Time: GTs 7.0 am
Suite from the Royal Brass Music of King James I
LONDON GABRIELI BRASS ENSEMBLE
7.19* Avison Concerto in E minor. Op 6 No 8
HLRWITZ CHAMBER ENSEMBLE directed by EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin)
7.29' Handel Water Music: Suite No 1, in p
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD gramophone records
A record request programme
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
8.21* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor: JASCHA HEIFETZ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.46* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hamlet
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
Stravinsky Octet
JAMES PELLERITE (flute)
DAVID OPPENHEIM (clarinet)
LOREN GLICKMAN , ARTHUR WEISBURG (bassoons) ROBERT NAGEL
THEODORE WEISS (trumpets) KEITH BROWN , RICHARD HIXON (trombones)
9.20* Berceuses du chat; Three Shakespeare Songs
CATHY BERBERIAN (mezzo-sop) COLUMBIA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
9.29* Septet
COLUMBIA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
by Norman Finlay from Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, County Down
Lubeck Prelude and Fugue in E major
9.52* Bach Chorale Prelude on Wo soll ich fliehen hin (s 694)
9.57* Liszt Variations on a theme of Bach: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
conductor KENNETH ALWYN
Paul Reade Overture: To a City
Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies
Rossini, arr Britten Matinees musicales
Bizet Intermezzo: Minuet; Farandole (L'Arlésienne: Suite No 2)
Sincronie
SOCIETA CAMERISTICA ITALIANA
(Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
Sinfonia EVA MARIA KAPEK (soprano) MARGARITA HEPPE (soprano)
ELFRIEDEZIMMERMANN (contralto) MAGGIE SWARBRICK (contralto) ALFRED WINKLER (tenor)
WOLFGANG SATTMANN (tenor) HEINZ GERGER (bass) GUSTAV BAUER (baSS)
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MILAN HORVAT (Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
A scries of little-known piano concertos, and, this week, three operatic transcriptions
Thalberg Fantasy on Donizetti's Don Pasquale , Op 67 EARL WILD
12.14* Tausia Reminiscences of Monsiuszko's Halka MICHAEL PONTI
12.27* Busoni Elegie No 4: Turandots Frauengemach (Intermezzo) : JOHN OGDON
12.32* Moscheles Piano Concerto in G minor, Op 58 MICHAEL PONTI
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by OTHMAR MAGA gramophone records
The third of eleven weekly programmes in which distinguished musicians discuss. and in some cases perform. music for which they have a special affection
Today Robert Simpson talks about Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op 95, which will be played by the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London)
conductor MEREDITH DAVIES
BBC WEST OF ENGLAND CHORUS HARRY DANKS (viola)
Mozart Serenade No 12, in c minor, for wind instruments (K 388)
2.23* Ravel Suite: Le tombeau de Couperin
2.41* Vaughan Williams Flos campi
GERALDINE O'GRADY (violin) HAVELOCK NELSON (pianO) THE LINDSAY SINGERS
Conductor ETHNA BARROR KAREN AVERY (horn)
STEWART BENZIE (horn) DEREK BELL (harp)
Palestrina Pleni sunt coeli Isaak 0 esca viatorum
Casciolini Panis angellcus
Praetorius Regina coeli jubila
Villa-Lobos Sonata-fantaisie No 1 (Désespérance), for violin and piano
Brahms Songs for women's voices, two horns and harp, Op 17
Schumann Sonata No 1, in A minor, for violin and piano
from St Gabriel's Church. Cricklewood, sung by MEMBERS OF THE BBC CHORUS
Introit: Unto thee. 0 Lord do I lift up my soul (Thalben-Ball) Responses (Bernard Rose )
Psalm 104 (Higgins; Thalben-Ball)
Lessons: Job 18: Hebrews 8 Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: The Wilderness (S. S. Wesley)
Director of Music JOHN pooh Organist BARRY ROSE
Records chosen by the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, part 1
Holst Uranus the Magician (conducted by THE COMPOSER)
David Bedford Music for Albion Moonlight
Gait MacDermot The Age of Aquarius (Hair)
Carl Ruggles Sun-treader
Present-dav jazz on records Introduced by CHARLES FOX
SIDNEY HARRISON looks at some musical events in the Midlands, East Anglia and Wales during the next seven days.
6.25 Programme News and Stock Market Report
A 20-lesson course in colloquial German. 3: Klaus will etwas Neues anfangen ‡
A four-part case-history in research and development presented by PAUL VAUGHAN 3: Pills as Products
Paul Vaughan Jooks at the considerable changes In the production and marketing of The Pill since its introduction in 1957. Producer ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
7.0-7.30 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on this page
Theatre
Introduced by BRYAN MAGEE This edition includes:
A survey of recent Shakespearean productions, including John Barton 's Othello at Stratford, with MICHAEL BILL INGTON and CHARLES MAROWITZ A report on the new Birmingham Repertory Theatre
A discussion between MARTIN ESSLIN and OLEG KERENSKY on Edward Bond 's new play Lear at the Royal Court
A look at other new productions, including James Joyce 's play Exiles at the Aldwych
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Evangelist. KURT EQUILUZ (tenor) Chrisitus. KARL RIDDERBUSCH (bass) PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) TOM SUTCLIFFE (counter-tenor) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) MICHAEL SCHOPPER (baSS) SOLOISTS OF THE
VIENNA BOYS CHOIR
BOYS OF REGENSBURG CATHEDRAL CHOIR
MEN OF THE CHOIR OF
KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS and NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT gramophone records Part 1
by Idris Parry, Professor of Modern German Literature in the University of Manchester
Robert Musil, Hermann Hesse, Kafka, and Rilke all use in different ways the image of the wall and the hole in the wall as the symbol of the situation in which man is at once brought to a standstill and offered a mysterious, ambiguous way out of his trap.
St Matthew Passion: part 2