Comprehensive forecast for inland areas and inshore waters
Including this week Country Dances by Beethoven. Niefsen's Chaconne, the Dances from Smetana's The Bartered Brtde, the Sicilienne by Faur6 and two versions o! Saint-Saens'sDanse macabre: records
Vivatdi Summer (The Seasons) StMONSMNMnt (baroque vio)in) THE :N';DSH CONCERT, dtrected by TMvcRpiNnec)[ (harpsichord) .t7* Btttbeven Symphony NO 7,U)4
ViENMAPHtLHARMOKtC ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARLOS KLEtBER
*.5<*Bvert)) Slavonic Dance inEminor,Op4<tNe2 CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
H).3*N)e)senLittie Suite for Strings, Op 1: BOURNtMOUTH S)NtON)ETTt, conducted by XENNt-TH MONTGOMERY: records
A piano recftal given in the Reya) Festival Ha)) en 3 February 1975.
Mendeissehn Pre)ude and Fugue in E minor. Op 35 No 1 BrithBM Four Pieces. Op 119
FtMt and Stotc Music: Chrts<epher Headtnsten examines the problem ot tempo with the help of i])ustratiens
Part 2 Beethoven Thirty three Variations en a Wa)tz by Diabe))i,0pl2<)
Jack Brymer presents a selection of records, familiar and unfamiliar.
(Stereo)
Some perennia! characters poetica!]y i))ustrated and introduced by Mtchae) Schmidt. H: An fnsotent Man
Readers: ANNARtt, JOAN HART Producer FRAS&R STBZL BBC Manchester
Chillingirian String Quartet
Korngold Quartet in A Op 16
Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op 5O No 1
(Chillingirian String Quartet in Wednesday's Prom: 7.30 pm)
(Stereo)
Sir Robert Birtey. former HeadmasterofEton.introduces hispersenatchoiceefreeerda.
Beethoven Overture Prometheus (mono): Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna, conducted by Jascha Horenstein: record
Beethoven An die Hetfnung, Op 94 <R<'pfnt)
Schubert Auf der Riesenkoppe M<)tC<RETPR)< (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano) Mahler Symphony No 4
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JASCHA DOIRRMSTIRIN MARGARET pRic* (sop): record
IntredueedbyPeterCtayten
by HE)NZ WUNDERDCH at the Cathedra) and Abbey Church of StAjban
Bath Pretude and Fugue in * minor (Bwv 548)
Liszt Preiude and Fugue OB BAea
Pa) Karotyi Triphtengus
Heger Fantasia and Fugue en BACH
<Partefarecitatgivenon2<! June 1975 during the Eighth !nternationat Organ Festival)
Eight programmes written and presented by Ian McIntyre
5: Divided by a Common Tongue - British English ' and ' American English '
Speakers: ROBERT BURCHFIELD , ALISTAIR COOKE , JOE DILLARD , ELIZABETH HARDWICK , MARYA MANNES , RAVEN MCDAVID JR , JAMES RESTON , ARTHUR SCHLES-INGER JR and LARRY ZIFF Producer MICHAEL MASON
(First broadcast on Radio 4)
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Colin Davis
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
Berlioz Les nuits d'ete
P. J. Kavanagh , the poet and writer, has just read this long, pantheistic novel by John Cowper Powys for the first time and argues that, although it has been eulogised by critics as diverse as J. B. Priestley and Henry Miller , it is still too little read.
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
The third of seven programmes in which H. C. Robbins Landon takes a look at the state of music in Europe in the year of the American War of Independence. 3: Germany
(A broadcast version of the 1975 Mellon Lectures given at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
followed by an interlude
Last of four programmes In this recital the poems set are concernedwiththeideaofthe Virgin Mary.
Schubert Vom Mitleiden Maria; Marie; Das Marienbild
Anthony Milner Our Lady's Hours (the central and longest song of this cycle sets the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem The blessed Virgin compared to the air we breathe)
FELICITY LOTT (soprano) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
(Felicity Lott sings Mary Chand ler's Recollections: Thursday
4.35 pm)
A personal selection from the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Presented by Graham Storey. Fellow of Trinity Hall. Cam-bridge. Read by GABRIEL WOOLF ' Take breath and read it with the ears, and my verse becomes all right.' BBC Manchester