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Mozart, arr Wendt (1745-1801) Suite: Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail, for eight wind instruments
NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE
8.26* Piano solos:
Grieg Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6
Tchaikovsky Humoresque in G, Op 10 No 2: JOSEPH COOPER
8.37* Gliire The Red Poppy: Ballet Suite: WESTCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIEGFRIED landau : records

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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Puccini's Madam Butterfly by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Recent records of chamber and instrumental music:
STEPHEN WALSH '

conducted by CHRISTOPHER adey with JACK biiymkr (clarinet)
Haydn Symphony No 48, in c (Maria Theresia )
BusorI Concertino in B flat for clarinet and orchestra

Neilson Taylor. the baritone who now teaches at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and who was once a professional footballer, talks about the affinities between the two contrasting professions he has mastered.

Part 2 Strauss
Symphonic Fantasy: Aus Italien

Schumann Serenade: Scherzo: Quick March (Bunte Blatter/ Op 99): SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
12.14* Haydn String Quartet in G minor. Op 74 No 3
ALBAN BERG QUARTET OF VIENNA
12.35* Vaughan Williams Suite of six short pieces
12.47* Holst Nocturne; Jig
JOHN MCCABE (piano): records

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For this special edition The Positive World visited Italy. Donald Milner, who narrates the programme, looks for the reasons for Italian success in a variety of fields, and David Willey discusses the Italians' gift for enjoyment, and considers how it is that. in spite-of recurrent crises, they manage to remain so cheerful,

L'idea giovane
An eaotick and irrational entertainment. (DR JOHNSON on Italian opera)
The Italians venture at everything that is harsh ... their airs and graces are so out of the way that they resemble the composition of no other nature in the world. (RAGUENET)
Innovazione dall' Italia di Banchieri. Monteverdi, Farina, Gesualdo e Vivaldi. Introduzione di
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD gramophone records

Geoffrey Grigson , poet and author, presents a personal choice of records which includes a setting by Britten of one of the Holy Sonnets of John Donne , a quartet by Haydn, music by Satie.

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music by Johann Strauss , Trevor Duncan, Anthony Hedges. Frank Bridge, Tchaikovsky and Ibert.

Introducing Italian Weekend Richard Mayne evokes the alien hubbub of a warm but stony world beyond the Alps.

A little tapestry of Italian music gramophone records

A study of Italian family life introduced by Gaia Servadio , author and journalist, and Hallam Tennyson , lifelong Italophile with contributions from
MARCELLO CIMINO , ANAUID DEDEJAN, GERMAINE GREER , ELENA GROSSI , ADRIANA MAFFIOLETI 'I. JUDITH MONAT, MONSIGNOR MURPHY, IRIS ORIGO, ORNELLA OSTI , MARIA TERRY , DAVIDE TUROLDO, SJ
Producer hall am TENNYSON followed by an interlude

Introduced by Peter Clayton

with an introduction by DAVID COX
Broadcasting direct from its Rome studios, Italian Radio presents a special contribution to Radio 3's Italian Weekend
CHAMBER CHORUS OF ITALIAN RADIO conductor NINO antonellini
ROME SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF
ITALIAN RADIO conductor MASSIMO PRADELLA Introduced from Rome by David Willey Part 1
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (The Dresden Concerto) Cherubini Symphony in D

by JOHN SCOTT
After his Vita Nuova, written in about 1294, Dante's own life and works changed direction and became marked by a growing concern with the politics of his time.
John Scott is Head of the Department of Italian Studies,
University of Reading.

Part 2
Maliplero Pause del Silenzlo (19t7)
Dallaplccola Tempus destruendi. Tempus aedificandi
Petrassi Invenzione concertata (Concerto No 6)

A short story by ITALO SVEBO translated by EDWINA vittorini Read by GARY WATSON
One day, resolute, Curra with a single bound escaped unnoticed through the hedge whose dense growth bounded his home garden. In the open country he stopped short, completely dazed. Where could he find Mother in the vastness of this valley over which hung an even more immense blue sky?

Raleigh Trevelyan talks to authors and critics about Italian writing today.
(ELBMIRE ZOLLA)
Producer ADRIAN JOHNSON

exemplified in Bruno Bartolozzi's Collage for solo clarinet (1973) (first broadcast performance in this country) played by Giuseppe Garbarino

Neo Realism and After
Vincenzo Labella. Roman film producer, in conversation with RICHARD MAYNE

(PAOLO MONELLI )
MARTIN COOPER argues that the Italians have often confused opera with real life.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT followed by an interlude

RICHARD MAYNE introduces sounds and voices from the great ' outdoor room ' of Italy. Readers: JILL BALCON
VITTORIO GASSMAN , HARVEY HALL
Producer MICHAEL MASON

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