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Verdi Grand March (Aida) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.17* Kreisler Liebesleid ;
Liebesfreud PINCIlAS ZUKERMAN (violin) LAWRENCE SMITH (piano)
8.25* Rossini, arr Respighi Tarantella (Rossiniana) SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted bv ERNEST ANSERMET K.33* Liszt Liebestraum No 3
8.39* Tchaikovsky Chant sans paroles, Op 2 No 3
WALTER KLIEN (piano)
8.42, Weber, orch Berlioz Invitation to the Dance
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
8.53* Berlioz Trojan March PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records
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Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2, by ROBERT PHILIP
Recent opera: MARK LUBBOCK
Recent records of pre-classical music: CHARLES CUDWORTH
Handel Concerto Grosso No 4, in F (Op 3 No 4)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
19.28* Rameau Castor and Pollux, Act 3 Scenes 4 and 5 NORMA LERER (contralto)
JEANETTE scovoTTi (soprano) GÈRARD SOUZAY (baritone) STOCKHOLM CHAMBER CHOIR
CONCENTUS MUSICUS OF VIENNA conducted by NlKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
10.37* Bach Harpsichord Concerto No 2, in E (BWV 1053) IGOR KIPNIS , LONDON STRINGS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
19.57* Rossini Introduction and Cavatina (The Barber of Seville) LUIGI ALVA (tenor)
HERMANN PREY (baritone)
AUBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO gramophone records
by Scheidt, Bach. Britten and Janacek PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE With PETER LLOYD (flute) PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christopher Seaman
Part 1
Debussy Iberia (Images)
12.37* Haydn Symphony No 83, in G minor (The Hen)
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Part 2 Elgar Symphony No 1, in A flat major
A series in which well-known public figures present a personal choice of records
Lord Boyle, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University and a former Minister of Education, devotes his programme to the music ofGabrielFaure.Heincludes a barcarolle, a nocturne, several songs and movements from two of Faure's chamber works.
Willi Boskovsky conducts the Johann Strauss Orchestra in a programme of music by the brothers Johann, Josef and Eduard Strauss
(Austrian Radio recordings)
Richards Piano Quartet
Beethoven Quartet in E flat, Op 16
Mendelssohn Quartet in B minor. Op 3 direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
What do Agents do for Their Pcrcentaget
John Amis talks to
WILFRID VAN WYCK , JASPER PARROTT MARTIN CAMPBELL-WHITE
LEONARD PEARCEY. JOHN CRUFT
JOHN LILL and AMARYLLIS FLEMING Producer DENYS GUEROULT
I re cervo
Opera in three acts based on gozzi's play
Libretto by HEINZ VON CRAMER English version by MARIA MASSEY PELIKAN
Music by Hans Werner Henze
(first performance in this country)
Henze's operatic fairytale has all the classic ingredients - a handsome prince falling in love with a beautiful young girl, thwarted by a bad baron and helped by a good fairy. Right triumphs in the end, but not without some of Henze's most ravishing and evocative music being heard on the way.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Repetiteur RICHARD NUNN
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
The action takes place in a southerly landscape - a kind of Venice between a forest and the sea.
Act 1 The Palace
7.30* Monarchs, Ministers and Magic: DR BRIAN MOLONEY talks about the play on which Henze's opera is based, and its author, Carlo Gozzi.
7.50* The Stag King Act 2 The Forest
discussing The Call-Girls, his first novel for over 20 years, with JOHN SPURLING , in a conversation first broadcast last October in Arts Commentary,
Act 3 The Town
Lord Balogh, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and economic adviser to the Cabinet during the last Labour government, reflects on what he sees as the failure of the British elite to meet the challenge of contemporary political and economic changes, and analyses the causes of that failure.
Two string quartets by early 20th-century masters
Elgar Quartet in E minor
Sibelius Quartet in D minor (Voces intimae)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Trends in pop music on records introduced by Derek Jewell
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