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Lorin Maazel conducting the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
8.13* Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony gramophone records
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Edited and introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat (Emperor), by JOSEPH COOPER
Recent Organ Records: reviewed by CHRISTOPHER WELLS
Couperin Messe pour les couvents played by LIONEL ROGG at the organ of Marmoutier Abbey, Alsace gramophone record
A recital given by Paul Crossley (piano) direct from the Assembly Rooms, Bath Part 1
Schumann Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 11
11.34* Debussy Estampes: Pagodes; La soirée dans Grenade; Jardins sous la pluie
11.50* A Tribute to Sir Michael Tippett by IAN KEMP. Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge vhn cnvc
12.10* Bath Festival Part 2
Beethoven Variations and Fugue in e flat on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35
12.35* Tippett Piano Sonata No 3 (world premiere)
(Other relays from the Bath Festival: Monday, 11.0 am; Friday, 7.45 pm)
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A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Larry Hodgson
(Rptd: tonight, 6.50 pm)
Bryan Forbes , film director and author, presents a personal choice of records. Memories are revived for him by music ranging from the early Beatles songs, through the compositions of Elton John , to the Symphony No 1 In i minor by Sibelius.
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON PIANO TRIO
Beethoven Trio In c minor. Op 1 No 3
Mendelssohn Trio In c minor. Op 66
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
Introduced by John Amis Glyndebourne Opens with BERNARD HAITINK
KERSTIN MEYER and JOHN COX Production assistant NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Reflections on current affairs
James Joll , Professor of International History in the University of London, gives the first of four fortnightly talks.
Music drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German) A Scottish Opera production direct from the King's Theatre. Edinburgh Based on a medieval legend, this opera has been described as the most powerful expression of romantic love in all music. Cast in order of singing:
Sailors, attendants to King Marke
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ARTHUR OLDHAM SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader SAM BOR conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON Producer MICHAEL GELIOT
The action takes place in Arthurian times.
Summer morning is risen And to even it wends
And still I'm in prison Without any friends
A description of John Clare 's flight from the Epping Asylum in 1841 taken from his poems and journals with Edward Woodward as John Clare
Compiled and introduced by ROGER FRITH
Act 2
Poems bv John Dryden
PHILIP HOBSBAUM introduces a selection of verse which aims to demonstrate Dryden's quality as a poet in his translations of Latin and Greek from. among others, Virgil, Homer and Juvenal
The poems are read by JILL BAICON and GARY WATSON Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(Philip Hobsbaum on Alexander Pope: tomorrow, 10.40 pm)
Act 3
Fantasia in c minor (k 396) WALTER KLIEN (piano) gramophone record
Derek Jewell examines the best from todays popular music, including this week
THE WAILERS, JSD BAND, and son by RICK JONES gramophone records
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