Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Grieg Holberg Suite
PHII.HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE WELDON
Palmgren Piano Concerto No 2, Op 33 (The River): IZUMI TATENO HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA
Grieg Cowkeeper's Tune and Country Dance: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGE WELDON : records
Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Mendelssohn's Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, by ROBERT PHILIP.
Recent opera records: reviewed by JOHN STEANE.
Kodaly Missa Brevis
ELIZABETH GALE , SALLY LE SAGE and HANNAH FRANCIS (sopranos) ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) IAN CALEY (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS conducted by LASZLO HELTAY. Poulenc Gloria
NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX: records
Dvorak Four Pieces, Op 52; Impromptu; Intermezzo; Gigue; Eclogue
Fibich Moods, Impressions and Memories, Op 44 and Op 57 LIZA FUCHSOVA (piano)
presents a weekly selection of popular classics on records,
JOHN BRENNAN discusses Shrove-tide customs.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
Shostakovich String Quartet No 6. in G, Op 101
Haydn String Quartet in A, Op 20 No 6
Rt Hon Sir Harold Wilson , mp, introduces his personal choice of records,;
The young Brahms and an older composer to whom he owed much.
Schumann Overture: Manfred - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik (gramophone record)
Brahms Early songs: Heimkehr; Liebestreu; Lindes Rauschen; Vor dem Fenster; Ein Sonett - Robert Tear (tenor) Philip Ledger (piano)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor - Emil Gilels, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eugen Jochum (gramophone record)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Today's guest Timothy Walker plays music by Galilei, Carulli, Carcassi, Mwenda Jean Bosco and himself, and talks to Peter Sensier.
Philip French (in the Chair) talks with George Melly , Peter Porter and Marina Vaizey.
Opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti
(sung in Italian: records)
Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO after the novel by SIR WALTER SCOTT
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ACADEMY OF ST CECILIA, ROME conducted by john PRITCHARD
The scene is set in Scotland in and around Ravenswood Castle during the last years of the 17th century. Acts 1 and 2
- Our Nationalised Industries
What are the problems which disttaguish nationalised industries from the private sector?
Sir Monty Finniston , until recently Chairman of the British Steel Corporation, analyses the deficiencies of the nationalised industries, and makes his own proposals for the future.
Acts 3 and 4
The first of three programmes 1: The Sermons of John Wycliffe with Sir Bernard Miles as John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe was one of the most remarkable and controversial figures of 14th-century England. The strength and un-orthodoxy of his religious and social views have earned him the title of ' morning star of the Reformation '. His sermons were widely enjoyed by both the literate and illiterate and four of these sermons have been drawn upon by TERENCE TILLER to compile one composite sermon.
Narrator GEOFFREY COLLINS
Producer BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
fallowed by an interlude
There have been many classic versions of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess down the years. This week Derek Jewell takes a look at the latest of them. produced last year by impresario NORMAN GRANZ. The sta,rs are CLEO LAINE and RAY CHARLES. A huge orchestra, conducted by FRANK DE VOL , includes such notable names as Harry Edison, J. J. Johnson , Bud Shank , Joe Pass and Vic Feldman. gramophone records
