6.15 The Question Why.
6.35-6.55 Open Forum.
Ravel Introduction and Allegro SUSAN DRAKE (harp)
MARGARET CAMPBELL (flute) COUN PARR (clarinet)
ENGLISH STRING ORCHESTRA/ WILLIAM BOUGHTON
7.15* Elgar Sea Pictures
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) LSO/BARBIROLLl
7.38* Mozart Piano Concerto No 1 in F (K 37): CAMERATA ACADEMICA OF THE SALZBURG
MOZARTEUM directed by GEZA ANDA (piano)
8.0 News
8.5 Thomas Overture: Mignon MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA/ FREMAUX
8.12* Chopin Introduction and Variations on a German Air VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
8.19* Moeran Violin Concerto JOHN GEORGIADIS/LSO/HANDLEY records
Beethoven
Overture: King Stephen, Op 117 VIENNA PO/BERNSTEIN
Clarinet Trio in B flat, Op 11 THE MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON records
Choral Fantasy, Op 80 EDITH VOGEL (piano) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC SO/LOUGHRAN
Symphony No 4 in c minor, Op 54 (Easter)
PRAGUE SO/SMETACEK record
JANE MANNING (soprano) JOHN MCCABE (piano)
Bax Watching the needleboats at San Sabba C. W. Orr Bahnhofstrasse
Bridge Goldenhair
Ireland Tutto e sciolto Howells Flood
Moeran Now, o now, in this brown land
led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by THOMAS SANDERUNG and EDWARD HARPER
JANET HILTON (clarinet) Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Edward Harper Clarinet
Concerto (conducted by THE COMPOSER)
Smetana Vltava BBC Scotland
David Hill (organ), direct from the German Lutheran
Christchurch, Montpelier Place, London
Bach Fantasia in G (bwv 572); Chorale Preludes: Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (BWV 651); Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (Bwv 599); Jesus
Christus unser Heiland (BWV 666); Herzlich tut mich verlangen (BWV 727); Prelude and Fugue in B minor (bwv 544) (Tickets available from the BBC Ticket Unit)
In the late 50s this American trumpeter collaborated with the composer and arranger
Gil Evans to make several notable albums. One of these took as its starting point
George Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess, for which Evans' score required a 19-piece orchestra.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by HILARY DAVAN WETTON
BRIAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano)
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
Arthur Somervell Three Songs from 'Maud': A voice by the cedar tree; 0 let the solid ground; I have led her home Hoist Two Songs without
Words: Country song; Marching song
Vaughan Williams , arr M. Johnstone Lovesight ; Silent Noon; Hearts Haven (The House of Life)
Malcolm Hawkins Suite: On Stage
Armstrong Gibbs Love is a Sickness, Op 44 No 1; Five Eyes
Tchaikovsky Valse des Fleurs (Nutcracker Suite)
played by PETER WALLFISCH
Eberl Sonata in c minor (first broadcast of complete work)
Georg Benda Sonata No 1 in B flat
E. Th. A. Hofmann Sonata No 1, in F minor
J. L. Dussek La Chasse BBC Birmingham
Haydn Symphony No 97 in c conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM Rachmaninov Fantasy: The Rock, conducted by WALTER WELLER : records
direct from York Minster Responses: Richard Lloyd
Psalms: 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Turle, Alcock, Jackson, Rogers)
Lessons: Joshua 9, vv 3-27 (rsv); Luke 9, w 51-62 (rsv)
Canticles: St Woolos Service (P. Moore )
Anthem: Blessed City (Bairstow)
Hymn: Sun of my Soul (Birling) Voluntary: Toccata in B minor (Francis Jackson )
Organist and Master of the Music PHILIP MOORE
Assistant Organist JOHN SCOTT WHITELEY. BBC Manchester
Presented by Roger Nichols Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Then and Now
In the last of three programmes John Steane discusses the way in which McCormack's art survives today through records and compares that with what critics had to say about the singer during his lifetime.
Producer PETER TANNER : Mono
The last of three programmes Unification and the Creation
Until recently the question of why the universe exists was thought to be beyond the scope of science. But a few years ago physicists studying the sub-nuclear constituents of matter stumbled across a surprising connection between their particle theories and the origin of the universe.
Paul Davies , Professor of Theoretical Physics at
Newcastle University, examines how far this link between the very small and the very big has taken us in unifying the laws of physics and accounting for the cosmic creation.
Producer JUUAN BROWN Mono
leader BELA DEKANY , conducted by DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES MIHAELA MARTIN (violin)
Harrison Birtwistle An Imaginary Landscape
Bartok Violin Concerto No 2
(Repeated: Friday 1.5 pm) Mono
Part 2
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
(Given on 17 May in the Smetana Saal, Prague)
ANNE QUEFFELEC, IMOGEN COOPER Schumann, arr Debussy Four Canonic Studies
Debussy En blanc et noir
Mozart Sonata in D (K 448)
11.20 Language and Authority.
11.40-12.0 Doppler Techniques.