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A record request programme Part 1
Gritry Overture: Le jugement de Midas
NEW PHII.HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.12* Haydn Symphony No 60, in c (II distratto)
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.39* Handel, arr Harty and Szell Suite: Water Music
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Conducted By:
George Szell

Part 2
Bax Symphonic Poem: The Happy Forest
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
8.17* Butterworth Rhapsody: The Banks of Green Willow
ENGLISH SINFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
8.24* Britten The Prince of the Pagodas, Act 1
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by THE COMPOSER

Contributors

Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Conducted By:
Neville Dilkes

Brahms Tragic Overture: AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
9.19* Alto Rhapsody
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) PHII.HARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER ; records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Mezzo-Soprano:
Christa Ludwig
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

First of fhree programmes including Mozart's first seven string quartets
Kuhlau Flute Sonata in G. Op 83 No 3
Mozart Quartet in D (K 155)
Hummel Flute Sonata in A, Op 62
Mozart Quartet in G (K 156) JOHN SOLUM (flute) ANN SCHEIN (piano)
ALBERNI STRING QUARTET

Contributors

Piano:
Ann Schein

A weekly series of recitals by the younger generation
Juliana Markova (piano) Ian Caddy (baritone)
Jennifer Coultas (piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in E fiat Finzi Song-cycle: Let us garlands bring
Stravinskv Three Dances from Petrushka
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London)

Contributors

Piano:
Juliana Markova
Piano:
Jennifer Coultas

Excerpts on records from Donizetti's opera about love in a Basque village with JOAN SUTHERLAND as Adina LUCIANO PAVAROTTI as Nemorino
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA - conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Sutherland
Unknown:
Adina Luciano Pavarotti
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge

from Rochester Cathedral Responses (Ayleward)
Psalm 18 (W. H. Cutler , J. Turle , E. J. Hopkins)
Lessons: Proverbs 10, vv 1-13; 1 Corinthians 13
Canticles (Heath, verse Service) Anthem: Factum est silentium (Dering)
Hymn: Pray that Jerusalem may have peace (EH 472)
Organist DR ROBERT ASHFIELD
Assistant organist J. A. LEVETT

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Cutler
Unknown:
J. Turle
Organist:
Dr Robert Ashfield
Organist:
J. A. Levett

To mark the start of the academic year today's programme includes a serial theme and fugue (from Britten's Cantata Academica), a lesson in orchestral rehearsal (from Cimarosa's 11 maestro di capella), Vaughan Williams 's Concerto in D minor, for violin and orchestra, and Haydn's Schoolmaster's symphony.
Record requests introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOG WOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

6.30 New series Ochen' priyatno
A new Russian beginners' course by MICHAEL FREWIN and ALBINA BRAITHWAITE
1: Arrival in Leningrad
With TANYA FEIFER , SASHA DORO-GOI and NIKOLAI RYTJKOV
Series producer DAVID DOUGHAN (Repeated: Sunday, R4 VHF)
Book, 80p: 2 LP records, £1.22 each; Pronunciation record, 99p: see page 78

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Frewin
Unknown:
Albina Braithwaite
Unknown:
Tanya Feifer
Unknown:
Nikolai Rytjkov
Producer:
David Doughan

In this programme Archie Hill, writer and broadcaster, gives something of the background to his autobiography of the same title, to be published by Hutchinson on 8 October.
This is a raw journey through poverty. alcoholism and a Black Country childhood between the wars. His five talks on the men and crafts of the Black Country were broadcast on Radio 4 last month.
Reader GEOFFREY MATTHEWS Hallucinatory voices:
VERNON JOYNER , FRASER KERR and ELIZABETH MORGAN Others taking part ANTHONY WHITTOME GORDON STRETCH
Compiled and produced by RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Reader:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unknown:
Vernon Joyner
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Unknown:
Anthony Whittome
Produced By:
Richard Wortley

1883-1953
A commemorative programme on the 20th anniversary of the comDoser's death.
Bax discusses the influences on his composition in a recording from the BBC archives first broadcast in 1949. followed by the Symphonic Poem: Tintagel
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
(' Where enormous rollers may be imagined crashing upon the cliffs of Cornwall ') and the Symphony No 2
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by MYER FREDMAN
C I put a great deal of time and emotion into the writing gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Myer Fredman

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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