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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
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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)
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Borodin Symphony No 1. in E Hat
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY gramophone record
with Antony Hopkins
(Sundays broadcast)
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)
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
A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them.
Arthur Hutchings ' subject is Pitch
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
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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)
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)
Pit'ces de clavecin en concert NoS 3 and 5: RAMEAU ENSEMBLE Delia Ruhm (flute)
Oliver Brookes (cello)
Norman Dyson (harpsichord)
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)
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The Recorder: its many relatives and its old war against the flute.
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
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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
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
Seventh of nine programmes containing his music completed between January and October 1828.
Quintet in c major (D 956) AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
With WILLIAM PI.EETH (cello) gramophone record
Introduced by MtSHA DONAT
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