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Handel Organ Concerto No 13, in F: DANIEL CIIORZEMPA
CONCERTO AMSTERDAM conducted by JAAP SCHRÖDER
8.20* Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K252): LONDON WIND SOLOISTS
8.31* Handel Organ Concerto No 16, in F: records
Berkeley Serenade for Strings LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON conducted by LESLIE JONES
9.18* Mozart Aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te (K 505)
ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
9.29* Donizetti Concertino in G HEINZ HOLLIGER (cor anglais) BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG
9.39* Walton Symphony No 1, in B flat minor: LONDON SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by ANDRÉ previn : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Umberto Giordano: Noel Goodwin talks about the work of the Italian opera composer.
The Songs of Francis George Scott: by Ronald Stevenson.
"The most musical people, perhaps of all Europe" (Dr Burney): Peter Branscombe on music in I8th-century Bohemia.
Beethoven Mass in D (Missa solemniis): SARA-MAE ENDICH (SOP)
FLORENCE KOPLEFF (Contralto) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) EZIO FLAGE'LLO (bass)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS chorus-master ROBERT SHAW
(Concert of 2 February 1967; Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording)
Julian Mitchell , writer and critic (Repeated: Tuesday 4.0 pm)
Fourth of six programmes. Today, from a 70th birthday concert promoted by BBC Radio Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music last May, a long overdue first hearing of her String Quintet and the first performance of a work commissioned for the occasion. The ring of bone (1975) PETER LAWSON (piano) String Quintet (1963)
ROLAND FUDGE, PETER NUTTING
(violins), AVRIL SCHEPENS (viola) ELIZABETH BRIERLEY (cello) NIGEL BLOMILEY (cello)
NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHOIR AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HELMUT FRANZ
Ligeti Two Choral Songs, for soprano, tenor and chorus: Nacht;
Morgen SUSANNE DENMANN , ULF KENKLIES
Mllhaud Les amours de Ronsard, for chorus and small orchestra
Brahms Fest- und Gedenkspriiche (a 8) Eighth in a series made available through an EBU scheme
(North German Radio recording)
Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am)
The complete operas of Britten are being broadcast during 1977 as a Jubilee Year celebration - now also a commemoration. The operas are grouped by subject and today's double bill continues the operas with religious themes.
The Burning Fiery Furnace Second Parable for Church
Performance
Text by WILLIAM PLOMER
An English Opera production
MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by THE COMPOSER and VIOLA TUNNARD: records
Peter Pears talks about the human voice as a musical instrument, and on the music of our age from the singer's point of view.
The Prodigal Son
Third Parable for Church Performance. Text by WILLIAM PLOMER
An English Opera production
CHORUS AND MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by THE COMPOSER and VIOLA TUNNARD : records
String Quartet No 11, Op 122 BORODIN STRJNG QUARTET
A series of seven programmes presented by Dr Martin Bax 3: Nature or Nurture?
Are children born with a genetically based ability to elicit parental responses from those who look after them? Do mothers have inbuilt behaviour directed towards providing their babies with the emotional background necessary for their psychological development?
Contributors include: PROFESSOR
KEVIN CONNOLLY , DR ANTHONY COSTELLO , DR JOHN KENNEL and PROFESSOR MICHAEL RUTTER
Prelude and Fugue in c, for piano: LEONARD BROOMBERG (Soviet Radio recording)
Prelude for violin, in memory of Shostakovich: GIDON KREMER (Austrian Radio recording" from the 1976 Salzburg Festival)
1576-1634
An illustrated talk by Bernard Richards , Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, about the life and work of the author of Antonio. Reader JOHN ROWE
Antonio by JOHN MARSTON with Anna Calder-Marshall
Edward Petherbridge , John Phillips and Derek Godfrey
PETER BARNES , one of Britain's leading contemporary playwrights, has adapted two plays by the Elizabethan dramatist John Marston , which date from 1602, Antonio and Mellida and Antonio's Revenge. The first is a comedy, the second a gory revenge tragedy. Fused into one, as they were intended to be seen, they emerge as an arresting mixture of the tragic and the comic. and JUDY BENNETT , JO MANNING WILSON
, GODFREY KENTON , DENIS MCCARTHY. Music composed and conducted by CARL DAVIS. Boy singers:DAVID ALP and PATRICK MORGAN from Wandsworth School. Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLlN
Sonata No 3: EDITH VOGEL
Two Traditions of English Conservative Thought by Anthony Quinton
Fellow of New College, Oxford 4: Conservatism and Mass
Society
In his last 1976 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lecture, recorded last
October at the University of Kent, Anthony Quinton discusses the response to industrialised society of the secular and religious branches of conservatism, and traces the course of modern conservative thought.
127: Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r
Mensch und Gott: SOLOISTS
GUINNESS CHOIR
NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted byjoHNBECKETT
by EDWARD THOMAS
Introduced by PATRIC DICKINSON Reader STEPHEN THORNE