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Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Beethoven Symphony No 5
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records
Listeners record requests Haydn Symphony No 26
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
9.23* Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky, Op 35a LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
9.38* Schubert Quintet in c AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
With WILLIAM PLEETH (Cello)
A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
This week two composers in the Proms: John Buller talks to STEPHEN PLAISTOW about his BBC commission ' Proenga ', and Richard Rodney Bennett introduces Actaeon.'
Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT
leader EDWIN PALING conducted by WITOLD ROWICK ] Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 94, in G (Surprise)
Wojciech Kilar Krzesany (first broadcast performance)
Mary Goldring , economist, reflects on some of the things we say and write.
(Repeated: Wednesday 12 noon)
Part 2 Shostakovich
Symphony No 1. in F minor BBC Scotland
International Amateur Chora) Competition (5)
Contemporary Music Class: 1 United Kingdom: LONDON CHORALE Yugoslavia:
ACADEMY CHAMBER CHOIR
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM, BELGRADE
Contemporary Music Class: 2
Sweden: BROMMA CHAMBER choir Hungary: MIXED CHOIR OF THE TOWN OF VESZPREM
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Let the Peoples Sing is organised by the BBC with the EBU)
from the Berlin Festival 1976 First of seven programmes VERMEER QUARTET Part 1
Mendelssohn String Quartet No 2, in A minor, Op 13
Stravinsky Concertino
Mendelssohn Theme and Variations, Op 81 No 1
2.5* Interval Reading
2.15* String Quartets Part 2
Haydn String Quartet in c major, Op 77 No 1
(sfb Berlin recording)
An operetta in two acts and a prologue, with libretto by W.H.Auden
The earliest Britten stage work, written in America in 1941 and shelved until the year before his death when he permitted a BBC studio recording and this English Music Theatre production, recorded at the 1976 Aldeburgh Festival. Introduced by Colin Graham
Chorus of Old and Young Trees, Three Wild Geese, Lumberjacks, Four Swedes, Quartet of the Defeated, and Four Cronies of Hel Helson sung by ANTHONY ATTWELL, DAVID BARTLEET, CHRISTOPHER BOOTH-JONES, SHEILA BRAND, MICHAEL BULMAN, RACHEL COOK, JILLIAN CROWE, ALYN DAVENPORT,
JUSTIN LAVENDER, MARTIN MCEVOY, BRENDA MCLEAN, WENDY PASHLEY, JOHN RATH, PETER SAVIDGE, ANNA VINCENT and PAUL WHITMARSH
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE COMPANY
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE ORCHESTRA conducted by STEUART BEDFORD Producer COLIN GRAHAM
Act 1
3.55* Interval Reading
4.0* Paul Bunyan Act 2
by Alan Ryan , Fellow of New College, Oxford
Eighteenth-century man, Richard Sennett says in his recent book The Fall of Public Man, knew when he was in the public eye and when he was not. Twentieth-century man - obsessed with intimacy and authenticity -has qualms about the quality of his inner life.
Alan Ryan relates Sennett's ideas to those of other American sociologists such as Erwin Goffman 's writings on role-playing and David Riesman 's The Lonely Crowd.
Second of seven programmes Today ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON introduces the composer and his wife playing together. Visions de l'Amen
YVONNE LORIOD, OLIVIER MESSIAEN (two pianos) (Repeat!
(Nextprogramme:14 August)
by William Shakespeare
with Anna Massey and Alan Badel
In Venice
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS played by the PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON Singer MARTYN HILL
A Transcription Services recording by ADRIAN REVILL, PAUL NICKSON.
Studio managers ANTHEA DAVIES, ENYD CLOWES
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix H. This does not affect reception for listeners using stereo and mono receivers)
During the interval at 7.25*-7.30* a gramophone record of Coperario's Fantasy: 10 piango, played by the ENGLISH CONSORT OF VIOLS
Three works from the late 1930s and early 1940s which mark a return to tonality. BRUCE OGSTON (speaker) BBC SINGERS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND and EDWARD DOWNES Part 1
Theme and Variations, Op 43b (conducted by Edward Downes ) Kol Nidre, Op 39
(conducted by Walter Susskind )
9.25* Schoenberg at 60
In November 1934, when composition of the Suite for strings was under way, Schoenberg had lately settled in Hollywood. He addressed a circular-letter to all the friends who had sent him greetings on his 60th birthday. Passages from the letter are read by Alfred Burke in an English translation.
9.35* Schoenberg Part 2
Suite for String Orchestra
(conducted by Walter Susskind )
Masha Enzensberger and Basil Ashmore discuss the work of this little-known Russian play-wright whose These Modern Ways is tomorrow's Monday Play on Radio 4, 7.20 pm,
1622-1677
The second of two programmes
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON
ALAN CUCKSTON
(organ and harpsichord) Locke Voluntary in A, for organ; Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end; Suite in c, for harpsichord
George Jeffreys A music strange
Christopher Gibbons Verse for the Double Organ
Locke Anthem: Not unto us, O Lord
BBC Manchester
