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Neville Marriner presents listeners' record requests
This week's guest caller Is Fou Ts'ong, who at 10.0* introduces Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, conducted by Furtwangler
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and
10.30 today or send details on a postcard.

Introduced by Stephen Walsh
Carl Flesch: IDA HAENDEL, YFRAH NEAMAN and MAX ROSTAL offer a centenary tribute to ' one of the greatest violin teachers of all time ' (MAX ROSTAL)
Telemann'sTafelmusik: WALTER BERGMANN djscusses Telemann's entertainment music
Ives's Songs: PETER DICKINSON looks at Ives against the background of contemporary American song writing.
Producers KEITH HORNER and PETER BUTLER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stephen Walsh
Songs:
Peter Dickinson
Producers:
Keith Horner
Producers:
Peter Butler

International Rounds
5: Contemporary Music Choirs United Kinudoin: CANTAMUS ENSEMBLE Ireland: LINDSAY SINGERS
Hungary: CHAMBER CHOIR OF THE MISKOL CULTURAL CENTRE
Finland: CANTORES minores
Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS (Organised by the BBC in collaboration with the EBU)

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Willcocks

Pelleas et Mllisande Opera in five acts Music by Debussy Libretto by UAURICE MAETERLINCK (sung in French)
(gramophone records)
Debussy's only opera was Inspired by the Belgian play-wright Maeterlinck. The story is a legendary one containing all the ingredients of a fairy-tale, and in which, through a shadowy, symbolic and tragic drama, we see its characters submit to fate.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
The action takes place in the imaginary kingdom of Allemonde in medieval times.
Acts 1, 2 and 3 4.0* Edward Lockspeiser talks about Debussy and 20th-century opera,
4.15* The French Opera Pelleas et Melisande Acts 4 and 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Uaurice Maeterlinck
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez

ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY (piano) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conductor
CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Mozart Overture: Idomeneo
6.38* Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat (K 595)
7.11* Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The peacock

Contributors

Leader:
Sydney Humphreys
Conductor:
Christopher Seaman

by ATHOL FUGARD adapted for radio by R. D. SMITH with In Port Elizabeth, South Africa. a crippled father has created a disturbed son and a wayward daughter. She returns home, but only for ' hello ' and ' goodbye.'
Producer r. D. SMITH followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Athol Fugard
Unknown:
R. D. Smith
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Hester:
Hilda Kriseman
Johnny:
Sean Barrett

leader ELI GOREN conducted by DIEGO MASSON
Globokar Fluide (first performance in this country) Xenakis Arovra
(Orchestra led by JEFFREY WAKEFIELD ) Alsina Funktionen
Berio Chemin lib (first performance in this country)

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Diego Masson
Conducted By:
Globokar Fluide
Unknown:
Jeffrey Wakefield

A portrait of the great days of the London Prize Ring in the early 1800s
Presented by Alan Gibson
With Peter France, Brian Gear and Douglas Leach
Songs by Jon Raven
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Peter France
Unknown:
Brian Gear
Unknown:
Douglas Leach
Songs By:
Jon Raven
Producer:
Pamela Howe

A series of six weekly programmes juxtaposing some of the trios with most of the piano music of the 1780s and 1790s
In the first programme, two works from 1794-95
Sonata in D major (H xvi 51) played by MALCOLM BINNS on a Broadwood piano of 1804 Trio in D minor (H xv 23) played by the OROMONTE PIANO TRIO Perry Hart (violin)
Kenneth Heath (cello) Nina Milkina (piano)

Contributors

Played By:
Malcolm Binns
Violin:
Perry Hart
Cello:
Kenneth Heath
Piano:
Nina Milkina

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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