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Cherubini Overture: Anacreon
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER
7.17* Mozart Divertimento in D (K 136): ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.32* Haydn Symphony No 94. in G (Surprise)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM gramophone records
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Schubert Rondo in A, for violin and orchestra
JOSEF SUK , ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by neville MARRINER
8.20* Beethoven Symphony No 2, in D: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGEN jochum : records
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Charles Ives The Circus Rand
GREGG SMITH SINGERS
COLUMBIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GREGG SMITH
Three places in New England BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Symphony No 4
NEW YORK SCHOLA CANTORUM
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI gramophone records
Veno; Modlitba; Odrodilec : Rolnicka
Three women's choruses: Ma hvezda; Priletely vlastovicky; Za hory slunce zapada
Pisen na mori; Tri jezdci: Slavnostni sbor; Heslo I and II PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR PRAGUE MEN'S CHOIR conducted by MIROSLAV KOSLER (Prague Spring Festival recording: by courtesy of Czech Radio)
Eisler Sonata No 2
David Blake Variations
Eisler Sonata No 3 (first broadcast perf in this country) MARGARET KITCHIN (piano) Eisler's Second Sonata, in the form of variations, was written in 1924 and the Third nearly 20 years later. DAVID BLAKE , who introduces the programme, studied with him
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PORTIA WIND ENSEMBLE
Milhaud Suite (d'après Corr. ette)
Michel Spisak Sonatine
Jean Martinon Sonatine No 4
A talk by Ian Mclntyre
Cello Concerto in B minor. Op 104: PIERRE FOURNIER
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA (Danish Radio recording)
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Keith Swallow (piano) Grieg Holberg Suite
Schubert Sonata in F minor (d 625) (Unfinished)
Mompou Fêtes loinlaines
Ravel Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
(From the Library Theatre, Bradford. Second of 12 concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in association with the BBC)
(II mondo delta luna)
A comic opera in three acts Libretto by CARLO GOLDONI Music by Haydn
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
HELMUTH FROSCHAUER
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNST MARZENDORFER
The action takes place In the 18th century.
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Bregenz Festival)
TONY RUSSELL introduces an interlude, of music played on folk instruments
3: Hardanger Fiddle gramophone records
Acts 2 and 3
MICHAEL DAVIS , JOHN MCCABE
Handel Sonata in D major, Op 1 No 13
John McCabe Maze Dances, for solo violin (first broadcast performance)
Beethoven Sonata in G major, Op 30 No 3
with David Munrow
Melba becomes an international star and establishes a world record for her fee. She sings with Caruso and finds herself involved in one of his practical jokes. In a fascinating interview the writer Beverley Nichols describes what Melba was like, and how he became her secretary.
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6.30 Foreign Correspondent Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
6.50 Context
A fortnightly programme exploring the science behind a story of current interest. 2: Who Needs Sugar!
BILL BRECKON explores our need for sugar. Is this shortage a good thing?
7.10 Early Promise
Six programmes about the first signs of artistic talent in the child and the questions arising for parents and teachers. 4: Training in Dance and Drama
Presented by LEONARD PEARCEY
A musical entertainment in which
Antony Hopkins poses questions about music to
Aaron Copland. Leon Goossens and Simon Rattle
Recorded at the University of. Aberdeen before an audience composed of participants in the International Festival of Youth Orchestras.
Questions devised by BRIAN GEAR
Producer ROY HAYWARD (Bristol)
KATHERINE PRING (mezzo-soprano)
MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano) LSO CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BROWN conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO Part 1 Schumann . Piano Concerto in A minor
8.35* Prokofiev and Eisenstein A talk by CHRISTOPHER PALMER
8.55* Concert: part 2 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, Op 78
Carleton Hobbs reads Tithonus and Ulysses by TENNYSON
Introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON These two poems were written in the months following the death of Tennyson's beloved friend Arthur Hallam , although Tithonus was not published in its final version till many years later,
Motet and Mass: Salve lntemerata Virgo: SCUOLA DI CHIESE conductor JOHN HOBAN
A portrait of Sir Francis Galton , FRS (1822-1911)
A cousin of Charles Darwin , Galton was explorer, inventor, mathematician, psychologist, anthropologist, meteorologist and geographer; and the founder of the science of eugenics.
Written and presented by Peter France with Maurice Denham as Galton
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
died 1924
Fifth of 18 programmes
Piano Quartet No 2, in G minor MEMBERS OF THE NASH ENSEMBLE
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