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Alessandro Scarlatti II giardino di rose
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.11* C. P. E. Bach Cello Concerto in A (Wq 172)
PIERRE FOURNIER , LUCERNE
FESTIVAL STRINGS, conducted by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER
7.35* Rossini, arr Respighl Ballet: La boutique fantasque PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by EUGENE ORMANDY : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Alessandro Scarlatti
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Unknown:
Pierre Fournier
Conducted By:
Rudolf Baumgartner
Unknown:
Eugene Ormandy

Verdi Overture: Giovanna d'Arco: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAMES LEVINE
8.13. Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No 3, in B minor
HENRYK SZERYNG, MONTE CARLO
OPERA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDUARD VAN REMOORTEL
8.40* Turina Danzas fantasticas PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
James Levine
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Conducted By:
Eduard van Remoortel
Conducted By:
Rafael Frühbeck

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by SERGIU COMISSIONA with RALPH HOLMES (violin)
Mozart Symphony No 35. in D major (Haffner) (K 385)
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The peacock

Contributors

Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Sergiu Comissiona
Violin:
Ralph Holmes

director ALAN HACKER A concert of 18th-century music on authentic instruments presented last January by Radio 3 in St John's, Smith Square. London Haydn Symphony No 18, in G, directed from the harpsichord by NICHOLAS KRAEMER Johann Stamitz Clarinet Concerto in B flat SOloist ALAN HACKER C. P. E. Bach Sonatas (Wq 184); No 2, in F; No 3, in G; No 6, in c

Contributors

Director:
Alan Hacker
Unknown:
Nicholas Kraemer
Clarinet:
Johann Stamitz
Soloist:
Alan Hacker

Opera in a prologue and three acts. Music by Verdi Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE and ARRIGO BOITO (sung in Italian: records) RCA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI The action takes place in and around Genoa during the second half of the 14th century. Prologue and Act 1
3.55* Liszt Reminiscences de Boccanegra: played by CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) gramophone record
4.5* Simon Boccanegra Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria Piave
Unknown:
Arrigo Boito
Conducted By:
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Piano:
Claudio Arrau

The accompanist is PAUL HAMBURGER in songs by Beethoven and Schubert
Beethoven Ich liebe dich; Kennst du das LandT
Schubert Du bist die Ruh; Nachtviolen: Lachen und Weinen; An die Musik; Rastlose Liebe; Nacht und Traume Beethoven Six Songs to poems by Gellert: Bitten; Die Liebe des Nachsten; Vom Tode; Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur; Gottes Macht und Vorsehung; Busslied (Heather Harper in Schoenberg's second String Quartet: Wednesday. 11.0 am)
The music in this programme will be available on BBC Record No REB 170, to be released later this year followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Hamburger

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

John Ogdon (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Erich Gruenberg, conducted by Lawrence Fester

Haydn Symphony No 88, in G

Stravinsky Ballet: Jeu de cartes

Contributors

Pianist:
John Ogdon
Musicians:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Erich Gruenberg
Conductor:
Lawrence Fester

OWEN HOLLOWAY examines China's best-loved novel, The Story of the Stone by Cao Xuequin, written more than two centuries ago. It has now begun to appear in paperback, in a five-volume translation by David Hawkes. The hero, a convinced young Taoist, is a subversive in the ordered Confucian society of his aristocratic childhood and adolescence.

Contributors

Unknown:
Owen Holloway
Translation By:
David Hawkes.

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) made several visits to England and found himself surprisingly at home with English writers.
APRIL FITZLYON examines their relationships with readings by GARY WATSON (as Turgenev) with DENISE BRYER and GARARD GREEN Producer MIRIAM RAPP

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Turgenev
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Unknown:
Denise Bryer
Unknown:
Garard Green
Producer:
Miriam Rapp

Working out the structure of DNA was probably the most important discovery in science in the past 25 years.
Dr Francis Crick talks to JOHN MADDOX about how the discovery came about, where it has led, and the influence it is likely to have on research in the future.
Producer MARGARET CHAMBERS followed by an interlude

Contributors

Talks:
Dr Francis Crick
Unknown:
John Maddox
Producer:
Margaret Chambers

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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