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Chopin Ballade No 3, in A flat, Op 47
8.11* Ravel Jeux d'eau
8.15* Albeniz Danse espagnole (Cantos de Espana. Op 232)
8.18* Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 11, in A minor
8.23* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR LANDON RONALD : records
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Berlioz Overture: Les francsjuges: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
9.17* Mozart String Quartet in D minor (K 421): HEUTLING QUARTET
9.42* Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
9.59* d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Song
NICOLE HENRIOT-SCHWEITZER
(piano), BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Historical Liszt: ALAN WALKER discusses Liszt's innovations as virtuoso, composer and teacher.
Two new operas introduced by their composers: THEA MUS-GRAVE'S Mary Queen of Scots and DAVID BLAKE 'S Toussaint. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET with ALLAN SCHILLER (piano)
Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op 42
Debussy Two Arabesques
David Blake String Quartet No 2 (1973)
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* Concert Part 2
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
International Amateur Choral Competition
BBC Silver Rose Bowl Award
In the last programme of the series Bernard Keeffe introduces the six prize-winning choirs and Charles Beardsall , Chairman of the International Jury,announcesthewinner of the BBC Silver Rose Bowl for 1977. the award for the most outstanding choir.
IONA BROWN (violin)
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Part 1
Tippett Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
David Blake Violin Concerto (BBC Commission)
Anthony Thwaite. poet and editor. reflects on some of the things we say and write BBC Manchester
(Repented: Friday 11.20 am)
Part 2 Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
(Given on 19 August 1976 at the Royal Albert Hall )
(DaoidBlake'sToussaini, live from the Coliseum, Tuesday
7.30 pm)
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Peter Pears (tenor) Alan Civil (horn)
Graham Johnson (piano) direct from the Benson and Hedges Music Festival at The Maltings. Snape Part 1 Schubert
Die junge Nonne (D 828); Das Rosenband (D 280); Auf dem Sea (D 543); Blumenlied (D 431); Gondelfaiirer (d 808); Der Ungliickliche (D 713); Amalia (D 195); Sehnsucht (D 636); Der Jüngling am Bache (D 30); Die Cotter Griechenlands (o 677); Der Fliichtling (D 402)
Edward Upward has recently completed his trilogy The Spiral Ascent, with the publication of No Home but the Struggle.
David Phillips believes that Upwards work will have the durability of a classic and gives his reasons for holding this view.
Part 2 Britten
Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op 55; Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op 51 BBC Birmingham
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)
PETERCOTES'S October collection from The Perpetual Pessimist or Almanac of Woe by SAGITTARIUS and DANIEL GEORGE
Readers RICHARD BRIERS and BRIAN HAINES
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK Part 1 Schubert
Symphony No 4, in c minor
Austin Woolrych, Professor of History at Lancaster University, considers Christopher Hill 's important new book Milton and the English Revolution, published tomorrow, and discusses its portrayal of Milton as a revolutionary, intellectually orientated towards the most radical thinkers of the Commonwealth.
Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 4, in r flat maior (Romantic)
Translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell
[Starring] Harold Pinter as Ferdinand Vanek in "Audience"
with Peter Vaughan as the Head Maltster
and "Private View"
with Michael Bryant as Michael and Anna Massey as Vera
Place: Czechoslovakia. Time: the present. Ferdinand Vanek is a writer - but he works in a brewery. Audience takes place in the office of the Head Maltster of the brewery. In Private View Vanek accepts an invitation to visit Vera and Michael in their new apartment.
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)
"These plays are written with clarity and wit ... In agreeing to play the part of Vanek, Harold Pinter is making a statement of his own, of support for Havel and of admiration for his work..." (Val Arnold-Foster, Guardian)
COLLEGIUM AURKEUM concert-master FRANZJOSEF MAIER Haydn Symphony No 85. in B flat (Norwegian Radio recording)
The American Involvement in Vietnam
A series of programmes presenlteid by Michael Charlton
I don't want to see any nation go under Communist domination, but I don't care much for colonial regimes either.
(GENERAL ED LANSDALE )
3: Creating a State - South Vietnam
Vietnam is divided at the 17th parallel and, in the aftermath of French withdrawal and the Geneva Conference the primary western influence is again American.
Contributions from Robert Bowie , William Colby , General Tran Van Don. John Fairbank , Senator Fullbright, General Ed Lansdale. Senator Mansfield, Ho Thong Minn. Dean Rusk and Sir Robert Thompson
Producer ANTHONY MONGRIEFF
JENNIFER SMITH (soprano)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, leader NONA LIDDELL STEPHEN CLEOBURY
(organ and harpsichord) conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Cantata No 112: Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt
Cantata No 145; Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergotzen
Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in F
Cantata No 67: Halt im Gedachtniis Jesum Christ