LYDIA MORDKOvicn (violin) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Weber Overture: Eurvanthe
7.14* Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1. in D major
7.36* Bax In the faery hills
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8.5 Overture (continued) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams)

Elgar
The Edwardian Period
This was the period during which Elgar reached the height of his creative powers and was even becoming something of a celebrity. In 1904 there was an all-Elgar festival at Covent Garden, attended by the King and Queen, and shortly afterwards he was knighted.
Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra, Op 47 SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLI. I
Coronation Ode, Op 44
FELICITY LOTT (sop), ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto)
RICHARD MORTON (tenor) STEPHEN ROBERTS (bass) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
BAND OF THE ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF MUSIC, KNELLER HALL, NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCRESTRA, conducted by PHILIP LEDGER : records

[n this series of 13 programmes the singer Nigel Douglas presents recordings of some of his favourite singers.
11: Claudia Muzio
(First broadcast on R4 UK)

Sextet in c major Op 37 MEMBERS OF CAPRICORN

director LEONARD FRIEDMAN HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, in F
Albinonl Concerto In B flat, for oboe and strings, Op 7 No 3
Bach' Brandenburg Concerto No 4. in G
12.5* Interval Reading
12.10* Scottish Baroque Ensemble. Part 2
Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in c (RV 447)
Britten Narcissus (Six Metamorphoses afterOvid) Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, in D
(Giren in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 7 April) BBC Scotland

direct from St John's Smith Square. London Tenth Anniversary Programme
The first of these concerts from St John's took place on 8 December 1969 when the Amadeus String Quartet and William Pleeth gave a performance of Schubert's c major Quintet. The anniversary is being marked in this special concert-a ' live ' repeat of the original occasion.
Amadeus Siring Quartet Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
William Pleeth (cello)
Schubert Quintet in c major (D 956

played by Nicholas Danby at St Mary's, Rotherhithe Orlando Gibbons Fantasia in c
John Blow Two Verses; A Double
Voluntarv John Stanley Three Voluntaries: in E minor. Op 7 No 7; in c, Op 7 No 2; in G, Op 7 No 9

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Weber Overture: Oberon Fauré Dolly Suite
Delius A song before sunrise
Richard Kell Variations on a notorious theme (first broadcast performance)
Walton Prelude and Spit-fire Fugue

Francaix Piano Concerto CLAUDE PAILLARD-FRANCA1X RADIO LUXEMBOURG
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER
Smetana String Quartet No 1, in E minor (From My Life'
SMETANA QUARTET
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathgtique) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM

5.45-5.58 News

Presented by Jack Brymer

Respighi Suite: The Birds
Haydn Scena: Berenice, che fai?
Mozart Symphony No 28, in C (K 200)

Lillian Watson (soprano) Bournemouth Sinfonietta, leader Ronald Thomas, conducted by Kenneth Montgomery

The first of three programmes including three other chamber works with prominent flute parts. RICHARD ADENEY (flutei
KENNETH SILLITO (violin) IAN JEWEL (Viola)
KEITH HARVEY (cello)
Mozart Flute Quartet No 4, in A major (K 29S)
Reger Serenade in D major, Op 77a

Debussy La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faur(
Rave Bolero
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Austrian Radio record ing from the 1979 Salt burg Whitsun Festival)

'When I reached Peking I felt I was perfectly al home ... there wa! Mussolini in Italy, fas cism. Things were verj ugly in Germany. I didn'l really very much car< for what was happening in England.... Here 1 was going to stay.... II was taken for grantec that I was leading a lift of sin.'
Sir Harold Acton in con versation with novelist DEREK ROBINSON about his many gifted contempo raries at Eton and Oxford, his years in China, his beautiful home in Florence, and about the recreation claimed in Who's Who - ' hunting the Philistines Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

(violin)
Fourth of six recitals
Bach Sonata No 3, in c major (Bwv 1005)

Julian Smith describes the early history of Puccini's much-loved opera, and the various revisions made to the score and libretto before the usual version of the opera was established. The talk is illustrated by substantial extracts from the first version of the opera, specially recorded for this programme, many of which are receiving their first performance since the disastrous premiere in 1904. Cast:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
THE WELSH NATIONAL OPERA leader JOHN STEIN conducted by JULIAN SMITH followed by an interlude

Introduced by CharlesFftx PETER CUSACK (guitar) and LARRY STABBINS
(clarinet/soprano sax)