Today's time: GTS 7.0 am
Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL KLETZKI
7.11* Grieg Piano Concerto In A minor: SOLOMON
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT MENGES
7.41* Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE gramophone records
8.4 Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
8.17* Mozart Sonata in D major (K 448): MALCOLM FRAGER and VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (pianOS)
8.41* Handel, arr. Beecham Suite: The gods go a-begging ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records
Byrd and Dowland
Motets and consort pieces by Byrd, and part-songs by Dowland gramophone records
A programme of recent records Haydn Symphony No 70, in D ESTERHAZY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID BLUM
10.5* Mahler Five Ruckert Songs JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
10.25* Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Telcmann Sonata in A minor (Der getreue Music-Meister)
10.54* Reizenstein Legend; Scherzo in A major
11.5* Fricker Refrains, for oboe (first broadcast performance)
Arnold Cooke. Sonata for oboe and harpsichord
11.36* Schumann Etudes symphoniques
SARAH FRANCIS (oboe) MILLICENT SILVER
(piano and harpsichord)
BENJAMIN KAPLAN (piano)
ANNE PASHLEY (soprano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
Part 1
Mahler Symphony No 4
1.4 Thomas Wilson Touchstone: Portrait for Orchestra
1.16* Balakirev Symphony No 1, in c major
An opera in five acts libretto by GENTIL-BERNARD music by RAMEAU
(sung in French: broadcast on 29 August 1968)
The action takes place in Sparta in mythological times (For cast see next column)
Cast in order of singing:
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
CHOIR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
BERNARD RICHARDS (cello)
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader EMANUEL HURWITZ conducted by PHILIP LEDGER Acts 1 and 2
Mozart
Interludes (King Thamos) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG gramophone record
Acts 3 and 4
Bizet
L'Arlésienne: Suite No 2
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone record
Act 5
played by GRANT JOHANNESEN (piano) Six Intermezzi, Op 4
Three Fantasy Pieces, Op 111 Novellette in F sharp minor Op 21, No 8
Northern Junior Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by MYERS FOGGIN † Geoffrey Bush Fanfare and March: The Prince of Morocco Britten Sentimental Saraband; Frolicsome Finale (SimpleSymphony)
Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1, in F minor (first movement) Soloist JENNIFER FENN Metiers Sun Dance
Arnold Little Suite No 1
Introduced by ERNEST WARBURTON
RONALD CRICHTON looks at musical events in the West, Wales, and N. Ireland in the next seven days.
A series of 10 programmes written and presented by PETER DONALDSON. Tutor in Economics at Ruskin College. Oxford, with GRAHAM TURNER ,BBC Economics Correspondent
1: How Badly are We doingt
Including contributions from THE RT HON AUBREY JONES , MP, PROFESSOR E. H. PHELPS BROWN and MICHAEL SHANKS
Produced by IAN GRIMBLE
(Revised version of a programme first broadcast on 16 January 1969)
STEPHEN WALSH discusses contemporary music each week with ayoung British composer, who explains his objectives with particular reference to one of his own works.
1: Richard Rodney Bennett First Symphony
Produced by DAVID EPPS
Three miniature anthologies 1: John Masefield (1878-1967) The Salt Water Ballads chosen and introduced by DAVID DAVIS †
Readers GABRIEL WOOLF and HECTOR ROSS
(W. H. Davies : 20 January)
First of five programmes Played by the Guarneri String Quartet
Arnold Steinhardt (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London Part 1
Quartet in E flat major, Op 127
8.25* Quartet in D major, Op 18 No 3
An architect in search of democracy
Three talks by LIONEL MARCH, Lecturer in Architecture in the University of Cambridge
3: The Individual and his Home Lionel March examines Wright's complex attitudes as an architect towards public and private clients
Part 2
Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Op 18 No 5: Op 59 No 1; Quartet in B flat, Op 130, with Grosse Fuge : next Sunday at
3.0 pm. Music Programme)
Three talks based on the Scott Holland Lectures 1969 by MONICA WILSON
Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town 2: Ritual and Isolation
' Can you have the warmth and security of an isolated village without strangling individuality? Can you enjoy the fruits of science and industry without smothering the personal?
When we ask what we 've lost by growth in scale, one answer is, ritual.'
Symphony No 1
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR BUKETOFF gramophone record
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