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Mendelssohn Overture: Calm sea and prosperous voyage
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÛNCHINGER
8.18' Paganini Violin Concerto NO 4: ARTHUR GRUMIAUX , MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERO BELLUGI
8.48' Mendelssohn Symphony No 6. in E flat, for string orchestra: LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT MASUR : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Grumiaux
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Conducted By:
Piero Bellugi
Conducted By:
Kurt Masur

Saint-Saens Havanaise , Op 83 RUGGIERO ricci (violin)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
Pastorale: Ici les tendres oiseaux: EVEI.YN LEAR (soprano) THOMAS STEWART (baritone) ERIK WERBA (piano) Une flute invisible
CHRISTA LUDWIG (soprano) DOUGLAS WHITTAKER (flute) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Sonata in D, Op 166
RONALD ROSEMAN (Oboe) GILBERT KALISH (piano) Cello Concerto No I
JACQUELINE DU PRE, NEW PHII.HAR-MONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Saint-Saens Havanaise
Violin:
Ruggiero Ricci
Conducted By:
Pierino Gamba
Soprano:
Evei.Yn Lear
Baritone:
Thomas Stewart
Piano:
Erik Werba
Soprano:
Christa Ludwig
Flute:
Douglas Whittaker
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Oboe:
Ronald Roseman
Piano:
Gilbert Kalish
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim

Lionel Salter , a harpsichordist and critic as well as the BBC's former Assistant Controller. Music, its Head of Music. Television, and its Head of Opera. poses the question:
Specialists or All-rounderst

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Salter

in Milhaud. Stravinsky. Weill OTTOKAR DRAPAL (clarinet) DORIS BIERETT (contralto) ALFRED WINKLER (tenor)
WOLFGANG BRUNEDER (tenor) LADISLAV ILLAVSKY (baSS) FRANZ HANDLOS (bass)
AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. AUSTRIAN RADIO BIG BAND conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA
Milhaud Ballet: La creation du monde
Stravinsky Ragtime for 11 instruments: Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band
Weill The Seven Deadly Sins (Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Clarinet:
Ottokar Drapal
Contralto:
Doris Bierett
Tenor:
Alfred Winkler
Tenor:
Wolfgang Bruneder
Bass:
Ladislav Illavsky
Bass:
Franz Handlos
Conducted By:
Friedrich Cerha

MAURICE HASSON (violin) JAMES WALKER (piano)
Corelli Sonata in D minor. Op 5 No 12 (La Follia)
Bach Sonata No 1. in G minor, for violin (BWV 1001)
Bloch Nigun (Baal Shem)
Ravel Piece en forme d'habanera
Salnt-Saens Rondo Capriccioso. Op 28
(From the Friends' Meeting House, Manchester. First of 12 concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in association with the BBC)

Contributors

Violin:
Maurice Hasson
Piano:
James Walker

Lyric poem in three acts by RENE FAUCHOIS
Music by Fauré (sung in French)
Faurg's only full-length opera retells the classic Greek legend of Ulysses' homecoming.
Attendants of Pénélope:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
FRENCH RADIO conducted by PAUL PARAY (French Radio recording)
3.5* Fauré and the Hellenistic Element In French Music A talk by MARTIN COOPER
3.20* Penelope. Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Conducted By:
Paul Paray
Talk By:
Martin Cooper
Eurynome, a housekeeper:
Michele Command

The Wider World
6.30 New series
Foreign Correspondent
A weekly study on a topic of current international significance.
Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
6.50 Hawks and Doves
Eight programmes in which GEOFFREY BEST examines some notable modern approaches to the problem of war and peace. 1: The Classical Opposites Series producer
MICHAEL STEPHENS

Contributors

Presented By:
Graham Tayar
Unknown:
Michael Stephens

by Hugh Sykes Davies
In the early 60s a new operation for the relief of epilepsy severed the main connection between the two halves of the brain This gave psychologists an opportunity to study and speculate about their respective functions.
Hugh Sykes Davies. Fellow of St John's College. Cambridge, and a student of linguistics, strongly disagrees with some of the inferences Californian scientists like Michael Gazzaniga, Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein have drawn from their experiments.

Last year was the 350th anniversary of the birth of George Fox. It was his prophetic witness that called into being the Religious' Society of Friends - The Quakers, as they became known.
Christopher Serpell looks at Fox and at the Quakers now. and asks how far this powerful and original voice commands a response today. Producer FRASER STEEL (Manchester) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
George Fox.
Unknown:
Christopher Serpell

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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