State and Society

Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
7.18* Gottschalk Union (Paraphrase de concert) ALAN MARKS (piano)
7.27* Copland Suite from the film The Red Pony NPO/THE COMPOSER
7.52* Sousa March: Hands across the Sea
EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE/
FREDERICK FENNELL
8.0 News
8.5 Britten American Overture, Op 27
CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
8.15* Rebecca Clarke
Passacaglia on an Old English Tune
PATRICIA MCCARTY (viola) VIRGINIA eskin (piano)
8.20* Stravinsky Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
ENSEMBLE 1NTERCONTEMPORAIN/
PIERRE BOULEZ
8.35* Dvorak American Suite, Op 98b
RPO/ANTAL DORATI
Records. BBC Manchester

The House of Lancaster
English music from the mid-
15th century was much admired on the continent. The works of Walter Frye appear in many foreign manuscripts, while Robert Morton served in the Burgundian court for many years.
Frye Alas, alas. is my chief song; Ballade; So ys emprentid; Tout a par moy
MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON directed by PETER DAVIES and TIMOTHY DAVIES
Morton Plus j 'ay Ie monde regarde; Que pourroit plus faire une dame; Le souvenir de vous me tue: GOTHIC VOICES directed by CHRISTOPHER PAGE Records

Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
VIENNA PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN Liszt Symphonic poem:
Prometheus: LPO/GEORG SOLTI Scriabin Prometheus (The poem of fire)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LPO/LORIN MAAZEL . Records

by RHYS ADRIAN Why should the young have a monopoly in the weapons of terror? Frank, a redundant war correspondent of the old school, knows what he would do with a small bombifheever got hold of one. Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
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led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN JOHN LILL (piano) Part 1 Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15

Part 2 Dvorak Symphony No 6 in D, Op 60 BBC Wales (R)

Quintet for piano and string quartet, Op 34 THE COMPOSER (piano) EDINBURGH QUARTET (R)

Opera in one act with a prologue Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German): Records Prologue (bar) (speaking part) (tenor) (mezzo-soprano) (bass) (SOP) (soprano) (tenor)
3.15 * Interval Reading

(soprano) (bass) (tenor) (tenor) VIENNA PO/JAMES LEVINE

Presented by Roger Nichols Producer JEREMY HAYES BBC Pebble Mill

LEWISHAM CONCERT BAND conducted by JOSEPH PROCTOR Julian Work Autumn Walk
Vittorio Giannini Symphony No 3

2: Musical Games
... played with Rossini, Richard Strauss , Debussy,
Richard Tauber , Verdi and Schubert, by LES QUATRE BARBUS, BETOVE, the DAJOS BELA BAND, KARL VALENTIN , the KATAKOMBEN-JUNGENS, LES
FRERES JACQUES, and the VIENNESE KABARETT DER KLASSIKER, who sing the Grand March of the Minister of Public Inauguration
(sung in French and German) Records (R)

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mischa Maisky (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, led by Geoffrey Trabichoff, conducted by George Hurst

Bartok Dance Suite

Brahms Symphony No 3 in F major

First in a series of talks that steadfastly ignores London and the Home Counties.
Peter Stead , Lecturer in History at the University College of Swansea, explains why the Welsh, more than most, need their heroes.

Douglas Young introduces the first of five programmes on music written in the last 100
Years under the influence of the technologies and philosophies of Eastern music. roday: the impact of the Indonesian gamelans, first heard in Europe in 1889. Colin McPhee Balinese Ceremonial Music
Ravel Entre cloches; Frontispiece
John Cage Totem Ancestor Steve Reich Clapping Music Reinhard Febel Kaleidoskop land 2
DREAMTIGER
Peter Hill (piano/clapping)
James Wood (piano/clapping) directed by DOUGLAS YOUNG (piano) (R)

The Art of the English Madrigal Giles Farnaby (1598) and John Farmer (1599)
Farnaby Witness, ye heavens;
Lady, the silly flea; Lady, when I behold your passions; Construe my meaning
Farmer The flatt'ring words; Cease now thy mourning;
Compare me to the child; 0 stay sweet love; You blessed bowers CONSORT OF MUSICKE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY (R)

Graham Fawcett talks to the Guatemalan writer Victor Perera about the blend of fact and fiction in his work.
Producer SAM COLLYNS (R)

Suites of harpsichord and spinnet lessons, collected from the most celebrated Master Works, to which is added a great variety of passages by William Babell.
ROBERT wooLLEY plays the 1612 harpsichord by JOANNES RUCKERS from the Royal collection. Babell First set
Handel Suite in E minor Babell Second set