Fourth in a series of six programmes to Include music by Purcell for the church and the stage,
Don Quixote: Overture and incidental music SOLOISTS, ACADEMY OF
ANCIENT MUSIC. directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
8.45* Rejoice in the Lord alway: SOLOISTS
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, LEONHARDT
CONSORT, directed by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS : records
Mozart Masonic Funeral Music (K 477): LONDON
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
9.110 Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 821)
KLAUS STORCK (arpeggione) ALFONS KONTARSKY (fortepiano)
9.38* Liszt Six Consolations FRANCE CLIDAT (piano)
9.540 Wagner Das Liebesmahl der Apostel WESTMINSTER CHOIR
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ : records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
The popular elements in Strauss s Arabella, by WILLIAM MANN.
Emil Gilels : a portrait of the pianist by JEREMY SIEPMANN. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated; Wed 2.0 pm)
Bruno Walter conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Mozart Overture: La clemenza di Tito (x 621)
Mozart Symphony No 38, in D (Prague) (K 504)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder KATHLEEN FERRIER
(contralto): records
DAVID NICHOLSON (flute) JAMES DURRANT (viola) SANCHIA PIBI ou (harp)
Wilma Paterson Casida de la Rose (first broadcast performance)
Bax Elegiac Trio Rawsthorne Suite BBC Scotland
The Final of this year's International Amateur Choral Competition
Bernard Keeffe introduces the 14 finalists, summarises the jury's comments and gives their verdict in each of the seven classes. Charles BeardsaU then announces the winner of the BBC Silver Rose Bowl for 1979, the award for the most outstanding choir.
Finalists:
School Class: United Kingdom, Sweden; Youth Class: UK, Hungary; Equal Voice Class: Hungary, uk; Mixed Voice Class: Canada, West Germany; Large Choir Class: UK, West Germany; Chamber Choir Class: UK, West Germany; ContemporaryMusic Class: Hungary, Ireland. This year's International Jurors were: NIKI VASKOLA (Finland), Chairman of the Jury, NOEL cox (UK), GERARD VICTORY (Ireland), KAREL AERTS (Belgium), WILFRIED BRENNECKE (West Germany), CHRISTOPHER OYESIKU (Nigeria)
(Organised by the BBC in association with the EBU)
led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by MOSHE ATZMON MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25, in c (k 503)
Hlndemith Concert Music for brass and strings, Op 50 BBC Wales
(Postponed from 7 Oct)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin)
Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Debussy String Quartet in G minor
William Mathias String Quartet, Op 38
4.0* Interval Reading
4.5* Cheltenham International Festival of Music 1979: Part 2 Beethoven
String Quartet in E flat, Op 127 (Given in the Pittville Pump Room in July)
JUDITH NELSON (soprano)
MONICA HUGGETT (baroque violin), WILLIAM HUNT (viola da gamba), ROBERT WOOLLEY (harpsichord)
Boismortier Cantata: Diane et
Acteon MondonviUe Pourquol , mon ame, etes-vous trii ste?; Esperez en Dieu
Leelair Violin Sonata in G, Op 9 No 7
Mondonville Dieu est mon protecteur
David Wheeler , who attended the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium in March, presents a reassessment of the physicist's impact on the culture of his time, with DANIEL BELL , ABBA EBAN, PAUL DIRAC , YEHUDA ELKANA , MARGARET COWING , LOREN GRAHAM , BANESH HOFFMANN , GERALD HOLTON , MEYER SCHAPIRO and FRITZ STERN. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
(Einstein: the Struggle against Chance: next Sun)
(piano)
Schumann Four Piano Pieces Op 32
Brahms Four Ballades, Op 10
A recent story by JORGE LUIS BORGES
Read by Denis Quilley English translation by NORMAN THOMAS DI GIOVANNI Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Part 2
Chopin Polonaise in c minor, Op 40 No 2; Sonata No 3, in B minor. BBC Birmingham
Roger Nichols reviews the past seven days' music broadcasting on radio, in a week which includes Berlioz's opera Beatrice et Benedict, a live relay of Boulez's Eclat/Multiples conducted by the composer, and the music of Faure on weekday mornings.
(Friday 7.10: Alan Blyth ) followed by an interlude
Opera in three acts
Music by Gasparo Spontinl Libretto by ÉTIENNE DE jouy (sung in French)
The Wexford Festival production, direct from the Theatre Royal, Wexford
La Vestale (1807) started the fashion for spectacular grand ' opera in Napoleon's Paris.
WEXFORD FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master ALAN CUTTS RADIO TELEFIS EIREANN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader AUDREY PARK conducted by MATTHIAS BAMERT
The action takes place In Ancient Rome.
Act 1: The Forum
Jonathan Raban , the playwright and critic, considers radio drama today and argues that the currently fashionable critical approach which puts radiophonic accuracy and sound textures before verbal content is as unhelpful as an account of typography would be in a critical study of Ulysses.
Act 2: In the Temple of Vesta
10.30* Interval Reading
10.45* La Vestale
Act 3: One of the city gates
(Crispino e la Comare: Thursday 8.30 pm)
Trio-Sonata in G (BWV 1039): STEPHEN PRESTON
NICHOLAS MCGEGAN (flutes) JANE RYAN (viola da gamba) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
(harpsichord): record*
