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Humphrey Burton's Conducted Tour

on BBC Radio 3

The third of four programmes in which Humphrey Burton looks at the different types of conductors who have emeiged in the 20th century. Poachers Turned Gamekeepers
World-famous instrumentalists who have taken up conducting as a second career.
9.30-10.00
Johann Strauss (son) Waltz:
Accelerations Conductor Willi Boskovsky Bartok Divertimento for Strings (1st mvt) Conductor Yehudi Menuhin Mozart Mass in C minor, K427
(Kyrie) Conductor Neville Marriner
10.00-11.00
Tchalkovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique, 3rd mvt)
Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich Walton Symphony No 2 (3rd mvt) Conductor Andre Previn
Respighi The Pines of Rome
(excerpt) Conductor Lorin Maazel Sibelius Karelia Suite (excerpt) Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C (excerpt) Conductor Walter Weller
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor (4th mvt)
Conductor Christoph Eschenbach
11.00-12.00
Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus
(Overture; Party Scene)
Conductor Placido Domingo
Falla Jota (The Three-Cornered Hat) Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Bloch America (excerpt)
Conductor Gerard Schwarz
Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G
(excerpt) Conductor Pinchas Zukerman Wagner Gotterdammerung (Act 2, excerpt)
Conductor Daniel Barenboim

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Conductor:
Willi Boskovsky
Conductor:
Bartok Divertimento
Conductor:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conductor:
Mozart Mass
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Conductor:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor:
Walter Weller
Conductor:
Christoph Eschenbach
Conductor:
Johann Strauss
Conductor:
Placido Domingo
Conductor:
Falla Jota
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Conductor:
Gerard Schwarz
Conductor:
Pinchas Zukerman
Conductor:
Wagner Gotterdammerung
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim

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