Time: GTS 8.0 am
German Welsh Rhapsody SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.23* Sibelius Elegie; Musette (King Christian II) SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.29, Erland von Koch Saxophone Concerto SIGURD RASCHER MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by STIG WESTERBERG
8.50* Copland An Outdoor Overture BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTHUR FIEDLER
(gramophone records)
This week the programme leads up to, and away from, Bruckner's 7th Symphony.
Brahms Eight Songs, Op 57: Von waldbekranzter Hbhe; Wenn du nur zuweilen lachelst; Es traumte mir; Ach wende diesen Blick; In meiner Nachte Sehnen; Strahlt zuweilen auch ein mildes Licht; Die Schnur, die Perl' an Perle: Unbewegte laue Luft Ian Partridge (tenor) Jennifer Partridge (piano) Bruckner Symphony No 7, in E major
Symphony Orchestra Of South-West German Radio conducted by Hans Rosbaud (gramophone record)
Britten Gemini Variations Douglas Whittaker (flute) Iona Brown (violin) Eric Harrison and Bernard Roberts (piano duet) Sequence: From dark to light with the voices of Mary Thomas, Richard Lewis, Sybil Michelow, Maureen Lehane, Heather Harper and Sylvia Rosenberg (violin) Imrat Khan (sitar)
Haydn and Mendelssohn
An illustrated lecture by HANS KELLER , given on 4 July at this year's Cheltenham Festival,
IFOR JAMES (horn)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader FELIX KOK conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Part 1
Weber Overture: Euryanthe
Mozart Horn Concerto No 4, In E flat (K 495)
Midday Concert: part 2
1.5 Rachmaninou Symphony No 2, in e minor
A personal choice of records presented by Jeremy Noble including at 2.8* Wagner's Faust Overture, with the CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL ; at 2.22* Marguerite's Bedchamber scene from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, with JANET BAKER , NICO-LAI GEDDA and GABRIEL BACQUIER ; at 2.57* ALFRED BRENDEL playing Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No 1; at 3.19* an excerpt from Busoni's Doktor Faust: at 3.34* Michel BÉROFF playing Debussy Estampes; and at 3.48* STRAVINSKY conducting his Symphony in Three Movements
director DAVID MUNROW
Spanish music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John 's, Smith Square, London, on 17 May)
JOHN AMIS talks to artists-composers, conductors, or performers - most closely concerned with the highlights of next week s broadcast music,
Introduced by STEVE RACE
played by the MELOS ENSEMBLE
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor MacMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
Copland Sextet, for clarinet, piano and string quartet
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor. Op 57
A revised version of the discussion on the planning problems of Jerusalem, first broadcast last spring with a new contribution by Teddy Kollek the Mayor of Jerusalem Speakers:
LAWRENCE HALPRIN , planner and landscape architect, Berkeley, California
STEWART PEROWNE, writer, traveller, author of several books on Jerusalem
SIR NIKOLAUS PEVSNER, historian of architecture
MONICA PIDGEON, Editor, Architectural Design ‡
Tonight: from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Michael Roll (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany, conducted by John Pritchard
Haydn Symphony No 85, in B flat major (La reine)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 22, in E flat major (K 483)
(Part 2 at 8.55: Radio 1 and 2)
This Week's Proms: page 9
Safeguarding the innocent by TOM HARPER , Editor of . The New Law Journal
The presumption that a man is innocent until his guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt has been described as the golden thread running through the whole fabric of our criminal law. But are the safeguards for the innocent man in fact to be relied on?
An opera in one act by EGON WELLESZ
Libretto after Euripides by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL (sung in German)
(first broadcast in this country) The years following the first world war were among the most creative of Wellesz's life. His output included five operas based on the principles of baroque opera, of which he had made an intensive study. Alkestis- was produced in 1924. It is a typically stylised setting -choruses, orchestral dance episodes and an elaborate solo vocal line. It begins when Death comes to claim Alkestis. and tells how Herakles rescues her from Hades and restores her to her husband, Admet. Cast in order of singing:
Servants and members of the royal household
CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF AUSTRIAN RADIO chorus-master
GOTTFRIED PREINFALK conducted by MILTIADES CARIDIS The action takes place outside the royal palace at Pherae in legendary times.
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
GERVASE DE PEYF.R (clarinet) and LAMAR CROWSON (piano) Weber Grand Duo concertant. Op 48
Ireland Fantasy-Sonata
Josep Elics Salve Regina (Prelude and Fugue)
Freixanet Sonata in E flat
MONTSERRAT TORRENT at the organ of Santa-Maria, Mahfin. Minorca gramophone record