Comprehensive forecast
Verdi Overture: Giovanna d'Arco
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
7.14* d'lndy Symphony on a French mountaineer's song ROBERT CASADESUS (piano) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.39* Turlna Danzas fantasticas PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRÃHBECK de BURGOS : records
Handel Overture and Ballet Music (Alcina): ACADEMY of ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.21* C. P. E. Bach , arr Leppard Concerto in F: four harpsichords and string orchestra GEORGE MALCOLM , VALDA AVELING GEOFFREY PARSONS , SIMON PRESTON ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.43* Corelll Concerto Grosso in c, Op 6 No 10: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER : records
MAX REGER
1873-1916
Of all the German-speaking post-Wagnerians, Reger was the only one to attempt a fusion of complex chromaticism with the stylistic purity of Bach and Mozart. This worked best, not in the organ music by which he is usually remembered, but in his chamber music, so this week's programmes include five of his string quartets.
Suite in olden style, Op 93 ERICH KELLER (violin)
ELISABETH SCHWARZ (piano)
9.24* String Quartet No 2. in A, Op 54 NO 2: REGER QUARTET gramophone records
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD conductor NICHOLAS CLEOBURY with STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ)
Tippett Plebs Angelica ; The WeepingBabe
10.25* Liszt Ave Maria (1852); O salutaris hostia; Pax vobiscum!; Mariengarten (Quasi cedrus); Ossa arida; Qui seminant in lacrimis
10.50* Interval Reading
10.55* Liszt and Tippett: part 2 Liszt Das Vater unser (Christus); 0 sacrum convivium; Anima Christi sanctifica me; Salve Regina
11.17* Tippett Dance clarion air; The source; The Wind-hover
BBC Birmingham
SUSAN MILAN I flute)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY Sibelius Karelia Suite
Mozart Flute Concerto in D major (K 314)
Martin Cooper, chief music critic of The Daily Telegraph, talks about Musical Memory and Evaluation
Part 2 Matyas Selber Pastorale and Burlesque
Rnbbra Symphony No 8 BBC Scotland
Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3 Sonata in c minor, Op 111
(A series of public concerts from St John 's, Smith Square. Tickets: 80p at the door)
(Repeated: next Saturday)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY KRIPS
Music by Weber, Elgar, Kodaly, Johann Strauss and German
played by ARNO SCHÖNSTEDT from the Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Buxtehude Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor
Stockmeier Sonata No 3
Marpung Three Chorale Preludes
Kropfreiter Introduction and Passacaglia. BBC Manchester
Sir Edward Elgar 's overture, written in Italy, Includes a quotation from Byron's Childe Harold and an episode where a serenade played by solo viola recalls the symphony by Berlioz.
Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
4.5* Berlioz Symphony: Harold in Italy: WILLIAM LINCER (viola) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN : records
THE HANWELL BAND conductor ALAN WILSON
Edward Gregson Concerto Grosso
Vaughan Williams Variations for brass band
Martin Dalby Music for Brass
Atarah Ben-Tovim explores the different sounds of musical instruments in serious music, pop. rock and jazz. Each week she talks to a child who is learning an instrument, to share the problems and the pleasures. This week: The Flute
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by REGINALD KILBEY
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH ALWYN with artists on records
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Home and Family
6.30 New series
Know Your Body
Nine programmes In which RAINER GOLDSMITH , Professor of Physiology at Chelsea College, London, conducts a tour of the human body to see how it works. 1:The Systems Within
How much do you really know - and need to know - about what goes on inside your body? Series producer MICHAEL TOTTON Book, £2.60, from bookshops
7.0 New series
Children in the Family
A series of six programmes 1: Being a Parent
How does the arrival of a first baby affect a household? What demands does it make on the parents? And how is it likely to change their pattern of life? Presented by ANN HEYNO
Series producer DENNIS SIMMONS
The Musical Offering (BWV 1079) A new version by Hermann Börner
HEINZ FUGNER (flute)
KLAUS SCHONERT (alto-flute)
FRITZ SCHNEIDER (oboe d'amore) ERWIN KRETSCHMAR (bassoon) GYÖRGY GARAY (violin)
HELGA ROTSCHER (Violin)
PETER KLUG (viola da gamba)
HEINI VOGLER (viola da gamba) BERTRAM BARTH (viola da gamba) THOMAS WÜNSCH (viola d'amore) ERNd KLEPOCH (viola d'amore) WOLFGANG WEBER (cello)
HANS WERNER ROTSCHER (cello) DIETER ZAHN (double-bass) AMADEUS WEBERSINKE (piano and organ)
LEIPZIG RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, LEIPZIG RADIO CHOIR Conducted by HERBERT KEGEL
(East German Radio recording)
1922-1939
Peter Clarke. Lecturer in History at University College, London, considers the fifth volume of Martin Gilbert 's official biography of Sir Winston Churchill, which is published today.
This latest volume examines Churchill's response to some of the major episodes of these years: Britain's return to the Gold Standard in 1925, the General Strike of 1926. moves toward Indian self-government in the early 1930s and the rise of Hitter in the late 1930s.
RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conducted by ELIAHU INBAL Part 1 Blacher
Poeme for large orchestra
9.5* Interval Reading
9.10* Concert: part 2
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde CHRISTA LUDWIG (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
(Hess Radio recording)
A series of seven programmes presented by Dr Martin Bax 4: The Competent Infant
The first six months of life for the infant human are characterised by an astonishing rate of learning of skills - proportionately greater than at any other time during the individual's life. Even by the end of the first day after birth many babies can both fixate the mother's face and follow movement for a short time. The infant uses these skills to manipulate the relationship it develops with the adults around it. Contributors include: DR T. BERRY BRAZLETON
PROFESSOR KEVIN CONNOLLY DR AIDAN MACFARLANE
OR COLWYN TREVARTHEN
PROFESSOR H. R. SCHAFFER and DR MARY SHERIDAN
These talks are being printed in The Listener
Derek Jewell 's look at the popular music scene covers three contrasting new albums. GORDON GILTRAP'S Visionary is inspired by the poetry of William Blake and features GILTRAP'S classically influenced yet rock-based guitar. SOFT MACHINE'S latest album conveys their long history of rock-jazz which draws, too. on other streams of music. STEPHEN STILLS and NEIL YOUNG sing chiefly in the country-rock idiom: records
