Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.22* Carl Nielsen Serenata in vano (1914)
HILMER NIELSEN (clarinet) JÖRN NILSSON (bassoon) H. c. SORENSEN (horn)
ASGER LUND CHRISTIANSEN (cello) JOHAN POULSEN (double-bass)
7.32* Dvorak Symphonic Poem The Golden Spinning-wheel LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records
Wagner Kaisermarsch LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAREK JANOWSKI
8.17* d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountaineer's Song NICOLE HENRIAT-SCHWEITZER (piano)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.44* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Prometheus
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone records
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Vivaldi
Innovator and Virtuoso
Concerto in p major (p 153) PIERO TOSO (violin) I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE Concerto in B minor (P 154) FELIX AYO (violin), I musici
Concerto in G major (p 132) EDMONDO MALANOTTE (violin) FRANCO GULLI (violin) VIRTUOSI DI ROMA conducted by RENATO FASANO gramophone records
conductor IAN HUMPHRIS
Delius To be sung of a summer night on the water; Midsummer Song; On Craig Ddu Hindemith Six chansons arr Grainger Brigg Fair; Irish tune from County Derry Bax This worldes joie
played by ANTHONY PLEETH and WILLIAM PLEETH Part I
Bononcini Sonata in A minor Pasqualini Sonata in A major
Sir Bruce Fraser , editor of the revised edition of Sir Ernest Gowers 's Plain Words, and former senior civil servant, reflects on some of the things we say and write, and on the raw material we use - words.
Part 2
Caporale Sonata in D minor
Sammartini Sonata in A minor
Variations on a theme of Paganini
French National Radio Orchestra conducted by Marius Constant
(Recording made available by courtesy of French Radio)
by JAN PANENKA
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 537)
Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op 126
BBC TRAINING ORCHESTRA concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM who is also the soloist in the concerto Part 1
Grieg Holberg Suite
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23, in A (K 488)
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Part 2
Gounod Petite Symphonie, for wind instruments
Lambert Aubade herolque
Rossini, arr Britten Soirees musicales
Richard Orton
A series in which British composers talk about themselves and their work
Cycle, for four players
2.4* Sampling afield (first broadcast performance)
2.25* For the time being (first broadcast performance)
2.30* Piece de resistance, for piano (first broadcast performance) SONOR
Ronald Lumsden (piano)
Nigel Shipway (percussion) Paul Rutherford (trombone) Barry Guy (double-bass)
YORK UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR directed by RICHARD orton
by Elgar JEAN ALLISTER (contralto) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCS
A lecture recital given by at last year's Durham Festival in Neville's Cross College, Durham: Part 1
4.30* Records of the themes, In their original versions, chosen by Brahms for two of his sets of variations.
4.35* The Three Phases of Brahms: Part 2
conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
Rossini Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
Sibelius Tone Poem: Finlandla (Recording made available by courtesy of cbc)
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6.40 Community Care:
Mental Illness and Handicap 8: ' Karina Sanderson Series producer ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
Book, 45p: see page 54
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder (sung in German)
A concert version of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera production
A fairytale opera which develops into a Pilgrims Progress of the Enlightenment.
Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conducted by Bernard Haitink
Act 1
8.45* Peter Branscombe talks about The Magic Flute in relation to the popular Viennese theatre of its day.
9.5* Proms 73
Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Act 2
(Having a ball with the Flute: pages 6-7)
Was the English Revolution the first great revolution of modern history? How revolutionary was it?
Professor Lawrence Stone of Princeton University and Christopher Hill, Master of Balliol. discuss this question in the light of several new books, including their own, on the 17th-century aristocracy and the Radicals in the Civil War. They also discuss the value of different methods - statistical, anthropological and psychoanalytical - to our understanding of historical movements. Chairman Peter Burke Producer ROBERT FOX
Bartok Seven Sketches, Op 9
Schoenberg Three Pieces. Op 11
Gerhard Three Impromptus played by PETER PETTINGER (piano)
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