including music by Purcell, Corelli, Geminiani, Vivaldi and Leopold Mozart gramophone records
Suppe Overture: Pique Dame VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
8.13* Gershwin Piano Concerto in F: WERNER HAAS
MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
8.45' Svendsen Carnival in Paris
OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ØIVIN FJELDSTAD gramophone records
Divertimento in E flat (K 563) ITALIAN STRING TRIO gramophone record
Is there any kinship at all between music and athletics? Were the ancient Greeks entirely wrong?
Anne Pashley , former Olympic sprinter and now a well-known opera and concert soprano, compares her two careers.
The first of three talks to be broadcast during the Olympic Games
(2 September: the testimony of Roger Bannister )
See also following programme
La mort de Cldopatre
ANNE PASIILEY (soprano) with the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS gramophone record
A recital relayed direct from Leith Town Hall, Edinburgh Alfred Brendel (piano) Part 1 Beethoven Sonata in D major, Op 10 No 3
11.25 * Sonata in E minor, Op 90
ANTONY DEAN talks about a music-lover's life without the possibility of live music.
Part 2 Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 845)
Music by Nielsen and Sibelius
A personal choice of records presented by Robin Ray
(The Bells oj Corneville) A comic opera in three acts English version by H. B. FARNIE and R. REECE Revised version by HAROLD SIMPSON Music composed by Robert Planquette
Peasants, fishermen, officers, knights BBC CHORUS BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Producer ROBERT BOWMAN Act 1 Sc 1: The seashore near Corneville; Sc 2: The road to the fair: Sc 3: Market Place in Corneville Act 2 A chamber in the Chateau de Corneville Act 3 The orchard in Corneville Park - (Ann Hood appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture Bliss Suite: Checkmate Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5, in D major
JAMES GALWAY (flute) COLIN TILNEY (harpsichord) ADAM SKEAPING (bass viol continuo) Bach Flute Sonata No 6 Couperin Concert No 11, in c minor Couperin Prelude No 5, in A (L'art de toucher le clavecin); L'amphibie (Ordre 24); Musette de taverni (Ordre 15) Bach Flute Sonata No 5
direct from the Royal Albert Hall London
Wagner: Parsifal, Act 1 (sung in German)
Royal Opera Chorus
Boys' Choir of Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, director of music Alan Taylor
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez
Sc 1: A glade in the woods near the Castle of the Grail:
Sc 2: The hall in the Castle of the Grail
(Acts 2 and 3: Wed. 7.30 pm)
(This Week's Proms: page 21)
(Stereo)
In 1860 in Paris a young Belgian journalist introduced Wagner to Rossini. He kept careful notes of the discussion. and immediately afterwards went home and wrote them up as a verbatim conversation. New translation by GEOFFREY SKELTON Producer
DANIEL SNOWMAN
' The Little German
Music on gramophone records by Rossini and some of the German composers whose music he discussed with Wagner in the preceding programme.
Rossini Overture: William Tell
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARA.
IAN Weber Concertstiick in F minor, Op 79: MARGRIT WEBER (piano) BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FERENC FRICSAY
Rossini Serenade for small orchestra: I SOLlSTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
Mendelssohn Songs without words Nos 1-3
ANNIE D'ARCO (piano)
Rossini Sinfonia di Bologna ORCHESTRA OF THE ANGELICUM, MILAN conducted by MASSIMO PRADELLA Beethoven Fantasia in c minor, for piano, chorus and orchestra ALFRED BRENDEL , STUTTGART
LEHRERGESANGVEREIN, STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER
Quartet in D major. Op 20 No 4 PRAGUE STRING QUARTET
