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Brahms Academic Festival Overture
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO
8.16* Schubert Sonata in A minor (D 784)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
8.37* Mozart Symphony No 33, in B flat (K 319)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Claudio Abbado
Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz

A series of short talks with long thoughts behind them. Today, before her performance of Mozart's A major Concerto in the following programme, ESTHER GLAZER talks about the problems of 'The Woman Virtuoso '.

Contributors

Talks:
Esther Glazer

leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by IRWIN HOFFMAN With ESTHER GLAZER (violin) Weber Overture: Euryanthe
9.45* Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, in A major (K 219)
10.15. Webern Symphony, Op 21
10.26* Beethoven Symphony No 1, in c major

Contributors

Leader:
Colin Staveley
Conducted By:
Irwin Hoffman
Violin:
Esther Glazer

Test Match Special
England v
New Zealand at Headingley (Fifth day) Ball-by-ball commentaries by BRIAN JOHNSTON
ALAN RICHARDS , JOHN ARLOTT and ALAN GIBSON
Comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY. NORMAN YARDLEY Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
10.55-1.35* inc lunch summary

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Alan Richards
Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey.

Test Match Special
England v
New Zealand at Headingley Ball-by-ball commentaries on the afternoon's play
2.0*-2.5' Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10*-4.20* and 4.30*-6.30 including teatime and close-of-play summaries
On Tuesdays, when a Test Match is being played, Test Match Special may continue until 6.30 pm according to whether an optional extra half-hour of play is called for.

6.30 This was Their World
Ten programmes on the study of local history
1: Approaches to Local History What are the main questions that you can ask about the history of your local community - and how can you go about finding the answers?
r. L. GREENALL looks at some of the main sources available.
Series producer ROBERT BROOKES Book. £2.40: see page 54
7.0 Spare Time for Music
Seventh of 12 programmes
JÜRGEN HESS introduces ensemble music suitable for various combinations of instruments, and ALAN HARVERSON discusses the expressive shaping of melodies and complete pieces
(Rptd: Sunday, Radio 4 VHF) Book, £1.20: see page 54

Contributors

Unknown:
R. L. Greenall
Producer:
Robert Brookes
Producer:
Alan Harverson

1 think my first awareness of a radical change in the language of music was when the serial technique began to be widely used.... but I felt that I must develop my own way of feeling harmonically and melodically ...
Lennox Berkeley was 70 earlier this year. He talks about himself and his career to PETER DICKINSON.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lennox Berkeley
Unknown:
Peter Dickinson.

Berkeley 70th Birthday Concert ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) NASH ENSEMBLE
Antony Pay (clarinet) John Pigneguy (horn) Clifford Benson (piano) Marcia Crayford (violin) Galina Solodchin (violin) Donald McVay (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello) direct from the Pittville Pump Room Part 1
Berkeley Sextet for clarinet, horn and string quartet
Mozart Trio in E flat, for clarinet, viola and piano (K 498)
Berkeley Song-cycle: Autumn legacy

Contributors

Horn:
John Pigneguy
Piano:
Clifford Benson
Violin:
Marcia Crayford
Violin:
Galina Solodchin
Viola:
Donald McVay
Cello:
Christopher van Kampen

She Would Tell Him On the Island
A play by FRANCOISE XENAKIS translated from the French by BARBARA WRIGHT with Dorothy Tutin and Colin Blakely
' The first thing she would say to him when she went in would be: " 1 love you." And she would be laughing, because he mustn'know that she had totally stopped living since they'd taken him away from her. She would laugh. So that he'd be proud of her.'
Woman .............. DOROTHY TUTIN Political Prisoner...COLIN BLAKELY Man of the Island ... CYRIL SHAPS Man of the Town...PETER JEFFREY Others taking part:
WILLIAM SLEIGH, DAVID GOODERSON PETER WILLIAMS , JOHN SAMSON JOHN FORREST , NIGEL GRAHAM
Sound sequences by DAVID CAIN Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS followed by an interlude

Contributors

Play By:
Francoise Xenakis
Unknown:
Barbara Wright
Unknown:
Dorothy Tutin
Unknown:
Colin Blakely
Unknown:
Dorothy Tutin
Unknown:
Colin Blakely
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Unknown:
Peter Jeffrey
Unknown:
David Gooderson
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Unknown:
John Samson
Unknown:
John Forrest
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
David Cain
Producer:
John Theocharis

Duparc Song: Phidylé
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOp) PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra
GERVASE DE PEYER
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Georges Pretre
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez

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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