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Humphrey Burton's Masterworks

on BBC Radio 3

Humphrey Burton shares some of the pleasures of his half-century of record collecting, beginning with a personal selection of recent budget CD releases.
10.00 A weekly anthology of favourite 78s and LPs that have been remastered on CD.
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Fritz Kreisler (violin), London
Philharmonic, conductor John Barbirolli
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television in a career stretching back 40 years. Today, Georg Solti conducts Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra with the LSO. Plus excerpts from Wagner's Gotterdammerung and Verdi's La traviata. Discs

Contributors

Violin:
Fritz Kreisler
Conductor:
John Barbirolli
Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Georg Solti

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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