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Bach Brandenburg Concert* No 6. in b flat
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
9.24* Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat
ARTUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) GUARNERI QUARTET
9.57* Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2: THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
10.15* Stravinsky Symphonies of wind instruments
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET

Contributors

Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Unknown:
Ravel Daphnis
Conducted By:
Charles Munch
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Left Hand: MALCOLM BINNS considers the composers and interpreters of music written for piano left hand
Kirsten Flagstad , born 12 July 1895: JOHN CULSHAW pays tribute to the Norwegian soprano Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Malcolm Binns
Unknown:
Kirsten Flagstad
Unknown:
John Culshaw
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

International Choral
Competition. Programme 2 School Class: Match 1
UK: NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, DUMBARTON
Sweden: STOCKHOLMS MUSIKKLAS-SERS FLICKKOR
Contemporary Music Class: Match 1
France: CHORALE STEPHANE CAILLAT Holland: POOL FOR MODERN MUSIC, UTRECHT
Adjudicators CHARLES BEARDSALL (BBC); CLIFFORD BRIDGES (ABC); GEORGI MINCHEV (Bulgarian Radio); DRAGISA SAVIC (JRT); NIKI VASKOLA (YLE); FRANÇOIS VERCKEN (RTF)
Introduced by BERNARD KEEFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgi Minchev
Introduced By:
Bernard Keeffe

(1909 version)
An opera in five acts
Ltbretto after ALPHONSE DAUDET by HENRI CAIN and BERNEDE Music by Massenet (sung in French)
Jean is torn between Fanny, known as Sapho ' because she once posed for a famous nude statue of that name, and Irene, the orphaned cousin who was his childhood companion.
Artists, customers, gypsies
BBC WEST OP ENGLAND SINGERS ACADEMY OF THE BBC concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE Producer JULIAN BUDOEN
Repetiteur NORMAN FEASEY
The action takes place in France in the late 19th century, Acts 1, 2 and 3 3.20* Interval Beading
3.25* Sapho. Acts 4 and 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Alphonse Daudet
Unknown:
Henri Cain
Unknown:
Peter Mountain
Conducted By:
Bernard Keeffe
Producer:
Julian Budoen
Repetiteur:
Norman Feasey

Edith Vogel (piano)
LINDSAY STRING QUARTET
Part 1 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90
Stravinsky Piano Sonata
Tippett String Quartet No 3
5.20* Interval Reading
5.30* Concert Part 2
Bartok String Quartet No 3
Beethoven Piano Sonata in r minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
(Given before an invited audience in the Chapel, University of Keele on 10 December 1973)

Spared by ISRAEL HOROVITZ with Carleton Hobbs
Israel Horovitz , one of the most successful of the younger avant-garde of American playwrights, is the author of this dramatic monologue which takes us into the mind of an old man who tried to commit suicide more than 60 times but was always - somehow - miraculously - spared.
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Israel Horovitz
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Israel Horovitz
Producer:
Martin Esslin

Cantata No 21: Ich hatte viel
Bekummernis EDITH MATHIS (soprano) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (barltone): MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone record

Contributors

Soprano:
Bekummernis Edith Mathis
Conducted By:
Karl Richter

Presented by Professor Michael Day. St Thomas ' Hospital Medical School. London
An account of the latest attempts to Understand the beginnings of mankind, from the evidence of fossil finds in South and East Africa. The programme includes recordings from a recent meeting, 'Geological Background to Fossil Man,' at the Geological Society, London, which brought together some of the leading workers in the field, from all over the world.
Contributors include:
DR ANNA BEHRENSMEYER (USA)
PROFESSOR WILLIAM BISHOP (UK)
PROFESSOR F. CLARK HOWELL (USA)
PROFESSOR RICHARD HAY (USA)
PROFESSOR GLYNN ISAAC (USA)
MARY and RICHARD LEAKEY (Kenya)
PROFESSOR PHILIP TOBIAS (S Africa)
DR ALAN WALKER (USA)
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT

Contributors

Presented By:
Professor Michael Day.
Presented By:
St Thomas
Unknown:
Professor F. Clark Howell
Unknown:
Professor Glynn Isaac
Unknown:
Richard Leakey
Unknown:
Professor Philip Tobias
Unknown:
Dr Alan Walker

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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