and Weather Forecast
English music
Part 1
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
SINFONIA OF LONDON
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI on a gramophone record
Stereophonic broadcast
Madrigals sung by The Wilbye Consort
Susan Longfield (soprano) Ursula Connors (soprano) Margaret Cable (contralto) Noreen Willett (contralto) Nigel Rogers (tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) Geoffrey Shaw (bass)
Directed by Peter Pears
Stay, Corydon, thou swain
There where I saw
Ye that do live in pleasures
Draw on sweet night
(Second broadcast)
Sinfonia da Requiem
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record
Stereophonic broadcast
and Weather Forecast
Part 2
PURCELL
Chacony in G minor
PHILOMUSICA OF London
Conducted by ANTHONY Lewis on a gramophone record
Stereophonic broadcast
Madrigals sung by The WILBYE CONSORT
Directed by PETER PEARS
All pleasure is of this condition As fair as morn
Weep, weep, mine eyes
Sweet honey sucking bees Happy, 0 happy he
Come. shepherd swains
Softly. 0 softly, drop my eyes
Second broadcast
String Quartet No. 2, In F sharp major
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Venus and Adonis
L'OISEAU-LYRE
ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLE
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord)
Marcel Frecheville (cello)
Conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS on gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, by Joseph Cooper
Great Artists and Performances of the Past: a new-series reviewed by Felix APRAHAMIAN on gramophone records
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
Introduced by Michael de Morgan
Directed by Geoff Dobson
Timings may be altered by events
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by Sports Parade
Introduced by Liam Nolan
Racing
1.35 The Bob Wigney Handicap Hurdle
For four-year-olds and upwards run over three miles and a few yards
2.15 The Mackeson Gold Cup
A handicap chase for five-year-olds and upwards run over two miles and a few yards
2.45 The Mackeson Handicap Hurdle
For four-year-olds and upwards run over two miles and about 200 yards
Commentary by Peter Bromley with summaries by Roger Mortimer
From Cheltenham
4.54 Racing Results
RUGBY UNION
2.30: 3.0 London Counties v. Australian Tourists
Commentary by ROBERT HUDSON and PETER YARRANTON
From Twickenham
4.0 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and SIMON SMITH on the second half of one of today's English League games
4.42* Football Results
5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50
played by MARIE LEONHARDT
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837-1909
A reassessment by Christopher Ricks
In the second of his two programmes on Swinburne CHRISTOPHER RICKS makes a more general assessment of Swinburne's achievement, and seeks to refute some of the reasons for the present low level of his reputation.
Readers:
GABRIEL WOOLF
ALLAN MCCLELLAND and GUDRUN URE
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Sonatine for flute and piano
7.19* Structures for two pianos,
Book 2
Severino Gazzelloni (flute) Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Pierre Boulez and Yvonne Loriod
(two pianos)
Recorded at the Freemasons' Hall. Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival on September 2. 1965
Second broadcast
David Worswick broadcasts the last of his four commentaries on current affairs in this fortnightly series
Personal View from Berlin: November 26
A music drama in four scenes
Sung in German
Cast in order of singing:
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Karl Bohm
Produced by Wieland Wagner
Scene 1
At the bottom of the Rhine Scene 2
An open space on a mountain height
Scene 3
The subterranean caves of Nibelheim
Scene 4
An open space on a mountain height
Recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival made available by courtesy of the Bavarian Radio
Stereophonic broadcast
followed by an interlude at 10.50
Die Walkure: November 20
