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Arriaga Overture: The Happy Slaves
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF SPAIN conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS
8.14* Krommer Clarinet Concerto in E flat
JACK BRYMER VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by FELIX PROHASKA
8.36* Haydn Symphony No 59, in A (Fire)
ESTERHAZY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID BLUM gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Unknown:
Jack Brymer
Conducted By:
Felix Prohaska
Conducted By:
David Blum

Fourth in a series of five programmes which include all Ysaye's unaccompanied violin sonatas
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin) WILLIAM GLOCK (piano) Mozart Sonata in E flat major
(K 380)
10.3* Ysaye Sonata in A minor, Op 27 No 2 .
10.17* Stravinsky Duo Concertant
10.35* Ysaye Sonata in G major, Op 27 No 5

Contributors

Violin:
Erich Gruenberg
Piano:
William Glock

Test Match Special
England v Australia at Headingley (First Day) Ball-by-ball commentaries by BRIAN JOHNSTON
JOHN ARLOTT and ALAN MCGILVRAY with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY , RICHIE BENAUD Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
Producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
11.15-1.35* including lunch summary
1.35*-1.40* News
1.40*-2.0* SIR NEVILLE CARDUS talks about Headingley Cricket Ground.
2.0*-2.5* Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10*-4.20* and 4.30*-6.0* including teatime summary
6.0-6.40 () including close-of-play summary On days when a Test Match is scheduled, but it is known at close of play the day before that there will be no play, normal Radio 3 music programmes will be broadcast. On days when play finishes early or is abandoned at any time after it has begun, normal Radio 3 music programmes will resume approximately one hour after play has ceased.
(Radio Times Olympic Summer of Sport, available from newsagents: 25p)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Alan McGilvray
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
Richie Benaud
Talks:
Sir Neville Cardus

6.40 Games and Simulations
4: Integrating Games and Simulations
This programme looks at ways in which simulation exercises can become an integral part of the on-going work of students (Book 45p: see page 54)
7 pm The Asian Phoenix
Eight programmes on modern Japan presented by GEOFFREY BOWNAS
1: The Changing Society
Feudal in 1860. fascist in 1940. devastated in 1945, Japan is now the third most powerful economy in the world. What changes will the 70s bring? Series producer DAVID D:CKINSON
(Publication 11.60: see page 54)

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Bownas

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

John Bingham, Martin Hughes, Ronald Lumsden, Howard Shelley, Thomas Walsh, David Wilde (pianos)
London Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra, leader John Georgiadis, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas

Giovanni Gabrieli Sacrae symphoniae (1597):
No 2 a 8: Canzon septimi toni
No 4 a 8: Canzon noni toni
No 6 a 8: Sonata pian e forte
Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta

(This Weeks Proms: page 12)

Contributors

Pianist:
John Bingham
Pianist:
Martin Hughes
Pianist:
Ronald Lumsden
Pianist:
Howard Shelley
Pianist:
Thomas Walsh
Pianist:
David Wilde
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
John Georgiadis
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas

Part 2 Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A major
9.20* Talk: Humphrey Searle on Hexameron
9.40* Proms 72: Part 3
Liszt, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny, Chopin
Hexameron: variations on the March from Bellini's I Puritani (first performance in this country of the version for six pianos and orchestra, reconstructed by Robert Linn)

(Part of this concert will be shown in Omnibus at the Proms: 30 July)

Contributors

Speaker:
Humphrey Searle

John Donne
ANTHONY THWAITE introduces a personal selection of Donne's verse to mark the quatercentenary of his birth. This evening he concentrates on the secular poems.
Reader GARY WATSON
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
(2 August: the Divine Poems)
10.40* Donne settings of poems by composers wnu were contemporaries of John Donne.
Devised and introduced by IAN HARWOOD and performed by the CAMPIAN CONSORT
Duncan Robertson (tenor) Ian Harwood (lute) John Isaacs
(bass viol and recorder)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Donne
Introduces:
Anthony Thwaite
Reader:
Gary Watson
Producer:
George MacBeth
Unknown:
John Donne.
Introduced By:
Ian Harwood
Tenor:
Duncan Robertson
Tenor:
Ian Harwood
Bass:
John Isaacs

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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