Comprehensive forecast
Handel Concerto Grosso No 29, in F, for double wind band and strings: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL RICHTER
7.20* J. C. Bach Symphony in D, Op 18 No 3, for double orchestra
NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ZINMAN
7.33* Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
BATH FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
MOSCOW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF BARSHAI gramophone records
Hilding Rosenberg Overture: Marionettes
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING
8.11* Nielsen Flute Concerto
FRANZ LEMSSER
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
8.29* Sibelius Kullervo and his sister (Kullervo Symphony) RAILI KOSTIA (soprano)
USKO VIITANEN (baritone)
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY MALE VOICE
CHOIR, BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND : records
Debussy Images: BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS : record
This week Tchaikovsky and Borodin, seen in terms of string quartets: BORODIN STRING QUARTET Tchaikovsky Quartet No 3, in E flat minor
Borodin Quartet No 1, in A Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE
Lionel Salter , the BBC's former Assistant Controller, Music, and himself a music critic, reflects on the question of What Makes a Critic'
HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by ARVID YANSONS Part 1 Mozart Symphony No 41, in c (Jupiter) (K 551)
Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 3, in D minor (third version, ed Nowak) (Given in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, last December) BBC Manchester
The sixth programme in this series contains music from Le nozze di Figaro, along with the String Quintet in D (K 593) played by the AMADEUS QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ : records
given by GWENNETH PRYOR Medtner Sonate orageuse in V minor, Op 53 No 2 Ravel Miroirs Mendelssohn Songs without words, Op 62 Nos 1, 2 and 3 Mendelssohn, transc Rachmaninov Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream BBC Scotland
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The Wider World
6.40 Get By in Spanish
An intensive language course in five weekly programmes 1: Getting a Drink
Calling the waiter, saying how you like something, being polite With MARIA ANTONIA MARCOS and EDUARDO DELGADO
Course writer JANE FREELAND Series producer
CHRISTOPHER STONE
(Study notes, price 50p each, from Brighton Polytechnic[address removed] Please enclose large SAE)
7.10 Can You Help?
Presented by HELENE CURTIS
3: Helping with Children and Old People
Examples of opportunities for this kind of voluntary work.
A selection of keyboard pieces played on the clavichord by THURSTON DART: records
Felicity Lott (soprano) Emanuel Ax (piano)
New Philharmonic Orchestra leader CARL PINI conducted by Andrew Davis Weber Overture: Oberon
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)
Ida Herz first met Thomas Mann in 1922 at the Frankfurt am Main bookshop where she was working. She was in friendly contact with him until his death in 1955,
Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 4
by GERARD MCLARNON , With
Patrick Magee , Andre Morell and Allan McClelland
' Every summer my grandfather made a good journey. He made it in a pony trap with an old crony called Henry Hetherington. But several times I and two other children were added for ballast. This is an account of a well ballasted journey ...'
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN BBC Northern Ireland
Puccini I Crisantemi
Wolf Intermezzo: JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET: records
In 1906 Frederic d'Erlanger's opera of Tess of the D'Urbervilles had its first performance in Naples; that night, Mount Vesuvius chose to erupt.
Desmond Hawkins illustrates the history of an ill-fated opera about an ill-fated heroine with correspondence between Hardy and d'Erlanger, and Edwardian recordings of Angel Clare 's aria when he first meets Tess. Readers: HEDLEY GOODALL and PETER FIRTH. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
