Verdi Overture: Nabucco BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.12* Hummel Bassoon Concerto in F
GEORGE ZUKERMAN
WURTEMMBERG CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JORG FAERBER
7.39* Smetana Polkas in r and B flat
(Czech Dances, Set 1) JAN NOVOTNY (piano)
7.46* Tchaikovsky Marche Slave
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.0 News
8.5 Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
8.12* Moscheles Piano Concerto in c minor
MICHAEL PONTI PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by OTHMAR MAGA ]
8.37* Mozart Symphony No 20, in d (k 133)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BÖHM: records
The Court of Mannheim Ludwig Lebrun Oboe Concerto in D minor
HEINZ HOLLIGER CAMERATA BERN, directed by THOMAS FÜRI (violin) Christian Cannabich
Sinfonia Concertante in c AURELE NICOLET ( flute) HEINZ HOLLIGER (Oboe) MANFRED SAX (bassoon) CAMERATA BERN. directed by THOMAS FÜRI (violin) Carl Stamitz Flute
Concerto in D major JAMES GALWAY
NEW IRISH CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRE PRIEUR : records
Sir Arthur Bliss 's last major work. written for the quincentenary of St George's Chapel, Windsor in 1975. JUDITH REES (soprano)
GRAHAM TITUS (baritone) JOHN SCOTT (organ) BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
CHRISTOPHER KITE and ROBERT FERGUSON
Debussy En blanc et noir
Milhaud Scaramouche Stravinsky Ballet: The Rite of Spring
BBC Wales. VHF only
directed by BARRY WILDE
MELVYN TAN (harpsichord) C. P. E. Bach Concerto in D minor (WQ 23)
Sibelius Humoresques , Op 89 Nos 1 and 2 Suk Serenade in E flat
BBC Manchester. VHF only
VHF only
in E (k 542): in c (K 548) MARLBORO TRIO
. VHF only
Opera in five acts by Gounod. Libretto by MICHEL CARRÉ . after a poem by mistral
(Sung in French: records)
TOULOUSE CAPITOLE CHORUS and ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHEL PLASSON VHF only
VHF only
with Michael Berkeley
Producer GARETH WALTERS VIIF only until 6.10
Fourth of 11 programmes
Large Choirs (2).
UK: Goldsmiths Choral Union; Finland; Flora Choir; Yugoslavia: Ivan Goran Kovacic University Choir; W. Germany: Choir of St Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin; Hungary: Kisz Youth Art Ensemble Choir
(In association with EBU)
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (sop) John Shirley-Quirk (bar) BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Beethoven Symphony No 6, in F major (Pastoral)
Conversations with ANNA AKHMATOVA
In 1945, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Writer and historian Of ideas, spent some months in the Soviet Union attached to the British Embassy in Moscow. In Leningrad he came to know the poet ANNA AKHMATOVA , contemporary and friend Of Boris Pasternak.
Among the poems she read to him was
Requiem, which has now been set to music by John Tavener and can be heard in part two of tonight's Prom.
(This talk forms an extract from Sir Isaiah Berlin's most recent volume of essays Personal Impressions)
John Tavener Akhmatova: Requiem (first broadcast)
Frank Kermode , King
Edward VII Professor of English Literature at
Cambridge University, reflects on some of the ways we think about language and use it (3).
Concerto in D (L'espiegle) SOUEN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by ALBERT BEAUCAMP Pimpinone
Intermezzo in three parts Libretto by JOHANN PHILIPP PRAETORIUS after PIETRO PARIATI
YVONNE CIANELLA (Sop) ERICH WENK (baritone)
STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM conducted by HELMUTH RILLING: records
Fantasia for clarinet and Piano; COLIN BRADBURY. OLIVER DAVIES : record
