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Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 1
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
7.16* Bossier Horn Concerto in D minor
ERICH PENZEL
WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted bv JÖRGFAERBER
7.36* Chabrier Suite pastorale SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records
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Smetana Symphonic Poem: From Bohemia's woods and fields (Ma vlast)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.19* Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by LASZLO SOMOGYI gramophone records
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Poeme danse: Jeux
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
9.22* Fantaisie for piano and orchestra
JEAN-RODOI.PHE KARS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON gramophone records
Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
A series of programmes featuring British amateur choirs THE LINDSAY SINGERS conductor ETHNA BARROR
ST BARTHOLOMEW 'S PARISH CHURCH CHOIR, BELFAST
Conductor RONALD E. LEE sing music by Tallis, Purcell, Howells, Ibert, Poulenc, Kodaly and Irish composers
Quartet in D major, Op 20 No 4 Quartet in G major, Op 76 No 1 played by the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St. John's, Smith Square, London, in 1970)
RAFAEL OROZCO (piano) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Weber Overture: Oberon
11.56* Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4, in G minor
12.22* Elgar Symphonic Study: Falstaff
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Music Group of London Piano Trio
Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
Beethoven Trio in c minor, Op 1 No
Mendelssohn Trio in c minor, Op 66
(A series of public concerts given in St John 's, Smith Square, London, SW1. Tickets 44p, obtainable at the door. Next concert - 4 June: Haydn and Mozart played by the Amadeus String Quartet with Antony Pay, clarinet)
2: The Light Cavalryman - Franz von Suppe MICHAEL HARDWICK talks about the founder of Viennese operetta and plays records of his music
conducted by MILAN HORVAT with OTTOKAR DRAPAL (clarinet) CHRISTIANE EDINGER (violin)
Alfred Uhl Sinfonia Concert-ante, for clarinet and orchestra (first broadcast in this country)
Gottfried von Einem Violin Concerto Op 33 (first broadcast in this country)
(Austrian Radio recordings)
played by DAVID M. PATRICK from Coventry Cathedral
Vivaldi-Bach Concerto No 2, in A minor (bwv 593)
Franck Piece héroïque
Vierne Sicilienne , Op 53 No 2
Reger Fantasia on the chorale: Halleluja! Gott zu loben
FAIREY BAND conductor KENNETH DENNISON
Ketelbey Overture: Chal Romano arr Langford Blow the wind southerly
Vinter Triumphant Rhapsody
Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
played this week by LONDON STUDIO STRINGS conducted by HANS-HUBERT SCHÖNZELER and VILEM TAUSKY
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by TERENCE LOVETT with artists on records
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6.30 Starting German: Reisebüro Atlas
30 lessons for beginners by R. M. OLDNALL and EDITH R. BAER 24: Am Strand
With ILSE SINGER, JORG SORENSEN EMMA ROCK and OTTO DIAMANT ‡ (Rptd: Sun 3 June. R4 VHF)
Books 1-3, 20p each; Records 1 and 2, 99p each; Books and records, 12.65: see page 66
7.4 Introduction to Arabic
Fifteen lessons in spoken Arabic for complete beginners Programme 9
Introduced by BAHA ESSAID With NADIA TAWFIQ
(Rptd: Sun 3 June, R4 VHF)
Book, 70p; Pronunciation record, 99p; see page 66
KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano)
PAMELA BOWDEN (mezzo-soprano) RONALD DOWD (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by NORMAN DELMAR Part 1
8.5* Robert Threlfall , assistant archivist of the Delius Trust, talks to ALAN JEFFERSON about A Mass of Life
8.15. Delius: A Mass of Life Part 2
Change and continuity in the world's longest surviving civilisation. Fourteen programmes presented by Richard Harris of The Times
8: Government and People
The balance of central and regional power in governing so large and populous a country as China is as much a problem today as in the past. Can there be an effective central government? What is the strength of provincial loyalty? And how cohesive is Chinese society?
Contributors:
LUCIAN PYE , C. P. FITZGERALD JOHN FAIRBANK
MICHEL OKSENBERG
A. DOAK BARNETT
ALBERT FEUERWERKER
MARK MANCALL
ENDYMION WILKINSON
ANDREW WATSON
Series producer ADRIAN JOHNSON (Rptd: Thurs. 9.15 pm, and currently printed in The Listener) Book: A Chinese View of China, 70p: see page 66 followed by an interlude
The second in a series of programmes in which Thea Musgrave, in conversation with other composers, investigates electronic music, and tries to assess the nature and validity of this new medium, its influence on music in general, and its possible role in the future. Today she talks to IAIN HAMIL TON about the influence of electronics on his own music, and about the phenomenon of Stockhausen.
The programme ends with a performance of Stockhausen's Telemusik
(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2
Prokofiev Sonata No 4, in c minor
Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances
From 22 May, R3 listeners in the Bournemouth area should tune to 464m or 90.7MHz VHF. From the same date, 188m will transmit BBC Radio Solent.
