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Frederick the Great Symphony No 3, in D: MEMBERS OF THE
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS VON BENDA
7.17* Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in A minor (R Op 45 No 3) HENRI HELAERTS
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.28* Michael Haydn Concerto In c, for viola, organ, and orchestra: STEPHEN SHINGLES S;MON PRESTON, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Hans von Benda
Unknown:
Henri Helaerts
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Conducted By:
Michael Haydn
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner

Delius and Bax Bax Overture to a Picaresque comedy
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR BUKETOFF
9.21* Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.30* Box Symphonic Poem: November Woods
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Bax Bax
Conducted By:
Igor Buketoff
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Opera in one act
Music by ELIZABETH MACONCHY
Libretto by the composer after Thomas Hardy 's dramatisation of his own short story
The action takes place in a shepherd's cottage in Dorset early last century.
Cast in order of singing:
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY CRIFFITHS conducted by MYER FREDMAN Repettteur JONATHAN HINDEN
Produced by ERNEST WARBURTON

Contributors

Music By:
Elizabeth MacOnchy
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Chorus-Master:
Stephen Wilkinson
Unknown:
Barry Criffiths
Produced By:
Ernest Warburton

Janet Craxton (oboe) Perry Hart (violin)
Brian Hawkins (viola)
Kenneth Heath (cello)
Charles Suck Trio for oboe, violin, and cello
J. C. Bach Quartet in c major Berkeley Duo for oboe and cello Rawsthorne Quartet (first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Oboe:
Janet Craxton
Violin:
Perry Hart
Viola:
Brian Hawkins
Cello:
Kenneth Heath
Cello:
Charles Suck Trio

A programme of chamber music on the lighter side played by the ENGLISH STRING QUARTET with LIZA FUCHSOVA and PAUL HAMBURGER (piano duet)
Quartet: Wolf Italian Serenade Pianos: John Joubert Diverti memto
Quartet: Pavel Vranicky Quar tet in B flat
Pianos: Inqhelbrecht Movements from La Nursery
Quartet: arr Frank Bridge Sally in our alley; Sir Roger de Coverley
Pianos: Walton Duets for Children

Contributors

Pianos:
John Joubert Diverti
Unknown:
Pavel Vranicky Quar
Unknown:
Frank Bridge

The Pioneer Philharmonic Orchestra. Sofia conducted by VLADI SIMEONOV
Verdi Overture: Nabucco
Prokofiev Six Dances (Romeo and Juliet)
Marin Goleminov Dance upon live coals (Ballet Nestinarka)
Petko Stainov Bulgarian Folk Dance
Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Baba Yaga: The Great Gate of Kiev (Pictures from an Exhibition)
Berlioz Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)
Dvorak Symphony No 9, In minor (From the New World) Introduced by ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENI from the 1970 St Moritz Festival

Contributors

Conducted By:
Vladi Simeonov
Unknown:
Ravel Baba
Introduced By:
Anthony Friese-Greeni

Ten programmes in which MEL bill traces the development of Jazz through the lives and music of its most influential exponents.
4: Duke Ellington
The first jazz composer to abandon completely the New Orleans form. He gave jazz a new richness and diversity by consciously introducing fresh European elements. Produced by DAVID HARDING
First broadcast by BBC Radio Stoke in October 1969
(This Week's Sounds: page 11)

Contributors

Produced By:
David Harding

2: The End of the Middle Ages JOHN STEVENS discusses the idea of courtly love. Medieval song hits are described as 'not much more than a sketch to be worked upon ' (rather like some very recent compositions): while in the carols from Henry vm's Manuscript - a fascinating document of the many-sided musical life of the court in the riotous early years of Henry vm's reign ' - he says ' melody is the message.'
Produced bv DAVID EPPS
(For publication see page 12)
(A supplementary programme of longer musical examples can be heard tomorrow at 2 0)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stevens

leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER with SIEGFRIED PALM (cello) from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester Part 1
Berlioz Overture: The Corsair
7.43* Goehr Romanza for cello and orchestra

Contributors

Leader:
Martin Milner
Conducted By:
Lawrence Foster
Cello:
Siegfried Palm
Unknown:
Goehr Romanza

Laurence Lerner discusses varieties of religious experience in the novel, with particular reference to George Eliot 's Daniel Deronda, Joyce Cary's The Captive and the Free, and William Golding's The Spire.

Contributors

Speaker:
Laurence Lerner

Introduced by JULIAN JEBB This edition includes:
An interview with PATRICIA HIGHSMITH about her new novel Ripley Under Ground
PETER GILL on his production of The Duchess of Malfi for the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London Produced by PATRICIA BRENT and PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Jebb
Unknown:
Patricia Highsmith
Unknown:
Peter Gill
Produced By:
Patricia Brent

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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