Time: Big Ben 8.0 am
Purcell Four-part Sonata No 6, in g minor
LEONHARDT CONSORT
8.13* Debussy Images. Series 1 ARTURO BENEDETTO MICHELANGELI (piano)
8.29* Elgar String Quartet in E minor
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON QUARTET
Cantata No 52: Falsche Welt, dir trau' ich nicht
NELLY VAN DER SPEK (soprano)
MANNHEIM BACH CHOIR, conducted by HEINZ MARKUS GOTTSCHE
Cantata No 198: Lass Fiirstin lass noch einen Strahl (Funeral Ode)
ROTRAUD HANSMANN (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) KURT EQUILUZ (tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass)
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR CONCERTO AMSTERDAM conducted by JÜRGEN JÜRGENS gramophone records
A record request programme
Satte, arch Debussy Gymnopedies Nos 1 and 2 UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE ABRAVANEL
10.7* Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo theme
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
10.27* Mendelssohn Symphony No 5, in D (Reformation)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
Two Minutes' Silence; Last Post (the whole ceremony on Radio 4 from 10.35)
One Piano, Four Hands-4: modern British composers by DENIS MATTHEWS and BRENDA MCDERMOTT
Musical Profile: Raymond Leppard, by ALAN BLYTH
Berg's Wozzeck, by ANDREW PORTER
César Franck and his Circle: book review by JAMES HARDING Introduced by JULIAN herbage
(Wozzeck can be heard on Thursday at 2.0 pm)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by Janos Furst
Mozart Symphony No 41, in C major (Jupiter) (K 551)
12.32* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathetique)
Twenty-four Preludes, Op 11 ALBERT FERBER (piano)
A music drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German) Cast in order of singing:
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN
Producer WOLFGANG WAGNER
Act 1
3.24* During the interval The Hero and the Dragon
Talk by KONSTANTIN RAZAROV
3.40* Siegfried Act 2
ANTONY HOPKINS
(Rptd: Monday. 9.45 am)
Act 3 (Gotterdammerung: next Sunday)
by BERTOLT BRECHT
Translated from the German by RICHARD BECKLEY with Barry Foster and Mary Wimbush
KATE BINCHY , JOHN HOLLIS ELIZABETH PROUD
Brecht explains the collapse of the Paris Commune of 1871. He feels that it was the leaders' unwillingness to use violence which caused their defeat. In this year of the centenary of the Commune Brecht's play is being given its first professional English production. aongs by HANNS EISLER
Incidental music composed and conducted by HANS HEIMLER Played by JUDITH PEARCE , BRAM GAY
TERRY EMERY , HENRY KREIN
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
(Mary Wimbush is in Butley,' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
Emiko Iiyama (soprano)
Die Reihe Ensemble of Vienna conducted by Richard Dufallo
Carl Kuggles Vox clamans in deserto for soprano and orchestra
Earle Brown Synergy II
(first broadcasts in this country)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
Compiled and narrated by JOHN BECKETT. recounting the early years during which the great Irish dramatist strove to be a professional musician withand Olweh Griffiths
Music by a section of the MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON directed by JOHN BECKETT and JOHN KELLY
(traditional fiddler)
Producer TERENCE TILLER followed by an interlude
Henry Morrison (clarinet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis
Haydn Symphony No 83, in G minor (The Hen)
10.37* Sebastian Forbes Essay for clarinet and orchestra conducted by The Composer
10.53* Beethoven Symphony No 2