Parry Lady Radnor's Suite
LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Field Sonata No 4. in RICHARD BURNETT (piano)
Harty Fair Day (An Irish Sjmphony): PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGE WELDON
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven Symphonies. RICHARD OSBORNE begins a two-week survey by examining those versions available on individual LPs.
Summer Retrospect (5): choral and organ music. by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Kodaly Hymn of Zrinyi BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS conducted by LASZLO HELTAY Mendelssohn Die erste Walpurgisnacht: SOLOISTS VIENNA SINGVEREIN . VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI gramophone records
BEDFORD TOWN BAND conductor TERRY HEXT
Philip Sparke Concert Prelude
Henry Geehl Romanza
(trombone solo: MICHAEL HEXT)
Granville Bantock Tone Poem: Prometheus Unbound
Gareth Wood Coliseum
John Amis presents a weekly selection of classics on record. Stereo
Second of two programmes featuring the violin sonatas of Prokofiev. CARL PINI (violin)
ALLAN SCHILLER (piano)
Prokofiev Sonata No 2, in D Fauré Sonata No 1, in A
In the first programme of this new scries, Robert Layton introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
This week:
Paul Bailey (in the Chair), talks with John Carey. Hilary Spurting and J. G. Weightman.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH
given by Lionel Rogg at St Mary's, Nottingham
Buxtehude Ciacona in B minor
Frescobaldi Toccata quinte sopra pedali: Canzoni in c (Fiori musicali)
Pierre du Mage Plein jeu; Tierce en taille: Recit; Grand jeu (Premier livre d'orgue)
Bach Sonata in c flat (bwv 525)
Psychohistory, a new development in historical method, attempts to use theories of psychoanalysis to explain the actions of historical figures. James Joll , Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, chairs a discussion between Robert Waite , Brown Professor of History at Williams College, Massachusetts, and the author of The Psychopathic God, a biography of Hitler in which psychological investigation is used to throw light on the Fiihrer's personality, and Volker Berghahn , Professor of European History at Warwick University. Producer ADRIAN JOHNSON
A dramatic oratorio on the Old Testament story. composed in 1776 and subsequently credited to both Mozart and Haydn Text by METASTASIO (sung in Italian)
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS chorus-master
MARINUS VOORBERG conducted by PETER MAAG Part 1: God commands Abraham to kill his son
(1893-1979)
George Steiner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, talks about the life and work of the great British critic, poet and educationalist who died earlier this month;
Part 2: God relents; the people rejoice
(South German Radio recording from the 1979 Schwetzingen Festival)
leader BELA DEKANY , conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Bartok Four Pieces, Op 12 Sinopoli Tombeau d'Armor
Schoenberg Transfigured Night
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor
STEPHEN WILKINSON
A sequence of English choral music by Morley, Purcell, Arne, R . J. S. Stevens , Pearsall, Hatton and Parry
and, to conclude Nocturne, The long day closes, by Sullivan