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Schumann Overture: Manfred
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.17* Brahms Symphony No 3, in F
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records
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Rossini Overture: 11 Turco in Italia
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
9.13* Mozart Oboe Concerto in C (K 314): LEON GOOSSENS
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by COLIN DAVIS
9.35* Wagner Brunnhilde's Immolation (Gotterdammerung) BIRGIT NILSSON (soprano) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
9.47* Schubert Nocturne in E flat (D 897)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) MAURICE GENDRON (cello)
HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano)
9.56* Bartok Piano Concerto No 3
DANIEL BARENBOIM
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Prokofiev and the Piano: by ROBERT LAYTON.
GERARD SCHÜRMANN talks about his new work, The double heart.
The Ten Senses of Music: by TERENCE MCLAUGHLIN.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Michael Oliver 's The Larks of Dean: Tuesday 9.40 pm)
HENRYK SZERYNG (violin)
DELFINA AMBROZIAK (soprano) STEFANIA TOCZYSKA (contralto) ANDRZE .J HIOLSKI (baritone)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND CHOIR conducted by HEINZ RÖGNER Part 1
Berg Violin Concerto
P. J. Kavanagh , novelist and poet, reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.50am) Words, in which 14 well-known broadcasters examine some of the things we say and write, £3.25 from bookshops
Part 2
Mozart Violin Concerto No S, in A (K 219)
Szymanowski Stabat Mater, Op 53 (Radio DDR recording)
played by STEPHEN PRESTON (flute)
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Flute Sonata No 1, in B minor (bwv 1030)
(From a BBC Lunchtime Concert given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London, on 4 April 1973)
United Kingdom Rounds (7)
The first final in this year's competition:
School Choirs
HOWELI.SSCHOOLCHOIR,LLANDAFF conductor gaynor Howard KIDDERMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL
MADRIGAL CHOIR conductor SUSAN ELLIS
ST BERNARD 'S CONVENT CHOIR conductor GILLIAN GRIFFITHS
Adjudicators: CHARLES BEARDSALL GILES BRYANT , RICHARD BUTT
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the results,
MAX ROSTAL and COLIN HORSLEY
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
Reger Suite in E minor, Op 131d, for viola
A Midsummer Night's Dream
An opera in three acts, with libretto by PETER PEARS and THE COMPOSER, based on SHAKEspeare's play.
CHOIR OF DOWNSIDE AND
EMANUEL SCHOOLS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
Act 1: The depths of a wood near Athens: Act 2: The same
3.55* Interval Reading
4.5* A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 3: The same, changing to the palace of Theseus
(The Turn of the Screw: 25 June)
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor Louis Frfmaux with John Lill (piano)
Purcell Chacony in G minor
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3, in c
6.15* Interval Reading
6.25* Concert Part 2
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony. Op 58
BBC Birmingham
by HAROLD PINTER
A professor in an American university introduces his wife to his father, uncle and two brothers living in the family home in North London.
A major success in London and New York, this play is the choice of Nigel Anthony , winner of the 1976 Imperial Tobacco Radio Actors Award.
Directed by guy VAESEN
(First broadcast on Radio 4)
(Bill Fraser is in ' The Circle' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
played by the Quartetto Italiano
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffi (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello) Part 1
Quartet in F major, Op 18 No 1 Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)
The Roman satirist, no less than the playwright, wrote for public performance, says Frederic Raphael. He argues that, although the performer has yet to play his full part as translator, without his collaboration ' I doubt if we shall manage to restore laughter to its. rightful place in our view of the ancient world - too long faced with the tendentious marble of scholarly deference.'
Part 2
Quartet in F major, Op 135
No 175: Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen
ANNA REYNOLDS (contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone record