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Ethel Smyth Overture: The Wreckers
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON Gustav Hoist Brook Green Suite
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
Vaughan Williams The lark ascending
HUGH BEAN (violin) NEW PHlLHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Grace Williams Sea Sketches ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ethel Smyth
Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson
Conducted By:
Imogen Holst
Conducted By:
Vaughan Williams
Violin:
Hugh Bean
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Grace Williams
Conducted By:
David Atherton

Haydn Overture: Lo speziale - Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Max Goberman

Beethoven Concerto in C - David Oistrakh (violin) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan

Prokofiev Symphonic Sketch: Autumn - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

(gramophone records)

Chopin Allegro de concert; Barcarolle in F sharp major ROGER WOODWARD (piano)
10.41* French Songs: Chausson Les papillons: Le colibri: Faur Apres un reve: Satie La Diva de L'Empire; Je te veux ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
10.55* Busoni Elegies MARTIN JONES <piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chopin Allegro
Piano:
Roger Woodward
Songs:
Chausson Les
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin

BARBARA NISSMAN (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by ALVARO CASSUTO Part 1
Robert Simpson Symphony No 2
12.1* Ravel Choreographic Poem: La valse

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Alvaro Cassuto
Unknown:
Robert Simpson

Composers' String Quartet
Elliott Carter 's second string quartet is one of the more important of the 20th century.
The Composers' Quartet from the USA. Carter's compatriots. are well known for their interpretation of contemporary music.
Elliott Carter Quartet No 2
Beethoven Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)
(A series of public concerts from St John 's, Smith Square, London. SW1. Tickets 44p, obtainable at the doon
(Elliott Carter's Double Concerto: tomorrow, 10.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elliott Carter
Unknown:
St John

The Book with the Seven Seals Oratorio after St John the Divine
HAROLD TRUSCOTT talks about the work followed at 2.30 by a performance sung in German
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano)
. RIA BOLLEN (contralto)
PETER BAILLI (tenor) ÉREID BUNGER (bass)
RUDOLF SCHOLZ (organ)
DER SINGVEREIN DER GESELLSCHAFT
DER MUSIKFREUNDE
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CARL MELLES (Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Talks:
Harold Truscott
Soprano:
Arleen Auger
Contralto:
Ria Bollen
Tenor:
Peter Bailli (tenor)
Bass:
Reid Bunger
Bass:
Rudolf Scholz
Conducted By:
Carl Melles

City of Coventry Band
(BBC Band of the Year. 1973) conductor ALBERT CHAPPELL
William Davis Construction
Group Band (Runner-up BBC Band of the Year, 1973) conductor JON HALL
Guest conductors: GEOFFREY BRAND , HARRY MORTIMER. OBE
Conducted by Harry Mortimer : William Rimmer Overture: Rule Britannia
Conducted by Geoffrey Brand : Leighton Lucas Symphonic Suite
Gilbert Vinter Suite: Entertainments
(Part of the concert given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 21 April. A joint BBC/
GLC promotion)
W
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The Recorder: its many relatives and its old war against the flute.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Conductor:
Albert Chappell
Conductor:
William Davis
Conductor:
Jon Hall
Conductors:
Geoffrey Brand
Conductors:
Harry Mortimer.
Conducted By:
Harry Mortimer
Conducted By:
William Rimmer
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Brand
Conducted By:
Leighton Lucas
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

A two part sequence of music for the early evening played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by
OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON and KENNETH ALWYN
with artists on records

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Owain Arwel Hughes
Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Havelock Nelson
Conducted By:
Kenneth Alwyn

6.30 Wiedcrsehen in Ansbiirg
A course for those with some knowledge of German
10: Erika geht zum Friseur (Rptd: Friday. 7.0 pm)
Book, 55p; tioo LP records, 99p each: see page 90
7.0 Connections in Music
7: More Popular Influences
HUGH OTTAWAY discusses the use of folk and popular music by romantic and nationalist composers and the 20th century's changing attitude to it.

A series of 13 concerts, with co-ordinated talks, throwing outstanding problems of symphonic thought into relief.
S: ' Cyclic ' Symphonism 11 CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN AMADEIIS STRING QUARTET Part
Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat major. Op 12
7.55* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
8.30* Hugh Ottaway continues his reflections on 'cyclic' symphonism in the light of tonight's works - among quite a few others.
8.50* The Symphony Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 8, in c minor (ed Nowak'
Editor HANS KELLER

Contributors

Piano:
Cristina Ortiz
Conductor:
Hugh Bradley
Conductor:
Christopher Seaman
Unknown:
Hugh Ottaway
Editor:
Hans Keller

Change Without War
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power by Alastair Buchan. Professor of International Relations, Oxford University.
3: The Troubled Giant
For no country does the new agenda of international relations present more frustrating problems than the United States. In this lecture Professor Buchan explains why this is so, and asks: are we witnessing the birth of a new kind of American nationalism? Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Buchan.
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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