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Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Delibes Divertissement (Act 2. La Source)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA, COVENT GARDEN conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Richard Hageman At the Well jo.'.n HAMMOND (soprano) ivoit NEWTON (piano)
Ravel Une barque sur l'océan (Miroirs)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWLA
Paimgren Piano Concerto No 2 (The River)
IZUMI TATENO (piano) HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted hv JORMA PANULA Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven's Choral Fantasia, by JEREMY SIEPMANN.
Faulty records: John Borwick reports on a recent enquiry.
New releases reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Glazunov Suite: From the Middle Ages
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted hy
VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV
Shostakovich String Quartet No 3, in F
FITZWILLIAMSTRING QUARTET gramophone records
guest leader Raymond Cohen conducted by Charles Mackerras
Nina Milkina (piano)
Janacek: Suite, Op 3
Dvorak: Nocturne for string orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22, in E flat major (K 482)
Schubert: Symphony No 6, in C major
After the Death of Queen Victoria. 1901
A series of press reaction to famous events
Written and presented by George Walton Scott
Narrator John Holmstrom
' The great sovereign whose diligent love has watched over the fortunes of her people for so many years has passed away ...' (THE MAIL) ' The Queen is dead. I saw a man kneeling on a grating in a forlorn side street off the Whitechapel Road, shouting the fateful message to some poor people in a cellar dwelling.'
(THE DAILY CHRONICLE)
Producer RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
Fifteen Three-part Inventions; Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor; Prelude and Fugue in G-(The Well-tempered Keyboard, Book 2); Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
(Lust Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert from St John's, Smith
Square, London)
Jan Morris once described her idea of heaven as ' bowling across Castile in my Rolls-Royce of the day. with the roof open, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on the radio, and my Abyssinian cat beside me on the front seat
This afternoon she talks about her varied life as writer and journalist and describes some of its multitudinous pleasures, with the aid of a personal choice of records.
Schumann Overture: Manfred Strauss Songs (orchestrated by the composer): Zueignung; Ruhe meine Seele: Morgen; Wiegenlied; Waldseligkeit; Die Heil'gen drei Konige
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by ERICH BERGEL with MITSUKO SHIRAI isoprano) BBC Wales
Bach Two choruses from Cantata No 80 Ein feste Burg): INDIANA UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS
BACH-COLLEGIUM STUTTGART conducted by HELMUTH RILLING (gramophone record)
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5, in (Reformation)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leJ by BARRY HASKEY conducted by ERICH BERGEL BBC Wales
Introduced by Peter Clayton
This week:
Paul Bailey (in the Chair). talks with Edward Lucie-Smith John Spurling and Marina Vaizey.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
A series devoted to the guitar and guitarists.
In this month's programme the lutmer José Romanillos talks about his work, and Michael Jessen introduces recordings of music by Tarrega, Granados, ViUa-Lobos and Rodrigo, Producer GARETH WALTERS
Reflections on current affairs
Theodore Zeldin , Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and historian of modern France. gives the last of four fortnightly talks.
(8 July: Philip Reynolds)
Opera in two acts Music by Donizetti
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI (sung in Italian: records) with the CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD Act 1
8.50* Interval Reading
9.0* L'elisir d'amore Act 2
Eight programmes on the role and significance of Islam in contemporary society. 8: Indonesia
In the final programme of this series, Dr Merle Rlckless , of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, looks at the country with the world's largest Moslem population. How does Indonesia's Moslem community relate to its pre-Islamic cultural heritage, and how is it responding to the challenges of modernisation?
Producer JOHN Thomas
A new long composition by the many-styled and multi-tracked guitar virtuoso, PAUL BRETT , ormstheheartofthisweek's programme, as Derek Jewell Introduces a section of Brett's Interiife.
Plus more guitar virtuosity from JOHN MCLAUGHLIN , as well as differing vocal harmony styles of the German band, LAKE, and the American group, STARCASTLE: records
Das Wandern (Die schone Mullerin)
GEORGE HENSCHEL (baritone) accompanying himself on the piano
(gramophone record: 1914)