Fourth in a series of seven programmes Five Mystical Songs
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
Oratorio: Sancta Civitas IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar)
CHORISTERS OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE BACH CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS : records

Boismortier Cantata: Winter: SOPHIE BOULIN (SOp)
LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA CIIAMBRE DU ROY, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE
9.251 Alkan Sonatine in A minor, Op 61
RAYMOND LEWENTHAL (pianO)
9.41 Picrre Vachon String Quartet in F minor, Op 11 NO 5: LOEWENGUTH QUARTET
10.0 Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals
CYRIL SMITH , PHYLLIS SEL-LICK (pianos), INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE: records

A magazine about music and personalities in this year's Promenade Concerts.
Presented by Jeremy Siepmann
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE

conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (baritone)
Busoni Four Goethe Songs
Mahler Symphony No 5, in c sharp minor
(SFB Berlin recording)

by Charles Dobler
Bernard Reichel Ten Preludes
Sutermeister Hommage a Honegger
Ralfaele d'Alessandro Four Visions, Op 49

The final programme in the UK round, in which all the winning choirs are heard and Bernard Keeffe announces the award for the Best UK Choir of 1980

Latymer Madrigal Group; Market Harborough Singers; Wirral Singers; Ex Cathedra; Bath College of Higher Education Choir; Tudor Singers of London; Aldwyn Consort of Voices

Shostakovich String Quartet No 13, in B flat

David Matthews String Quartet No 3 (BBC commission: first broadcast performance, introduced by the composer)

- Fitzwilliam Quartet

leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GERARD AKOKA
Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny
Berlioz Love Scene: Queen Mab Scherzo; Feast of the Capulets (Romeo and Juliet) BBC Manchester

(tenor) sings Brahms and Beethoven, accompanied by Rudolf Dunckel Part 1
Brahms Sagt mir, o schonste Schaf'rin mein; Guten Abend ; Feinsliebchen, du sollst mir nicht barfuss gehn: Schwesterlein. Schwesterlein; Wie komm ich denn zur Tür herein: An die Nachtigall: 0 wiisst ich doch den Weg zuriick; Minnelied; Herbstgefühl; Sehnsucht: Wir wandelten; Mainacht

Ian Kemp
BBC Manchester

Part 2 Beethoven
Lieder aus der Ferne; Wachtelschlag; Resignation; Der Liebende: Andenken; Der Zufriedene; Ich liebe dich
An die ferne Geliebte
(Finnish Radio recording)

(1880-1959)
Jeremy Siepmann considers the work of one of this century's most influential composers and teachers and the extent to which his reputation has survived. The programme includes music on record from: Concerto Grosso No 1; Prayer, for cello and piano; Sacred Service; String Quartet No 3: Concerto Grosso No 2; and Schelomo.

(piano)
Bach, transc Liszt Fantasy and Fugue in c minor (bwv 542)
Beethoven Variations and Fugue on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35
(Given on 22 Nov 1979 in the QEH, London)

A short story by Itzik Manger, translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Leftwich
Read by Cyril Shaps

'I believe Manger to be not only the foremost Yiddish poet but one of the greatest poets of the contemporary world.' (Arthur Waley)

Part 2
Chopin Sonata in c minor, Op 4
Stravinsky Three dances from Petrushka

by Samuel Beckett.

"That then is the proposition. To one on his back in the dark a voice tells of a past. With occasional allusion to a present and more rarely to a future as for example, You will end as you now are."
Patrick Magee reads the complete text of Samuel Beckett's new work, which was published last month.

(Last Monday's broadcast)
followed by an interlude

at the Bayer-Erholungs
"aus,
Leverkusen HEATHER HARPER (SOpranO) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Britten Les illuminations

At each station on the line, an image of Our Lady blesses the departing traveller; but at Hurlingham, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the niche is empty. There, even the Virgin has 'disappeared'. In the first of three talks, The Rev Dr Edward Norman, Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who has been travelling in South America, reflects on the extent to which Argentina can be said to demonstrate the support of the Church for reactionary right-wing nationalism.

Part 2 Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra (Given on 13 May)
A BBC Digital recording

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