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Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1, in c, by JOSEPH COOPER A look ahead with MICHAEL BERKELEY
Recent orchestral and choral records: reviewed by STEPHEN DODGSON

Contributors

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

A programme of new records
Tchaikovsky Overture-fantasia : Romeo and Juliet
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
10.36' Berg Altenberg Lieder
MARGARET PRICE (Soprano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
10.48* Alan Hovhaness Fra Angelico, Op 220
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
11.5* Dmitri Shostakovich Ballet Suite No 2
BOLSHOI THEATRE ORCHESTRA conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH

Contributors

Conducted By:
Claudio Abbado
Conducted By:
Berg Altenberg Lieder
Conducted By:
Claudio Abbado
Conducted By:
Alan Hovhaness
Unknown:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Conducted By:
Maxim Shostakovich

TERESA CAH1LL (Soprano) WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE
BBC SCOTTISH CHORAL SOCIETY BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by HUGH BRADLEY conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Part 1
Beethoven Symphony No 1, in c major
12.42* Mozart Exsultate , jubilate (K 165)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Bradley
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Mozart Exsultate

of some composers and-performers who feature prominently in the week's music broadcasting
Bach Trio-Sonata No 2, in c minor played by CHRISTOPHER BOWERS -BROADBENT on the new Rudolf von Beckerath organ at Clare College. Cambridge
ISee tomorrow. 10.20 pm) Copland Piano Variations played by PETER PMTINGER
Maxwell Davies Seven In Nomine, for wind quintet, string quartet and harp played by an ensemble conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILAN HORVAT
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Played By:
Christopher Bowers
Unknown:
Rudolf Von Beckerath
Played By:
Peter Pmtinger
Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Conducted By:
Elgar Howarth
Conducted By:
Milan Horvat

BERNARD SHORE presents a profile of the great Italian conductor, and includes gramophone recordings of Toscanini rehearsing the NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in Mozart's Magic Flute Overture and Verdi's La Traviata. He also recalls working under Toscanini with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and Brahms's First.

on The World of George Stubbs Basil Taylor , author of a recent study on Stubbs, and Jonathan Miller , in his capacities as scientist and lover of painting, talk about the particular qualities in the work of this 18th-century painter which are bringing him a long overdue recognition,

Contributors

Unknown:
George Stubbs
Unknown:
Basil Taylor
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller

Opera in four acts
Music by Rimsky Korsakev Libretto by L. A. MEI English version by DENNIS ARUNDELL
BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES Bepetiteur RICHARD NUNN
The action takes place In Moscow in autumn 1572 Acts 1 and 2

Contributors

Music By:
Rimsky Korsakev
Unknown:
Dennis Arundell
Conducted By:
David Lloyd-Jones
Conducted By:
Bepetiteur Richard Nunn

Two large-scale orchestral works inspired by the same poetic idea
Liszt Totentanz , for piano and orchestra
10.2* Reger Tone Poems after Bocklin: Die Toteninsel; Bacchanal: GRANT JOHANNESEN (piano) RADIO FRANKFURT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by OTHMAR MAGA
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Frankfurt)

Contributors

Unknown:
Liszt Totentanz
Conducted By:
Othmar Maga

Music. Opera and Ballet
Introduced by JEREMY NOBLE
Who and what are festivals for?: LINA LALANDI of the English Bach Festival and HARRY WEST of the Festivals of London say what they're trying to achieve
ANDREW PORTER and DOMINIC GILL discuss some festive happenings
OLEG KERENSKY reports on the dance in Australia, North America. London and Brighton Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Noble
Unknown:
Lina Lalandi
Unknown:
Harry West
Unknown:
Andrew Porter
Producer:
Patricia Brent

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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