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Sullivan Overture: The Pirates of Penzance
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
7.14' Gounod Ballet Music: Faust
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
7.32' Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI gramophone records
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Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
8.26* Walton Variations on a theme of Hindemith
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL gramophone records
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Charles Ives
Holidays Symphony: Washington's Birthday; Decoration Day; 4th July; Thanksgiving Day
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN gramophone record
A series of programmes featuring British amateur choirs
ARDWYN SINGERS, conductor HELENA BRAITHWAITE
PENDYRUS MALE CHOIR, conductor GLYNNE JONES
HUW TREGELLES WILLIAMS (organ) GAVIN PARRY ipianoi
This week's programme includes music by Morley, Tomkins, Weelkes, Hoddinott and Britten
Music from Papua. New Guinea Initiation and cultivation rites of the mountain Sepik people. Recorded and presented by PERCIVAL COCHRANE
The second of two programmes
Recorded in the University Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, in January 1973
Messiaen Poemes pour Ml, for soprano and piano
11.18* Messiaen Le merle noir (Catalogue d'oiseaux), for flute and piano
11.28' Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, for reciter and ensemble
Jane Manning (soprano) Vesuvius Ensemble: William Bennett (flute, piccolo and alto flute) Thea King (clarinet and bass clarinet) John Tunnell (violin and viola) Charles Tunneli (cello) Susan Bradshaw (piano)
JAMES GIBB (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by DIEGO MASSON Part 1
Rossini Overture: II Signor Bruschino
12.22' Debussy Images No 3: Rondes de Printemps
12.32* Haydn Symphony No 60, in c major (II Dtstratto)
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A personal preview by MALCOLM RUTHVEN of some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.
Part 2
Weber Konzertstiick In r minor, for piano and orchestra
1.48* Stravinsky Symphony in three movements
(Given before an invited audience in the Royal Northern College of Music)
A programme of words and music by Purcell and his contemporaries devised by ChrisTOPHER HOGWOOD and RICHARD LUCKETT ian richardson (reader)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) SIMON STANDAGE ( baroque violin) ELEANOR SLOAN (baroque violin) OLIVER BROOKES
(viola da gamba)
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
(harpsichord and organ) Part 1
2.45* Interval Reading
2.55* Homage to Henry Purcell Part 2
(Given before an invited audience at the Broadcasting Centre. Birmingham, last November)
(Ian Richardson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
An occasional series in which composers introduce a programme of their music
Today Narcsh Sohal , born in India in 1939 Surya: AMBROSIAN SINGERS With SEBASTIAN BELL (flute) RAY NORTHCOTT (percussion) Paul HILEY (percussion)
KEVIN NUTTY (percussion) conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Aalaykhyam I
LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Night's Poet: THE MATRIX Asht Prahar
JANE MANNING (soprano)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Brandenburg Concerto No 4, in G major
MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA directed by KARL RICHTER
(Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio)
with David Muorow
beverlev NICHOLS concludes his fascinating account of Dame Nellie Melba. We hear the voice of Melba in excerpts from Hamlet, La Bcheme , Luise and her farewell speech from Covent Garden in 1926. Producer DEREK DRESCHER
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening
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6.30 Tal como es
7.0 It's Catching
In this week's edition NICK HUCHES takes a look at parties of all sorts and helps to prepare you for Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes night.
leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conductor PAAVO BERGLUND with JORG BOLET (piano) direct from the Great Hall. University of Exeter Part 1
Sibelius Pohjola's Daughter: Symphonic Fantasy, Op 49
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
MICHAEL NORTON recalls an extraordinary character whom he once met on a transatlantic voyage - and reflects on the light thrown by his fellow passenger on the Sidney Street affair of 1911.
Part 2 Franck
Symphony in D minor
Lord Justice Scarman examines some of the fundamental changes in the legal system that follow from Britain's membership of the European Economic Community, and asks: Is this the beginning of a new legal era?
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A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis including BERNARD HERRMANN on Charles Ives
Producers DENYS GUEROULT and NATALIE WHEEN
Oboe Concerto in c, Op 9 No 5 Adagio (Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2)
HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe)
I MUSIC1 gramophone records
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