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Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival: AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK

8.15* Czerny, arr Rusager Ballet: Etudes: LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE KERN

8.55* Sousa March: El capitan LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

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Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Britten's Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell, by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
Books on Hi-Fi and Tape: re-
4 viewed by DONALD ALDOUS
Recent records of chamber and vocal music: NOËL GOODWIN

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Donald Aldous

Gustav Holst: Psalm 86 - Ian Partridge (tenor), Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Imogen Holst

10.24* William McGibbon: Trio-Sonata in B minor - Leonard Friedman, Daphne Goodson (Violins), Michael Tilmouth (Cello) Kenneth Elliott (harpsichord)

10.32* Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel - Robert Tear (tenor) Philip Ledger (piano)

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JAMES HUGHES (harmonica) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted and introduced by TERENCE LOVETT direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture
Debussy Prélude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Arnold Harmonica Concerto
Vaughan Williams Extracts from Job: a Masque for Dancing
Lalo Scherzo for Orchestra

Contributors

Introduced By:
Terence Lovett

A comic opera in three acts
Words by Giovanni Ruffini, after Anelli's 'Ser Marc Antonio.'
Music by Donizetti (sung in Italian).
Direct from the Royal Opera House

In order to spite his nephew an old bachelor decides to marry - only to find that he has walked headlong into a trap.
Covent Garden Chorus, chorus-master Douglas Robinson
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden led by Meyer Stolow, conducted by John Pritchard

Act 1

2.40* Don Pasquale, his Ancestors and Descendants
A talk by Charles Osborne

2.55* Don Pasquale, Act 2

Contributors

Words (after Anelli's 'Ser Marc Antonio':
Giovanni Ruffini
Music:
Gaetano Donizetti
Singers:
Covent Garden Chorus
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Musicians:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Leader:
Meyer Stolow
Conductor:
John Pritchard
Don Pasquale:
Geraint Evans (baritone)
Dr Malatesta, a physician:
Gabriel Bacquier (baritone)
Ernesto, Don Pasquale's nephew:
Ryland Davies (tenor)
Norina, a young widow, in love with Ernesto:
Elizabeth Harwood (soprano)
Carlo, Malatesta's cousin, disguised as a notary:
John Dobson (tenor)
Speaker (Don Pasquale, his Ancestors and Descendants):
Charles Osborne

A poem in the Lincolnshire dialect by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Read by Mary Wimbush
Introduced by Hallam Tennyson

Tennyson's dialect poems, written 30 years after he had left his native Lincolnshire, are among his least known but most vigorous works.

Contributors

Poet:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Reader:
Mary Wimbush
Presenter:
Hallam Tennyson

1823-1892. The final programme commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Rapsodie norvégienne
Excerpts from Namouna SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET Piano Concerto in F minor ORAZIO FRUGONI VIENNA VOLKSOPER ORCHESTRA conducted by Michael GIELEN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Conducted By:
Michael Gielen

APRIL CANTELO (soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) WILLIAM MCCUE (baritone)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS conducted by GARY BERTINI Part 1
Bach Cantata No 140: Wachet auf. ruft uns die Stimme
8.5* Bartok Cantata profana, for tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra

Contributors

Baritone:
William McCue
Conducted By:
Gary Bertini

BBC Radio 3

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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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