Time: GTS 7.0 am
Rossini, arr Respighi Ballet Suite: La boutique fantasque PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRiA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.27* Chopin Concert-rondo:
Knakowiak STEFAN ASKENASE (piano)
HAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
7.42* Kodaly Dances from Galanta
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
Morning Concert: part 2
8.5 Liszt, orch Liszt and Doppler Hungarian 'Rhapsody No 1
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEOPOLD LUDWIG
8.17* Dvorak Symphony No 5, in F
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records
Verdi
Excerpts from his opera La forza del destino MARTINA ARROYO
RUGGERO RAIMONOI CARLO BERGONZI
PIERO CAPPUCCILLI
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI gramophone records
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES Warlock Capriol Suite
Arensky Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky Nino Rota Concerto for strings
A series of concerts from stone buildings
ULSTER SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE Linda Coffin (flute)
Christopher King (clarinet) Brian Overton (oboe)
Peter Musson (bassoon) Toni Mills (horn)
GEORGES MINNE , MARTIN WHITE (organ duet) from St Patrick 's Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh Rossini Quartet No 4, in B flat, for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon
10.43* Liszt Fantasia and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam from Meyerbeer's Le prophète, for organ duet
11.19* Milhaud Suite: La cheminée du Roi Ren6, for wind quintet
La rousserolle effarvatte (Catalogue d'oiseaux) played by JARMILA KOZDERKOVA (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by Malcolm Arnold in the first of four programmes in celebration of his 50th birthdtay
Arnold Overture: Peterloo
12.28* Elgar Dream Children
12.36* Haydn Symphony No 95, In c minor
1.5 The Concert Interval
MALCOLM ARNOLD introduces his Fourth Symphony,
1.20 Midday Prom Part 2 Arnold
Symphony No 4
TRIO Df TRIESTE
Reraato Zanettovich (violin) Amadeo Baldovino (cello) Dario de Rosa (piano)
Vivaldi, realised Ghedini Sonata in c minor
2.10* Brahms Trio in c major, Op 87
2.42* Schubert Trio in E flat major (d 929)
Part 1
Giovanni Salviucci Introdu zlone, Passacaglia, e Finale (first broadcast in this country)
3.42* Schumann Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Rhenish)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CA:RLO MARIA GIULINI
(Recording made available by courtesy of West Berlin Radio)
Part 2 Henze Symphony No 4
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by the composer gramophone record
Bach Toccata in D (s 912)
Mozart Sonata in G (K 283) GEOFFREY TOZER (piano)
Alun Hoddinott An apple tree and a pig
Gerard Schiirmann Summer is coming (first broadcast performance in this country)
Bernard Naylor The morning watch and the evening watch (first broadcast performance in this country) BBC CHORUS conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE
MALCOLM RAYMENT takes a look at some musical events in London and the South East during the coming mid-week,
6.25 Programme News and Stock Market Report
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN Walton Overture: Scapino
7.41* Bliss Meditations on a theme by John Blow
8.13* Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
' If anyone had said to me two years ago " You are (roing to write an opera for Cairo " I'd have said he was mad - but now, just look, it's me who's mad after all.'
The first performance of Aida, for the opening of the Cairo Opera House, was held up until 24 December 1871 by the Franco-Prussian war. This programme tells the story of the opera's composition, perhaps the greatest piece d'occasion of modern times, and of the thought which Verdi gave to the libretto and to the Egyptian background of the story. David Buck as Verdi Brian Hewlett as his librettist,
Ghislanzoni GERALD CROSS and EDWARD KELSEY Narrated by DUNCAN MCINTYRE Compiled bY MICHAEL ROSE and HANNS HAM.MELMANN
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON with excerpts from a recording of the opera, featuring
RENATA TEBALDI. CARLO BERGONZI and GIULIETTA SIMIONATO conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN followed by an interlude
Today P.G. Wodehouse is 90, and still writing. His new novel Much Obliged, Jeeves - yet another instalment of the adventures of Bertie Wooster - is published this week.
Henry Reed, in a birthday tribute, looks at Wodehouse's literary achievement.
by JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO Falla Fantasia Baetica
Schumann Fantaisie in c, Op 17