Time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Bizet Prelude; Quintet: Nous avons en tete (Carmen) MARILYN HORNE
(mezzo-soprano)
MARIA PELLEGRINI (soprano)
GWYNETH GRIFFITHS (contralto) DAVID BOWMAN (tenor)
FRANCIS EGERTON (tenor)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY LEWIS
8.13* Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 2, in G (original version) IGOR ZHUKOV MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano) BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor
STEPHEN WILKINSON
DERRICK CANTRELL (Organ)
Johann Christoph : Bach Motet Ich lasse dich nicht, for double choir
C. P. E. Bach Organ Sonata No 3, in B flat major
Johann Michael -Bach Chorale Motet: Das Blut Jesu Christi J. S. Bach Lieder: Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag; Komm, siisser Tod: Kommt wieder aus der finst'ren Gruft Johann Christoph Bach Motet:
Unsers Herzens Freude, for double choir
C. P. E. Bach Organ Sonata No 5. in D minor
(From St Philip's Church, Salford)
A record request programme
Bruckner Symphony No 6, in A NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
Schubert's chamber music, by ROBERT ANDERSON
Busoni's Doktor Faust, by CHARLES OSBORNE
Musical Profile: Siegfried Palm,
ROBERT HENDERSON by
Smetana's Life and Music: book review by ALEC ROBERTSON Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGe
Last in a series of weekly programmes in which all the sonatas are being played by Alfred Brendet c minor. Op 13 (Pathdtique)
12.21* A flat major, Op 26
12.42* c minor, Op 111 Series produced by STEPHEN PLAISTOW
(The series is currently being repeated on Friday afternoons)
Excerpts from BELLINI'S opera with
MIRELLA FRENI (Elvira)
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI (Lord Arturo)
RONALDO GIAIOTTI (Sir George)
SESTO BRUSCANTINI
(Sir Richard)
MIRELLA FIORENTINI
(Enrichetta) ROME CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master GIANNI LAZZARI
conducted by
RICARDO MUTI
(Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio)
Verklarte Nacht played by MEMBERS OF THE LONDON OCTET Hugh Maguire (violin) Norman Nelson (violin) Harry Danks (viola) John Coulling (viola) Kenneth Heath (cello) Alexander Kok (cello)
ALFREDO CAMPOLI (violin) BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN from the City Hall, Glasgow Part 1
William Wordsworth Jubila tion: a festive overture
3.15* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
JOHN HORTON talks about Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5, in E minor
ANTONY HOPKINS
discusses a work or theme of current interest
Produced by DENNIS SIMMONS (Repeated: Monday, 9.45 am)
by SIR THOMAS MALORY completed 1469-1470
The noble and joyous history of the great conqueror and excellent king, King Arthur. and of his noble knights of the Round Table. with Norman Shelley , Basil Langton Robert Eddison , Henry Stamper The second of 13 programmes edited and selected by DEREK BREWER , Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge with music by STEPHEN DODGSON
In the First Reading:
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Beethoven's song-cycle An die feme Geliebte sung by JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) with
MARTIN ISEPP (piano) and Schumann's Fantasy, Op 17 in which a quotation from the Beethoven plays an important part played by EDITH VOGEL (piano)
played by KENNETH GILBERT
Buxtehude Suite No 1, in C major
Böhm Suite No 5, in E flat major
Handel Suite No 5, in E major
A play for radio by PHILIP CALLOW
I thought we were agreed about this. He's going this afternoon. Right? It's all arranged, so shut up about it. All this drivel about brothers, it makes me sick. I don'want to hear it. He's an imbecile, he's round our necks, he's been round our necks for years, and we're getting rid of him.'
Produced by BENNETT MAXWELL † (New plays, new writers: page 8)
Variations on a Minuet by Duport (K 573)
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) gramophone record
10: Ninian Smart, Professor of Religious Studies in the University of Lancaster, discus. sing the philosophy of religion With BRYAN MAGEE
Professor Smart distinguishes his subject from theology on the one hand and from the philosophy of ideologies on the other, and gives examples of the questions it is concerned with. He also explains why there is currently a marked revival of interest in it.
GUARNERI STRING QUARTET with DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Part I
Beethoven Trio in E flat, Op 3, for violin, viola, and cello
10.10* Bartok Duos for two violins: nos 16, 11, 22, 21. 13, 23, 28, 43, 35, 26
PROFESSOR JOEL HURSTFIELD , Astor Professor of English History at University College, London, takes the recent occasion of Professor Sir John Neale 's 80th birthday to comment on the changing character of Elizabethan studies during the half-century that Professor Neale has been working on the period.
Part 2 Dvorak
Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
(A public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London. on 11 August 1970)