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Richard Mayne on today's programmes

1525-1594
The first of 12 programmes MAGDALEN COLLEGE CHOIR conductor BERNARD ROSE

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Listeners' record requests of Italian music, introduced by Raymond Leppard
Albinoni Concerto in c. for oboe, strings and continuo, Op 9 No 5: HEINZ HOLLIGER, I MUSICI
9.20* Monteverdi Madrigals conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
9.30* Pizzetti Excerpts from the incidental music: La Pisanella
9.39* Respighi Symphonic Poem: The Pines of Rome

A look at religion in Italy by Hugh Kay
This month marks the beginning of another Holy Year for the Roman Catholic Church, focused on the theme of ' reconciliation.' But is the Vatican a centre of spiritual leadership or of the political power game?
Also taking part: PROFESSOR FRANCO FERRAROTI , sociologist; FR JOHN NAVONE , sj, theologian: GEORGIO GIRARDET. a Protestant minister; CANON WILLIAM PURDY , Vatican official and ANGELO GEN-NARI, trade union leader Producer HUBERT HOSKINS

Part 2
Boccherini Symphony No 4, in D minor (Della Casa del Diavolo) 10.49* Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata: Su le sponde del Tebro BARBARA SCHLICK (soprano) ADOLF SCHERBAUM (trumpet) With CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
11.0* Rossini Ballet Music (William Tell) followed by an interlude

An enquiry by Peter Nichols , Chief Rome Correspondent of The Times
Speakers include:
PIERO BASSETTI , former Head of Lombard Regional Government: GIOVANNI FAVILLI , Communist City Councillor of Bologna: GINO GIUGNI, Professor of Labour Law, University of Rome: GioVANNI MALAGODI, Chairman of Liberal Party; FRANCO MATTEI , Director General of Confindustria; PIERO OTTONE , Editor Corriere della Sera;STEFANO PAS-SIGLI,
Professor of Administration, University of Florence; FR ROBERTO TUCCI , Head of Vatican Radio
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

1706-1785
Divertimento in A
Sonata No 15. in f major EGIDA GiORDANl SARTORI (harpsichord)

by Umberto Eco

Presented by John Maddox
Is Italian science declining for lack of support and over-stretched facilities?
Among those taking part:
PROFESSORS P. FASELLA, biochemist; E. AMALDI , physicist; j. WYMAN , molecular biologist; G. MONTALENTI , geneticist: L. AMADUCCI , neurologist: and A. MONROY , molecular biologist Producer DAVID PATERSON

Concerto Grosso No 6. in r
FELIX AYO , ARNALDO APOSTOL1 (violins), ENZO ALTOBELLI (cello) MARIA TERESA GARATTI (harpsichord), GUY BOVET (organ)
I MUSICI: gramophone record followed by an interlude

John Hale , Professor of Italian Studies. University of London. in conversation with HAROLD ACTON , GIULIANA ARTOM-TREVES, POLLY DEVLIN
MARCHESA FOSSI-RUCCELH 1
ANDREW GARNETT
IAN GREENLEES , GERMAINE GREER JOAN HASLIP and IRIS ORIGO
For generations the city of Florence and the great man-made landscapes of Tuscany have meant a great deal to the British. But while Florence has survived many disasters relatively unscathed, the beauty of the terraced hillsides now proves highly vulnerable. Producer LEONIE COHN

Verse and music

Denis Arnold talks about the regional differences in Italian music during the 16th and 17th centuries. followed by an interlude

Opera in three acts byVerdi Libretto by ARRIGO BOlTO after SHAKESPEARE
(sung in Italian: records)
ROBERT SHAW CHORALE
NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI
4.30* For My Own Amusement
DR PIERLUIGI PETROBELLI , Lecturer in Music at King's College, University of London, considers the phrase with which the aged Verdi described the composition of Falstaff.
4.50* Falstaff, Act 2
5.40* Music for the Italians Two 19th-century views by Berlioz and Wagner Read by GARY WATSON and HARVEY HALL
5.55* Falstaff, Act 3

(La grande magia) by EDUARDO DE FILIPPO
English version by CARLO ARDITO with Hugh Griffith as ' Professor ' Otto Marvuglia and Robert Stephens as Calogero Di Spelta
! The Management have great pleasure in announcing this

11 combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda conducted and introduced by RAYMOND LEPPARD : records

Designers in Italy are expressing an almost wholesale rejection of the reputation for the Italian ' genius for design.' What causes such deprecating attitudes? John Donat. architect and photographer, in conversation with architects, designers and teachers, including GAE AULENTI ,PAOLO PORTO-GHESI, TOBIA SCARPA ,MANFREDO TAFURI ; and FRANCO FERRAROTTI , sociologist; and LISA PONTI , editor of Domus.

Madrigals in music and words Settings of Boccaccio, Petrarch and Guarini conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Reader ROBERT RIETTY

John Vaizey. economist and writer, talks about the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian economy to:
GUIDO CARLI , Governor of the Banca d'ltalia; CARLO CIPOLLA ,Professor of Economic History. University of Pavia: LUIGI SPAVENTA, Professor of Economics. University of Rome

It is largely for this that Roman composer Guido Bag giani, member of Team Roma, prefers working with live electronics to recording sounds on tape. Baggiani talks to DAVID OSMOND-SMITH of the University of Sussex about the contemporary music scene in Italy.

Concerto in G: Alia rustica (p 143): Bassoon Concerto in G (p 1311: records

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is considered a poet second only to Dante. This study is introduced by PROFESSOR HUM -PIIREY WHITFIELD and includes a new translation of Leopardi's great poem La Ginestra (The Broom) by HENRY REED Readers PAUL GAYMON and ROBERT RIETTY
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON

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