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Elizabeth Maconchv Overture: Proud Thames
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
8.12* William Alwyn Four Elizabethan Dances
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.25* Lennox Berkeley Theme and Variations (1970) JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
8.33* Bliss Melee fantasque LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.47* Grace Williams Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth MacOnchv
Conducted By:
Vernon Handley
Conducted By:
William Alwyn
Unknown:
Lennox Berkeley
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven's Sonata in A, for violin and piano, Op 47 (Kreutzer), by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON.
Recent organ records: reviewed by CHRISTOPHER WELLS.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Christopher Headington.
Reviewed By:
Christopher Wells.

To include Christopher Headington's recommended performance of the 'Kreutzer' sonata and some of the organ records reviewed by Christopher Wells in this morning's Record Review.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Head
Reviewed By:
Christopher Wells

Storms and Tempests
In today's programme of record requests by the under-20s CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD traces the progress of the musical storm from the Baroque. through the Sturm und Drang influence on the Classical style, to its absorption into the language of the Romantics.
Matthew Locke Incidental Music: The Tempest
Vivaldi Concerto in E flat (La tempesta di mare)
Holzbauer Symphony in E flat, Op 4 No 3 (La tempesta del'mar)
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
Tchaikovsky Fantasy: The Tempest

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Matthew Locke

Stephen Spender , the poet, for whom music is a fundamental experience, has chosen records which are related either to his biography or to his writing. They include DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU singing Schubert, ARTUR SCHNABEL playing Beethoven, as well as excerpts from operas by Verdi. Wagner. Beethoven and Mozart.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Spender
Unknown:
Artur Schnabel

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
Elgar Mina : Carissima; Chanson de
Matin Joseph Horovitz Concerto for Dancers
Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
Peter Hope Suite: Ring of Kerry

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Ruy Bias
Unknown:
Elgar Mina
Unknown:
Matin Joseph Horovitz

A weeklv discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week: Edwin Mullins (in the chair) talks with BARBARA BRAY
ROBERT KEE and CLANCY SIGAL Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwin Mullins
Unknown:
Barbara Bray
Unknown:
Robert Kee
Unknown:
Clancy Sigal
Producer:
Philip French

(The Woman without a shadow) An opera in three acts Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
Voices of unborn children, nightwatchmen, serving maids VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM Act 1
(Recording from the 1974 Salzburg Festival, made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music By:
Richard Strauss

OR PHILIP POTTER. General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva to BRIAN GRIFFITHS. a Lecturer at 'he London School of Economics, about some of the Councils controversial policies -more especially in the field of race relations and ' third world ' polities,
(Postponed from 21 September)

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Potter.
Unknown:
Brian Griffiths.

A Poem in Four Books by JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) Four weekly readings
1: Christ's Birth, Baptism, and Fast; the First Temptation
Producer TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
John Milton
Producer:
Terence Tiller
Narrator:
Hugh Burden
Satan:
Carleton Hobbs
God:
Vernon Joyner
Christ:
Gerald Cross
Mary:
Elizabeth Morgan

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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