The second of seven programmes.
Toward the Unknown Region
8.17* Dona nobis pacem SHEILA ARMSTRONG (sop) JOHN CAROL CASE (bar)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
Listeners' record requests Gordon Jacob Fantasia on the Alleluia Hymn
CATHEDRAL SYMPHONY OF LONDON, conducted by PAUL MICKELSON
9.12* Weber Piano Concerto No 1. in c, Op 11 MALCOLM FRAGER
NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MARC ANDREAE
9.33* Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies. Op 34
NORTHERN SINFONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAUL TORTELIER
9.42* Brahms Serenade No 1. in D. Op 11
SYMPHONY OF THE AIR conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI gramophone records
Introduced by Michael Oliver
'G ': the many careers of Sir George Grove - ' a life-work of more value than that of all the Prime Ministers of the 19th century'. (BERNARD SHAW) With a portrait by PERCY YOUNG , and Grove's writings read by LEONARD fenton. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated: Wed 1.50 pm)
conducted by SEIJI OZAWA ITZHAK PERLMAN (Violin)
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor, Op 26
12.0* Interval Reading
12.10* Concert
Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6, In B minor (Pathetique)
(SFB Berlin recording)
played by ANGELA BROWNRIDGE
Four Excursions; Nocturne: Homage to John Field , Op 33; Sonata, Op 26
Eleventh of 13 programmes Mixed Voice Choirs (1) EX CATHEDRA EXETER UNIVERSITY SINGERS
WEST RIDING SINGERS
READING PHOENIX CHOIR
Adjudicators NOEL COX, GEOFFREY MITCHELL and GARETH WALTERS Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
Second of two programmes YOSSI ZIVONI
ROSEMARIE WRIGHT
Sonatas: B flat (K 31): E minor (K 304); g major (K 379). BBC Bristol
Opera in three acts Music by Delibes
Libretto by EDMOND CONDI-NET and PHILIPPE GILLE (sung in French)
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS OF RADIO FRANCE chorus-master
ALAIN BOULFROY
NEW PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA OF RADIO FRANCE conducted byHENRi GALLOIS (French Radio recording) Act 1
The garden surrounding Nilakantha's temple
A talk from the BBC Sound Archives by Kingsley Martin
Act 2: The Market Place
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Act 3
A hut in the forest
A portrait of the celebrated pianist, in which he speaks about his life and career to ROBERT LAYTON.
(i'ee also 11.5 pm)
Trio-Sonata in G minor (RV 81): HAN DE VRIES, PIETER DHORT (oboes)
ALBERT DE KLERK (organ)
Chamber Concerto in c (RV 87)
FRANS BRÜGGEN (recorder) JÜRG SCHAEFTLIN (oboe)
ALICE HARNONCOURT , WALTER PFEIFER (violins), NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (Cello), GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichordi: records
Taiisig is very short indeed-too short for good looks - but he has a remarkably vivid expression of the eyes. He came in very late, and scarcely looking at us, and without taking the trouble to bow even, he turned on me and said imperiously, ' Play something to me! - Spielen Sie mir etwas vor!'
Pat Starr reads the first of six extracts from Music Study in Germany, the home correspondence, 1869-1873. of Amy Fay. Adapted for radio by CAROLE ROSEN
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (Magnificent Performances: tomorrow 7.0 pm)
Foerster Sonata quasi fantasia: JOSEF SUK (violin) JAN PANENKA (piano)
Suk String Quartet in D flat: SMETANA QUARTET gramophone records
by John Kirkmorris
with Alan Dobie as Snaith and Denys Hawthorne as Cooney
Two strange and violent men meet up on the road, one a religious maniac failed in his ambition to become a priest, the other a wisecracking Irishman. Gold and a girl act as catalysts in their lives.
leader RONALD THOMAS conducted by CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat. Op 6 No 7
Haydn Symphony No 100, in G (Military)
9.45* Interval Reading
9.58* Concert. Part 2
Rameau Les Indes galantes
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin. BBC Bristol
by STENDHAL translated by SUSAN ASHE
Read by Anthony Newlands
Producer RICHARD KEEN
(piano' plays Schumann's Blumenstiick, Op 19 gramophone record
