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Sibelius Overture: Karelia SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
7.13* Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor:
CLIFFORD CURZON LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANATOLE FISTOULARI
7.43* Wirfin Serenade, Op 11, for string orchestra
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHANNES SOMARY gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson
Unknown:
Clifford Curzon
Conducted By:
Anatole Fistoulari
Conducted By:
Johannes Somary

Tchaikovsky Movements from Act 3 of Swan Lake MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
8.21* Saint-Saens Symphony No 3, in c minor
ANITA PRIEST (organ)
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Unknown:
Anita Priest
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1, in F major (ed Dart)
ALAN LOVEDAY (Violin)
PHILIP LEDGER, COLIN TILNET (continuo): ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
Chorus: Auf, sehmetternde Tone der muntern Trompeten (Cantata 207a) DARMEN-GEMARKE CHOIR AND
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HELMUT KAHLHORE Rondeau: Aria (Anna Magda lena Bach Book) (mono)
MAJA WEIS-OSBORN (soprano) KURT RAPF (harpsichord)
Brandenburg Concerto No 2, In F major (ed Dart) IONA BROWN (violin)
DAVID MUNROW (recorder) NEIL BLACK (oboe)
BARRY TUCKWELL (horn)
THURSTON DART , RAYMOND LEPPARD (continuo): ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Violin:
Alan Loveday
Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Helmut Kahlhore
Unknown:
Anna Magda
Soprano:
Maja Weis-Osborn
Harpsichord:
Kurt Rapf
Violin:
Iona Brown
Violin:
David Munrow
Oboe:
Neil Black
Horn:
Barry Tuckwell
Horn:
Thurston Dart
Horn:
Raymond Leppard
Directed By:
Neville Marriner

One hundred years ago yesterday Ralph Vaughan Williams was born. The two chamber works in this week's programme were part of a centenary tribute given on 30 April at the Highgate Society, and afterwards recorded in the studio.
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) NASH ENSEMBLE
String Quartet in G minor
Song-cycle: On Wenlock Edge, for tenor, string quartet and piano

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Vaughan Williams

1972 Lugano Music Weeks HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano) ZURICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by EDMOND DE STOUTZ Part 1 attrib Pergolesi Concertino No 1, in G major
Mozart Piano Concerto No 14, in E flat major (K 449)
1972 International Prague Spring Festival
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano)
Satie Trois mélodies: La statue de bronze; Daphénéo; Le chapetier Je te veux
1972 Lugano Music Weeks Part 2
Milhaud Slnfoniette
Dvorak Serenade in E major, Op 22, for string orchestra (Recordings made available by courtesy of Swiss-Italian and Czechoslovak Radios)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Edmond de Stoutz
Piano:
Satie Trois

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6.36 The True Style
5: The First Museums
Two leading figures in the NeoClassical movement in Britain built themselves houses which were also the first museums. SIR JOHN SUMMERSON talks about the architect Sir John Soane and DAVID WATKIN about Thomas Hope , collector and patron,
(Search for the Ideal - reflections on Neo-Classicism: Sunday afternoons on BBCl)
7.0 The Impact of Broadcasting
Six programmes presented by ALASDAIR CLAYRE 2: Politics and Consensus
How far did broadcasting from its earliest days contribute, both by what it conveyed and by what it did not, to the shaping of ' consensus politics '?

Contributors

Talks:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Sir John Soane
Unknown:
David Watkin
Unknown:
Thomas Hope
Presented By:
Alasdair Clayre

Second of five chronological programmes, each containing a quartet, a symphony and a mass
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET JANET PRICE (soprano)
BEVERLEY HUMPHRIES (contralto) WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone) CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR RICHARD ELFYN JONES (organ continuo)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by HARRY NEWSTONS and ROY BOHANA Part 1
Quartet in flat major, Op 10 No 1 (1772)
Symphony No 46, In a major (1772)
(conducted by BARRY NEWSTONE

Contributors

Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Leader:
Colin Staveley
Conducted By:
Harry Newstons
Conducted By:
Barry Newstone

by Don Haworth
with Bill Fraser as Bullfrog and Roy Kinnear as Pike

'My predecessor wasn't the Ombudsman, he was the public's chopping block. I don't stand for it. I hit them. That's why I have this big room, so that I can lay into them. I smash their specs.'
(from Leeds)
(This play is included in a book We all come to it in the end - six plays by Don Haworth: a BBC publication at £2.75)

Contributors

Writer:
Don Haworth
Producer:
Tony Cliff
Bullfrog:
Bill Fraser
Pike:
Roy Kinnear

' Of the whole enormous area which was once the spirited domain of Tibetan culture and religion ... now only Bhutan seems to survive as the one resolute and self-contained representative of a fast disappearing civilisation.'
In the first of three talks JOHN LEVY presents recordings he made recently in Bhutan of the awe-inspiring lamaist orchestras and chant and the contrastingly quiet singing ,of villagers, which reveal a musical culture hitherto unknown outside the country. Producer MADEAU STEWART

Contributors

Unknown:
John Levy
Producer:
Madeau Stewart

A weekly programme of reviews, discussions and interviews
Introduced by JOHN SPURLING This edition includes:
DAVID STOREY , author of This Sporting Life and The Changing Room, discussing his new novel Pasmore with RONALD HAYMAN
JOHN HIGGINS on the Sadler's Wells production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace which has its British premiere this week at the London Coliseum Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Spurling
Unknown:
David Storey
Unknown:
Ronald Hayman
Unknown:
John Higgins

The second in a series of programmes in which Peter Frankl and AndrěTchaikowsky
Play all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
Sonata in G major, Op 49 No 2 (Tchaikowsky)
Sonata in c major, Op 2 No 3 (Tchaikowsky)
Sonata in F major, Op 54 (Frankl)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Frankl

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