Time: GTS 8.0 am
This week's programme, on gramophone records, includes Suppe Overture: Beautiful
Galathea Weber , orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance
Ibert Divertissement and music by Goldmark Meyerbeer , Tchaikovsky, Ganne and Messager
A group of works notable for polyphonic mastery
Brahms Fugue in A flat minor CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT at the organ of the church of St John the Evangelist, Islington
8.14* Ockeghem Graduate (Missa Pro defunctis); Motet: Intemerata Dei mater
Josquin des Pres Lament on the death of Ockeghem PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conducted by BRUNO TURNER
9.35* Bach Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
9.50* Byrd Mass in four parts PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conducted by BRUNO TURNER
10.14* Schumann Six Fugues on BACH. Op 60 CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
10.50* Bruckner Mass No 2, in E minor: CHOIR OF ST HEDWIG'S CATHEDRAL, BERLIN, WIND INSTRUMENTS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL FORSTER (gramophone record)
Making Percussion Instruments James Blades , assisted by JOAN GOOSSENS , reminisces on 50 years of percussing, and discusses the making of percussion instruments for Benjamin Britten.
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES Mendelssohn
Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)
Middaiy Concert: jjart 2
1.5 Rachmaninnv Symphony No 1
This week a personal choice of records of English music, as a tribute to THURSTON DART, presented by Jeremy Noble including at 1.57* Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra; at 2.21* English Church Music, including Tallis's 40-part Motet; at 2.36*
Chamber Music by Purcell; at
3.9* Excerpts from Handel's Semele; at 3.24* Handel's Concerto Grosso No 16, in D (Op 6 No 5); and at 3.43* BRITTEN conducting his Nocturne, Od 60
Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2 played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's. Smith Square, London, on 5 April)
JOHN amis talks to artists concerned with the highlights of next week's broadcast music,
Introduced by STEVE RACE
of the Youth, Schools, Equal Voice and Mixed Voice Classes Adjudicators:
KRISTIAN LANGE , JOHN ALLDIS
DR SIEGFRIED GOSLICH , CARL LITTLE ANDRAS SEBESTYEN , NIKI VASKOLA Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (Presented by the BBC in collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union)
by MAGNUS PYKE
Dr Pyke believes that science students have generally been passed by in the recent series of radical intellectual upheavals. He finds their apparent conservatism disturbing, and in this talk he suggests some reasons why modern science education seems to be failing society,
Tonight: from the Royal Albert Hall London
Sheila Armstrong (soprano) Stuart Burrows (tenor)
Cervase De Peyer (clarinet)
Royal Opera Chorus, chorus-master Douglas Robinson
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, leader Charles Taylor, conducted by Colin Davis
Schubert Symphony No 5
8.1* Tippett The Midsummer Marriage, Act 2
(This Week's Proms: page 8)
by ANTHONY SPENCER
In a society that values freedom and respects religious belief, an enduring tension between religion and the media is probably a good thing. But what should we as readers. listeners and viewers expect of the mass media in their coverage of religion, and what in turn should we expect of religious institutions in their approach to the media?
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major (K 622)
9.31* Wagner Prelude to Act 3: Dance of the apprentices; Prelude (The Mastersingers)
RONALD STEVENSON considers some recent writings about tonality: George Graham 's Tonality and Musical Structure. the theory of ' metatonality' published in the 50s by Claude Ballif , and a 12-note tonal theory by the Czech writer Josef Rut.
Mozart Quartet in D minor (K 421)
10.51' Beethoven Quartet in c sharp minor. Op 131
BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET
(Recording made available by courtesy of Yugoslav Radio)
