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Edited and introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Vivaldi's Op 3, by CHARLES CUDWORTH
THE AMADEUS quartet: interviewed by MICHAEL BERKELEY
Bruckner's Choral Music:
TREVOR HARVEY

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Charles Cudworth
Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Trevor Harvey

Bruckner Mass No 1. in d minor EDITH MATHIS (soprano)
MARGA SCHIML (contralto) WIESL.AW OCHMAN (tenor) KARL RIDDERBI'SCH (bass) ELMAR SCHI. OTER (organ) BAVARIAN RADIO CHOIR AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM gramophone record

Contributors

Soprano:
Edith Mathis
Contralto:
Marga Schiml
Bass:
Elmar Schi.
Conducted By:
Eugen Jochum

Professor Sir George Porter , Director of the Royal Institu tion, introduces his selection of music which includes works by Prokofiev. Beethoven and Chopin, as well as music with more particular associations gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir George Porter
Unknown:
Royal Institu

A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis including Paul Crossley , who gave the first performance of Sir Michael Tippett 's third piano sonata last week Production assistant NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEBOULT followed by an interlude

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Unknown:
Paul Crossley
Unknown:
Sir Michael Tippett
Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Producer:
Denys Gueboult

The Visit of The Old Lady
Der Besuch der alten Dame
Opera in three acts. Text by FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT, English version by NORMAN TUCKER
Music by Gottfried von Einem
(first broadcast performance in this country)
Claire Zachanassian, multimillionairess, exacts a terrible revenge from her native town and her first seducer. Cast:
The citizens of Gullen CLYNDEBOURNE CHORUS chorus-master PETER ROBIN SON LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD Chief coach JEAN MALLANDAINE Producer JOHN
The action takes place in the little town of Gullen in the present day
Act 1 Sc l: The railway station: Sc 2: Konxadsweiler woods: Sc 3: The garden of the Golden Apostle Hotel
Act 2 Sc 1: The grocery store: Sc 2: The vestry; Sc 3: The railway station
7.0* John Cox , Glyndebourne's Director of Production, who produced The Visit of the Old Lady, talks to JOHN HIGGINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Tucker
Music By:
Gottfried von Einem
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Unknown:
Jean Mallandaine
Unknown:
John Cox
Unknown:
John Higgins

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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