Comprehensive forecast for me land areas and inshore waters
Madetoja Comedy Overture
HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA Toivo Kuula Folk Song
FINLANDIA STRING QUARTET
Uuno Klami Terhennleml (Kalevala Suite)
HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA
Palmgren Prelude. Op 17 No 24 (War); Prelude, Op 17 No 14; May Night. Op 27 No 4: Prelude, Op 17 No 12 (The Sea) RALF GOTHONI (piano) Sibelius Berceuse
YUVAL YARON (violin)
RENA STIPELMAN (piano) Jarnefelt Praeludium
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND Sibelius Karelia Suite
SINPONIA OF LONDON, conducted by TAUNO HANNIKAINEN : records
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: some records of Christmas music suggested by MICHAEL GREENHALGH. DONALD ALDOUS on pick-ups and turntables.
Recent opera records, reviewed by JOHN STEANE.
Paganlni Sonata Concertata in a; ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar)
10.26" Franck Symphony in D minor: NEW PHILHARMONIA orchestra, conducted by ANDREW DAVIS : records
MARTINO TIRIMO (piano)
Sonata in F sharp minor (D 570) (completed by Martino Tirimo ) Sonata in A minor (D 537)
presents a weekly selection of popular classics on record.
DOHA HERBERT-JONES (1890-1974) talks about Welsh folksong and her meeting with Gustav Hoist.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
SUSAN MILAN (flute)
ANTONY PAY (clarinet)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
Prokofiev Sonata in D, Op M, for flute and piano
Brahms Sonata No T. in w minor, for clarinet and piano Shostakovich Four Waltzes, for flute, clarinet and piano
Maurice Cranston , Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, introduces his choice of records,
Mozart Ave verum corpus
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
Mozart Introit (Requiem Mass) (K 626): HELEN DONATH (soprano) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS (gramophone records)
Schubert Geheimnis ; An mein Klavier; Wiegenlied
YVONNE KENNY (soprano)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Bruckner Symphony No 3. in D minor (Bruckner-Schalk revision): DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Cello Concerto
ERLING BLONDAHL BENGTSSON DANISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FERENCSIK (Danish Radio recording)
6.10* Concerto for recorder, strings, vibraphone and celesta MICHALA PETRI, OSLO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by ORNULF BOYE-HANSEN
(Norwegian Radio recording) (first broadcast performances)
J. W. Lambert (in the Chair) talks with A. S. Byatt , Richard Cork and Clancy Sigal. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
(Upstage and Downstage)
An opera in two acts. Libretto by DONIZETTI, after a comedy by A. SOGRAFI. Music by Donizetti (sung in Italian)
A high-spirited comic opera by the 29-year-old Donizetti which makes many a joke at the expense of the foibles and frailties of opera singers, producers, conductors, and managers: a parody of all back-stage intrigues and a send-up of operatic life generally.
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
HELMUTH FROSCHAUER
RUDOLF BRANDLE (harpsichord) VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO FRANCI Act 1
Malcolm MacEwen. Parliamentary Correspondent of the Daily Worker from 1945-55, and Features Editor during 1956. recalls how the dramatic events of that year looked from inside the Communist Party; he examines the reasons for the degeneration of the Communist ideal.
Act 2
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1976 Bregenz Festival)
Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg's Serenade tomorrow at
9.0 pm and tonight he talks to PETER STADLEN.
followed by an interlude
Second of seven programmes TONONI PIANO TRIO
Martinu Five Short Pieces (1930) Copland Vitebsk (Study on a Jewish theme) (1929)
Martinu Trio No 3, in c (1951) Introduced by ANTHONY BURTON
(Next programme: 18 December)