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Two rarely heard works by Mozart, which were presented by the Haydn-Mozart Society in association with the BBC at the Royal Festival Hall, 3 July MARGARET PRICE (soprano) ANGELA BEALE (soprano) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) BBC CHORUS
ANDREW DAVIS
(organ continuo)
LONDON MOZART PLAYERS leader ROBERT MASTERS conductor HARRY BLECH
Mozart Konig Thamos (Choruses and Entr'acte)
9.50* Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2
EUROPEAN STRING QUARTET Thomas Kakuska (violin)
Siegfried Fiihrlinger (violin) Fritz Handschke (viola) Richard Harand (cello) (gramophone record)
10.20* Mozart Cantata: Davidde penitente

Contributors

Conductor:
Harry Blech
Conductor:
Mozart Konig Thamos
Violin:
Thomas Kakuska
Viola:
Fritz Handschke
Cello:
Richard Harand

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Beethoven's Piano Sonata in c sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight), by JOSEPH COOPER Recent orchestral records: reviewed by STEPHEN DODGSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Joseph Cooper
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson

PETER FRANKL (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER Part 1
Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
12.26* Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Frankl
Leader:
Tom Rowlette
Conducted By:
Lawrence Foster

A personal choice of records presented by Antony Hopkins including at 2.0* Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A, Op 69, with JACQUELINE DU PRE and STEPHEN bishop; at 2.40* RUDOLF SERKIN and the BUDAPEST QUARTET playing Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat; and at 3.28* Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor, with VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI.

Contributors

Presented By:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
Jacqueline du Pre
Unknown:
Rudolf Serkin
Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conducted By:
Anatole Fistoulari.

Symphony No 9 (first broadcast in this country) played by the DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
(Recording made available by courtesy of the Danish State Radio)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert Blomstedt

An opera in three acts Words and music by MICHAEL TIPPETT
(first broadcast performance) from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Cast: .......
Offstage voices: STUDENTS FROM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by COLIN davis Produced by PETER HALL
The action takes place In a symbolic garden in the present day.
Act 1 Confrontation

Contributors

Music By:
Michael Tippett
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Produced By:
Peter Hall

by PAUL BARKER
Editor of New Society
' Delectable dancing,' ' feast of entertainment': metaphors about food are suspiciously common among newspaper reviews of the arts. Do arts pages have to offer a kind of gourmet's guide? And is the taste-guide the right one anyway?

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Barker

Sir Philip Magnus talks about the difficult art of biography
' Biography today is booming,' says Sir Philip, himself one of our most distinguished historical biographers. He talks about its fascination, the relationship between subject and biographer, and changes in fashion in biography. He differentiates between the biography which is ' a natural quarry ' for historians and that which presents itself as a ' carved statue.' 1

Contributors

Talks:
Sir Philip Magnus

BBC Radio 3

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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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