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Glinka Overture: A Life for the Tsar
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.15* Bizet Seguidilla (Carmen): MARIA CALLAS (soprano) FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRETRE
7.18* Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue: ANDRE PREVIN (piano) directing the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
7.34* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hungaria: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
(records)

Mozart Overture: II re pas tore ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.9* Haydn Quartet in E, Op 2 No 2: JULIAN BREAM (guitar) HUGH MAGUIRE (violin)
CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) TERENCE WEIL (cello)
8.29* Schubert Symphony No 2, in B flat: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by LORIN MAAZEL : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Violin:
Hugh Maguire
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

NORMA BURROWES (soprano) CAROLINE FRIEND (soprano) JOHN ANGELO MESSANA (counter-tenor)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) RONALD LUMSDEN (piano) MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
"conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Purcell Song for St Cecilia's Day (1683): Welcome to all the pleasures
Constant Lambert Concerto for piano and nine instruments
John Gardner The entertainment of the senses, Op 121 (words by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman )

Contributors

Soprano:
John Angelo Messana
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Piano:
Ronald Lumsden
Conductor:
John Eliot
Unknown:
John Gardner
Unknown:
W. H. Auden
Unknown:
Chester Kallman

A recital broadcast direct from the Freemasons' Hall. Edinburgh and ANTONIO BALLISTA (Pianos)
Mozart Sonata in D, for two pianos (K 448)
11.21* Brahms Six Hungarian Dances, for piano duet
11.40* Festival Comment
Critics, performers and personalities talk about Festival issues and events.
Presenter ELAINE PADMORE
11.55* Edinburgh International Festival. Part 2
Bussotli Tableaux Vivants, for two pianos
Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos

Contributors

Pianos:
Antonio Ballista
Presenter:
Elaine Padmore

(soprano)
JEFFREY TATE (piano)
Mozart Vado , ma dove? (K 583) Purcell When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
Mahler Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen: Rheinlegendchen; Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn): Scheiden und Meiden (Jugendzeit)

Contributors

Piano:
Jeffrey Tate
Piano:
Mozart Vado

Part 2
Satie Trois mélodies (1916); Je te veux
Wolf Heut ' Nacht erhob ich mich; Wie soil ich frohlich sein; Verschling' der Abgrund: Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen; Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen; Ich hab' in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen (Itallenisches Liederbuch)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wolf Heut
Unknown:
Mein Liebster

6.30 Music and the Spirit
LEONARD PEARCEY presents the second of four programmes in which he explores the ways in which music serves the spiritual life, and the ways spiritual values are expressed in music, with author and broadcaster HARGHANITA LASKI , and LIONEL DAKERS , Director of the Royal Sohoiol of Church Music.
7.0 The ABC of Education
Presented by JOHN BROWN 12: Which subjects should he taker

Contributors

Unknown:
Harghanita Laski
Unknown:
Lionel Dakers
Presented By:
John Brown

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Jill Gomez (soprano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, leader Felix Kok, conductor Louis Fremaux
Ravel Alborada del gracioso Bizet Symphony in C
John McCabe Notturni ed Alba
Sir Lennox Berkeley says: "This evening we welcome the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a programme mainly of French music. The exception is John McCabe's 'Notturni ed Alba', a setting of late classical and medieval Latin poems for voice and large orchestra, including some unusual percussion instruments. Jill Gomez, one of our most gifted and versatile sopranos, sings the solo part."

Contributors

Soprano:
Jill Gomez
Musicians:
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Leader:
Felix Kok
Conductor:
Louis Fremaux

Charles Taylor, Professor of Political Sciences at McGill University, and author of a new book on Hegel, argues that many of our current global problems can best be understood in Hegelian terms - a view questioned by Max Black, Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.
Producer Daniel Snowman
The Weakness of the Will: 14 September

Contributors

Speaker:
Charles Taylor
Speaker:
Max Black
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

Another programme in which the identity of each work is announced only after it has been heard.
Apologies by ROBERT SIMPSON
A string quartet, played by the AEOLIAN QUARTET, and a piano concerto, on records
Nejct programme: 28 September

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Simpson

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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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