Concertos by Stanley and Handel, brass consort music by Cazzati and Grossi, and madrigals by Weelkes: records
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by IRWIN HOFFMAN
Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny
8.15* Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
8.25* Haydn Symphony No 88
8.45* Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
Monteverdi
Excerpts from the opera Orfeo and Lasciatemi morire from L'Arianna, sung by JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) gramophone records
recorded in the Great Hall, University of Lancaster
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano) Part 1
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2
Robert Sherlaw Johnson Sonata No 1
An illustrated talk in which J. W. Lambert reminisces abouthismusicalexperiences.
Part 2
Haydn Andante con variazioni in F minor
Schubert Fantasia in c major (Wanderer)
(14 December: Hull University)
A series of illustrated talks by NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY 9: Bihar
(BBC Sound Archive recording)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by ALVARO CASSUTO
Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House
12.12* Mozart Symphony No 38, in D major (Prague) (K 504)
12.39* Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (revised version 1919)
Fine Arts Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in c minor. Op 18 No 4
Lutoslawski String Quartet (1965)
(From the Friends' Meeting House, Manchester. The fourth in a series of concerts promoted by the Manchester Tuesday Midday Concerts Society in association with the BBC)
Opera in four acts Music By Puccini
Libretto based on the novel by ABBÉ PREVOST (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
' How I love her! My passion is so strong that I feel I am the most unhappy creature alive ... And I will follow her! Wherever she may go! ... Even to the ends of the earth!
(DES GRlEUX)
Cast in order of singing:
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHII.HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO BARTOLETTI
Act 1 Outside an inn at Amiens Act 2 Geronte's house in Paris
3.20* Edward Greenfield on the formation of Puccini's style.
3.351 Manon Lescaut
Act 3 A square near the harbour of Le Havre
Act 4 A desert plain on the borders of New Orleans
MUSICA DA CAMERA
Harold Clarke (flute) Roger Lord (oboe)
Vera Kantrovitch (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Denis Vigay (cello) Hubert Dawkes
(piano and harpsichord) Patricia Clark (soprano) perform music by Gordon Jacob , George Haydon. Bliss, Moeran, and Madeleine Dring
Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow gramophone records
6.0 Stock Market Report
A sequence of music for the early evening.
An oratorio by George Dyson ELIZABETH SIMON (soprano) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
HALIFAX CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by DONALD HUNT Part 1
8.30* Dyson and The Canterbury Pilgrims
A personal reflection by JAMES ROBERTSON
8.50* The Canterbury Pilgrims Part 2
(A public concert presented in the Civic Theatre, Halifax, on 19 November by the BBC in association with the Halifax Choral Society)
A. J TAYLOR , ROBERT KEE and LIAM DE PAOR discuss in what ways Irish nationalism differs from national movements in other countries and debate whether Irish nationalism need necessarily have implied separatism, an argument put forward in Robert Kee 's book The Green Flag
Producer ROBERT FOX followed by an interlude
DEBEN BHATTACHARYA Visited India and Bangla Desh last year, and he introduces two programmes of the folk music that he recorded there.
2: Songs of war and peace from Bangla Desh
The ninth in a series of programmes in which Peter Frankl and Andre Tchaikowsky play all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
Sonata in F major, Op 10 No 2 (Peter Frankl )
Sonata in E flat major, Op 81a (Les adieux)
(Andre Tehaikowsky )
Sonata in E minor, Op 90 (Andre Tehaikowsky )
(8 December: Op 27 No 1 and Op 78)
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