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Chabrier Rhapsody: Espafla NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Liszt, orch Busoni Rhapsodie espagnole
JOHN OGDON (piano)
PHIUIARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD Berkeley and Britten Mont Juic LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LENNOX BERKELEY Debussy Iberia (Images) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Busoni Rhapsodie
Piano:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Conducted By:
Lennox Berkeley
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez

Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Strauss Don Quixote: fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character
GIUSTO CAPPONE (viola) PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Contributors

Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

from the Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
KEITH SWALLOW (piano) BOREAN WIND ENSEMBLE Part 1
Malcolm Arnold Divertimento for flute, oboe and clarinet
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor (D 537)
Egon Wellesz Suite , Op 73, for wind quintet

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold Divertimento
Unknown:
Egon Wellesz Suite

ALFREDA HODGSON (Contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) KEITH SWALLOW (piano)
Janacek The diary of a man who disappeared
Britten Canticle II : Abraham and Isaac
(From the Library Theatre, Bradford. The fifth in a series of 12 concerts promoted by Bradford City Libraries in association with the BBC)

Contributors

Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Tenor:
Kenneth Bowen

Mozart Quartet in e flat major (K 428)
Brahms Quartet in c minor, Op 51 No 1
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART Wilhelm Melcher (violin) Gerhard Voss (violin) Hermann Voss (viola) Peter Buck (cello)

Contributors

Violin:
Wilhelm Melcher
Violin:
Gerhard Voss
Viola:
Hermann Voss
Cello:
Peter Buck

Opera in three acts
Music by Weber
Libretto by Johann Friedrich Kind
(sung in German: records)
Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Robert Heger

The action takes place in Bohemia shortly after the end of the 30 Years War.

Acts 1 and 2

4.25* John Warrack introduces extracts from Weber's letters, read by Andrew Sachs

4.40* Der Freischutz: Act 3

Contributors

Presenter (Interval):
John Warrack
Reader (Interval):
Andrew Sachs

direct from the Fairfield Halls. Croydon BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
Wagner A Faust Overture
Schumann Symphony No 1, In B flat major (Spring)
8.35* Almost an Echo
PETER PARKIN gives the musical criteria for a good concert hall, plays some examples, and describes what you can do for a bad one.
8.55* Concert: part 2
Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Peter Parkin

BBC Radio 3 presents Craig Sheppard
Silver medallist of the 1972 Leeds International Piano Competition, in his first London recital, recorded earlier this evening from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Part 1
Beethoven Sonata in G major, Op 31 No 1
Liszt Sonata in B minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Craig Sheppard

by SHELDON WILLIAMS
This year at the Edinburgh Festival Polish artists stole much of the limelight, not only in theatre and music but also through their exhibition of visual art -Atelier 72. Earlier this year the art critic Sheldon Williams went to the 19th-century industrial city of Lodz. He tells the story of one of Lodz's proudest possessions, the Sztuka Museum.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheldon Williams
Unknown:
Sheldon Williams

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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