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Sullivan Overture: The Yeomen of the Guard: ROYAL LIVER-POOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
7.11* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor: JACQUELINE DU PRÉ
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.41* Britten Sinfonietta
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

Saint-Saens The carnival of the animals: JOHN OGDEN and BRENDA LUCAS (pianos), CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX
8.29* Mompou El Combat des Somni
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOp) LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO ROS-MARBA
8.39* Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No 5: PINCHAS ZUKERMAN LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ogden
Pianos:
Brenda Lucas
Conducted By:
Louis Fremaux
Unknown:
Victoria de Los Angeles
Conducted By:
Antonio Ros-Marba
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras

Shostakovich
Concertino for two pianos, Op 94 MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH (the composer's son) with THE COMPOSER
9.14* Prelude and Fugue in B minor, Op 87 No 6
THE COMPOSER (piano)
9.21* Piano Concerto No 2, In F: THE COMPOSER
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE CLUYTENS gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Andre Cluytens

Susan Daniel (mezzo-soprano) makes her broadcasting debut, accompanied by CLIFFORD BENSON Donizetti La conocchia; Amore e morte; Me voglio fa'na casa Verdi Non t'accostare all'urna Strauss Ich trage meine Minne; All' mein Gedanken; Wie soil-ten wir geheim sie halten
Falla Canciones populares espafiolas

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Susan Daniel
Accompanied By:
Clifford Benson

A weekly series featuring records made in the 1930s, 40s and 50s of great pianists playing some major concertos
Franck Prelude , Chorale and Fugue
10.34* Chopin Four Mazurkas, Op 17
10.47* Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI

Contributors

Unknown:
Franck Prelude
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

Test Match Special
England v West Indies at Edgbaston (First day) Ball-by-ball commentaries by BRIAN JOHNSTON
TONY COZIER , JOHN ARLOTT and NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
Comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY , NORMAN YARDLEY Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
Inc lunch summary
1.35'-1.40* News; weather
1.40*-2.0* BRIAN JOHNSTON talks to LESLIE DEAKINS and PETER CRANMER about Edgbaston County Ground past and present
2.0*-2.5* Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10"-4.20* and 4.3C-5.45 including teatime summary
5.45-6.40 () Inc close-of-play summary
On days when a Test Match is scheduled, but it is known at close of play the day before that there will be no play, normal Radio 3 music programmes will be broadcast. On days when play finishes early or is abandoned at any time after it has begun, normal Radio 3 music programmes will resume approximately one hour after play has ceased.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Tony Cozier
Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
Norman Yardley
Talks:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Leslie Deakins
Unknown:
Peter Cranmer

6.40 Community Care:
Mental Illness and Handicap 7: ' Lesley White '
- she's 21 years old, lives In a local authority hostel for mentally handicapped adults and attends an adult training centre. She also spends regular weekends at home with her parents and brother. Book, 45p; see page 55
7.0 Sounds Like Now
Why has so much contemporary music been used for dancing? FLICK COLBY, PETER MAXWELL DAVIES , BOB DOWNES and BRIAN HODGSON suggest some reasons.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley White
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Bob Downes
Unknown:
Brian Hodgson

direct from the Royal Albert Hall London THEA KING (clarinet)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader Kenneth SILLITO conducted by Francois Huybrechts Part 1
Handel Concerto Grosso No 18. In B flat major (Op 6 No 7) Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major (K 622)

Contributors

Clarinet:
Thea King
Leader:
Kenneth Sillito
Conducted By:
Francois Huybrechts

And he lifted the wrinkled doll in his hand
Like a watch to his frost-bit ear,
And he heard the tick of its heart beat quick
On the drum as he held it there.
'What kind of lark is this, he said
'And what'll I dot To hell
With finding a babe in a golden drain
With its ticker at work'n all

A Melodrama for Radio

The music composed and directed and the electronic tape devised and made, by Tristram Cary

(A new production, with revised score, of the programme first broadcast in 1964) followed by an interlude.

Contributors

Author:
Mervyn Peake
Composer:
Tristram Cary
Piano:
Robert Docker
Percussion:
Tristan Fry
Clarinet:
John McCaw
Oboe:
Sidney Sutcliffe
Flute:
Edward Walker
Producer:
Terence Tiller
Male Narrator and Sailor:
Frank Duncan
Female Narrator and Child:
Olwen Griffiths

The last of three programmes devoted to
Palestrina's 29 motets setting texts ex Cantico Canticorum
In each programme MICHAEL HOWARD discusses the ways in which the Song of Songs has proved a perpetual source of inspiration to poets, artists and musicians alike.
Adjuro vos: Caput eius aurum optimum: Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum; Pulchra es Arnica mea; Quae est ista quae progreditur; Descendit in hortum meum: Quam pulchra sunt gressus tui: Duo ubera tua: Quam pulchra es et quam decora: Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum; Veni dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum sung by CANTORES IN ECCLESIA conductor MICHAEL HOWARD

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Howard

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More