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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 New series
British Opera Matinee Humphrey Carpenter introduces the first in a series of afternoon opera broadcasts featuring Britten and other 20th-century British composers.
John Gay , arr Britten The Beggar's Opera
The lowlife of 18th-century London, with its colourful characters, dodgy dealings and tangled love lives, comes vividly to life in Britten's inventive arrangements of Gay's original melodies.
Aldeburgh Festival Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Steuart Bedford
Discs
3.00 London Baroque Schmeizer Lamento sopra di Ferdinando III; Sonate a 4 (Lamento)
Vivaldi Sonatas: in B minor
(RV169); in E flat (RV130) (Al Santo Sepolchro) Baldassare Galuppi Concerto a 4 in G
Bach Quartet No 1 in D Discs
3.50 The BBC
Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Horia Andreescu
Inger Dam Jensen (soprano)
Beethoven Overture: The
Consecration of the House
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate
Mozart Misera, dove son!
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat major

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
John Gay
Unknown:
Baldassare Galuppi
Conductor:
Horia Andreescu
Soprano:
Inger Dam Jensen
Macheath:
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Mrs Peachum:
Anne Collins (contralto)
Peachum:
Robert Lloyd (bass)
Polly Peachum:
Ann Murray (mezzo)
Lockit:
John Rawnsley (bar)
Lucy Lockit:
Yvonne Kenny (sop)
Beggar:
Declan Mulholland (speaker)

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