Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am
A programme of recent records Haydn Quartet, Op 103 (Unfinished): WELLER QUARTET
8.14* Schubert Auf dem Strom ROBERT TEAR (tenor) NEILL SANDERS (horn)
LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
8.24* Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor: ALLEGRI QUARTET with JOHN OGDON (piano)
No 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ⓢ HERTHA TÖPPER (contralto) ERNST HAEFLlGER (tenor) THEO ADAM (baSS)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER
No 29: Wir danken dir, Gott NETANIA DAVRATH (soprano)
HILDE ROSSL-MAJDAN (contralto) ANTON DERMOTA (tenor) WALTER BERRY (baSS) VIENNA CHAMBER CHOIR
VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by MOGENS WÖLDIKE gramophone records
A record request programme
Gritry, arr Beecham Suite: Zemire et Azor: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
10.14* Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor: SUGGIA; LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PEDRO DE FREITAS BRANCO
10.45* Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Sir Keith Falkner : a 70th birthday greeting by FRANK HOWES Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) by HENRY ROCHE
Debussy in his twenties: by MARTIN COOPER
Szigeti on the Violin: book review by ROBERT ANDERSON Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Schubert Quartet in D minor (Death and the maiden) Berg Quartet, Op 3
ELISABETH ROBINSON (soprano) MAUREEN GUY (mezzo-soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) I. M. MARSH SINGERS
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conducted by EDWARD DOWNES L'enfant prodigue (1884)
1.36* Salut printemps (1882) (first broadcast performance in this country)
1.42* Printemps (1887)
1.58* La damoiselle Clue (1887-8)
(Edward Downes broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
MALCOLM FRAGER (piano)
Haydn Sonata in E flat major (Haydn Society No 52)
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel
Opera in two acts Music by Janacek
Libretto by VIKTOR DYK FRANTISEK S. PROCHAZKA and others, after the satirical novels of Svaiopluk Cech
English version: NORMAN TUCKER Act 1:
Mr Brouceli visits the Moon Cast:
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS Repetiteurs: Valerie Neumann -Grigarova, Tom Gligoroff and Richard Nunn
Producer, ERNEST WARBURTON
CHARLES MACKERRAS and ERNEST WARBURTON discuss Mr Brou cek's Excursions, the least known of Janacek's major operas
Act 2: Mr Broucek visits the 15th Century
Cast:
(Elizabeth Bainbridge, John Dobson, Kenneth Macdonald and David Lennox broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Charles Mackerras by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(written between 1382 and 1387) The eighth of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
MAX ROSTAL (violin)
COLIN HORStEY (piano) AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Berkeley Sonatina for violin and piano
6.18* Kodaly String Quartet No 2 Op 10
6.35* Chausson Concerto in D Major, for violin, piano, and string quartet
by ODON VON HORVATH
A historical episode from the era of inflation translated by VICTOR PRICE with Brenda de Banzie , Alan Howard Angela Pleasence , Nigel Stock Austin Trevor
Germany in the early 1920s. with the virulent stirrings of nationalism and socialism. \
Adapted and produced by H B. FORTUIN
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Scriabin Symphony No 3. in c major (The Divine Poem)
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture
(Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London)
1: Marshall McLuhan talks to HUBERT HOSKINS
A group of programmes on the prospects for homo reliaiosus in which the speakers, representing a variety of standpoints and disciplines, are invited to speculate, predict, or prophesy.
(Arnold Toynbee: 8 March)
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conducted by HENRY WASHINGTON Ave maris stella
0 gloriosa Domina Mass in three parts
(Four-part Mass: 8 March)
JOHN BRUNNER argues that younger writers are increasingly drawn to science fiction because of the scope it offers for giving human shape to the threatening abstract forces of our age. By this technique he believes science fiction satisfies the age-old need for magic.
