Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Lalo Scherzo PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ALBERT WOLFF
Faure Berceuse (Dolly Suite) CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK (pianos)
Trevor Duncan March (A Little Suite); Ernest Tomllnson Dick's Maggot (English Folk Dance Suite) LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN
Khachaturyan Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
Schubert Impromptu in B flat (D 935) ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
Berlioz Overture: Les francs juges LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
(gramophone records)
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Elgar's Enigma Variations, by MICHAEL KENNEDY.
Autumn boxed sets: second of two reviews by EDWARD GREEN-FIELD.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Ravel Piano Concerto in D, for piano (left hand) and orchestra ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIMON RATTLE Bartok String Quartet No 5 GUARNERI STRING QUARTET gramophone records
leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by JANOS FURST CECILE OUSSET (piano)
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1, in E minor
Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat major
BBC Scotland
(soprano) with Martin Isepp (piano)
Mozart Abendempfindung ; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Dans un bois; Sehnsucht nach dem Friihlinge
Schubert Das Madcheh :
Schwestergruss:
Delphine Webern Vorfriihling ; Blumengruss; Bild der Liebe; Gefunden
Wolf Auch kleine Dinge; Du denkst mit einem Fadchen; Schweig einmal still; Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen; Heut' nacht erhob lch mlch; Wie lange schon war immer mein Verlangen; Ich hab' in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen.
Sir Robert Mark was a policeman for 40 years before his retirement in 1977 as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. His term as Commissioner included the Balcombe Street and Spaghetti House sieges and a massive campaign against police corruption. Today he talks particularly about his early years and recalls some of the formative influences on his career with the aid of his favourite music.
A concert recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, last February, which juxtaposed Britten's last choral work with Baroque music played on authentic instruments.
JEAN KNIBBS (soprano)
JOHN YORK SKINNER (countertenor)
PAUL ELLIOTT (tenor)
PAUL HILLIER (baritone)
STEPHEN PRESTON (baroque flute) MARTIN NEARY (organ)
LESLIE PEARSON (harpsichord) LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS
LOUIS HALSEY BAROQUE ENSEMBLE leader CATHERINE MACKINTOSH conducted by LOUIS HALSEY Part 1 Handel Coronation Anthem: Let thy hand be strengthened Britten Sacred and Profane: Eight medieval lyrics for unaccompanied voices Bach Suite No 2, in B minor, for flute, strings and continue 4.5* Interval Reading 4.10* Basically Baroque Part 2 Handel Organ Concerto in I flat,Op4No2 Purcell Ode for Queen Mary II's Birthday: Love's Goddess sure was blind
BBC Music Guide: Handel Concertos by Stanley Sadie , 96p, from bookshops
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A music-drama in three acts by Richard Wagner (sung in German) Gotterdammerung direct from Covent Garden Cast in order of singing:
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN BARKER
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA BOUSE leader JOHN BROWN conducted by COLIN DAVIS
Prelude: Brunnhllde's rock Act 1 Scene 1: Gunther's dwelling on the Rhine
Scene 2: Brunnhllde's rock
Staged in association with Commercial Union Assurance and the Baring Foundation. Prom Cycle presented in association with Midland Bank.
Part 1. A weekly discussion on olnema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual art*. This week:
Michael Billington (In the Chair), talks with Richard Cork , Philip Oakes and Claire Tomaltn.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Act 2: Gunther's dwelling on the Rhino
Part 2
Act 3 Scene 1: A wooded place on the Rhine
Scene 2: Gunther's hall
The novelist and critic Susan Sontag 's life-long addiction to photographs has resulted In a series of reflective essays written over the past six years and now collected as On Photography. The book became a surprise best-seller in America and won the National Book Critic Circle Award for criticism, though she disclaims that it is a critical work. To write about photography is to enquire into the changing nature of the way we perceive the world, Miss Sontag believes, and in conversation with Philip French she discusses some of the issues raised In her book.
All this week's closing Schubert songs are sung by the Viennese tenor JULIUS PATZAK , beginning with Rastlose Liebe , In which he Is accompanied by FRANZ RUPP. gramophone record: 1932
BBC Music Guide: Schubert Songs, by Maurice Brown , 75p, from bookshops
