Today's time: GTS 7.0 am

Purcell Chaconne in G minor LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS directed by RITDOLF BAUMGARTNER (violin)
7.13* Haydn Symphony No 73, in D major (La chasse)
LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON conducted by LESLIE JONES
7.34' Dvorak Serenade in D minor
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records

8.4 Arne Overture No 4, in F ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by EMANUEL HURWITZ
8.11* Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
8.29* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor: JACQUELINE DU PRÉ
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI gramophone records

Debussy
Prelude 4 l'après-midi d'un faune
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Trois chansons de Bilitis RÉGINE CRESPIN (soprano) JOHN WUSTMAN (piano)
Danse sacrée et danse profane ALICE CHALIFONX (harp) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Sirenes (Nocturnes)
PHILHARMONIA CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI gramophone records

King Arthur, or The British Worthy Music for a play by John Dryden
ELIZABETH TIPPETT (Soprano) GILLIAN HUMPHREYS (soprano) MARK DELLER (counter-tenor) DAVID JOHNSON (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone' GEORGE ROUBICEK (narrator) HEINRICH SCHUTZ CHOIR
Continuo:
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) ELDON FOX (cello)
JOHN DUFFY (double-bass) I.ONDON MOZART PLAYEHS
Conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON Part 1

William Lawes Six-part Consort Suite No 1, in c minor ELIZABETHAN CONSORT OF VIOLS
THURSTON DART (chamber organ) gramophone record

Part 2
(A public concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London)

joy DOMZALSKI (mezzo-soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Caldara Sebben, crudele
Alessandro Scarlatti Toglietemi la vita ancor anon, 17th century Menuet d'exaudet: Non, je n'irai plus au bois: L'amour s'envole
12.1* Thomas Connais-tu le pays? (Mignon)
Chopin Lithuanian Song: Melancholy; A maiden's wish

BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conductor JOHN CAREWE
Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 21, in A
12.26* Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Maler

A selected item from last Sunday's programme

Part 2
Mozart Overture: Lucio Silla
1.29* Schubert Symphony No 6

Records of excerpts from Lehar's operetta, with NICOLAI GIDDA and LUCIA POPP , BAVARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS and GRAUNKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLY MATTES

The first of 13 recitals is given by Louis Kentner
Part 1
Variations on a theme of Bach (G 180)
3.11* Valse melancolique
3.18* Ballade No 2. in B minor
3.32* Clavierstiicke: F sharp (G 193): F sharp (G 192 No 3)
3.36* Hungarian Rhapsody No 13, in A minor
3.46* Rumanian Rhapsody

Handel Trio-Sonata No 2, in D minor AURELE NICOLET (flute) LOTHAR KOCH (oboe) EDITH PICHT-AXENFELD (harpsichord)
IRMGARD POPPEN (cello) gramophone record

Part 2
Fantasia and Fugue on the Chorale from Meyerbeer's Le Prophete: Ad nos, ad salu. tarem undam (transc Busoni)
(The Variations and Fantasia and Fugue were broadcast on 16 November)

Records chosen by the under-20s. introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Bach Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother
Mozart Finale. Act 2 (Idomeneo) Arriaga Symphony in D major

Present-day jazz on records introduced by CHARLES FOX

JACK BRYMER looks at musical events in the North during the next seven days

Stock Market Report for publications see page 56

An examination of the decade introduced by DANIEL SNOWMAN 1: Britain and the World including the recorded voices of those who played significant parts in the events of the decade
Produced by GRAHAM TAYAR

1: Blackburn looks back
JEREMY SEABROOK has spent several months investigating and discovering the life of a Lancashire cotton town, warts and all, in conversation with over a hundred Blackburnians. This programme looks at the heyday of cotton - at least for the owners - the period up to 1914.
Produced by CHRIS CUTHBERTSON

F major (L 279); F minor (L 281); c major (L 252); c minor (L 10); B minor (L 33); c major (L 282); G (L 349); G major (L 286); C (L 8); E (L 466) Played by FERNANDO VALENTI (harpsichord)

to appreciate the special ironic quality of Jewish humour because it's now so universal that it doesn't look Jewish any more. And that surely is the most ironic Jewish joke of them all ...
A programme written and narrated by TONY ASPLER with MIRIAM MARGOLYES , HAROLD KASKET JOHN GABRIEL , JEFFREY SEGAL
Produced by PAUL STEPHENSON (The Jews in England: Thursday, 7.30 pin, Radio 4 - not Scotland or Wales)

The first Invitation Concert broadcast on 7 January 1960 repeated to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Rosemary Phillips (contralto) Rainer Schuelein (alto flute) Isabel Smith (viola)
Cornelius Cardew (guitar) David Johnson (xylophone) Patricia Brady (vibraphone) Richard Bennett (percussion) conductor JOHN CAREWE Part 1
Mozart Quintet in E flat (K 614) Boulez Le marteau sans maitre

by IDRIS PARRY , Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Manchester
'... a sea-front in South Wales, deserted in winter; we'd come out for morning roll-call, and I suddenly became aware of the buttons on the back of a greatcoat in front of me. It's not only in fairy tales that buttons are surprising and potent. I discovered this on that sea-front and knew there was a rainbow connection between that plain shape and what I jokingly call my immortal soul.'

Part 2
Mozart Quintet in c (K 515)

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