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Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.22* Carl Nielsen Serenata in vano (1914)
HILMER NIELSEN (clarinet) JÖRN NILSSON (bassoon) H. c. SORENSEN (horn)
ASGER LUND CHRISTIANSEN (cello) JOHAN POULSEN (double-bass)
7.32* Dvorak Symphonic Poem The Golden Spinning-wheel LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Conducted By:
Carl Nielsen Serenata
Cello:
Asger Lund Christiansen
Double-Bass:
Johan Poulsen
Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz

Wagner Kaisermarsch LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MAREK JANOWSKI
8.17* d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountaineer's Song NICOLE HENRIAT-SCHWEITZER (piano)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.44* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Prometheus
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Marek Janowski
Conducted By:
Charles Munch
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink

Vivaldi
Innovator and Virtuoso
Concerto in p major (p 153) PIERO TOSO (violin) I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE Concerto in B minor (P 154) FELIX AYO (violin), I musici
Concerto in G major (p 132) EDMONDO MALANOTTE (violin) FRANCO GULLI (violin) VIRTUOSI DI ROMA conducted by RENATO FASANO gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Claudio Scimone
Violin:
Felix Ayo
Violin:
Franco Gulli
Conducted By:
Renato Fasano

Sir Bruce Fraser , editor of the revised edition of Sir Ernest Gowers 's Plain Words, and former senior civil servant, reflects on some of the things we say and write, and on the raw material we use - words.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Bruce Fraser
Unknown:
Sir Ernest Gowers

Richard Orton
A series in which British composers talk about themselves and their work
Cycle, for four players
2.4* Sampling afield (first broadcast performance)
2.25* For the time being (first broadcast performance)
2.30* Piece de resistance, for piano (first broadcast performance) SONOR
Ronald Lumsden (piano)
Nigel Shipway (percussion) Paul Rutherford (trombone) Barry Guy (double-bass)
YORK UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR directed by RICHARD orton

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Orton
Piano:
Ronald Lumsden
Piano:
Nigel Shipway
Double-Bass:
Barry Guy
Directed By:
Richard Orton

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

An opera in two acts
Libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder (sung in German)
A concert version of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera production
A fairytale opera which develops into a Pilgrims Progress of the Enlightenment.

Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conducted by Bernard Haitink

Act 1

8.45* Peter Branscombe talks about The Magic Flute in relation to the popular Viennese theatre of its day.

9.5* Proms 73
Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Act 2

(Having a ball with the Flute: pages 6-7)

Contributors

Singers:
Glyndebourne Chorus
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Associate Producer:
John Cox
Associate Producer:
Adrian Slack
Speaker (Interval):
Peter Branscombe

Was the English Revolution the first great revolution of modern history? How revolutionary was it?
Professor Lawrence Stone of Princeton University and Christopher Hill, Master of Balliol. discuss this question in the light of several new books, including their own, on the 17th-century aristocracy and the Radicals in the Civil War. They also discuss the value of different methods - statistical, anthropological and psychoanalytical - to our understanding of historical movements. Chairman Peter Burke Producer ROBERT FOX

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Burke
Producer:
Robert Fox

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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