Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Beethoven Overture: The Ruins of Athens
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.16* Schubert Symphony No 9, in c major
MENUHIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano)
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR Continuo:
DEREK STEVENS (chamber organ) OLGA HEGEDUS (cello)
FRANCIS BAINES (double-bass)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA leader TREVOR WILLIAMS conductor DENYS DARLOW
No 93: Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten
No 88: Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden, spricht der Herr
A record request programme
Wagner Overture: Tannhauser VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG SOLTI
10.6* Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STANISLAV SKROWACZEWSKI
10.23* Nielsen Symphony No 1 (1892)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA . conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
Mussorgsky's Sorochintsy Fair by CHARLES OSBORNE
Musical Profile: Charles Groves , by HENRY RAYNOR
Bax's Symphonic Music, by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
French Song and the Art of Singing: book review by ASTRA DESMOND
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Mozart Clarinet Trio in E flat major (K 498)
THEA KING (clarinet)
PETER SCHIDLOF (viola) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
12.21* Schubert String Quintet in c major (1) 956) 0 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
With WILLIAM PLEETH (Cello)
(Mozart broadcast 21 Oct 1966; Schubert 8 Dec 1969)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES
Part 1
Gluck Overture: Alceste
1.31' Mozart Symphony No 39. in E flat major (K 543)
DAVID cox talks about Bax's symphonies, especially the Sixth
Part 2: Bax
I Symphony No -6, in c major
Opera in four acts based on Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor Music by VAUGHANWILLIAMS
BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by Brian PRIESTMAN Repetiteur MARTIN PENNY
Produced by Brian TROWELL Act 1 A street in Windsor Act 2
Scene 1 A room in Page's house Scene 2 A room at the Garter Inn
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or themeof current interest
Produced by DENNIS SIMMONS (Rptd.: Monday, 9.45 am)
Act 3
Scene 1 A footpath near Windsor
Scene 2 A field near Windsor Scene 3 Ford's house Act 4
Scene 1 Ford's house
Scene 2 Windsor Forest
by JAMES TOCCO
Mozart Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je. maman? (K 265)
Prokofiev Sonata No 6, Op 82
Chopin Ballade in A flat major (From the inaugural meeting of the Friends of Leeds International Piano Competition in the Civic Hall, Leeds)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON Brahms Academic Festival Overture
6.47* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in e minor
A new play for radio by JOHN ARDEN
Music by DELIA DERBYSHIRE Special sound from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with Alan Dobie as the Narrator
This new play by one of Britain's leading playwrights was specially written for radio as a companion piece to Ionesco's L'lmpromptu de l'Alma (broadcast last Friday). In it John Arden. in the form of a dream. gives a highly personal view of the problems of an English playwright of his generation.
Other parts played by SONIA FRASER , MADI HEOD
SEAN BARRETT , WILFRID CARTER KERRY FRANCIS , LEONARD FENTON JOHN RYE, DAVID SPENSER
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude
E. L. T. Mesens talks to GEORGE MELLY about his early life and his meetings with the Surrealists, including Andre Breton.
Born in Brussels in 1903. originally a musician, later a poet and collagist, organiser of international exhibitions. editor of an avant-garde magazine, friend of many revolutionary artists, Mesens settled in London just before the war.
Quartet No 1
DARTIN(;TON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cella)
(Part of a concert recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London: broadcast 23 Sept 1969)
MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano) ILSE WOLF (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) MONTEVERDI CHOIR Continuo:
ANDREW DAVIS (chamber organ and harpsichord)
JENNIFER WARD CLARKE fcello) PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CLEAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Birthday Song for Queen Mary: Come ye sons of art away Pavan in G minor
Chacony in G minor
Elegies on the death of Queen Mary: Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas: 0 divi Custos Auriacae domus
Music for the funeral of Queen Mary
