Time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruv Bias
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
8.13* Glazunov Symphony No 8, in E flat
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
The second of five programmes BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
KEITH ELCOMBE (organ continuo) MANCHESTER MOZART ORCHESTRA leader FAY CAMPEY conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON
Liibeck Christmas Cantata
9.16* Reinken Chorale Fantasy on An Wasserniissen Babylon GUSTAV LEONHARDT (Organ) (gramophone record)
9.34* Liibeck Gott wie dein Name
9.43* Kneller Prelude and Fugue in d minor
JORGEN ERNST HANSEN (organ) (gramophone record)
9.50* Liibeck Hilf deinem Volk, Herr Jesu Christ
A record request programme Barber Serenade for strings, Op 1
SYMPHONY OF THE AIR conducted by VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN
10.10* Ginastcra Piano Concerto JOAO CARLOS MARTINS BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
10.34* Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat
THE MENUHIN ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
Petrushka (1947 version)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
11.35* Jeu de cartes
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA gramophone records
Final programme in the Haydn String Quartets series
Haydn's last complete quartet and Beethoven's
Haydn Quartet in F major, Op 77 No 2
Beethoven Quartet in F major, Op 135
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
ARTO NORAS (cello) HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by JUSSI JALAS † Part 1
Weber Overture: Der Freischutz
1.7* Joonas Kokkonen Cello Concerto (first broadcast performance in this country)
1.30* during the interval Brahms's First Symphony: an illustrated talk by PAUL. HAMBURGER.
1.50* Concert
Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 1, in c minor
(The Treasure-seeker)
An opera in four acts, with a prelude and postlude, by FRANZ SCHREKER
(sung in German)
Dukes. Earls, Knights, Noble-men and women, Soldiers, Monks, Townspeople
CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF AUSTRIAN RADIO chorus-master
GOTTFRIED PREINFALK conducted by ROBERT HEGER
The action takes place in a medieval German kingdom
Prelude: A room in the king's palace
Act 1 A forest inn; Act 2 A square in the town
4.5* during the interval mosco CARNER talks about Schreker's operas, with particular reference to Der Schatzgraber.
4.20* Der Schatzgraber
Act 3 Els's bedroom; Act 4 A hall in the king's palace
Postlude: The Fool's hovel in the mountains
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
by Anne Queffelec
A concert of the British Music Society of York from the Tempest Anderson Hall Part 1
Bach Partita No 2, in c minor (s 826)
Schubert Impromptus (D 899) Scarlatti Sonatas: F minor (L 382); E (L 430); D (L 424)
by ERIC G. TURNER , Professor of Papyrology, University College, London
' 0 Menander, 0 life, which of you imitated the other? ' is the reported comment of a famous ancient critic. It has not been the unanimous verdict of the moderns. Much more of Menander's work has become known in the last 12 years, recovered from manuscripts preserved in the sands of Egypt. In the light of the new finds the speaker examines the question afresh,
-(Menander's comedy The Girl from Samos: tonight at 7.40)
Part 2
Ravel Miroirs
Debussy Masques
Etudes: Pour les quartes; Pour les degrés chromatiques
or The In-Laws A Comedy by MENANDER
(c 342-292 BC)
Translated into English by ERIC G. TURNER Arranged for stereo and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
A recent discovery of many of the lost scenes makes a broadcast of this play possible for the first time.
Scene: Athens, about 320-310 BC with music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS
Introduction and Allegro for strings - Allegri String Quartet, Sinfonia of London conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
(gramophone record)
Sir Peter Medawar in the last of eight conversations between Renford Bambrough and different specialists in a wide range of human sciences.
Celebrated for his research in medical biology, Sir Peter Medaw-ar was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960. Until recently, he was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research.
Series producer ADRIAN JOHNSON
(' A Postscript ' by Renford Bambrough on Thursday at
9.35 pm. These conversations are being published weekly in The Listener)
Fifth of six weekly programmes
Horai, for violin, horn and piano (1968) (first broadcast performance)
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
The valley of Hatsu-se (1965) JANE MANNING (soprano) VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No 1, in G
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
HERBERT TACHEZI (harpsichord)
10.44' Telemann 'Concerto in A, for oboe d'amore and string orchestra
ROBERT CASIER TOULOUSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS AURIACOMBE
11.0* Telemann Recorder Sonata in F (Der getreue Musik-Meister)
FRANS BRUGGEN
ANNER BYLSMA (cello)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
11.6* Bach Suite No 1, in c
STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER gramophone records
