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Mozart Overture: Cosi fan tutte
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER
7.10* Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
JOSEF SUK , NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records
Telemann Overture in c (Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth)
SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER
8.29* Liszt Au lac de Wallenstadt; Au bord d'une source; Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este (Annies de peleringe) ALDO CICCOLINI (piano)
8.43* Smetana Vltava (Ma vlast)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK gramophone records
Lassus
Requiem for five voices PRO CANTIONiE ANTIQUA conducted by BRUNO TURNER gramophone records
conducted by TERENCE LOVEITT
Light music by British composers
Malcolm Arnold Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt
Remo Lauricella Boliviana
Montague Phillips Hillside Melody
Buxton Orr Bulgarian Suite
Eric Coates Elizabeth of Glamis William Blezzard Battersea Park Suite
Ronald Finch Overture: Europa
with PAUL MERRION (double-bass)
Hummel Quintet for piano, strings and double-bass Leighton Piano Quartet
Faure Quartet in c minor, Op 15 (Given in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, in Nov 1974) BBC Scotland
Dr Alan Walker , Chairman and Professor of Music at McMaster University, Canada, critically examines the discipline of Musical History.
ANDRAS VON TOSZEGHI (viola)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Schubert Overture in c major (In the Italian style)
12.24* Bloch Suite for viola and orchestra
A personal preview by PETER BARKER of plays and features on Radio 3 and 4 next week.
Part 2 Bloch Suite Hébraïque
1.35* Schubert Symphony No 3, in D major. BBC Manchester
BBC NORTHERN SINGEiRS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON
Second of three programmes in which the BBC Northern Singers give two performances of a contemporary choral work. Today Geoffrey Burgon introduces his Dos Coros (first performance: BBC commission); and contrasts with it Sancte Deus by Tallis and 0 Lux Beata by Byrd. BBC Manchester
Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
Szymanowski Masques, Op 34 JAN LATHAM KOENIG (piano)
Falla Ballet: The Three-Cornered Hat
TERESA BERGANZA (mezzo-sop) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
Suite in B flat; Rhapsody for piano and band: VALERIE TRYON GUS (KETTERING) BAND conductor GEOFFREY BRAND BBC Birmingham
Second programme in a series considering current attitudes towards authenticity in the performance of music from the 16th to the 19th century in the light of evidence from contemporary tutors and sources Of performancepractice.
Wieland Kuijken illustrates and discusses with Christopher Hogwood the importance for present-day viol playing of the instructions by Diego Ortiz (1553), Christopher Simpson (1659), Marin Marais (cl689) and others. They also consider problems of temperament, ensemble and continuo playing. Producer CLIVE BENNETT
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Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Looking at Claudius
Three programmes of special interest to viewers of the BBC television series, I, Claudius. 2: Claudius in the Novel
PROFESSOR BRIAN MORRIS and the poet and critic MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH talk to SHERIDAN MORLEY about Robert Graves 's book.
(I, Claudius: BBC2 10.30 pm)
7.0 Weather Outlook
Six programmes introduced by MARGARET COOK
2: The Weather Man
How meteorological data is collected from different areas, is expressed graphically on charts and maps, and provides a basis for forecasting.
DR KEN BIGNALL of Imperial College, London, introduces the weather maps he has prepared to accompany this series. For the set of maps, send SAE to: Weather Outlook, [address removed]
The orchestra's annual Pension Fund concert is always something of a special event: in the 1976/77 season it was conducted by the orchestra's Musical Director Seiji Ozawa , and featured as piano soloists the father-and-daughter team of Emil and Elena Gilels.
Mozart Concerto for two pianos in E flat major (K 365)
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Tod und Verklarung
Five talks reflecting some of the new insights in Shakespeare scholarship as applied to the history plays that form the basis for Vivat Rex on R4. 3: The Divine and the Secular John Harvey , Fellow of Emmanuel College. Cambridge, argues that the claim for a divine scheme of justice in the history plays is at odds with Shakespeare's impulse to a drastic secularisation of history and drama.
Pt 2 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor (soloist Emil Gilels ) (Given in Symphony Hall, Boston, on 18 Feb 1977: Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording)
Professor John Mitchell , of the Centre of European Governmental Studies at the University of Edinburgh, suggests some new approaches to constitutional development for the period following the first elections to the European Parliament. BBC Scotland
Hofstetter (formerly attrib Haydn) Quartet in F, Op 3 No 5 (Serenade)
Rubbra Quartet No 2, in e flat gramophone records
Edgell Rickword
When Edgell Rickword effectively abandoned lyric verse in 1928, he was already an established poet and critic. Since then he has written satires and occasional shorter pieces, some published for the first time in his recent Collected Poems. Alan Young , editor of Edgell Rickword's Essays and Opinions, looks at Rickword's career and introduces a selection of poems read by the author himself. Producer Fraser Steel. BBC Manchester
The first of eight programmes in which Rosalyn Tureck (piano) plays the Well-Tempered Keyboard.
Book 1: Preludes and Fugues Nos 1-6
