Time: GTS 8.0 am
Boston Symphony Orchestra with ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) Beethoven Overture: Fidelio conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.13* Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
8.47* Ravel Poeme chorgographique: La valse conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records
Four baroque works, all with notable chaeonnes
Purcell Sonata No 6, in G minor (Set of 10) GOLBSBROUGH ENSEMBLE-
8.16* Carissimi Oratorio:
Jephtha ELISABETH SPEISER (soprano) BARBARA LANGE (soprano)
DEREK MCCULLOCH (counter-tenor) KURT HUBER (tenor)
HELMUTH GEIGER (bass) SPANDAUER KANTOREI
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by HELMUTH RILLING (gramophone record)
9.44* Bach Partita No 2, in D minor: HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) (gramophone record)
10.13* Purcell Dido and Aeneas
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR
NORTH GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS (gramophone record)
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Brahms's Symphony No 4, in E minor, by TREVOR HARVEY
Recent records of opera: reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE
Joseph Kalichstein (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis
Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 27 (K 199)
12.30* Bartok Piano Concerto No 2
KONSTANT^N BAZAROV diSCUSSeS Ken Russell's film The Music Lovers in the light of Tchaikovskv's actual life and work.
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4, in F minor
A personal choice of records presented by Barrie Iliffe including at 2.10. Schumann's Manfred Overture; at 2.23* GEZA ANDA playing the Piano Concerto No 18, in B flat (k 456) by Mozart: at 2.59* Strauss's Oboe Concerto with HANS-WERNER WATZIG as soloist; at
3.28* part songs by Elgar; and at 3.35* ANTONY COLLINS conducting Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini
LEONARD ROSE (Cello)
NORMAN SHETLER (piano)
Brahms Sonata in F major, Op 99
Debussy Sonata in D minor
Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's, Smith Square, London, on 8 March)
JOHN AMIS presents an introduction to
Owen Winarave by BENJAMIN BRITTEN which includes interviews with and co-directors, as well as character sketches of the cast by the cast.
Produced by IAN COTTERELL
(The gramophone recording of Owen Wingrave can be heard on Radio 3 tomorrow at 3.0 pm)
Introduced by STEVE RACE
JANE MANNING (soprano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by ERNST KRENEK
From Three make Seven (first performance in this country) Three Fragments from Karl v Perspectives, for orchestra
(first performance in this country)
(Given before an invited audience in Maida Vale, Studio 1, London, in October 1970)
An opera in three acts by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAt Music by RICHARD STRAUSS (sung in English)
A Scottish Opera production from the King's Theatre, Glasgow
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ARTHUR OLDHAM SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader SAM BOR conductor ALEXANDER GIBSON Produced by ANTHONY BESCH
The action takes place In Vienna in the 18th century during the reign of Maria Theresa. Act 1
by MICHAEL GRANT
Herod the Great, King of Judea in the time of Jesus Christ, is associated in most people's minds with the massacre of the Innocents. Michael Grant, author of several books on the Romans and now engaged in a study of Herod, suggests that his true record as a Near Eastern ruler under Roman overiordship needs to be reassessed,
Act 2
by RICHARD HARRIS of The Times
Was the Taiping Rebellion of 1850-64 Righteous or Unrighteous? The Confucian tradition allows for Righteous Rebellion in certain circumstances.
Mr Harris considers The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers by S. Y. Teng , and makes some comparisons with the Communist victory of 1949.
Act 3
Sonata in A minor (K 310)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)