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Nielsen Little Suite for strings, Op 1
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
7.20* Haydn Piano Trio in 2 minor (H xv 12)
BEAUX ARTS TRIO
7.37* Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Kenneth Montgomery
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Michael Haydn Turkish March in C: NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE trad Doina de jale
GHEORGHE ZAMFIR (pan-pipes) with ORCHESTRA conducted by FLORIAN ECONOMU Liszt Hungarian Fantasia SOLOMON (piano)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER susskind
Weill Suite: The Threepenny Opera
LONDON SINFONIETTA, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Haydn
Conducted By:
Florian Economu
Conducted By:
Walter Susskind
Conducted By:
David Atherton

Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 4, in I flat, for left hand
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN 9. 30* Peter and the Wolf RICHARD BAKER (narrator), NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, COnduCted by RAYMOND LEPPARD: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conducted By:
Andre Previn
Narrator:
Wolf Richard Baker

PAUL HUDSON (bass)
LOW FELL LADIES' CHOIR
FELLING MALE VOICE CHOIR
DORIAN SINGERS
NORTHERN OPERA CHORUS
JAMES SHEPHERD VERSATILE BRASS EVER-READY CO (GB) BAND conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND
Eric Ball Concert March: Royal Salute
Bantock Overture:; The Frogs of Aristophanes
(conducted by ERIC CUNNINGHAM ) Gilbert Vinter The Trumpets
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Bass:
Paul Hudson
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Brand
Conducted By:
Eric Cunningham
Conducted By:
Gilbert Vinter

MONTEVERDI CHOIR
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader NONA LIDDELL conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER LockeAnthem: Be thou exalted,
Lord Elgar Serenade for strings
Blow Anthem: God spake sometime in visions
1.45* Roy Williamson reads from the History of the Coronation of James 11, King of England, and Queen Mary, written by Francis Sandford , the Lancaster Herald, and published in 1687, two years after the coronation in Westminster Abbey.
1.55* Concert Part 2
Purcell My heart is inditing
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
(Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 17 June)

Contributors

Leader:
Nona Liddell
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Lord Elgar Serenade
Unknown:
Roy Williamson
Written By:
Francis Sandford
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall

BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
Poulenc Christmas Motets: 0 magnum mysterium; Quern vidistis pastores; Videntes stellam; Hodie Christus natus est Derek Bourgeois Sonata , for brass
Poulenc Sept Chansons
4.40* Interval Reading
4.45* Pebble Mill Part 2
Hugh Aston , arr Elgar Howarth Hornpipe
Christopher Gibbons Fantasia
John Jenkins , arr Peter Reeve Newark Siege
Elgar 0 wild west wind; There is sweet music
Tippett The weeping babe: Dance, clarion air
Giles Farnaby. arr Elgar Howarth Fancies, toyes and dreams Peter Aston Four Carols to anonymous 15th-century texts: Make we joye; Adam lay ibowndyn; I sing of a maiden; Alleluia: Now may we myrthis make
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Conductor:
John Poole
Conductor:
Philip Jones
Unknown:
Derek Bourgeois Sonata
Unknown:
Hugh Aston
Hornpipe:
Elgar Howarth
Unknown:
John Jenkins
Unknown:
Giles Farnaby.
Unknown:
Peter Aston

The Wider World
6.30 Hazards
Genetic Engineering
BILL BRECKON talks to scientists and others concerned about the Possible dangers of altering the heredity of living organisms in the laboratory
7.0 The Prisoners
4: The Closed Prison - Wormwood Scrubs
' The Scrubs ' is one of the largest prisons in England and Wales. It holds both short-term inmates and maximum security ' long distance ' men. How much ' freedom ' is possible? What can be done to encourage prisoners to lead a good and useful life'? Presented by LARRY HELD

Contributors

Presented By:
Larry Held

Music drama in one act based on OSCAR WILDE'S play, translated by HEDWIG LACHMANN. Music by Strauss (sung in German)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Hedwig Lachmann.
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

The Night Nurse Slept in the Day Room by RHYS ADRIAN with The lives of both men are a mass of complications. Jack has discharged himself from the hospital, Tom is still a patient. Every Tuesday they meet in this bar and, eventually, talk ...
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhys Adrian
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Jack:
Hugh Burden
Tom:
Peter Woodthorpe

with Ronald Pickup as Kleist
A study by Professor Use Graham of the revolutionary German writer and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) Professor Graham writes: ' Vehemently repudiating the sensuous aspect of life, this paradoxical genius coined unforgettable and Kafkaesque images of man's imprisonment in his shell.'
With extracts read by RONALD PICKUP , ELIZABETH BELL and WOLF KAHLER
Producer ANTHONY vivis
(Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre player) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Use Graham
Dramatist:
Heinrich von Kleist
Read By:
Ronald Pickup
Read By:
Elizabeth Bell
Read By:
Wolf Kahler

This week a (mostly quiet!) programme of music by Franco Donatoni (50 this year), Morton Feldman (50 last year) and Luciano Berio (50 in 1975) JOSEPHINE NENDICK (mezzo-sop) CAPRICORN conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK
Donatoni For Grilly: improvvisazioneper7
Feldman i met heine on the rue fiirstenberg
Berio Wasserklavier ; 0 King; Erdenklavier
Feldman Voice, Violin and Piano
Donatoni Lumen (first broadcast performance in this country)

Contributors

Music By:
Franco Donatoni
Unknown:
Morton Feldman
Unknown:
Luciano Berio
Unknown:
Josephine Nendick
Conducted By:
John Lubbock
Unknown:
Berio Wasserklavier

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