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Weber Overture: Preciosa
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MU ̈NCHINGER Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat major
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
Weber Concertino in E minor GEORGES BARBOTEU (horn)
BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THEODOR GUSCHLBAUER

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Mu
Horn:
Georges Barboteu
Conducted By:
Theodor Guschlbauer

leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT Adam, arr Winter Overture: Si j'ftais roi
Richard Rodney Bennett Suite francaise
Bryan Kelly Rondo Burlesque (Cookham Concertina)
Mozart Minuet in c (K 409); March in D (K 408)
Hoddinott Folk Song Suite, for small orchestra

Contributors

Leader:
James Davis
Conducted By:
Terence Lovett
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett Suite
Unknown:
Bryan Kelly Rondo
Unknown:
Mozart Minuet

Fourth in a series featuring the piano music of Brahms and some of Schubert's less-known songs
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) NIGEL COXE (piano)
Schubert Songs: Das Zugen glocklein: Minnelied; Winter-lied; Berthas Lied in der Nacht: Liebestandelei
Brahms Sonata No 2, in F sharp minor
Schubert Songs: Marie; Vom Mitleiden Maria ; Dem Unend lichen
Brahms Clavierstiicke , Op 118

Contributors

Contralto:
Sybil Michelow
Piano:
Nigel Coxe
Songs:
Das Zugen
Unknown:
Vom Mitleiden Maria
Unknown:
Dem Unend
Unknown:
Brahms Clavierstiicke

Haydn Symphony No 76, in E flat
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
12.16* Wagner Wesendonk
Lieder MARILYN HORNE (soprano)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY LEWIS
12.40* Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy
LOS ANGELES
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA

Contributors

Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Conducted By:
Wagner Wesendonk
Soprano:
Lieder Marilyn Horne
Conducted By:
Henry Lewis
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

Opera in two acts Music by BELLINI
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
ROME CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO, conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI
The action takes place in the 13th century in Sicily at the Castle of Caldora and in the surrounding neighbourhood. Act 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Felice Romani
Conducted By:
Gianandrea Gavazzeni

SALLY PHILLIPS (piano)
Redbridge Youth Orchestra
conductor CHARLES FARNCOMBE
Berlioz Overture: The Corsair Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song, for piano and orchestra
Arnold Four Scottish Dances Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso Introduced by ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE

Contributors

Piano:
Sally Phillips
Conductor:
Charles Farncombe
Introduced By:
Anthony Friese-Greene

6.30 New series
English in Action
Ten programmes on language and the ways we use it
1: What is ' Standard English 'f There is a great deal of disagreement about where the best English is spoken and what is meant by good English. ANDREW WILKINSON , Reader in Education in English, University of Birmingham, explains the term ' Standard English ' and discusses how that standard has changed and continues to change.
Producer ALAN WILDING
6.30-7.0 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on facing page
7.0 pm Regency People IAN GRIMBLE explores the meaning of the Regency Age through studies of ten notable people who lived in it.
1: George (Beau)
Brummell Byron said there were three great men in his time - Byron, Napoleon and Brummell - and the greatest was Brummell. Producer PEGGY BACON ‡

Contributors

Reader:
Andrew Wilkinson
Producer:
Alan Wilding
Unknown:
Ian Grimble
Unknown:
Brummell Byron

K. W. GRANSDEN, senior lecturer in English at Warwick University and author of a book on E. M. Forster , discusses Maurice, the novel Forster wrote nearly 60 years ago but, because of its homosexual theme, decided to postpone for posthumous publication.

Contributors

Unknown:
E. M. Forster

by HENRY MILLER
Dr Henry Miller , Vice-Chancellor, and previously Dean of Medicine in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, examines current enthusiasms for population screening - for instance, mass radiography - as an instrument of clinical medicine.

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Miller
Unknown:
Dr Henry Miller

Second of six programmes played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) Part 1
Quartet in F major, Op 18 No 1 Quartet in a minor, Op 132

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett

by ROBERT NOWELL
Mr Nowell , who is concerned as a writer and reviewer with both theology and science fiction, finds a good deal in common between them: for instance. their preoccupation with mankind's destiny. Is it possible for science fiction, by translating ' basic religious themes, to show their relevance and meaning?

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Nowell
Unknown:
Mr Nowell

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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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