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Boieldieu Overture: La Dame blanche
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON
7.14* Haydn Cello Concerto in C (H Vllb 1): MAURICE GENDRON LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.41* Mozarf Symphony No 30, in D (K 202): ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Jean Martinon
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim

Smetana Symphonic Poem: Haakon Jarl :. BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFIAEL KUBELIK
8.21* Salnt-Saens Piano Concerto No 2, in G minor ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.45* Johann Strauss Emperor Waltz: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Haakon Jarl
Conducted By:
Rafiael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky

A recital broadcast direct from the Citadel Theatre. Edinburgh
CALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (Soprano) MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (piano) Tchaikovsky Whether by day (Op 47 No 6); Lullaby (Op 16 No 1); Why? (Op 6 No 3)
Rachmaninoy Music (Op 34 No 8); Oh Pretty Maiden (Op 4 No 4); I await you (Op 14 No 1); Spring Waters (Op 14 No 11)
11.30' Festival Comment Presenter ELAINE PADMORE
11.45* EIF: Part
Mussorgsky Where art thou. little star?; Cradle Song; Darling Savishna
Prokofiev The Little Green Grove (Op 104 No 2); Katerina (Op 104 No 4)
Stravinsky Spring: the cloister (Op 6 No 1); Russian song (Mavra)

Contributors

Presenter:
Elaine Padmore

An opera by Jacopo Peri with additional material by Caccini
Libretto by OTTAVIO RINUCCINI (sung in Italian: records)
Jacopo Peri used the well-known classical myth of Orpheus for his Euridice, the earliest opera in music history. It was first performed in Florence in 1600: the occasion was the wedding of Maria dei
Medici to King Henry IV of France
MILAN CORO POLIFONICO
NEREO GASPARINI
(viola da gamba)
ARAM GODJURAN (lute)
MARIELLA SORELLI (harpsichord) INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by ANGELO EPHRIKIAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacopo Peri
Unknown:
Ottavio Rinuccini
Unknown:
Jacopo Peri
Conducted By:
Angelo Ephrikian

6.30 A Stranger Abroad Holland (1)
With CORNELIUS LANGENBERG and EVA REICHLING
Series producer DAVID DOUGHAN
7.0 Workface Europe
Written by JON ROLLASON and KEITH WILLIAMS 10: Just good friends?

Contributors

Producer:
David Doughan
Written By:
Jon Rollason
Written By:
Keith Williams

direct from the Royal Albert Hall
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and Vernon Handley Part 1
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
(conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT ) Berkeley Voices of the Night
(conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT )
Bliss Meditations on a theme by John Blow
(conducted by VERNON HANDLEY ) SIR LENNOX BERKELEY SayS:

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
John Blow
Conducted By:
Vernon Handley

by GEORGE CRABBE
As an introduction to Frederick Bradnum's Who Am I Now? ' - The Dream of George Crabbe. to be broadcast at
9.45, Alan Badel reads this autobiographical poem by the author of The Borough with the character of Peter Grimes , the subject of Britten's opera.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Badel
Unknown:
Peter Grimes

by Frederick Bradnum with music by Humphrey Searle

George Crabbe, the 19th-century Aldeburgh poet, was an opium taker since his 36th year, and much of the inspiration for the programme came from the chapter on Crabbe in Alethea Hayter's book "Opium and the Romantic Imagination".
The Sinfonia of London conducted by Humphrey Searle.

Contributors

Writer:
Frederick Bradnum
Music:
Humphrey Searle
Musicians:
The Sinfonia of London
Conductor:
Humphrey Searle
Technical Presentation:
Amna Smith
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
George Crabbe:
Alan Badel
Reader:
Michael Cochrane
Angelica:
Elizabeth Proud
Lady Caroline Lamb:
Kate Coleridge
Mr Cook:
Peter Woodthorpe
Mira:
Sheila Grant
Lord North:
John Rye
Lord Shelburne:
Haydn Jones
Edmund Burke:
Malcolm Hayes
Poppy Hag:
Margaret Robertson
Barber:
Peter Tuddenham
Crabbe (aged 14):
Judy Bennett
Meg:
Sheila Grant
Min:
Kate Coleridge
Child:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Mr Maskill:
Haydn Jones
Tom Brown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Saltmaster:
Peter Tuddenham
Schoolmaster:
John Rye

On the eve of his 70th birthday, Arthur Koestler has chosen for re-broadcast this talk which he originally gave 15 years ago. In it he considers what he feels to be the logical consequences for mankind in the post-Hiroshima era.
Introduced by . R. FYVEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Koestler
Introduced By:
R. Fyvel

BBC Radio 3

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