Handel Overture in D
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.12* Bach Concerto in F. for harpsichord, two recorders, and string orchestra (bwv 1057) IGOR KIPNIS
JEANNE AND MARGUERITE
DOLMETSCH
LONDON STRINGS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.30' Buxtehude Cantata: Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe EDITH MATHIS (soprano)
SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS conducted by HANS-MARTIN LINDE
8.44* Mozart Concert Rondo in D (K 382)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) directing the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
8.52* Handel, arr Elgar Overture in n minor
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

A record request programme Prokofiev March, Op 99
MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by louis FRÉMAUX
9.9* Dvorak Nocturne in B
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by ALEXANDER FARIS
9.18* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4, in F minor
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV

Record Review Contributed by NOËL GOODWIN, JEREMY NOBLE and HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

The fourth in a series of programmes tracing the history of the orchestra from its beginnings to the present day

Rene Flynn (soprano)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
BBC Chorus
Conducted by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Part 1
Symphony No 4, in F minor

11.30* Talk: Ursula Vaughan Williams on the fourth symphony and Dona nobis pacem.

11.49* BBC SO: part 2
Dona nobis pacem: cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra

(gramophone records)

Haydn Quartet in B flat major, Op 64 No 3
Mozart Quartet in D major (k 499) played by the DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)

The fourth Leeds International Piano Competition was held in September
John Amis visited Leeds and presents a programme about the competition in which he talks to some of the people most closely involved and introduces some of the performances

direct from
The Dome. Brighton
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1 Bartok
Divertimento for string orchestra

A series in which composers talk about music criticism - its effect on them, and the changes they would like to see in the critic's role.
This week: Roger Smalley
(30 October: Milton Babbitt )

Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 9
(Presented by the BBC in association with the Brighton Philharmonic Society)

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS

Riders to the Sea
Music-drama in one act Libretto by J. M. SYNGE
(gramophone records)
In Ridersto the Sea, which Is a play about an Irish fishing community, Vaughan Williams has created a powerful drama of human endurance in the face of natural elements. Cast in order of singing:
WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ORCHESTRA NOVA OF LONDON conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
The scene is set in a cottage kitchen on an island off the West Coast of Ireland.

1896-1972
JOHN CRUICKSHANK discusses the life and work of the great French writer who died in Paris last month.

La Ville dont le Prince est un Enfant by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT in a new translation by HENRY REED with Hugh Burden
Sean Bury and Carlo Cura
The action takes place between the two world wars in the Auteuil district of Paris, at a Catholic boarding-school, towards the end of March.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(An earlier version of this translation was broadcast in 19591 followed by an interlude

STOIKA MILANOVA (violin) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Part
Brahms Tragic Overture
9.16* Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

PHILIP HOBSBAUM discusses the work of the great English critic who was born 200 years ago
With Coleridge, he believes, self-absorption went hand in hand with self-analysis, and he sees the image of an ice-skater, fixed on his own shadow mirrored in the frozen water, as central to an understanding of where Coleridge's strengths and weaknesses lay.

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
(A public concert presented in the Town Hall. Leeds, on 30 Sept by the BBC in association with the City of Leeds Libraries and Arts Committee)

Lamentations of Jeremiah (a 5) Libera me, Domine CANTORES IN ECCLESIA conductor MICHAEL HOWARD
Between the two works MICHAEL HOWARD talks about Robert White and his treatment of the subject of death in his setting of the Libera me.