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Granados Intermezzo (Goyescas)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS
7.12* Sarasate Carmen Fantasy ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER
7.24* Albeniz Cantos de Espana ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
7.47* Copland El salon MexicoNEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Conducted By:
Lawrence Foster
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein

Rossini Overture: Torvaldo e Dorliska
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.14* Salieri Concerto in C, for flute. oboe and orchestra
AURELE NICOLET.
HEINZ HOLLIGER BAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG
8.35* Dvorak Czech Suite
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Oboe:
Heinz Holliger
Conducted By:
Peter Maag
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras

Walton
Overture: Portsmouth Point LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.12* Sinfonia concertante LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER with PETER KATIN (piano obbligato)
9.33* Partita
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Katin
Conducted By:
George Szell

MARTIN JONES (piano)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by ROBERT ST JOHN WRIGHT conductor BORIS BROTT Part 1
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
11.42* Hoddinott Piano Concerto No 3
12.5' My Friends Pictured Within
JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE discusses the origins of Elgar's project for the ' Enigma ' Variations.
12.20* Midday Prom: part 2
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)
(Given in the Concert Hall, University College, Cardiff, before an invited audience on 14 August 1974)

Contributors

Conductor:
Robert St John Wright
Conductor:
Boris Brott
Unknown:
Jerrold Northrop Moore

Colin Horsley (piano)
Chopin Polonaise in A flat major, Op 53: Twelve etudes, Op 25
Ravel Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; Toccata (Le tombeau de Couperin)
(From the Friends' Meeting House, Manchester. The eighth of 12 concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in assoc with the BBC)

Contributors

Piano:
Colin Horsley

Opera in three acts Music by Handel Librettist unknown
(sung in Italian: records)
Despite the rather static plot and unexciting central theme. Handel's Sosarme is a musically satisfying opera which contains many ravishing arias.
ST ANTHONY SINGERS
ST CECILIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS The action takes place at Sardis in the time of the Medes and the Persians. Act 1
2.59* Sir Anthony Lewis talks about the special place of Sosarme among Handel's operas.
3.5* Sosarme. Act 2
4. 18* Interval Reading 4. IS* Sosarme, Act 3

Contributors

Music By:
Handel Librettist
Conducted By:
Sir Anthony Lewis
Talks:
Sir Anthony Lewis

6.30 Foreign Correspondent
A weekly study of a topic of current international significance. Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
6.50 Context
A fortnightly programme exploring the science behind a story of current interest. Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
7.10 The Lawbreakers
Ten documentary case-studies presented by DR BILL DOLMAN 10: Turning Point
The case of a man in his late 40s who has served a number of prison sentences. What effect has this had on his wife and family?
Series producer JOHN THOMAS Book: The Lawbreakers, 85p, from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
Graham Tayar
Producer:
Michael Totton
Presented By:
Dr Bill Dolman
Producer:
John Thomas

A musical entertainment in which Antony Hopkins poses questions about music to
DENIS BLYTH , CHRISTOPHER BROWN and PETER MOUNTAIN
Recorded at the Dorset County Museum. Dorchester , at the invitation of the Dorset County Music Society.
Questions devised by BRIAN GEAR Series producer ROY HAYW ARÐ (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
Denis Blyth
Unknown:
Christopher Brown
Unknown:
Peter Mountain
Unknown:
Dorset County Museum. Dorchester
Unknown:
Brian Gear

leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK with Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
Goehr Metamorphosis/Dance (LPO Commission - first broadcast in this country)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 22. in E flat major (K 482)

Contributors

Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Some recent experiments in telepathy and psychokinesis have been seen as discrediting the materialistic doctrine that the mind is the brain - whatever the brain is. Dr. Hugh Mellor, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University and author of The Matter of Chance, and assesses the force of this challenge to materialism.

Contributors

Speaker:
Dr Hugh Mellor

A study of James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915 written and introduced by PATRIC DICKINSON with and the voices of HILDA SCHRODER ,HAYDN JONES
NIGEL ANTHONY. JAMES THOMASON and DENYS HAWTHORNE also taking part
John Sherwood , the poet's nephew
0 friend unseen, unborn, unknown
Student of our sweet English tongue
Read out my words, at night, alone :
I was a poet, I was young. Producer HALLAM Tennyson

Contributors

Unknown:
James Elroy Flecker
Introduced By:
Patric Dickinson
Unknown:
Hilda Schroder
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony.
Unknown:
James Thomason
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
John Sherwood
Producer:
Hallam Tennyson
Flecker:
Geoffrey Beevers
Helle, his wife:
Margaret Robertson
his mother:
Margot Boyd

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