Time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Mozart March in D (K 335 No 1) English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim
8.7* Beethoven Cantata: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage John Alldis Choir
New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez
8.16* Moscheles Piano Concerto in G minor: Michael Ponti Philharmonia Hungarica
Conducted by Othmar Maga
8.42* Bliss Suite: Things to Come
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by The Composer
(Stereo)
conductor BARRY ROSE with ANTHONY FROGGATT (organ) Britten Hvmn to St Peter Tye In pace
Alan Gray The Dead; The Soldier
Howclls Master Tallis 's Testament
Bruckner Christus factus est pro nobis
Gibbons See , see the word is incarnate
Britten Festival Te Deum
A record request programme
Mozart Horn Concerto No 2, in E flat (K 417): GERD SEIFERT BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARA. IAN
10.17* Berlioz Symphony: Harold in Italy
WILLI AMLlNCER (viola); NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Record Review contributed by STEPHEN DODGSON NOEL GOODWIN , STEPHEN WALSH Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Third in a weekly series of programmes in which all the sonatas are played by Alfred Brendel c minor. Op 10 No 1
12.21* c major, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) Bartok Quartet No 2
Haydn Quartet in 8 flat major, Op 103 (Unfinished)
Borodin Quartet No 2, in D
Opera in five acts
Music by MEYERBEER
Libretto by EUGENE SCRIBE and EMILE DESCHAMPS (sung in French)
(gramophone records) Cast: (continued in next column)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORLS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
The action takes place during August 1572 in Touraine and Paris
Act 1 A room in the chateau of Count de Nevers, in Touraine
MARTIN COOPER discusses
Meyerbeer: man and music
Act 2 The gardens of the Chenonceaux chateau, in Touraine
Meyerbeer : some contemporary impressions. FRANK DUNCAN reads from Berlioz, Schumann, and others
Act 3 The Pré-aux-Clercs, on the banks of the Seine
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest Produced bv
DENNIS SIMMONS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.55 am)
Act 4 A room in the Paris house of Count de Nevers
6.30* Act 5
Sc 1 The Hotel de Nesle; Sc 2 A Huguenot churchyard; Sc 3 A square in Paris
Repeat
by PETER WEISS translated by GEOFFREY SKELTON
with Donald Pleasence and Cyril Shaps
This is the first performance in English of the latest play by Peter Weiss, the author of the Marat/Sade. The play, which has already caused great controversy in Eastern as well as in Western Europe, examines the problem of revolution in the light of the life of one of the most brilliant revolutionaries of our time.
Other parts played by SARA COWARD, SONIA FRASER, JO MANNING WILSON, SEAN ARNOLD, SEAN BARRETT, GERALD CROSS, RONALD FORFAR, KERRY FRANCIS, MARTIN FRIEND, JOHN GABRIEL, MALCOLM HAYES, LESLIE HERITAGE, BRIAN HEWLETT, EDWARD KELSEY, GODFREY KENTON, ROLF LEFEBVRE, CLIFFORD NORGATE, JAMES THOMASON, PETER TUDDENHAM, ANTONY VICCARS
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
(Donald Pleasence is appearing in 'Tea Party' and 'The Basement' at the Duchess Theatre, London)
(Could Trotsky have saved the Revolution?: page 17)
(Stereo)
Flute Concerto in G KARL-HEINZ ZÖLLER
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS VON BENDA gramophone records
Stuart Hampshire, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, in conversation with BRYAN MAGEE about the unique achievement and importance in this century of Bertrand Russell.
Professor Hampshire argues that Russell is a great philosopher in the same narrow sense as Plato, Descartes, and Kant: that so far as philosophy is concerned, the 20th century is the age of Russell' (29 November: David Pears on Wittgenstein)
Third of nine programmes in Which SIR ADRIAN BOULT conducts the symphonies of Vaughan Williams. Pastoral Symphony
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA gramophone records
(3 December: Symphony No 4)
Haydn Quartet in E major. Op 54 No 3
Sibelius Quartet in D minor, Op 56 (Voces intimae)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)