Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am
A weekly programme of recent records
Rossini String Sonata No 4, in b flat major ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.17' Thomas Scene de la folie (Hamlet)
BEVERLEY SILLS (soprano)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
8.33* Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.52* Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
Cantata No 3: Herrscher des Himmels, erhbre das Lallen
9.32* Cantata No 4: Fallt mlt danken, fallt mit Loben
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 request programme of gramophone records
Dvorak Rondo in G minor MAURICE GENDRON (cello)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
10.8* Scriabin Symphony No 2. in c minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG SEMKOV
Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, by ALAN BLYTH
Musical Profile: Thea King , by HENRY RAYNOR
Chabrier and his circle: book review by PETER DICKINSON Music in the 1960s by WILLIAM MANN
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major (K 581)
12.31* Beethoven String Quartet in B flat major, Op 18 No 6
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with THEA KING (clarinet)
Margaret Price (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, leader Tom Rowlette, conducted by James Lockhart
Part 1
Alun Hoddinott Sinfonietta
1.17* Ravel Sheherazade
... by the seashore
Part 2
Mozart Overture: Cosl fan tutte
2.2* Cherubini Solo un pianto (Médée)
2.10* Sibelius Symphony No 2, in D major
Drarnma giocoso in two acts Music by MOZART
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE (sung in Italian)
From the 1969 Salzburg Festival. Salzburg is, like Glyndebourne, first and foremost a Mozart Festival, but on a grander scale; and of all Mozart's operas Don Giovanni most benefits from the grand manner.
Peasants, guests and demons VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio) The action takes place in Seville Act 1
Scene 1 Outside the Commendatore's house
Scene 2 A street in a village
Scene 3 Near Don Giovanni 's house
Scene 4 Outside Don Giovanni 's house
Scene 5 The ballroom in Don Giovanni 's house
Dvorak Serenade in D minor
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone record
Scene 1 Outside Donna Elvira's lodging
Scene 2 A dark courtyard
Scene 3 In Donna Elvira's house
Scene 4 A churchyard
Scene 5 In Donna Anna's house
Scene 6 The hall in Don Giovanni's house
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A fantasy for Welsh voices by JOHN GEORGE with Richnrd Bebb and Elizabeth Morgan
Let's go back to the old days Boyo. Child's eyes into your head once more, child's tongue into your mouth. Soon there'll be everything, everybody, as it always was.'
WINDSOR DAVIES, CHRISTINE POLLON TALFRYN THOMAS , DOROTHEA PHILLIPS MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
ALAN DOWNER. JOANNA WAKE
MIRIAM MARGOLYES , NIGEL LAMBER1 WILLIAM INGRAM , ALAN BARRY
JAN EDWARDS. OLWEN GRIFFITHS Children in classroom:
HEATHER SEYMOUR , TINA WOODING PAUL GRIFFITHS , DEMPSEY COOK TINA HOSKINS
Special music and effects by DAVID CAIN
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced by GERRY JONES
JANET PRICE (soprano) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) TONY CHURCH (narrator)
THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL CHORUS ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader NEVILLE TAWEEL conducted by JOHN SANDERS and CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON
Part 1: conducted by John Sanders
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Mozart Symphony No 41, in c major (Jupiter) (K 551)
The rise of nationalism in Asia over the past 20 years has highlighted the problems of some nations comprising peoples of very different races and religions.
WANG GUNGWU, Professor of Far Eastern History at the Australian National University in Canberra, reflects on some of the existing difficulties and solutions sought by governments in Asia
Part 2: conducted by Christopher Robinson
Jonathan Harvey LudusAmoris , for soprano, tenor, narrator, chorus, and. orchestra (first performance)
The 30-year-old composer Jonathan Harvey has been a pupil of Erwin Stein and Hans Keller. His cantata is a kind of mystical drama, ludus amoris being an old name for the game of hide-and-seek played by God with Man.
Four talks by MICHAEL PODRO 4: From Theory to Practice
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.
Michael Podro , Reader in Art at the University of Essex, examines the way that theories of art responded to the problems of practical criticism in the 19th century and helped to generate the artistic practice of the 20th.
10.55 Interlude
R3 VHF Stereo transmitters join Rl for Humphrey Lyttelton
