Comprehensive forecast
This week: records from 1952 and 1953 Berlioz Overture: Benvenuto Cellini conducted by PAUL KLETZKI
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra conducted by WALTER GOERR
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Till Eulenspiegel conducted by HERBERT VON URAJAN : records
Listeners' record requests
Sibelius Symphonic Poem: The Oceanides
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
9.15* Haydn String Quartet in c, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) AEOLIAN QUARTET
9.45* Zeller Sei nicht bos (Der Obersteiger)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (SOp) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO ACKERMANN
9.50* Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez: JOHN williams (guitar) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
10.21* Marenco Ballet Suite: Excelsior: BRATISLAVA PHILHAR
MONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LADISLAV SLOVAK
Introduced by Michael Oliver
' In darkness let me dwell': ANTHONY ROOLEY examines the mind of John Dowland.
A conversation with HERBERT HOWELLS for his 85th birthday. Atarah's Music House: a visit to the Children's Concert Centre in Haslingden which opened yesterday.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
250th Meeting
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) DAVID JOHNSTON (tenor)
THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL CHORUS
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by DONALD HUNT and JOHN SANDERS Part 1 Hoist
The Hymn of Jesus
(conducted by John Sanders )
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
(conducted by. Donald Hunt )
Fritz Spiegl , musician and broadcaster, reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10,45 am)
Part 2
Howells Hymnus Paradisi
(conducted by Donald Hunt)
(A concert given in Gloucester Cathedral in August during the Three Choirs Festival)
(Presented in association with the Midland Bank Ltd and South West Arts)
BBC Birmingham
(Stereo & Quad)
(A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix H, compatible for both stereo and mono receivers)
(Howells' Piano Quartet: 3.45)
(piano)
Bach Partita No 1, In B flat
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 282)
Schubert Four Impromptus (D 899)
(Promoted by- Metropolitan Bradford Libraries with the BBC) BBC Manchester
Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.35 am)
(soprano) with DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
One of the world's great recitalists in part of a concert she gave at the Schwetzingen Festival 1977
Poulenc Fianc&illes pour rire
Chausson Les papillons; Le oolibri
Faurg Les roses d' Ispahan; La rose
Satie Ludions ; La Diva de l'Empire
(South German Radio recording)
In 1608 the Grand Master of Malta announced that Caravaggio, the painter, had escaped from his fortress prison. But what was so great an artist doing in jail on a capital charge?
Lionel Butler , Principal of Royal Hollowiay College, argues that Caravaggio's close relation with the Knights of St John gave him a chance both to mend a broken career but also to destroy it once again,
Tomorrow is the 85th birthday of the composer Herbert Howells , and the music GROUP OF LONDON recorded this tribute. Howells Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 21
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 BRICK-MAN, 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
ANNEROSE SCHMIDT (piano) DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ RÖGNER
Weber Overture: Abu Hassan (Dresden State Orchestra)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra
Reger Four Symphonic Poems, Op 128
(Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra)
(Radio DDR recording)
by VIRGINIA WOOLF, abridged for radio by LOUIS MACNEICE with Peggy Ashcroft as the Choral Voice
Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel is of the interwoven autobiographies of three men and three women tracing their lives from childhood to middle age.
Directed by GUYVAESEN
Symphonic Poem: Tintagel
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : record
The American Involvement in Vietnam
A series of programmes presented by Michael Charlton
Ultimately, President Johnson's view of Asia was closely related to his view of the race problem and of social reform in the United States.
(PROFESSOR WALT ROSTOW)
5: Trying to Win with LBJ
The problem of Vietnam is inherited by President Johnson. Why does he obtain approval from Congress (following the Tonkin incident) for waging war? Bombing begins and an expeditionary force of American combat troops is sent to Vietnam. The conflict is further escalated by both sides, before LF quits.
Contributions from George Ball, William Bundy, Senator Fulbright, Walt Rostow, Dean Rusk, General Maxwell Taylor, Sir Robert Thompson and Paul Warnke.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
by Peter Maxwell Davles
A recording of the first performance on 18 June in the Cathedral of St Magnus in Kirkwall, Orkney, during the St Magnus Orkney Islands Festival. FIRES OF LONDON
Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano) Neil Mackie (tenor)
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone) Michael Rippon (baritone) Ian Comboy (bass)
Sebastian Bell (flutes)
David Campbell (clarinets) John Butterworth (horn) John Wallace (trumpet)
Norman Archibald (trumpet) Gregory Knowles (percussion) Stephen Pruslin (keyboards) Timothy Walker (guitar) Beverley Davison (viola)
Lesley Shrigley-Jones (cello) conductor THE COMPOSER stage director MURRAY MELVIN
(Commissioned by the BBC in honour of The Queen's Silver Jubilee) BBC Scotland
(Leopardi Fragments by Peter Maxwell Davies : Tues 9.50 pm)
