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Berlioz Overture: Les francs juges
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.19* Brahms Five Hungarian Dances: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.35* Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Piano:
Julius Katchen
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Elgar Wand of Youth: Suite No 1
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.26* Strauss Horn Concerto No 1. in E flat: DENNIS BRAIN PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, COnducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
8.42* Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in d (Classical): new PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA. Conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Byrd and Gibbons Gibbons This is the record of John: CHOIR OF KING'S
COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE
JACOBEAN CONSORT OF VIOLS SIMON PRESTON (organ) conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS
9.11* Byrd Fantasia a 6 LEONHARDT CONSORT
9.18* Byrd Mass in three parts CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Gibbons Gibbons
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Conducted By:
David Willcocks
Conducted By:
Byrd Fantasia
Unknown:
Byrd Mass
Conducted By:
David Willcocks

A series in which British composers talk about themselves and introduce performances of their music.
David Carhart
VALERIE BAULARD (mezzo-soprano)
DAVID CARHART (piano) GEORGIAN QUARTET
Five studies for piano
Three Emily Dickinson Songs String Quartet No 1 Piano Sonata
(The piano works and quartet are first broadcast performances)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Carhart
Mezzo-Soprano:
Valerie Baulard
Piano:
David Carhart
Unknown:
Emily Dickinson

MARGARET CURPHEY (soprano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Part 1
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 (Italian)
12.45* Tchaikovsky Tatiana 's Letter Song (Eugene Onagin )

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Tatiana
Song:
Eugene Onagin

CHARLES ROSEN (piano)
Sonata in B flat major, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)
2.45* Beethoven and Variation Form. Extracts from Charles Rosens book The Classical Style, read by JOHN HOLMSTROM
2.55* Beethoven: part 2
Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op 120
(Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London, on 7 April)

Contributors

Piano:
Charles Rosen
Unknown:
Charles Rosens
Read By:
John Holmstrom

A second chance to hear the BBC's prize-winning portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams devised for an international competition for music programmes sponsored by Hungarian Radio last autumn. The programme looks at some of the influences that shaped Vaughan Williams into one of England's greatest composers.
Narrators GABRIEL WOOLF, PATRICIA HUGHES, ROBIN HOLMES
The music, by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Elgar and Holst, is performed by IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
With the NASH ENSEMBLE, FELICITY PALMER (soprano) and HUGH BEAN (violin), ORIEL SUTHERLAND (contralto) and ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
ST MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS, conductor RICHARD HICKOX
Organist ALASTAIR ROSS
Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Written and produced by ELAINE PADMORE

Contributors

Music By:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Narrator:
Patricia Hughes
Narrator:
Robin Holmes
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Contralto:
Oriel Sutherland
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Choir:
St Margaret's Westminster Singers
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Organist:
Alastair Ross
Produced By:
Elaine Padmore

6.30 Behind the Goals
Five programmes on football presented by JAMES WALVIN 4: Players and Managers
What are the strains that players have to face? And how difficult is it to run a prosperous club - and produce a successful team? with STANLEY CULLIS , formerly Manager of Wolverhampton
Wanderers: ALAN HUDSON , Stoke City and England; JACKIE MUDIE. Blackpool and Scotland; TONY WADDINGTON , Manager of Stoke City; PAUL ARLINGTON; and GORDON DIMBLEBY , Commercial Manager of West Bromwich Albion

Contributors

Presented By:
James Walvin
Unknown:
Stanley Cullis
Unknown:
Alan Hudson
Unknown:
Tony Waddington
Unknown:
Gordon Dimbleby

A selection from the most remarkable correspondence in the history of music. Tchaikovsky never met Madame von Meek, but they corresponded for 14 years.
Narrator JOHN SAMSON
Tchaikovsky ROBERT POWELL Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Narrator:
John Samson
Narrator:
Tchaikovsky Robert Powell
Producer:
John Theocharis

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis including GREGOR PIATIGORSKY on composers and colleagues Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Unknown:
Gregor Piatigorsky
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

Recorded by SHEILA LAWRENCE in the Servite Priory Church, Chelsea, London
Frescobaldi Toccata No 9 (Book 1. 1637)
Pachelbel Aria sexta in F minor (Sebaldina)
Tunder Chorale Fantasia: Komm, heiliger Geist
Schlick Maria zart
Buxtehude Ciacona in E minor
Bruhns Prelude and Fugue in G

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Lawrence

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More