Test Match Special, introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON With commentary on the last two hours of the second day by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS, ALAN MCGILVRAY and ALAN SYMONS and the expert comments of former Australian Test players LINDSAY HASSETT and KEN MACKAY.
(Commentary by arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission) followed by
8.5 Weather
8.10 News
Coates March: Queen Elizabeth II: CITY OP BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by REGINALD KILBEY Gershwin I Got Rhythm; A foggy day in London Town; They all laughed MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano) PETER DICKINSON (piano) trad Doina de Jale; Mierlita cind e Bolnava GHEORGHE ZAMFIR (Pan-pipe) Verdi, arr Mackerras Suite: The Lady and the Fool: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: the music of Sir Lennox Berkeley. by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON.
Hi-Fi Question Box, by DONALD ALDOUS.
New orchestral records reviewed by ANDREW KEENER. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by RONALD THOMAS
Arnold Flute Concerto No 2:JOHN SOLUM
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
Debussy Iberia (Images)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI : records
conductor
NEVILLE MARRINER KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)
Corelli Concerto Grosso In F. Op 6 No 2
Bach. arr Marriner Fugue in B minor, on a theme by Corelli
Tippett Fantasia Concert-ante, on a theme by Corelli
12.6* Interval Beading
12.5* Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Pt 2 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in (BWV 1053)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra
ALBAN BERG STRING QUARTET Bartok Quartet No 3
Beethoven Quartet in minor, Op St No 2 (Rasumovsky)
Gerald Kaufman , Mp, Minister of State at the Department of Industry, introduces his personal choice of records.
leader RAYMOND OVENS conducted by SIMON RATTLE Mahler Symphony No 5, in c minor
BBC Scotland
Beethoven Violin Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1
ADOLF BUSCH (violin)
RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
John Higgins (in the Chair), talks with Stephen Bayley. Peter Porter and Gillian Reynolds
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
Records of the rising generation of young musicians
Stravinksy Suite No 2, for small orchestra
NORTHERN SINFONIA
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIMON RATTLE arr Canteloube OÙ irai-je me plaindre; Au pré de la rose
FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-soprano)
MARTIN KATZ (piano)
Ravel Suite: Gaspard de la nuit
ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5. in A (K 219)
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records
Two operas written in conjunction with the expressionist playwright GEORG KAISER.
The Protagonist Opera in one act
Music by Kurt Weill (1925) (sung in the English translation by LIONEL SALTER ). First performance in this country
The setting is an Inn in Shakespeare's England, where a company of actors are to entertain the Duke. The ribald comedy they plan turns to real-life tragedy in Kaiser's play-within-a-play. It was the 25-year-old Weill's first opera.
Cast in order of singing:
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Repetiteur RICHARD NUNN Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Produeer ELAINE PADMORE :
Roy Lancaster , Curator of the Hillier Arboretum. near Romsey, in Hampshire, gives this month's talk. (This talk will be printed in THE LISTENER dated 7 December)
The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken
Opera in one act
Libretto by GEORG KAISER
Music by Kurt Weill (1927)
(sung in the English translation by LIONEL SAL TER). First performance in this country
The setting Is Angele's photographic studio In Paris.
Cast in order of singing:
Plotters, Officers, Male Chorus
BBC SINGERS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by NON LIDDELL conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
RepetitCur RICHARD NUNN Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY SMITH
RepetitCur ELAINE PADMORE
John Clegg talks about Faure"s artistic personality as it is reflected in his piano music and demonstrates the development of his harmonic vocabulary.
Few popular composers and instrumentalists show more musical ambition than the guitarist, GORDON GILTRAP. His new album. Fear of the Dark, is another long suite, impressive and stylistically eclectic. Derek Jewell plays- from it tonight, together with songs of widely differing styles from SALLY OLDFIELD , xrc and NEIL YOUNG, and instrumental excursions with the BRECKER BROTHERS BAND and GARY BOYLF. .. gramophone records
Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen (Claudine von Villa Bella )
JANET BAKER (mezZO-SOp) GERALD MOORE (piano) gramophone record
