Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
A series to include the complete sets published as Op 9 and Op 17
String Quartet in c, Op 9 No 1 AEOLIAN QUARTET
Minuet and Trio (H xiv 5) RUDOLF BUCHBINDER (piano)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 20 No 3
AEOtlAN QUARTET gramophone records
Listeners' record requests
C. P. E. Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor (Wq 23) GUSTAV LEONHARDT COLLEGIUM AUREUM
9.28* Mozart Andante and Variations in G (K 501)
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH and JUSTUS FRANTZ (piano duet)
9.37* Rimsky-Korsakov Musical Picture: Sadko, Op 5
LONDON PHILHARMONIC. ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES
9.48* Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, in G minor JASCHA HEIFETZ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
10.12* Smetana From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Ma vlast)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Requests, on a postcard please, to Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Introduced by Michael Oliver
An Indian Summer in London: WILLIAM MANN recalls Richard Strauss 's visit in 1947. The opinions (and prejudices) of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Handel and the Concerto Grosso by ROGER FISKE.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
BRUSSELS PRO MUSICA ANTIQUA directed by SAFFORD CAPE
Dunstable Veni Sancte Spiritus Dufay Pour I'amour de ma doulce amye
Josquin des Prés El grillo; Je ne puis tenir d'aimer
Passereau II est bel et bon gramophone records
Rafael Kubellk conducts the BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, in a performance of Mahler Symphony No 9, in D minor
(Recording from the Main Hall of the Musikverein in May by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
Frederic Raphael , the novelist and playwright, reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words. (Repeated: Thursday 3.50 pm)
13: Semi-finals
Mixed Voice Class: Match 1 West Germany:
MONTEVERDI-CHOR, HAMBURG
Finland: CANDOMINO, YOUTH CHOIR OF THE OLARI PARISH, ESPOO School Class Yugoslavia:
DR VOJISLAV VUCKOVIC
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC under the auspices of the EBU)
Opera in three acts and a prologue, by Benjamin Britten
Words by MONTAGU SLATER , after the poem by GEORGE CRABBE (gramophone records)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by THE COMPOSER
The action takes place around the year 1830, in the Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast.
Prologue and Act 1
2.35* Interval Reading
2.40* Peter Grimes : Act 2
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Peter Grimes : Act 3
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
The most excellent history of the Merchant, with the extreme cruelty of Shylock the Jew towards said merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and the obtaining of Portia by the choice of three chests.
Written by William Shakespeare
with music by Christos Pittas
with Anna Massey as Portia, Alan Badel as Shylock, Sarah Badel as Jessica, Christopher Bidmead as the Lord Bassanio, Richard Goolden and Steve Hodson as the Gobbos and Patrick Barr as Antonio
Philomusica of London conducted by The Composer
A Transcription Services recording by Adrian Revill, Paul Nickson
Studio managers ANTHEA DAVIES and ENYD CLOWES
Produced and directed by IAN COTTERELL
(Stereo)
ELISABETH SODERSTROM (soprano) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by Desmond BRADLEY conducted by ANTAL dorati direct from the Royal Festival Hall
Don Juan ; Four Last Songs
Current economic and social developments are accentuating the differences between the free countries of Europe and pushing them apart.
Professor Ralf Dahrendorf. Director of the London School of Economics, reflects on the tensions that arise from such developments and asks. how much divergence can Europe tolerate? BBC Manchester
Part 2 Closing scene from Capriccio; Also sprach Zarathustra
Lewis Mumford in the second of six conversations with Malcolm MacEwen
Mumford's studies of technology, in which he is recognised as a leading historian, led him to perceive the significance of ritual and language before this had been appreciated by anthropologists and linguists.
His four Rs might be said to be repetition, rhvthm, ritual and religion, and he shows how they apply to the artists and architects who flourished in America after the Civil War.
(14 Oct: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Flowering of Chicago) followed by an interlude
Music for viols
Pavan and Galliard a 6 Fantasie for two treble viols (Viola da Gamba Society No 1) Galliard a 3 (vgs No 1)
Fantasie a 4, with the Great Dooble Base (VGS No 1)
In Nomine a 5 (VGS No 1)
Variations a 6 on Go from my window
Fantasie a 3 (vgs No 1) Fantasie a 6 (vgs No 3) ENGLISH CONSORT OF VIOLS
An imaginary conversation written by JOHN SPURLING.
The time: evening. 26 July 1794 The place: the Champs-Elysées The participants:
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
Derek Jewell plays songs from new albums by Decameron and GORDON LIGIITFOOT. Also music from COMMANDER CODY AND THE LOST PLANET AIRMEN: records