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Bach Concerto in A minor, for four harpsichords and string orchestra
GEORGE MALCOLM , VALDA AVELING GEOFFREY PARSONS , SIMON PRESTON ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.15* Couperin L'apothéose de Lully: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
7.44* Bach Concerto in D minor, for three harpsichords and string orchestra
GEORGE MALCOLM , VALDA AVELING GEOFFREY PARSONS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
George Malcolm
Unknown:
Valda Aveling
Unknown:
Geoffrey Parsons
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Directed By:
Raymond Leppard
Unknown:
George Malcolm
Unknown:
Valda Aveling
Unknown:
Geoffrey Parsons
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard

A record request programme Holst A Fugal Overture
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.12* Elgar Romance for bassoon and orchestra MICHAEL CHAPMAN
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.19* Bax Symphony No 6
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Michael Chapman
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar

'A series of programmes containing works by 20th-century British composers
William Wordsworth Four Sacred Sonnets of John Donne : At the round earth's imagin'd corners; Thou has made me; Batter my heart; Death, be not proud
10.3* Couperin Septieme ordre: La mSnetou; Les petits ages; La basque: La chaze"; Les amusements 0
10.27* Rameau La Dauphine
10.30* Moeran Seven Poems of James Joyce
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) JOHN BARROW (baritone) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
JANE CLARK (harpsichord)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Wordsworth
Unknown:
John Donne
Unknown:
James Joyce
Soprano:
Jeannette Sinclair
Baritone:
John Barrow

by JOHN MOREHEN from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle Schumann Fugues on BACH (Op 60): No 1, in B flat major; No 3, in G minor
10.54* Durufle Prélude sur l'lntroit de l'Épiphanie
10.56* Christopher Brown Nocturne (first broadcast performance in this country)
11.0* Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor (s 582)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Morehen
Unknown:
Christopher Brown
Unknown:
Bach Passacaglia

A concert of music that might have been played in the Mendelssohn home during the composer's 14th year in 1822. Rossini Overture: II Signor Bruschino: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
11.20* Weber Sonata No 6, in c MICHEL DEBOST (flute)
CHRISTIAN IVALDI (piano)
11.29* arr Beethoven Scottish Folk Songs
EDITH MATHis (soprano)
ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) ANDREAS ROHN (violin) GEORG DONDERER (cello) KARL ENGEL (piano)
11.38* Boieldieu Fantasy on Au clair de la lune
LE QUATUOR BERNEDE
11.46* Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in A minor: JOHN OGDON ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Flute:
Michel Debost
Soprano:
Edith Mathis
Cello:
Georg Donderer
Piano:
Karl Engel
Unknown:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner

from Winchester Cathedral
Antiphon: 0 how amiable are thy dwellings (William Prendergast)
Versicles and Responses (Clement McWilliam )
Psalm 37 (Flintoft, S. S. Wesley )
Lessons: Deuteronomy 7. vv 6-11; John 19, vv 16b-24 (NEB)
Canticles (Herbert Howells Winchester Service)
Anthem: In the year that King Uzziah died (Bernard Naylor ) Organist and Master of the Music ALWYN SURPLICE
Sub-organist CLEMENT MCWILLIAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Clement McWilliam
Unknown:
S. S. Wesley
Organist:
Bernard Naylor
Unknown:
Clement McWilliam

Starting Spanish: 39: Que vamos a hacer manana
A course of 40 lessons written by Brian Dutton and Angel Garcia de Paredes
Presented by Jacinta Castillejo and Pablo Soto, with Cristina Roura, Antonio Lopez
(For book and records see p 10)

7.0 Perspective: Is Opera too Grand?
'Many people are unwilling to try opera because it is popularly called grand opera and is supposed to be concerned with remote societies whose emotional situations nobody today can honestly believe in.'
How far is this recent comment by a music critic in The Times true of opera in Britain today?
Antony Hopkins talks to composer Sir Michael Tippett and to John Tooley, General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Contributors

Writer (Starting Spanish):
Brian Dutton
Writer (Starting Spanish):
Angel Garcia de Paredes
Presenter (Starting Spanish):
Jacinta Castillejo
Presenter (Starting Spanish):
Pablo Soto
Unknown (Starting Spanish):
Cristina Roura
Unknown (Starting Spanish):
Antonio Lopez
Producer (Starting Spanish):
George Walton Scott
Presenter (Perspective):
Antony Hopkins
Guest (Perspective):
Sir Michael Tippett
Guest (Perspective):
John Tooley
Producer (Perspective):
Dennis Simmons

director SIMON CARRINGTON with SIMON PRESTON (organ) Pygott Quid petis, o fili
Byrd Factus est repente; Memento salutis auctor; Viri Galilaei : Deo gratias
Sebastian Forbes Second Sequence of Carols (first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Director:
Simon Carrington
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Unknown:
Byrd Factus
Unknown:
Viri Galilaei
Unknown:
Sebastian Forbes

HANS LEYGRAF (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by LEIF SEGERSTAM from the Town Hall, Cheltenham Part 1
Sibelius Symphony No 7, in c
Karl-Birger Biomdahl Cham ber Concerto, for piano. wood-wind and percussion

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Leif Segerstam
Unknown:
Karl-Birger Biomdahl Cham

by Laurence Lerner
Five years ago Norman Sherry published Conrad's Eastern World, a study of the sources of Joseph Conrad's early fiction. He has now followed it up with Conrad's Western World. Professor Lerner discusses the value of Dr Sherry's approach and the light thrown on Conrad's mind and art.

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Laurence Lerner

BBC Radio 3

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More