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Weber Overture: Ruler of the Spirits: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.11* Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 4. in c minor
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
7.37* Sullivan, arr Mackerras Ballet: Pineapple Poll (Scene 3) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS : records
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Rossini Overture: Tartcredi
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA. conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
8.12* Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor: HENRYK SZERYNG LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.41* Tchaikovsky Italian Caprice: AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK : records
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Purcell
King Arthur. Acts 4 and 5 HEATHER HARPER (soprano) MARY THOMAS (contralto)
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (baritone) TREVOR ANTHONY ( bass) ST ANTHONY SINGERS
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS gramophone records
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS perform music by Byrd. Parry, Warlock. Rubbra and Sebastian Forbes conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON who also talks to DORIS PARKINSON , conductor of the Wirral Singers, about the deliights and problems of amateur choral music making
Producer JAMES LANGLEY
Chromatic, friction, snare, square, water and others on BBC Sound Archive recordings Introduced by MADEAU STEWART
Mozart Sonata in E flat (K 380) Prokofiev Sonata in F minor, Op 80
Brahms Sonata in G. Op 78 SYLVIA ROSENBERG (violin) YONTY SOLOMON (piano)
(Given in the MacRobert Centre, University of Stirling)
JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by URI SEGAL
Wagner Prelude: The Master-singers
12.30* Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2. in G minor
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MALCOLM RUTHVEN on some of the plays and features on Radios 3 and 4 in the week ahead.
Part 2 Schumann
Symphony No 2, in c major
(Given before an invited audience in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
from Manchester
KEITH SWALLOW (piano) WISSEMA STRING QUARTET Nella Wissema (violin) Fay Campey (violin)
Ludmila Navratil (viola) Paul Ward (cello)
Mozart Quartet in g (K 387)
2.31* Schubert Valses sentimertbailes (D 779): Ecossaises (D 145; 783: 734): Hommage aux belles Viennoises (D 734)
2.57* Haydn Quartet in E, Op 54 No 3
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The new series of Royal Repertoire begins with a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's two-act ballet following the production by RUDOLF NUREYEV . LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
Introduced by Cormac Rigby gramophone records
with David Munrow
Liszt gives up a glorious concert career at 37 and becomes a champion of Wagner.
Guest: Myung-Whun Chung
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.
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6.30 Tal como es
7.0 It's Catching
NICK HUGHES looks at some of the ways people enjoy spending their spare time helping others.
Opera in three acts Music by Puccini
Libretto by GIUSEPPE ADAMI and RENATO SIMONI (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
Turandot, like Madam Butterfly, has an oriental setting, against which take place a series of events which emphasise the horror and cruelty brought about by sexual passions.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROME OPERA HOUSE conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
The action takes place in Peking in legendary times.
A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
This week: the Royal Opera's new production of Un baUo in maschera
Introduced by John Amis
Producers DENYS GUEROULT and NATALIE WHEEN
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