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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by louis FRÉMAUX
Offenbach Overture: La vie parisienne
8.10 Salnt-Saens Le carnaval des animaux with JOHN OGDON and BRENDA LUCAS (pianos)
8.34 Debussy, arr Ravel Fêtes (Nocturnes): for two pianos JOHN OGDON , BRENDA LUCAS
8.41 lbert Divertissement for chamber orchestra gramophone records

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Mahler Kindertotenlieder with the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖRM
9.30* Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished) conducting the NEW PHILHARMONU ORCHESTRA 9.56* Rameau Cantata: Thetis
With JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) ROBERT VEYRON-LACROIX (harpsichord)
JACQUES NEILZ (cello)
16.8* Beethoven Oh, had my fate been join'd with thine; Put round the bright wine; The Miller of Dee with EDITH MATHIS (soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) ANDREAS ROHN (violin) GEORG DONDERER (cello) KARL ENGEL (piano)
10.20* Schumann Liederkrels , Op 24: accompanied by JÖRG DEMUS (piano) gramophone records

leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN JANET HILTON (clarinet)
Stravinsky Ballet Suite: Jeu de cartes
11.12* Copland Clarinet Concerto
11.30* Borodin Symphony No 2, in B minor

Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER
12.15* Gustave Charpentier Impressions d'ltalie
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ALBERT WOLFF gramophone records

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The Liberated Muse
A programme of music by and for the ladies featuring Princess Philippina Charlotte, Clara Schumann (Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann ) and Dame Ethel Smyth (Overture: The Wreckers)
Additional cast: Haydn, Mozart (Concert Aria: Bella mia fiamma) (K 528), Bach, Vivaldi and Bartok. Introduced by CHRISTOPHER BOGWOOD

Eric Varley , Secretary of State for Industry, says that the state of his ministerial Red Boxes reflects the calming influence of music.
He includes among his choice of records VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY playing Beethoven, GEORGE SZELL conducting one of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances and the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA and CHORUS in the Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio.

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Rossini Overture: The ThievIng Magpie
Havelock Nelson Irish Pen Sketches (orchestral version) Vaughan Williams Serenade to
Music Brahms, arr Herrmann Liebeslieder Waltzes
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Ronald Binge Finale (Saturday Symphony)

THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Faure L horizon chimérique: La mer est infinie; Je me suis embarque; Diane, Selen6; Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés
Duparc Chanson triste: Sérénade florentine; La vague et la cloche; Lamento; La vie anterieure

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists.
This month John Williams plays music by the Paraguayan virtuoso Agustin Bar rios and talks to PETER SENSIER. Producer GARETH WALTERS

Introduced by Peter Clayton

played by PETER HURFORD (organ)
"Orgelbuchlein, Nos 42-45 and Buxtehude's Toccata and Fugue in F and the Concerto in E Bat attributed to Bach gramophone records

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Philip Oakes (in the chair) talks with A. S. BYATT , richard CORK and ROGER MANVELL Producer PATRICIA BRENT followed by an interlude

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Malcolm Binns (piano)
BBC Singers
BBC Choral Society, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Colin Davis

Wagner Overture and Venus-berg Music (Tannhauser)

Ravel Piano Concerto for the left hand

Sir Lennox Berkeley says:
'I knew Ravel when I was a student in Paris, and though I cannot claim to have been a pupil, I benefited greatly from his help and advice. This year is the centenary of his birth. Daphnis and Chloe, written for the Diaghilev Ballet, is his largest orchestral work. The left hand Piano Concerto, one of his last compositions, was a commission - something of a challenge for any composer - but allowing scope for the ingenuity that was such a feature of his music.'

Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)

Lord Ashby gives the last of four fortnightly talks.
6 September: Dr George Steiner

Part 2 Berlioz Daphnis and Chloe: Suites Nos 1 and 2

Press reaction to the week's events. followed by an interlude

1905-1951
' His greatness lay in his variety of purpose, in the way he squandered his gifts, in the way he would drop his own work to put his burning enthusiasm to the service of others.' Lambert wrote this of Liszt but it might equally have been written of himself.
Tom Driberg presents a portrait of Lambert - composer, pianist, writer, poet and wit - on the 70th anniversary of his birth with the help of many friends, including:
MICHAEL AYRTON , ISABEL RAWS -THORNE. DAME MARGOT FONTEYN , ANTHONY POWELL. SIR WILLIAM WALTON. SPIKE HUGHES , DAME NIN-ETTE DE VALOIS , MALCOLM ARNOLD and with examples of his music- Rio Grande, Horoscope, Elegiac Blues
Producer DEREK DRESCHER
Constant Lambert: Mon 10.0 am

and the DOLMETSCH ENSEMBLE Jeanne Dolmetsch (treble recorder)
David Strange (cello)
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord) in a sequence of songs from five countries and three centuries. sung in five languages: music by Milan, Purcell, Blow, Handel, Telemann and Bach (the original version of ' Sheep may safely graze ').

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