Today's time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Alessandro Scarlatti Concerto Grosso No 1, in F minor SOLOISTS OF THE
SCARLATTI ORCHESTRA OF NAPLES conducted by ETTORE GRACIS
8.16* Berlioz Dies irae (Grande messe des morts)
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
A record request programme
Chausson Symphony in B flat BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
9.37* Faure Pavane
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.43* Debussy Fantaisie for piano and orchestra JEAN-RODOLPHE KARS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
Cantata No 8: Liebster Gott , wann werd' ich sterben
Motet: Die bittre Leidenszeit
Cantata No 161: Komm, du siisse Todesstunde ILSE WOLF (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN BARROW (baritone) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
JOHN CONSTABLE (chamber organ) STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader ALAN LOVEDAY conductor PAUL STEINITZ
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
Symphony No 24, In B flat major (K 182)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
11.11. Recit and Aria: Ah lo previdi (K 272)
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted byWILFRIED BOETTCHER
11.27* Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)
ALFRED BRENDEL VIENNA VOLKSOPER ORCHESTRA conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER gramophone records
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffl (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello)
Debussy Quartet in G minor
Dvorak Quartet in F major, Op 96
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUIS GARCIA conducted by FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ Mtlhaud Actualités
Tibor Harsanyi La joie de vivre (first performance in this country)
Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
(violin) with MARINUS FLIPSE (piano) plays, Vitali Chaconne in G minor
Bach Sonata in G minor, for violin (s 1001)
Prokofiev Sonata No 2, in D major, Op 94b
Grand opera in four acts Music by TCHAIKOVSKY
Libretto, aften Schiller, by VASSILY ANDREYEVICH ZHUKOVSKY (sung in Russian: first broadcast in this country)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF MOSCOW RADIO
HARRY GRODBERG (organ) conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
(Recording made available by courtesv of Soviet Radio)
Place: France, in the year 1429 Act 1 Near Domremy
ANDREW PORTER talks about Schiller's play The Maid of Orleans, and the operas Verdi and Tchaikovsky made from it
Act 2 The Dauphin's court
J. C. Bach Sinfonia No 3, in E flat, for wind instruments ø LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER (clarinet) gramophone record
Act 3
Scene I Outside Orleans
Scene 2 The cathedral at Rheims
Act
Scene 1 A forest near the English lines
Scene 2 The main square of Rouen
played by 4: Earl Wild
Henri Herz Variations on Rossini's Non piu mesta
Rubinstein Etude, Op 23 No 2
Medtner Improvisation, Op 31 No 1 d'Albert Scherzo, Op 16 No 2 gramophone records
Overture: II pastor fido
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
6.53* Dixit Dominus
TERESA ZYLIS-GARA (soprano) .JANF BAKER (mezzo-soprano) MARTIN LANE (counter-tenor) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) CHOIR OP KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone records
The tragedy written in 1788 by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE with overture and incidental music by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN English version by MICHAEL HAMBURGER, adapted for radio by JOHN POWELL with Paul Daneman as Egmont and Stephen Murray
Mary Morris , Deborah Stanford David Buck , Gary Bond
John Justin , and Gary Watson The action of the play takes place in Brussels and begins in the year 1568
The Netherlanders:
GWENYTH ANNEAR (soprano) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
Produced by JOHN POWELL Part 1
Beethoven Goethe settings:
Maigesang; Wonne derWehmut; Neue Liebe, neues Leben DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
JÖRG DEMUS (piano) gramophone record
Part 2
Episodes
IAN LAKE (piano) Piano Trio
LONDON CZECH TRIO
Jack Rothstein (violin) Karel Horitz (cello)
Lisa Marketta (piano)
Three Madrigals AEOLIAN SINGERS conducted by THE COMPOSER Ite missa est 0 THE COMPOSER (organ of Westminster Cathedral)
(First broadcast performances of Episodes, Madrigals, and Ite missa est. Trio broadcast on 25 January 1967)
Sinfonia in D major (Veneziana) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE gramophone record
11: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London A record of music by Sweelinck. Bach, and Mozart played by MARTIN NEARY
Introduced by JOHN LADE
