Schubert Overture in c (In the Italian Style) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
7.13* Wolf-Ferrari Concertino (Idillio) for oboe. string orchestra and two horns
PIERRE PIERLOT (oboe) I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
7.31* Haydn Symphony No 60. in c (II distratto) PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records
Arnold Overture: Tam O'Shanter
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.13. Britten/Berkeley Mont Juic LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
8.24* . Elgar Ballet: The Sanguine Fan
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.42* Lambert The Rio Grande
JEAN TEMPERLEY (contralto) CRISTINA ortiz (piano)
LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN gramophone records
Victoria - music for Maundy Thursday
Motet: Tantum ergo; Benedictus: Lamentations of Jeremiah SCUOLA DI CHIESA directed by JOHN HOBAN gramophone records
MANOUG PARISIAN MALCOLM BINNS
Schubert Duo in A (d 574) Delius Sonata No 2 (1924)
10.20* Interval Reading
10.25* Recital Part 2 Strauss
Sonata in E flat, Op 18
(A concert given last October in St Peter Man -croft Church as part of the 1979 Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival) BBC Birmingham
leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by JOHN CAREWE
Matyas Seiber Besardo Suite No 2
Ireland Minuet and Elegy Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
plays English harpsichord music, including some pieces by John Blow , edited by Watkins Shaw , broadcast in the UK for the first time.
Blow Ground in G
Purcell Suite No 7, in D minor
Blow Chacone; Suite in D minor
Purcell Suite No 5, in c major
Blow Prelude
Symphony No 2, in D major
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD HAGER
(Austrian Radio recording) (Brahms Orchestral Music, a BBC Music Guide by John Horton , £1.00 from bookshops)
direct from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol Allan Schiller (piano)
Fitzwilliam String Quartet Christopher Rowland (violin)
Jonathan Sparey (violin) Alan George (viola) loan Davies (cello)
Schumann Kinderscenen Shostakovich Piano Quin tet
(Tickets: 85p at the door) BBC Bristol
Comic Opera in two acts Music by Rossini
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI (sung in Italian: records)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA, MILAN, conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI As Donna Fiorilla , Maria Callas gave an infectiously frivolous performance ... it was possibly her best comic characterisation.
(STELIOUS GALATOPOULOS)
3.20* Interval Reading
3.25* II Turco In Italia Act 2
SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano) RALPH HOLMES (violin) Schoenberg Piano Pieces,
Op 33a: Piano Pieces, Op 33b; Six Little Piano Pieces, Op 19; Phantasy for violin with piano accompaniment; Three Pieces, Op 11
Bernard Keeffe introduces the early-evening programme of music. medium wave and mono only from 6.20
Antony Hopkins
by STEPHEN JEFFREYS
' In 60 seconds' time, I will catapult a woman from the bank of the river across 200 feet of water into a safety net on the other side. Now there's only two possibilities. One, she soars like a bird and breaks the record. Two, she splatters her brains and bones across half of Shrews-bury.'
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester followed by an interlude
JOHN STEANE talks about the role of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg as recorded by NORMAN BAILEY , DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU, FRIEDRICH SCHORR , THEO ADAM, PAUL SCHÖFFLER, and others. (A Bavarian Radio recording of Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the role of Sachs, will be broadcast next Sunday)
' Unlike some other great interpreters of the past, Gibbon was not enticed or driven to his subject by the urgencies of his time, or a revolutionary, religious or patriotic passion.'
The American historian, Daniel J. Boorstin , Librarian of Congress, rereads Edward Gibbon s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and finds an intimate character to it.
JOHN LADE introduces music by Delius considered in last Saturday's Record Review.
by JACK TREVOR STORY
Read by Sheila Stcafel Producer BRIAN WRIGHT
First of three fortnightly programmes from the 26th International Rostrum of Composers held in Paris last May.
Gyorgy Kurtag Homage to Andras Mihaly : 12 microludes for string quartet
Lyell Cresswell Wa, for trombone, percussion and tape
Otto Ketting Symphony for four saxophones and orchestra
EDER STRING QUARTET JAMES FULKERSON (trombone)
GARY BRAIN (percussion) NETHERLANDS SAXOPHONE
QUARTET, AMSTERDAM CON-CERTCEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
(Hungarian, New Zealand and Netherlands Radio recordings)