Time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Grieg Holberg Suite
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-
FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.25* Donizetti Aria: Fatal Goffredo! Trono e corona (Torquato Tasso)
MONSERHAT CABALLE (soprano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO FELICE CILLARIO
8.35* Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2. in G minor
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
Conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Tenebrae Responsories (1585)
Tamquam ad latronem; Tenebrae factae sunt; Animam meam: Tradiderunt me; Jesum tradidit: Caligaverunt
Motet and Mass: 0 quam gloriosum
A record request programme
Vauahan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted bv MAURICE ARRAVANEL
10.15* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4, in F minor
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Beethoven
1770.1827
The first of two bicentenary celebrations
Beethoven in the Theatre by ANDREW PORTER
Beethoven and the Piano by DENIS MATTHEWS
Beethoven in Documents and Pictures: book review by STANLEY SADIE
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Sixth in a weekly series of programmes in which all the sonatas are played by Alfred Brendel
G major, Op 14 No 2
12.19* E flat major. Op 31 No 3
12.42* G major, Op 31 No 1
; E major, Op 109)
played by the HEUTLING STRING QUARTET Werner Heutling (violin)
Oswald Gattermann (violin) Erich Bohlscheid (viola) Konrad Haesler (cello)
Mozart Quartet in E flat major (K 160)
Schubert Quartet in B flat major (b 112)
Mozart Quartet in c major (K 465)
Gotterdammerung A music drama in three acts by WAGNER
(sung in German)
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master WILHELM PITZ conducted by HORST STEIN Produced by WOLFGANG WAGNER
The action takes place in legendary times.
Prelude The Valkyries' rock
Act 1 Sc 1 The hall of the Gibichungs; Sc 2 The Valkyries' rock
GEOFFREY SKELTON talks about the problems of producing Gotterdammerung.
Act 2 The hall of the Gibichungs e
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest.
Produced bv
DENNIS SIMMONS
(Rptd: Monday, 9.50 am)
Act 3 Sc 1 A wooded place on the Rhine: Sc 2 The hall of the Gibichungs
La Commère by MARIVAUX
A play written in only recently discovered, now translated by ROBERT BALDICK
In Marivaux's fast-moving comedy of indiscretions Mme Alain. a talkative widow, earns nobody's thanks for her management of their affairs.
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Variations in F minor INCRID HAEBLER (piano) gramophone record
4: A. J. Ayer , Professor of Logic, in the University of Oxford. talking to BRYAN MAGEE about his own work
A. J. Ayer was 25 when he introduced Logical Positivism into England in his explosive and now classic book Language, Truth, and Logic. In this conversation he reflects critically on it and goes on to discuss his later work up to the present day.
(Edited versions of these talks will be published weekly in The Listener from 10 December)
Fifth of nine programmes in which Sir Adrian Boult conducts the symphonies of Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 5, in D
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
(gramophone records)
Wednesday, 16 December: Symphony No 6, in E minor)
Alain Litanies
Alain Deux danses a Agni Vavishta
Jean Langlais Suite breve
NICOLAS KYNASTON playing the organ of Buckfast Abbey gramophone record
GYÖRGY PAUK (violin)
PETER FRANKL (piano)
Schubert Sonatina in A minor (D 385)
Beethoven Sonata in A major, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
