Today's time: GTS 7.0 am
Rossini Overture: Semiramide
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.17* Mendelssohn Concerto in A flat
MARIE-JOSE BILI.ARD and JULIEN AZAÏS (two pianos) SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL HISTENPART gramophone records
8.4 Dittersdorf Sinfonia in c DANISH STATE RADIO
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MOGENS WÖLDIKE
8.18* Haydn Horn Concerto in D major (H VIId 3)
BARRY TUCKWELL ; ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.35- Joseph Martin Kraus Symphony in c minor
ANGELICUM ORCHESTRA OF MILAN conducted by NEWELL JENKINS gramophone records
Schubert
The fourth of five programmes of music from the last year of his life
Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fisch ermadchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Dcr Doppelganger (Schwanengesang)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU with GERALD MOORE (pianot
9.24* Fantasia in c (D 934)
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (Violin) WALTER KLIEN (piano) gramophone records
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by MYERS FOGGIN Elgar Serenade in E minor
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in c minor (K 546)
Delius Air and Dance
Willy Burkhard Toccata, Op 55
A series of musical exchanges between Wales and the North. Today: members of the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA and the BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON
Mozart Serenade No 11 (K 375) Bach Motet: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, for double choir
Gounod Petite symphonie
Schumann Four Songs. Op 141, for double choir
John Hywel Sextet (first performance)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 36, in c major (Linz) (K 425)
12.31* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
1.4 Elgar Concert Overture: In the south (Alassio)
1.26* Sibelius Symphony No 5
Opera in five acts
Music by MUSSORGSKY
Arranged and orchestrated by SHOSTAKOVICH
Libretto by VLADIMIR STASSOV and THE COMPOSER
Narrator RONALD HARVI
BOYS OF MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by EDWARD DOWNES repetiteur ROBERT KEYS
Produced by ERNEST WARBURTON Act 1 The Red Square, Moscow
ODA SLOBODSKAYA talks about her career as a singer (BBC Sound Archive recording)
Act 2 Prince Vassily's house Act 3 The Streltsy settlement
Glazunov: Piano rolls made by the composer gramophone records
Act 4
Scene 1 Prince Ivan's house
Scene 2 The square before St
Basil's church, Moscow
Act 5 A pine forest
(Elizabeth Bainbridge. Robert Keys , Edward Downes , John Lanigan. and David Lennox broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
played by JAN HENRIK KAYSER
Grieg Lyric Pieces: Evening in the mountains. Op 68 No 4; Butterfly, Op 43 No 1: Solitary traveller, Op 43 No 2; Little bird, Op 43 No 4; Puck, Op 71 No 3; Norwegian March, Op 54 No 2
Nielsen Theme and Variations (1916)
Cheshire County Youth Orchestra conductor R.J. Mallaband
Weber Overture: Oberon
Sibelius Symphony No 1, in E minor (first movement)
Delius The walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
Rimsky-Korsakov Cortege (Le coq d'or)
Introduced by Ernest Warburton
12th in a weekly series
The first of two lectures about what listeners may hear with their ears in serial music as distinct from what they may deduce from the printed notes. IVOR KEYS. Professor of Music at the Barber Institute, Birmingham University, addresses students of Morley College. Produced by PETER DODD
(First broadcast in January)
ORREA PERNEL (violin)
HURWITZ CHAMBER ENSEMBLE directed by EMANUEL HURWITZ (Violin) with CHARLES SPINKS
(harpsichord continuo)
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor Mozart Divertimento in D major (K 136)
Bach Violin Concerto in E major
A special rebroadcast of his play for radio to mark the award to Samuel Beckett of the Nobel Prize for Literature. with Mary O'Farrell and J. G. Devlin
Produced by DONALD MCWHINNIE (First broadcast on 13 January 1957: Third)
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-sop) JEAN ALLISTER (contralto)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) JACK IRONS (tenor) ROGER STALMAN (bass) NEIL HOWLETT (bass)
HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHORALE, HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR, PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE, CHARLES SPINKS (organ) CHRISTOPHER DEARNLEY (Organ), ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader, JOSE-LUIS GARCIA conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
Schutz Zion spricht, der Herr hat mich verlassen: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen; Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich
Giovanni Gabrieli Canzona del primi toni a 8
Schutz Ich beschwore euch
Schutz Ich danke dem Herrn von ganzem Herzen
The American poet and rock star, founder and lead singer of The Fugs. discusses his WOrk With GEORGE MACBETH.
The programme includes readings of his poems, and songs by the group
10.55 Interlude