Comprehensive forecast for UK land areas and inshore waters
Second in a series of six programmes to include music by Purcell for the church and the stage.
Behold I bring you glad tidings: SOLOISTS, CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAM-
BRIDGE, JOHN SCOTT (organ) conducted by GEORGE GUEST
8.17* Bonduca: Suite and incidental music: SOLOISTS, TAVERNER CHOIR, ACADEMY OF ANCIENT music, directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
8.43* Suite: The Gordian Knot Untied
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD : records
Sibelius Overture: Karelia, Op 10: SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
9.13* Crusell Clarinet Quartet No 2, in c minor, Op 4: ALAN HACKER
MEMBERS OF THE MUSIC PARTY
9.32* Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 1
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
9.45* Nielsen Violin Concerto, Op 33
ARVE TELLEFSEN
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
Nielsen and Late Romanticism, by HUGH OTTAWAY. Jan Dismas Zelenka : ' his throne very close to that of Bach ', by HEINZ HOLLIGER . Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
George Szell conducts the Cleveland Orchestra
Wagner Overture: Tannhauser
Dvorak Symphony No 7, in D minor: records
International Amateur Choral Competition
13: Mixed Voice Choir Class (2)
Canada: UNIVERSITY SINGERS (British Columbia); UK: CHAPTER HOUSE CHOIR, YORK; Poland: ACADEMIC CHOIR OF THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN
Bernard Keeffe introduces the choirs, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)
ROBERT AITKEN (flute) ERICA GOODMAN (harp)
Pierne Impromptu-Cap rice, Op 113
Sigurbjornsson Calais
Spahr Sonata Concertante in E flat
Three Preludes: Voiles; La danse de Puck; General Lavine, eccentric
Four Etudes (Book 2): Pour les sonorités opposees; Pour les arpèges composes; Pour les degrés chromatiques; Pour les agréments
RONALD LUMSDEN (piano)
Opera in three acts by Handel.
Libretto adapted by Haym or Rolli from the Alcestis of Euripides
(sung in Italian: records) [Cast: see below]
Il Complesso Barocco
Continuo: Wouter Moeller (cello), Michael Eagan (lute), Alan Curtis and Bob van Asperen (harpsichords)
Act 1
(Stereo)
A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen
Act 2
5.5* Interval Reading
5.15* Admeto Act 3
Sonata for solo cello, Op 8: JANOS STARKER
(gramophone record, made in 1958)
John Warrack reviews the past seven days' broadcasting on radio, in a week which includes The Flying Dutchman from Bayreuth, and a new opera from Covent Garden by John Tavener. BBC Manchester
(Friday at 7.10 pm: Jeremy Siepmann )
Novelette in D, Op 21 No 2 Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) GUARNERI QUARTET: records
by DEREK WALCOTT and A retired actor and an ex-steelband man play out their responses to post-colonial life in Trinidad and Tobago.
It was one of the most beautifully-written plays I have heard. Robert Lang and Norman Beaton relished every word they were to speak.
INEW STATESMAN)
Pantomime revealed the roles between black and white in the post-colonial era with dazzling theatrical virtuosity.
(FINANCIAL TIMES)
Two splendid performances from Robert Lang and Norman Beaton.
(THE LISTENER)
Directed by LIANE AUKIN
leader EDWIN PALING conductor
SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello)
LAUREEN LIVINGSTONE (SOp) DONALD MAXWELL (baritone) Nielsen Symphony No 3 (Sinfonia espansiva)
Elgar Cello Concerto In E minor
Discrimination
' Ability to discriminate is. one would think, an enviable gift; " indiscriminate is, surely, a pejorative term ... Why shouldn't a man open a bar for men only? ' In the first of six talks the retired Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, reflects on those times when legislation against discrimination is required and when it is not.
Part 2 Nielsen
Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)
(A public concert given in the City Hall, Glasgow, bn 9 December 1978 in association with Gull Oil Corporation)
The last of four programmes of music from the Islamic world, from recordings made by Deben Bhattacharya.
4: Arab maqams from Syria
Instrumental music played on the ud, the Arab lute. the Nay. the flute, the Buzuk, a long-necked lute-like instrument, and the Qanun, a psaltery.
