Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am
A weekly programme of recent records
Debussy Sonata in g minor ANDREAS ROHN (violin)
KARL BERGEMANN (piano)
8.17* Alkan Concerto for solo piano
RONALD SMITH
No 92: Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn
9.40* No 144: Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin
ERIKA BURKHARDT (soprano) ELISABETH MEINEL-ASBAHR (soprano)
LOTTE WOLF-MATTHAUS (contralto) GERDA SCHRIEVER (Contralto) GERT LUTZE (tenor)
HANS HAUPTMANN (bass)
CHOIR OF ST THOMAS'S, LEIPZIG LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTHER RAMIN gramophone record
A request programme of gramophone records
Cherubini Overture: Anacrgon VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER
10.12* Corelli, arr Barbirolli Oboe Concerto in F major EVELYN ROTHWELL HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
10.23* Dvorak Symphony No 8, in G major
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Beethoven, Goethe, and Schiller by MARTIN COOPER
Prokofiev's Violin Sonatas, by STEPHEN DODGSON
Robert Parsons (d 1570) by ALAN CUCKSTON
Singers of Australia: book review by CHARLES OSBORNE Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Mozart Divertimento No 19, in E flat major 4K 563) 0
12.38* Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor
ITALIAN STRING TRIO
Franco Gulli (violin)
Bruno Giuranna (viola) Giacinto Caramia (cello)
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) WILLIAM PLEETH (cello)
PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
Comic opera in one act Music by STRAVINSKY
Libretto by BORIS KOCHNO based on Pushkin's
The Little House in Kolomna
Malta's humour is such that at the first production in Paris it caused a couple to exclaim ' Splendid! At last a work of Stravinsky's fit for our daughter's ears.'
Cast in order of singing
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor COLIN DAVIS
The action takes place in a small Russian town in the 1820s
(Recording from a Promenade Concert broadcast on 15 August 1969)
A recital by Francoise PSster (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Willy Burkhard Suite en miniature
Bartok Sonata for violin Box Sonata No 2, in 0 Suk Un poco triste; Burleska (Romantic Pieces, Op 17)
Kreisler Variations on a theme of Corelli
(Part of a recital recorded at Bromsgrove College of Education during the 1969 Bromsgrove Festival)
The first in a series of six monthly concerts featuring concertos by Beethoven MALCOLM FRASER (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
From the City Hall, Glasgow
Part 1 lain Hamilton Arias for Orchestra
3.15* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1, in C major
Beethoven and Music Today
MAURICE LINDSAY looks at Beethoven's work in its contemporary setting, and discusses music today with IAIN HAMIL TON
Part 2
Sibelius Symphony No 2, in D major
by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(written between 1382 and 1387) The third of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Marius Goring as Chaucer ALEXANDER JOHN as Troilus
ELIZABETH MORGAN as Criseyde GABRIEL WOOLF as Pandarus
MARJORIE WESTBURY as Antigone Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Mercure Triptyque for orchestra
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SElJI OZAWA
5.40* Jacob Druckman Incenters CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by ARTHUR WEISBERG
5.55* Carter Variations for orchestra new PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ
Gramophone records
by J. M. SYNGE
With Kate Binchv as Deirdre Sean Rarrett at Naisi and Patrick Magee as Conchubor
Birds go mating in the spring of the year. and ewes at the leaves falling, but a young girl must have her lover in all the course of the sun and the moon.'
Music by HAVELOCK NELSON Produced hy RONALD MASON
Members of the SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER Giovanni (labrieli Canzona a 4; Canzona a 6 Vivaldi Concerto in G major. R Op 23 No 3
Alessandro Scarlatti Sinfonia No 4. in t; minor
Bach Harpsichord Concerto No 2. in E major harpsichord EDUARD MULLER
Handel Concerto Grosso No 3, in G major (Op 3 No 3)
Tele mann Sonata in A major
(Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
by Arthur Koestler The lecture which opened last year's Cheltenham Festival of Literature introduced bv RONALD HARWOOD
(Recorded at the Everyman Theatre on 10 November 19691
MANOUG PARIKIAN (violin) MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
Schubert Sonatina (d 408)
10.16* Brahms Sonata , Op 108 (Last of three programmesi
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. Australian National University, Canberra. reflects on some of the existing difficulties and solutions sought by governments in Asia
In VHF Stereo transmitters join R1 for Humphrey Lyttelton