of Essex, considers theories of visual harmony based on the writing of the German 19thcentury psychologist Johann Friedrich Herbart.

Act 3
Scene 1 The village street and beach: a few nights later
Scene 2 The same: some hours later

by JEAN RACINE translated by JOHN CAIRNCROSS with Rachel Gurney
Peter Egan and John Rye
Scene: Rome, a chamber between Titus' apartments and those of Berenice.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
(Michael Kilgarriff is in ' She's Done It Again ' at the Garrick Theatre, London)

HEATHER HARPER (Soprano)
MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano) DAVID WILDE (piano)
Chorus of women's voices BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conducted by MANUEL ROSENTHAL
Part 1
Me.isiaen Couleurs de la cite celeste
8.15* Debussy La damoiselle elue

At the end of the month Japan faces important general elections, with the Sato government defending its domestic and foreign policy record.
ALWYN CULLISON, an American journalist long resident in Japan, describes the mood of the Japanese people and- some of the issues in their minds as they go to the polls.
(Talk on Japan by G. R. Storry , 14 January; Where Shall Japan Go? 28 January)

Part 2
Debussy Images

Divertimento No 19, In I flat major (K 563) GRUMIAUX TRIO
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) Georges Janzer (viola) Eva Czako (cello) gramophone record

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