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Liszt Symphonic Poem: Les préludes
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL '(gramophone record)
7.22* Chopin Ballade in G minor ANDRE WATTS (piano)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)
7.32' Rimsky-Korsakov, arr Glazunov and Steinberg Suite: The Golden Cockerel
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
(gramophone record)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karel Ancerl
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch

Rossini Overture: The journey to Rheims
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.13* Rossini, arr Respighi Ballet: La boutique fantasque
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
George Szell
Conducted By:
Sir Eugene Goossens

APRIL CANTELO (soprano) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by YUVAL ZALIOUK
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
10.20* Berlioz Song-cycle: Les nuits d'été
10.50* Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)

Contributors

Soprano:
April Cantelo
Leader:
Colin Staveley
Conducted By:
Yuval Zaliouk

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON Part 1
Spontini Overture: La Vestale
12.25* Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor
(Hosts of Christmas Past: pages 100-110)

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson

The last programme in this Vaughan Williams centenary series features his letters and his poets read by JOHN WESTBROOK ana GABRIEL WOOLF with JOHN NOBLE (baritone) PHILIP LEDGER (piano) Devised by Ursula Vaughan Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Read By:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Ursula Vaughan Williams

The Leeds International Piano Competition was held in September this year. This week
Mitsuko Uchida , Japanese semi-finalist, inhersemi-finalrecital: Haydn Sonata in B minor (H xvi 32)
Schoenberg Three Pieces, Op 11 Chopin Sonata in B flat minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Mitsuko Uchida

from the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society
PRAGUE STRING QUARTET
Bretislav Novotnv (violin) Karel Pribyl (violin) Luboniv Maly (viola) Jan Sirc (cello)
Beethoven Quartet in F major, Op 18 No 1
4.55. Martinu Quartet No 3
5.10. Tchaikovsky Quartet No 1, in D major, Op 11
(Given in the Renold Theatre. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology on 23 October)

Contributors

Violin:
Karel Pribyl

9.30 Spare Time for Music
The tenth of 12 programmes for amateur music-makers. This week JÜRGEN HESS , ALAN HARVERSON and PHILIP JONES introduce some more new pieces with further suggestions for tackling them.
(Publication £1.20: see page 114)
7.0 Key to Music
Twelve programmes in which PETER WISHART examines the basic materials of music and shows, in music from the concert repertoire, how composers have used them.
1: The Homing Instinct
Series producer DAVID EPPS
(Publication 90p: see page 114) (Music Questions: Wednesdays
6.30 pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Rgen Hess
Unknown:
Alan Harverson
Unknown:
Philip Jones
Unknown:
Peter Wishart
Producer:
David Epps

Opening Concert direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
ANNE HOWELLS (mezzo-soprano) BBC CHORUS conductor JOHN poole
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor Pierre Boulez Stravinsky Part 1
Suite: The Firebird (1911) Le faune et la bergère Symphony of Psalms

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Anne Howells
Conductor:
John Poole
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

This was the battle which Napoleon considered his fiercest. CHRISTOPHER DUFFY , who lectures in military history at Sandhurst, helped to re-stage it for the BBCtv War and Peace. He reflects on the battle and Tolstoy's view of it.(War and Peace is on BBC2 on Thursdays and Saturdays)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Duffy

Stravinsky Part 2
Le roi des etoiles: The Rite of Spring
Where the Promenaders go in the wintertime is, one hopes, back to the Royal Albert Hall this year. The first Winter Proms season for 20 years begins tonight with a real Boulez all-Stravinsky concert, including the delightful Le roi des étoiles, which he has not conducted here before.
Concerts next week (7.30 In the Royal Albert Hall , unless stated otherwise)
Saturday: Handel, Brahms and Schubert
Sunday: Berlioz The Damnation of Faust
Monday (not broadcast): including Mozart's Mass in c minor
Monday (9.30 in the Round House): including the first performance of a BBC commission, Robin Holloway 's Evening with Angels
Tuesday: including Tchaikovsky's Pathetique
Wednesday: including Mahler's s Sixth
Thursday: Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic (in collaboration with Fanfare for Europe)
Thursday (9.30 in Westminster Cathedral): Venetian music
Friday (Final Concert): Purcell and Elgar

Contributors

Unknown:
Roval Albert Hall
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Robin Holloway

Introduced by Philip Oakes
The second of two programmes discussing the arts in 1972 Visual Arts:
JASIA REICHARDT, EDWIN MULLINS Opera:
JOHN HIGGINS , PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE Theatre:
MICHAEL BILLINGTON , HAROLDHOBSON Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude

Contributors

Introduced By:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
Edwin Mullins
Unknown:
John Higgins
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Haroldhobson Producer Philip

The 12th in a series in which Peter Frankl and André Tchaikowsky play all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
Sonata in c minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)
(Peter Frankl )
Sonata in E major. Op 109 (Andr6 Tchaikowsky)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Frankl
Unknown:
Peter Frankl

BBC Radio 3

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