Tchaikovsky Overture: The Voyevode: BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by JANOS FÜRST
7.15* Brahms Alto Rhapsody
JANET BAKER (meZZO-SOP)
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR (men's voices)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.27* Chopin Polonaise in A flat. Op 53
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
7.34* Dvorak Symphonic Poem: The Water Sprite LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ : records
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor, for violin, two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons and string orchestra (RV 577): MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by HANS STADLMAIR
8.15* atlrib Pergolesl Magnificat
ELIZABETH VAUGHAN (SOp) JANET BAKER (meZZO-SOp) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baSS)
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ACADEMY OF ST MARTlN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
8.27* Berwald Sinfonie singuliere: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COnducted by SIXTEN EHRLING gramophone records
Schubert
Mass in E flat
HELEN DONATH (soprano) INGEBORG SPRINGER (contralto)
PETER SCHREIER (tenor) HANS-JOACHIM ROTZSCH (tenor)
THEO ADAM (baSS)
LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLTSCH. gramophone record
(born 5 August 1890) CAPRICORN
Anthony Lamb (clarinet) Elisabeth Perry and Miles Golding (violins) Timothy Mason (cello) Julian Dawson-Lyell (piano)
Variations on a popular Viennese folk song, for violin, cello and piano, Op 9
Serenade for clarinet, violin and cello, Op 93 (first broadcast performance)
During the interval, Hans Gal , in an interview with HANS-HUBERT SCHONZELER , talks about his early years as a musician in Vienna - 75 years ago.
Trio for two violins and piano. Op 96 (first broadcast performance)
The diary of one who disappeared
PETER SCHREIER (tenor) GERTRUD OERTELOVA (contralto)
MEMBERS OF BERLIN RADIO CHORUS
MARIAN LAPSANSKY (piano) (Czechoslovak Radio recording)
conducted by GYORGY LEHEL
RALPH HOLMES (violin)
Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan
Bartok Violin Concerto No 1
Ian McDougall presents his weekly selection of foreign radio broadcasts. Producer BLAIR THOMSON
Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 9, in E minor (From the New World)
Sixth in a series of ten programmes in which Roger Nichols attempts a revaluation of the art of Claude Debussy , with the aid of performances of his music old and new.
Today's programme includes: L'isle joyeuse (MAGDA TAGLIAFERRO ); JeuX de vagues, from La mer (conducted by ROGER DÉSORMIÈRE): Reflets dans l'eau, from Images. Series I (WALTER GIESEKING); POISsons d'or. from Images, Series 11 (RICARDO vines) gramophone records Voice of Debussy: LYNDON BROOK
in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
GENNADI ROZnDESTVENSKT
Mozart Symphony No 13. in F major (K 112)
Shostakovich Symphony No 4 (Given on 17 May)
Charles Fox with records
Steve Race medium wave and mono only from 6.20
D. H. Lawrence and Giovanni Verga
Why did Lawrence take such an interest in the work of the distinguished Sicilian writer, Verga? Alfred Alexander , biographer of Verga and translator, considers the question and comments on the quality of Lawrence's translations.
Reader DAVID BRIERLEY Producer PETER FOZZARD
from the Royal London
Antony Pay (clarinet) Les Percussions de Strasbourg
London Sinfonietta leader NONA LIDDELL conducted by Elgar Howarth
Birtwistle For 0, for 0, the Hobby Horse is Forgot (first uk performance)
Joseph Conrad mode the best remark about him. ' How does this fellow get his effects? ' he asked. ' He writes as the grass grows! '
P. J. Kavanagh returns to the neglected nature-writer and novelist, W. H. Hudson.
Part 2 Boulez Domaines
STEPHEN REA reads the fourth of five parts Breeding Matters
Part 3 Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No 1. for 15 instruments. Op (
by GRAHAM SWANNELL
John Rowe as William Sheila Grant as Delia Peter Baldwin as Stephen and Margaret Robertson as the woman he meets in Paris.
Two children gather round the death-bed of their father. He is only with them physically, for his mind is far away remembering a journey he once made to escape his humdrum life and to find himself and happiness in a foreign land.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN followed by an interlude
Richard A. Baker looks back at the Music-Hall and some of its most famous artists. with the voices of HORACE KENNEY , BILLY MERSON , BILLY BENNETT , ALBERT WHELAN and ADA REEVB Producer ALAN OWEN
Motet: Salve crux, arbor vitae: CAPELLA CORDINA, INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by ALEJANDRO PLANCHART : record