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Cimarosa Overture: I Tracl amanti
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.11* Vivaldi Autumn (The Seasons): HENRYK SZERYNG who also directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
7.23* Cherubini Symphony in D NKVv PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Wilfried Boettcher
Source: Radio Times
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.Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Prinz Methusalem
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.12* Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor: JACQUELINE DU PRÉ NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
8.38* Elgar Severn Suite
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Source: Radio Times
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Dufay and Josquin Josquin des Pros
Motets: Miserere mei Deus; Tu solus qui facis mirabilia PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA conducted by BRUNO TURNER Mass: Ave maris Stella
ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CHAMBER
CHOIR conducted by GEORGE HUNTER gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Bruno Turner
Conducted By:
George Hunter
Source: Radio Times
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Four programmes of music by some of the little-known composers whose careers moved alongside those of C. P. E. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.
All the composers in this programme lived between 1760 and 1830 Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen Quintet in B flat, for clarinet, violin, two violas and cello CONSORTIUM CLASSICUM Johann Andreas Amon Quartet in F: HERMANN BAUMANN (horn) JAAP SCHRODER (Violin) WIEL PEETERS (viola) ANNER BYLSMA (Cello)
Franz Biihler Grande Sonata in E flat, for two horns, clarinet, piano and string quartet CONSORTIUM CLASSICUM gramophone records)

Contributors

Horn:
Hermann Baumann
Source: Radio Times
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given bv
Christopher Hyde-Smith (Sute) with Charles Spinks (harpsichord) Bach
Sonata in E major (bwv 1035) Suite in c minor (BWV 997)
Sonata in B minor (BWV 1030) (From the Library Theatre, Bradford. The third of 12 concerts promoted by Bradford City Libraries in association with the BBC)

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Charles Spinks
Source: Radio Times
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(The Marriage of Figaro) An opera in four acts
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
Perhaps the greatest comic opera ever written, Figaro is a story about masters and their servants, and the complications arising out of their relationships with one another. Cast in order of singing:
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Acts 1 and 2 (Recording from this year's Salzburg Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
3.35* Figaro at Salzburg
HUGH OTTOWAY talks about this year's production.
3.50* Le Nozze di Figaro Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Source: Radio Times
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6.30 Early Years at School A series of 12 programmes Programme 3
Listeners phone in to put questions to PROFESSOR R. S. PETERS arising from his two previous talks
Chairman DR BARRY TURNER Book, 70p: see page 86
6.50 Perspective
2: Film-makers All
The British Film Institute is celebrating its 40th anniversary PHILIP OAKES looks at the practical help it gives to people who want to make their own films.
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
7.10 Speak for Yourself
Introduced by BERNARD LOVELL 8: Getting Married

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor R. S. Peters
Unknown:
Dr Barry Turner
Unknown:
Philip Oakes
Producer:
Joan Griffiths
Introduced By:
Bernard Lovell
Source: Radio Times
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A series of 13 concerts
5: Formal Functions versus Formal Stages Part 1
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Mozart Symphony No 35, in D major (Haffner) (K 385)
7.50' Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. in F minor
8.35* Arthur Hutchings talks about the problems indicated by the title of this programme.
8.55* The Symphony
Part 2 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) Mozart Quintet in G minor (K 516)
Editor HANS KELLER
(12 November: The Return of Monothematicism)

Contributors

Conductor:
Christopher Seaman
Editor:
Hans Keller
Source: Radio Times
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A fortnightly programme about the media

A discussion between John Maddox and David Davies
Editing a major science journal presents special problems.
Dr Maddox, until lately Editor of Nature, and Dr Davies, who recently succeeded him, discuss some of those problems, and the functions of such a journal.

(22 November: The Lost Introduction to Animal Farm)

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
John Maddox
Unknown:
David Davies
Producer:
Michael Totton
Source: Radio Times
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A series of programmes of madrigals bv Monteverdi with instrumental music by other Italian composers.
II ballo delle ingrate
An opera in one act from Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals.
Libretto by OTTAVIO RINUCCINI
MEMBERS OF THE
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ROBERT SPENCER (lute)
Continuo: KENNETH HEATH (cello) ADRIAN BEERS (double-bass) MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord): records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ottavio Rinuccini
Cello:
Kenneth Heath
Directed By:
Raymond Leppard
Source: Radio Times

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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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