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Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny: PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GlULlNI
8.13* Wolf-Ferrari Idillio: Oboe Concertino in f: PIERRE PIERLOT
I SOLISTI VENETI directed by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
8.32*PucciniICrisantemt
JUILLIARlD STRING QUARTET
8.39* Respighi Two songs: Snowfall; Rain
LUCIANO PAVARom (tenor)
ORCHESTRA OF THE TEATRO COMUN-ALE, BOLOGNA conducted by RICHARD BONYNCE
8.45* Giordano Intermezzo fAct 2. Fedora): BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.48* Ponchlelli Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records
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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6, in B minor, by EDWARDGREENFIELD
Recent orchestral records: reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON
led by HUCH BRADLEY conducted by GEORGES TZIPINE with RALPH KIRSHBAUM (cello) Part 1 Debussy Petite Suite
Symphonic fragments: Le martyre de Saint Sebastien
A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by Donald Milner
Part 2 Strauss Don Quixote (Viola DUFF BURNS)
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
12.10* Schumann Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G, Op 92
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by DIETRICH FlSCHER-DIESKAU
12.27* trad. arr Hoist English Folk Songs: Matthew, Mark. Luke and John; I sowed the seeds of love: I love my love BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON
12.37* Elgar Dream Children, Op 43;Carillon, Op 75: Triumphal March ICaractacus. Op 35) LONDON PHIIAIARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records
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Music for Gentlemen
Two aspects of Le bourgeois gentilhumme as presented by Lully and Strauss, and Fantasia para un gentithombre by Rodrigo, in today's programme of record requests from the under-20s introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Gontran Goulden, deputy chairman of the Building Centre Trust, says that music is an essential ingredient of life. His personal choice of records includes not the chamber music which he listens to most of all now, but music which evokes memories - records of music by Bach, Beethoven and Janacek, and leon.
GOOSSENS playing a Romance by Schumann.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music by Weber, Jongen, Mozart. Maurice Johnstone and Haydn Wood
Charles Ramirez plays music by Scarlatti. Bach, Stephen Dodgson and Rodrigo and talks to Peter Sensier Producer GARETH WALTERS
Introduced by Peter Clayton
St Mary's.
Rotherhithe NICHOLAS DANBY talks about he organ to JOHN LADE and also discusses his record of music by Blow, Walond, Werley and Boyce.
First of six weekly programmes
This week:
Ian Mclntyre (in the chair) talks with RICHARD CORK MARGHANITA LASKI and BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude
Opera in four acts by Bizet
Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC HALEVY after MÉRIMÉE
(English version by NELL AND JOHN MOODY)
English National Opera production direct from the Coliseum
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master HAZEL VIVIENNE ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY COLLINS conducted by NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE Act 1
7.45* Readings from
Carmen MICHAEL BRYANT reads Don Josh's story from Prosper
Mérimée's novel on which the opera is based.
Translation by LADY MARY LOYD ‡ Part 1
8.5* Carmen, Act 2
8.50* Readings from Carmen Part 2
9.5* Carmen, Act 3
9.45* The Positive World X
9.55* Carmen, Act 4
1876-1914
The French poet Max Jacob was born of Jewish parents, became a Roman Catholic convert in 1909, and died in a German concentration camp. ANTONY HARDING introduces a number of Jacob's poems in French and in his own English translation.
Readers ANTONY HARDING
FRANK DUNCAN. HARVEY HALL and ROBERT PINGET
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Fantasia Concertante TIBOR VARGA (violin) who also conducts the TIBOR VARGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (Swiss Radio recording)
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