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Purcell Suite: Dioclesian ROUEN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ALBERT BEAUCAMP
7.18* Haydn Violin Concerto in G
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.37* Beethoven Incidental Music: The Ruins of Athens BEECHAM CHORAL SOCIETY
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Contributors

Conducted By:
Albert Beaucamp
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

Second of 13 programmes on Tuesday mornings, each devoted to music composed in the same year
Strauss Closing Scene, Act 3 (Der Rosenkavalier)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SILVIO VARVISO (gramophone record)
10.6* Debussy Preludes: La fille aux cheveux de lin; La cathédrale engloutie; Minstrels JOHN OGDON (piano)
10.19* Mahler Adagio (Symphony No 10)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY (gramophone record)
10.42* Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT (gramophone record)
10.59* Busoni Fantasia contrappuntistica
JOHN OGDON (piano)
11.30* Stravinsky Ballet: The Firebird
SU1SSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET (gramophone record)
(1919 version of Firebird: 16 October)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Silvio Varviso
Piano:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Piano:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Marschallin:
Regine Crespin
Octavian:
Elisabethsöderström
Sophie:
Hilde Gueden

Second of ten weekly programmes played by the Oromonte Piano Trio
Perry Hart (violin)
Kenneth Heath (cello)
Nina Milkina (piano)
Trio in A major (H XV 9)
Trio in E minor (H XV 12)

Contributors

Musicians:
Oromonte Piano Trio
Violinist:
Perry Hart
Cellist:
Kenneth Heath
Pianist:
Nina Milkina

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE with the BBC chorus
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Vaughan Williams Cantata: In Windsor Forest
Hoist Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda; third group, for women's voices and harp NORMAN WEBB (harp) conducted by JOHN POOLE Hoist Japanese Suite

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Harp:
Norman Webb
Conducted By:
John Poole

Penderecki Sonata for cello and orchestra
SIEGFRIED PALM
HESSE RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN (gramophone record)
4.51* Serocki Forte e Piano: music for two pianos and orchestra (first broadcast in this country)
ALOYS AND ALFONS KONTARSKY
5.4* Bernd Alois Zimmcrmann Canto di speranza: cantata for cello and orchestra (first broadcast in this country) SIEGFRIED PALM
WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
(Recordings made available by courtesy of West German Radio)
5.23* Serocki Musloa concertante
HESSE RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN (gramophone record)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michael Gielen
Unknown:
Serocki Forte
Unknown:
Alfons Kontarsky
Unknown:
Bernd Alois ZimmcRmann
Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Unknown:
Serocki Musloa
Conducted By:
Michael Gielen

A series of programmes featuring British amateur choirs From Scotland: THE ARRAN CHOIR conductor RAYMOND BRAMWELL and THE KINGHORN SINGERS conductor MAIRI ROLLAND who sing music by Brahms. Bruckner, Byrd, John Gardner and Vaughan Williams

Contributors

Conductor:
Raymond Bramwell
Conductor:
Mairi Rolland
Unknown:
John Gardner
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

6.30 Perspective
A weekly programme on the arts
In Repertoire
On Thursday, after 57 successful years in cramped quarters, the famous Birmingham Rep moves into a new and spacious building and a new phase in its career.
Up and down the country other new theatres are being built and new audiences attracted. Does this point to a revival in the theatre outside London?
MICHAEL BILLINGTON , drama critic of The Guardian, talks to directors and actors in the provinces about repertory theatre and its future.
Producer PEGGY BRANFORD
6.30-7.0 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on facing page
7.0 Affluence and Inequality
Ten programmes on ithe problems of the developing world presented by PETER DONALDSON , author of Worlds Apart
2: The Cradle of Affluence
The economic gap between rich and poor countries began with the Industrial Revolution in Brttain over 150 years ago. Why did it happen here and what lessons can the developing countries learn from the British experience?
PETER DONALDSON , With
PROFESSOR ERIC HOBSBAWN of London University
Producer HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Billington
Producer:
Peggy Branford
Presented By:
Peter Donaldson
Unknown:
Peter Donaldson
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

A concert of two late 19ith-century masterpieces
Brahms Concerto in A manor, for violin, cello and orchestra Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathévique)
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (violin) PAUL TORTELIER (cello)
ZURICH TONHALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
(Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
(Another performance of the PathAtique Symphony oan be heard next Sunday, 17 October, Radio 4, not Wales)

Contributors

Violin:
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe

Fourth of six programmes AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (viollin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Mantin Lovett (cello) Part 1
Quartet in D major, Op 18 No 3 Quartet in E flat major, Op 74

Contributors

Unknown:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Mantin Lovett

BBC Radio 3

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