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Beethoven Leonora Overture No 1: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted bv OTTO KLEMPERER
7.15* Mozart Clarinet Quintet (K 5811: GERVASE DE PEYER EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) IVOR MCMAHON (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) TERENCE WEIL (cello)
7.42* Haydn Symphony No 30, in c (Alleluja)
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA, COndUCted by ANTAL DORATI : records
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans): CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, Conducted by COLIN DAVIS
8.15* Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo capriceioso ITZIIAK PERLMAN (violin) THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON
8.24* Bizet Symphony in c THE PARIS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM gramophone records
Stravinsky and the Ballet
Les Noces: ANNY MORY (soprano) PATRICIA PARKER (meZZO-SOp) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor) PAUL HUDSON (bass)
MARTHA ARGERICH , KRYSTIAN ZIM-ERMAN, CYPRIEN KATSARIS -, HOMERO FRANCESCH (pianos)
ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL CHORUS AND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
9.29* Scenes' de ballet
CBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by THE COMPOSER: records
First of three programmes from Grange over-Sands, Cumbria KO IWASAKI (cello)
GORDON BACK (piano)
Brahms Sonata No 2, in F, Op 99
10.16* Bach Suite No 6. in D, for unaccompanied cello
David Cox talks about Why Composers Compose.
Part 2 Rachmaninov
Sonata in a minor, Op 19
. BBC Manchester
First of two programmes of his songs
MARGARET PHILPOT (contralto) TREVOR JONES (bass viol)
NIGEL NORTH (lute)
SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano) JOHN IVESON (trombone) JAMES WATSON (trumpet) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKT Part 1
Goetz Overture: The Taming of the Shrew
Ferdinand David Concertina for trombone and orchestra
Hindemith Symphonic metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Part 2
Jolivet Concertino for trumpet, strings and piano Bizet Suite: Roma
(The Story of Shunkin) Opera in three acts
Libretto by jun MAEDA based on the novel by JUN'ICHIRO TANI-ZAKI (1933)
Music by Minoru Mikl (1975) (sung in Japanese)
Miki blends traditional Japanese melodic style and instruments with Western techniques in this opera about the lifelong love between a beautiful blind Koto player. Shunkin. and Sasuke, a clerk in her father's drugstore. KEIKO NOSAKA
(koto and shamisen)
SHINSEI JAPAN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, with FEMALE CHORUS conducted by KAZUO YAMADA (Japanese Radio recording) Act 1
A. S. Byatt. novelist and lecturer in English. BBC Manchester
Act 2
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Shunkin-Sho, Act
played by NINA MILKINA
Op 7: B Bat major; A minor; F minor; A flat major; c major; A minor (Notre temps), Op posth; Op 50: G major; A flat major; c sharp minor
The llth of 13 programmes Stravinsky A sermon, a narrative and a prayer
SHIRLEY VERRETT (mezzo-sop) JOHN HORTON (speaker) LOREN DRISCOLL (tenor)
FESTIVAL SINGERS OF TORONTO CBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
Hindemith Symphony: Die Harmonie der Welt (mono)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
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The Wider World
6.30 What Right Have You Got? A 26-part course - intended primarily for listeners in England and Wales.
24: The Magistrates' Court
Introduced by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX Study advice from PAT SAUNDERS (Rptd: Sun 3.30 pm R4 VHF)
7.0 Land - a Resource
A series of eight programmes 4: Land in Limbo
In the rural-urban fringe, housing developments threaten farming. Within towns and city centres land lies derelict. DOUG CRAWFORD explores the reasons for these stagnant acres.
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
With KENNETH ESSEX (viola)
Purcell Chacony in G minor Britten Quartet No 3. Op 94
The first of two extracts from the novella by LEONARDO SCIASCIA , translated by ALFRED ALEXANDER , selected and read by Gabriel Woolf
The setting is the Spanish Civil War; the narrator a young Sicilian who previously worked in a sulphur mine.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
Part 2 Mozart
Quintet in c. minor (K 516)
Tell It the Way It Is by RANALD SUMMERFIELD with Michael Gough
Nigel Anthony , Amanda Murray ' I knew her. knew her well, better than anyone. Perhaps you wouldn't understand how well. You might: perhaps you've felt these things yourself for a woman.'
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN (Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)
VINZENTE ZARZO PITARCH (horn) NETHERLANDS RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
Malcolm Arnold Horn Concerto No 2. Op 58
Richard Rodney Bennett Symphony No 2
(Netherlands Radio recording)
Dr Nick Humphrey , of the University of Cambridge. argues that self-knowledge is of such vital importance to the survival of the species that biological mechanisms have evolved to ensure that young animals, like it or not. rapidly receive the instruction necessary to turn them into ' nature's pyschologists
Hoffnung (Es reden und traumen die Menschen, second setting)
HERMANN PREY (baritone)
GERALD MOORE (piano): record