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Elgar Imperial March
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
8.10* Butterworth The banks of green willow
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.16* John Parry Sonata in D OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
8.23* Warlock Capriol Suite
8.34* Ireland Minuet (A Down-land Suite)
BOYD NEEL STRING ORCHESTRA conducted by BOYD NEEL
8.39' William Mathias Three Improvisations: OSIAN ELLIS
8.44' Walton Siesta
8.49* Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
John Parry Sonata
Harp:
Warlock Capriol Suite
Conducted By:
Boyd Neel
Conducted By:
William Mathias
Unknown:
Osian Ellis
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor, by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
Audio Fairs- Yesterday and Today: DONALD ALDOUS
Furtwangler's Ring: reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jonn Lade
Unknown:
Donald Aldous
Reviewed By:
Charles Osbornx

A series featuring life music-making
Today's recital comes from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Manoug Parikian (violin) Malcolm Binns (piano)
Brahms Sonata in G, Op 78
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 454)

Contributors

Piano:
Malcolm Binns
Piano:
Brahms Sonata

SERGIO AND EDUARDO ABREU (guitars)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by JOHN ARNOLD Part 1
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
12.37* Guido Sant6rsola Concerto for two guitars and small orchestra (first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Guitars:
Eduardo Abreu
Leader:
Sydney Humphreys
Conducted By:
John Arnold
Unknown:
Guido Sant6rsola

A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis Production assistant NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUERWLT

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Denys Guerwlt

The first of four programmes in which Jerrold Northrop Moore talks about some unusual records of special interest for their musical performances.
This week he plays records of Brahms and several pianists who studied with Clara Schumann and who had the advantage of Brahms's friendship and advice about the interpretation of his piano music.
(Next programme: 4 November)

Contributors

Speaker:
Jerrold Northrop Moore

A fortnightly series presenting arguments that challenge current orthodoxies
South Africa - Vain Hopes and Double Standards
Robert Kernohan argues that many liberals who oppose apartheid do so from a false position. They are, he maintains, unrealistic to hope for the peaceful development of majority rule. Furthermore, their opposition to ' racialism ' is one-sided and ignores the political facts of modern Africa.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Kernohan

An opera in three acts based on GOGOL'S short story Words by Y. PREIS
Music by Shostakovich English translation by EDWARD DOWNES
(first performance in this country)
Major Kovalyof wakes up one morning to find his nose has gone. How he copes without it, and how the nose behaves on its own, form the basis of a hilarious satire on society in general and on bureaucracy in particular.
with IAN PARTRIDGE , DUNCAN ROBERTSON and ROBERT BOWMAN (tenors)
MICHAKL RIPPON , NEILSON TAYLOR I basses)
Narrator PETER HOWELL BBC NORTHERN SINGERS BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Repetiteurs RICHARD NUNN and ROGER VIGNOLES
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON Acts 1 and 2 8.35* The Importance of Having a Nose: VICTOR ERLICH , Ben-singer Professor of Russian literature at Yale. talks about Gogol's short story and its background.
8.55* The Nose: Act 3
'Michael Langdon and David Lennox broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Covent Garden; Geoffrey Chard, Ann Howard , Sandra Dugdale by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera)

Contributors

Unknown:
Y. Preis
Translation By:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Ian Partridge
Unknown:
Duncan Robertson
Tenors:
Robert Bowman
Tenors:
Michakl Rippon
Tenors:
Neilson Taylor
Narrator:
Peter Howell
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Repetiteurs:
Richard Nunn
Producer:
Ernest Warburton
Unknown:
Victor Erlich
Unknown:
Michael Langdon
Unknown:
David Lennox
Unknown:
Ann Howard
Unknown:
Sandra Dugdale

CHRIST! LUDWIG (mezzo-sop) DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE conducted by KARL BÖHM Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 29 (K 201) Mahler Kindertotenlieder , for voice and orchestra
11.15* The Strauss of the Tone-Poems: talk by WILLIAM MANN
11.35* Festival Concert: part 2 Strauss Symphonic Poem: Tod und Verkiarung
(Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
Talk By:
William Mann

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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