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Beethoven Octet. Op 103 LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER
7.23* Mozart Sinfonia Concert-ante in E flat (K 364) THOMAS BRANDIS (violin)
GIUSTO CAPPONE (viola), BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by KARL BOHM : records
Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by otto KLEMPERER
8.17* Donizetti Concertino in G HEINZ HOLLIGER (cor anglais) BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG
8.28* Saint-Saens Symphony in A FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records
(1864-1949) This week's programmes concentrate on the Indian summer of Strauss's life as a composer - the great sequence of works he wrote between 1940 and his death.
Duet Concertino, for clarinet and bassoon, with strings and harp: MANFRED WEISE (clarinet) WOLFGANG LIEBSCHER (baSSOOn) DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
9.23* Japanese Festival Music. Op 84 (mono)
BAVARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.37* Final Scene: Capriccio, Op 85: ELISABETH SODERSTROM
(soprano), NORRKOPING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ULF BJÖRLIN : records
conducted by VERNON HANDLEY with PATRICIA O'NEILL (soprano) WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
BBC WELSH CHORAL SOCIETY
Wolf-Ferrari Serenade in E flat for string orchestra
Christopher Le Fleming Six Country Songs (first broadcast performance)
Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga BBC Wales
Beethoven Cello Sonatas Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) and Peter Frankl (piano) direct from the Pittville Pump Room
Sonata No 1, in F, Op 5 No 1
The Cultural Background
The first of four talks given by John Warren , Head of German at the Oxford Polytechnic 1: Biedermeier Vienna
A period of stability, 1814-1840
Part 2 Beethoven Sonata No 3, in A, Op 69. BBC Birmingham
(Beethoven Violin Sonatas: Wednesday 11.0 am)
Symphony No 2, in B minor USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV gramophone records
direct from
St John 's, Smith Square
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No 14
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2
(A series of concerts from St John 's, Smith Square, London SW1. Tickets: 80p at the door)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL
Bernstein Overture: Candide
Johann Strauss Waltz : Tales from the Vienna Woods
Wilfred Josephs Serenade
George Butterworth The banks of green willow
Tchaikovsky Music from The Sleeping Beauty
BBC Northern Ireland
ROBERT JOYCE at the organ of Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in c
Paul Creston Suite , Op 70 BBC Wales
SIEGFRIED PALM (cello)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS ZENDER Stravinsky Ballet: Agon
Isang Yun Cello Concerto
4.30* Interval Reading
4.40* Concert Part 2
Boulez Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
(SFB, Berlin, recording)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conductor ERIC WETHERELL with artists on records
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Home and Family
6.30 Know Your Body
2: Feeling, Seeing, Making Sense RAINER GOLDSMITH shows yOU simple experiments to help explain how your nervous system works and what it tells you about the world.
7.0 Having a Baby
CLAIRE WOOLFORD with a panel of resident and guest speakers 4: The First Few Days
Food, sleep and comfort are usually all the new-born baby requires, though things can go wrong for both parents and the baby.
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Part 1
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No 1, in c major
7.36* Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)
John Chandler remembers his childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 30s,
Part 2 George Lloyd
Symphony No 8 (first performance)
BBC Manchester
in conversation with Martin Esslin (Part 1)
' Among the great actresses who will be connected imperishably with the history of dramatic art in our century - Garbo, Duse and Dietrich - is Elisabeth Bergner. To anybody who, as I did, grew up in the German-speaking world in the late 20s and 30s, the name of Bergner was a household word, a concept.'
(MARTIN ESSLIN)
In the first of two programmes Elisabeth Bergner talks to Martin Esslin , former Head of BBC Radio Drama, about the early years of her career in the theatre and cinema and her relations with many of the great names of the European theatre - among them Reinhardt and Brecht. She speaks of her close friendship with Albert Einstein and also offers a penetrating insight into her own views on the art of actingt Producer BERNARD KRICHEFSKI Preview: page 15
including music by composers also featured in broadcasts from the Ninth International Organ Festival at St Albans
Anthony Payne Sonatas and Ricercars WIND QUINTET OF THE
20TH-CENTURY ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Peter Dickinson String Quartet No 2 (with tape) (first broadcast performance)
ALBERNI STRING QUARTET
Justin Connolly Sestina B CONTEMPORARY HARPSICHORD
ENSEMBLE, WILLIAM SWEENEY (basset clarinet)
DAVID WOODCOCK (violin)
Contemporary comedy has got to concern itself with the psychological. And that doesn't read on the screen the way physical comedy does.
Gag-writer, stand-up comedian, film director, writer of fiction, Woody Allen can be perplexing as well as funny.
Milton Berle ,Marshall Brickman , Mel Brooks , Sid Caesar , Allen's ex-wife Louise Lasser , Carl Reiner , Gene Wilder , the poet and critic John Hollander , film critic Pauline Kael , humorist S. J. Perelman and Woody Allen himself talk about his influences and his preoccupations, Presented by Charles Marowitz Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
