Boyce Symphony No 5, in D ZAGREB SOLOISTS conducted by ANTONIO JANIGRO
7.15* Purcell Suite: Abdelazar
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
7.28* Handel Concerto Grosso No 28, in f, for double orchestra: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.45* Purcell Suite: The Gordian Knot Unty'd: ACADEMY OF ANCIENT music, directed by CHRISTOPHER hogwood : records
Sibelius Romance in c, Op 42 ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.11* Faure Ballade , for piano and orchestra: JOHN OGDON
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
8.24* Sibelius Valse romantique: ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.28* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Golden Spinning-wheel BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : records
Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 3, in C: MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
Capriccio espagnol: LONDON
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records
for young people
Atarah's Music Box
Atarah Ben-Tovim talks with some musical beginners about the problems and pleasures of learning an instrument and playing music of all kinds.
conducted by HIKOTARO YAZAKI
Stravinsky Divertimento: Le edition 1949)
10.42* Prokofiev Suite: Romeo and Juliet. BBC Wales
First of 28 programmes showing the pervasive influence of Plainsong on the development of European music. Devised and introduced by Basil Lam
It is all too easy to conceive of Plainsong purely as a lingering relic of medieval church music. Basil Lam argues that, far from this being the case, *he ascendancy of Western music was built on the perfecting of the style of Gregorian chant.
The first programme includes chants for Holy Week and the Feast of Christmas sung by the MEN OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR, directed by COLIN MAWBY
A series of live relays from the City Hall, Glasgow
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola
Schubert Symphony No 6, in c
A weekly news bulletin of events in the arts abroad
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 pm)
Part 2 Humperdinck
Excerpts from Hansel and Gretel with Cynthia Buchan (Hansel) Patricia Gregg (Gretel) BBC Scotland
from Horbury Concert Society, Yorkshire
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1
2.32* Beethoven Quartet in r. Op 135
BBC Manchester
plays Mendelssohn, Schoenberg and a set of five pieces by Erich Schmid , the Swiss conductor and composer, 70 this year, who was a pupil of Schoenberg in the early 1930s
Erich Schmid Widmungen , Op 9 (first broadcast in this country) Schoenberg Piano Pieces, Op 33a and b
Mendelssohn Three Caprices, Op 33
(Margaret Kitchin plays Busoni: tomorrow 7.30 pm)
by Glinka, Johann Strauss , Josef Wagner , Liszt, Glazunov and Elgar
Pachelbel Suite in E (mono) JOSEPH PAYNE (harpsichord) Fux Partita in A
MARGA SCHEURICH (harpsichord) gramophone records
The best of present-day jazz on records
Introduced by Charles Fox
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening
(continued)
Work and Training
6.30 Nation at Work
Norway's Christmas tree gift to London was lit in Trafalgar Square last Thursday. Most of our Christmas trees are in fact home-grown but most of our timber is imported. One way or another, many people are growing wood or making things of it. BARBARA MYERS investigates their doings and prospects.
7.0 Helping with Spelling
Four programmes mainly for tutors and others working with adults.
2: Writing and Editina
Does spelling have a purpose? CATHERINE MOORHOUSE , Director of the ILEA Language and Literacy Unit, joins a lesson in which a tutor and student are working together on a piece of writing, and choosing words for spelling practice.
Handel's Sacred Oratorio, in an edition by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD based on the first London performance of 23 March 1743. BLLY AMELING (soprano)
SANDRA BROWNE (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) WILLARD WHITE (bass)
ACADEMY AND CHORUS OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS chorus-master LASZLO HELTAT conductor NEVILLE MARRINER
Stephen Weeks wanted to make a film set in the English 30s. He went to India looking for locations where a lost England, more English than England itself, might be preserved like a fly in the amber of India. He found it. S: Bangalore Palace
(Gothic Arches and Elephants' Feet: next Tuesday)
Parts 2 and 3 (Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 26 August as part of South Bank Summer Music 1977)
The love poems of C. P. Cavafy
Compiled and read in English and with extracts from the original Greek by John Theocharis
Introduced by Hallam Tennyson Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me-when the memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood.
Cavafy died in Alexandria in 1933. His love poetry, although homosexual in inspiration, has a universal appeal. He is one of a small band of poets whose work has achieved world fame through translation.
Eighth of 27 programmes of their piano sonatas CHARLES
ROSEN Haydn Sonata in D major (h xvi 37)
Beethoven Sonata in c major, Op 53 (Waldstein)
