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8.5 Servus! Nigel Douglas on today's programmes,

Domestic and Dance Music
Haydn Two Minuets (H ix 7, Nos 1 and 14) VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL ANGERER
Mozart Trio: Das Bandet (K441) CHRISTINA KLOPSCH (soprano) JOACHIM VOGT (tenor)
SIEGFRIED HAUSMANN (bass) with WALTER OLBERTZ (piano)
Dlttersdorf String Quartet No 5. in E flat: WELLER QUARTET
Mozart Variations on La bergere Cdlimene (K 359)
HENRYK SZERYNG (Violin) INGRID HAERLER (piano)
Pavel Vranlcky Ten German Dances: EDUARD MELKUS ENSEMBLE directed by EDUARD MELKUS (violin): records

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Mass in F minor
ROTRAUD HANSMANN (soprano)
ANNE GJEVANG (contralto) ANTON DERMOTA (tenor) ARTHUR KORN (bass)
AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN

Beethoven Twelve Contretanze (WoO 14): VIENNA MOZART ensemble, directed by WILLI BOSKOVSKY (violin)
10.23* Schubert Quartet-Movement in c minor (D 703)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC QUARTET
10.33* Berg Four pieces for clarinet and piano. Op 5
GERVASE DE PEVER. LAMAR CROWSON
10.42* Mahler Der Tambour-g'sell: Revelge (Des Knaben Wunderhorn): WALTER BERRY (bar). NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN : records

'To praise the Philharmonic Orchestra is to bring violins to Vienna.' (RICHARD STRAUSS) Nigel Douglas sets the scene for this morning's concert,

A concert from the 1975-8 season of morning concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Maurizio Pollini (piano) conducted by Karl Bohm Part I Mozart
Serenade in G, for strings (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) (K 525): Piano Concerto No 19, in F (K 459)

Presented by Nigel Douglas
Some English impressions of Austria and its capital in the 18th and 19th centuries. with the voices of DAVID MAHLOWE MARAH STOHL. GEOFFREY BANKS CYNTHIA MICHAELIS
Compiled by IAN BRADLET

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 5, in c minor

A View of Austrian Politics by Ian Mclntyre Austria has been described as a ' de-politicised democracy.'
' Red ' and ' Black ' survive as party labels for Left and Right, but the passions which erupted into Civil War in the 1930s are muted. Neutrality, part of the price paid for the State Treaty in 1955, finds a domestic reflection in a constant search for consensus. Producer MICHAEL GREEN

including classical and traditional songs: records

The Austrian Chancellor
Dr Bruno Kreisky , in conversation with Ian McIntyre
'I believe capitalism is incapable of overcoming crises. Only social democracy can do it.'
Four years ago, Dr Kreisky began an exchange of letters with Willy Brandt and Olof Palme. the Swedish Prime Minister, on the theory and practice of social democracy.

The tradition of Viennese operetta helped create a mythical character for the city.
Nigel Douglas explores the real relationship between this Viennese institution and the society in which it flourished. Producer GILLIAN HUSH

A recital given by Austria's leading young string quartet on a recent visit to England. Mozart Quartet in B flat (K 589)
4.20' Webern Five Movements

by THOMAS BERNHARD
A short story by one of Austria's leading writers.

Part 2 Brahms
Quartet in c minor, Op 51 No 1

by Ernst Krenek (1946), Berg (Adagio from the Chamber Concerto), and the young Austrian composer Martin Bjelik (born 1940) (first broadcast performance in this country) TRIO OF THE ENSEMBLE KONTRAPUNKTE, VIENNA

James Gibb discusses Alfred Brendel 's playing with reference to three works, which are played complete on records. Beethoven Sonata in f, Op 54
Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 784)
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 15, in A minor (Rakoczy March)

The glamour of the Viennese stage may have been ended by World War II but Austria today can claim a distinguished group of playwrights.
Charles Marowitz talks to the new dramatists and reflects on their links with the international avant-garde and their own literary tradition.
Speakers include H. c. ARTMANN, WOI.FGANG BAUER. THOMAS BERNHARD, PETER HANDKE , ERNST JANDL Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

A play on words by PETERHANDKZ translated by MARTIN ESSLIN
A highly experimental dramatic work by Austria's leading young writer. An attempt to create drama without plot or characters by the movement of language alone.
Spoken by MARGARET ROBERTSON and DENYS HAWTHORNE with percussion by DON LAWSON Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLIN

(mezzo-soprano) in a programme of Lieder by Schubert and Wolf gramophone records

and his Vienna
' As the epoch raised its hand to end its life. he was that hand.' So wrote Brecht of Karl Kraus. the relentless satirist of Austrian society. From the last years of empire to within sight of the Anschluss, Kraus's writings made a unique impact on the morals of his Viennese contemporaries. A portrait written and compiled by DR FRANK FIELD, Lecturer in History at Keele
Speakers: J. w. BRUEGEL, MOSCO CARNER. SIR ERNST GOMBRICH
J. P. STERN , FRIEDRICH TORBERG Kraus.....JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Narrator GEOFFREY BANKS
Other parts: ROSALIND KNIGHT DAVID MAIILOWE , HERBERT SMITH and PAUL WEBSTER
Producers FRASER STEEL and TONY CLIFF

Pierrot Lunaire: MEMBERS OF THE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
JANE MANNING (reciter), JOHN CONSTABLE (piano), DAVID BUTT (flute, piccolo), COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet), ANTHONY JENNINGS (bass clarinet), BELA DEKANY (violin), JOHN COULLING (viola) ALAN DALZIEL (cello)

Johann Strauss the Younger
Nigel Douglas introduces pieces which illustrate little-known sides of the ' Waltz King '.
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by JULIUS RUDEL , from a 1975 Vienna Festival concert, devised by MARCEL PRAWY
(Austrian Radio recording)

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No 67: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ
MERIEl. DICKINSON (mezzo-sop) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bass-bar)
BBC CHORUS, BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BELA DEKANY conducted by ANDREW DAVIS