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Michael Oliver introduces listeners' record requests and at
9.50* talks to this week's guest. Pinchas Zukerman
9.5* Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
9.26* Elgar Sospiri
9.35* Verdi Excerpts from Joan of Arc, with MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ (soprano) PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)
9.50* Vivaldi Concerto in B minor (p 148): ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, directed by PINCHAS ZUKERMAN
10.10* Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
10.35" Pfitzner Symphony in c

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Pinchas Zukerman
Unknown:
Elgar Sospiri
Directed By:
Pinchas Zukerman
Unknown:
Pfitzner Symphony

Edited and introduced by Christopher (;rier
BERNARD KEEFFE reviews a forthcoming book about the history of The Proms.
Anecdotes from JAMES GALWAY about flute playing. ' I must get Herbie (Karajan) to record Tosca; it's got a marvellous flute solo.'
A Mendelssohn biography discussed by JOAN CHISSELL. Producer KEITH HORNER
(Music Weekly returns on 29 September)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Chissell.
Producer:
Keith Horner

played by RALPH DOWNES Hofhaimer Salve Regina Titelouze Veni Creator
Couperin Gloria (Messe pour les paroisses)
Plainsong verses sung by members Of CANTORES IN ECCLESIA conductor MICHAEL HOWARD followed by an interlude

Contributors

Played By:
Ralph Downes
Played By:
Hofhaimer Salve Regina
Unknown:
Couperin Gloria
Conductor:
Michael Howard

Comic opera in three acts
Libretto by WILHELM ANDERSEN , after HOLBERG. English version by DUDLEY GLASS. Musicby Nielsen
Denmark's national opera is an effervescent generation-gap comedy set in 18th-century Copenhagen. Nielsen's brilliant and tuneful score is as light as a soufflé.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA', conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Repetiteur RICHARD NUNN
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON 1 Act 1
4.5* Interval Reading
4.15* Masquerade, Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilhelm Andersen
Unknown:
Musicby Nielsen
Producer:
Ernest Warburton

A radio portrait of W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965
Compiled and narrated by Anthony Curtis
Those taking part include: HAROLD ACTON , KINGSLEY AMIS LORD BOOTHBY , LORD CLARK FAY COMPTON , A. S. FRERE
R. H. GOODSALL , SIR JOHN GIELGUD LADY JANE KELLY , FRANCIS KING
JOHN LEHMANN , JOHN PEARSON DAVI0 PRYCE-JONES
RAYMOND MANDER
ARTHUR MARSHALL
RAYMOND MORTIMER
SHERIDAN MORLEY , JOE MITCHENSON SIR TERENCE RATTIGAN
GEORGE RYLANDS , C. P. SNOW RAYMOND TOOLE STOTT
FRANK SWINNERTON. JOHN SUTRO
B. A. YOUNG and the recorded Voice Of W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Curtis
Unknown:
Harold Acton
Unknown:
Kingsley Amis Lord Boothby
Unknown:
Lord Clark Fay Compton
Unknown:
A. S. Frere
Unknown:
R. H. Goodsall
Unknown:
Sir John Gielgud
Unknown:
Lady Jane Kelly
Unknown:
Francis King
Unknown:
John Lehmann
Unknown:
John Pearson
Unknown:
Davi0 Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
Raymond Mander
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Raymond Mortimer
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Joe Mitchenson
Unknown:
Sir Terence Rattigan
Unknown:
George Rylands
Unknown:
C. P. Snow
Unknown:
Raymond Toole Stott
Unknown:
Frank Swinnerton.
Unknown:
John Sutro
Unknown:
B. A. Young
Producer:
John Tydeman

Monkeys - A Love Story
Radio play by jan Gudmundsson translated from the Swedish by IAN RODGER with Fenella Fielding as Lotta and Norman Rodway as Laban This is a story based on fact. In a zoo in a Scandinavian town there were two monkeys who loved each other, but the crowds who came to visit them were offended.
Other parts: Timothy BATESON ANTHONY HALL, ROLF LEFEBVRE BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT ELIZABETH MORGAN, DIANA OLSSON
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Fenella Fielding is in 'Absurd Person Singular' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Contributors

Play By:
Jan Giidmundsson
Unknown:
Ian Rodger
Unknown:
Norman Rodway

BERNADETTE GREEVY (contralto) martin ISEPP (piano)
Brahms Liebestreu ; Vergebliches
Standchen Wolf Verborgenheit : Fussreise; Auf ein altes Bild; Der Gartner Brahms Four Serious Songs

Contributors

Contralto:
Bernadette Greevy
Piano:
Brahms Liebestreu
Unknown:
Standchen Wolf Verborgenheit

leader eli GOREN conducted by ELGAR howarth with JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet) Purcell Trumpet Overture (The Indian Queen)
Mozart Serenade No 6, In D (Serenata notturna) (K 239)
Paul Patterson Concerto for trumpet, string orchestra and timpani
Haydn Symphony No 85, In 13 flat (La reine)

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Elgar Howarth
Unknown:
John Wilbraham
Unknown:
Paul Patterson

Summer Specials
The first of six programmes devoted to complete performances of longer works from contemporary popular music. Tonight Derek Jewell introduces Gryphon Fantasia: Midnight Mushrumps
Focus The Hamburger Concerto: gramophone records

Contributors

Introduces:
Derek Jewell

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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