Today's time:
Big Ben 8.0 am

* A programme of recent records
Beethoven Ballet Music: Pro. metheus
MENUHIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN

No 19: Es erhub sich ein Streit No 50: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft
No 130: Herr Gott , dich loben alle wir
CHRISTINA CLARKE (soprano) PAMELA BOWDEN (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE ibaSS) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
JOHN CONSTABLE (organ continuo) STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader ALAN LOVEDAY conductor PAUL STEINITZ
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

A record request programme
Mozart Symphony No 21, in A major <K 134)
NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SZYMON GOLDBERG
10.19* Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c major
MARTHA ARGERICH BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
10.47' Liszt Symphonic Poem: Orpheus
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, by DONALD MITCHELL
Liszt's piano transcriptions, by ALAN WALKER
Musical Profile: Nicolai Gedda. by ALAN BLYTH
English Cathedral Music: book review by FRANK HOWES Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Last 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 b flat major, Op 18 No 6
12.25* Quartet in F minor, Op 95

DENIS MATTHEWS talks about Beethoven's String Quartets

Part 2
Quartet in c minor. Op 18 No 4
1.32' Quartet in F. Op 135

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TREVOR WILLIAMS conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
2.17* Elgar Symphony No 2, in E flat major

Opera in four acts Music by MASSENET Libretto by EDOUARD BLAU
PAUL MILIET , and GEORGES HARTMANN after Goethe
Sung in French: records Cast in order of singing:
FRENCH RADIO CHILDREN'S CHOIR THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PROTRE
Scene: The neighbourhood of Frankfurt, in the 1780s
Act 1: The Bailiff's garden

IVAN DAVIS (piano)
Chopin Andante spianato and Polonaise in E flat major gramophone record

Act 2: The town square

IVAN DAVIS (piano)
Schumann Abegg Variations
Moszkowski Paraphrase of the Gypsy Song from Bizet's Carmen gramophone record

Act 3: Albert's drawing-room Act 4: Werther's study

by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(written between 1382 and 1387) The fourth 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 WOOI. F as Pandarus
FRANCIS DE WOLFF as Deiphebus Produced by RAYMOND RAIRES

PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON (soprano)
CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by ARTHUR WEISBERG Joseph Schwanter Diaphonia intervallum, for nine players
6.38* Frederic Myrow Songs from the Japanese, for soprano and chamber ensemble
6.58* John Harbison Confinement. for chamber ensemble gramophone records

An Aesthetic Experience
A comedy by MICHAEL SADLER with Richard Briers , Barbara Couper Zena Walker. and Aubrey Woods Music by DAVID WATKINS
Mrs Gulliver 's world is devoted to Art, Imagination, and Memory. Madeleine Potts is Natural. Real, and inclined to think of the Future. It is not easy for Ashby Gulliver to keep a steady course between Scylla and Charybdis.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Second of four Programmes in which all the symphonies are being
Performed with an orchestra of the size
Beethoven knew
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by JOHN BROWN conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN Part 1
Overture: Coriolan
8.24* Symphony No 2, in D major

MAURICE CRANSTON , Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics, reflects on Theodore Besterman 's recently published Life of Voltaire: ' I have come to suspect that Voltaire ought not to be seen as a rationalist philosopher at all, but as an outstanding example of another 18th-century character, The Man of Feeling.'

Part 2
Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Eroica)
(Symphonies 5 and 6: 8 March)

TED HUGHES reads a selection of Paul Merchant's translations of work by a distinguished modern Greek poet
Introduced by PAUL MERCHANT †

A so- i recital surveying most of his career
Composed in the 1880s and 90s: Automne: Les berceaux; Le secret: La rose: Le parfum impérissable: Arpège
Song-cycle: L'horizon chimfirique (1922)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
(The development of his songs up to La bonne chanson: 7Feb)

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