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Offenbach Overture: La vie parisienne
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
7.11* Poulenc Concerto in D minor, for two pianos and orchestra
FRANCIS POULENC
JACQUES FEVRIER PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE
7.31* Satie Three Gnossiennes ALDO CICCOLINI (piano)
7.38* Milhaud Ballet: Le boeuf sur le toit
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATl gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Louis Frémaux
Unknown:
Francis Poulenc
Unknown:
Jacques Fevrier
Conducted By:
Georges Prêtre
Piano:
Aldo Ciccolini
Conducted By:
Antal Doratl

Walton Capriccio burlesco
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
William Alwyn born 7 November 1905
8.13* Alwyn Symphony No 3
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.47* Elgar Three Bavarian Dances
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Walton Capriccio
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Conducted By:
William Alwyn
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Schumann Overture: Manfred
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
9.18* Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G, Op 92
RUDOLF SERKIN (piano) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
9.35* Introduction and Allegro, Op 134: RUDOLF SERKIN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
9.40* Overture: Julius Caesar VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conduqted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer
Piano:
Rudolf Serkin
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Unknown:
Rudolf Serkin
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Unknown:
Julius Caesar
Unknown:
Sir Georg Solti

Moscow Radio won joint third prize in this competition for music programmes on nationalist subjects, with ' A Story of a Musical Dynasty.'
In Soviet Azerbaidzhan lives the Gadjibekov family of which fathers, brothers, sons and grandsons are all musicians. The style of their music - and of the programme - is quite unlike anything normally broadcast in this country.
English adaptation and narration by ELAINE PADMORE with JOHN HOLSTROM and ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Padmore
Unknown:
John Holstrom
Unknown:
Robin Holmes

DANIEL CIIORZEMPA (organ) with a STRING ENSEMBLE directed from the harpsichord by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Vivaldi Concerto in G, for strings (p 145)
Haydn Organ Concerto In c (H XVIII 1)
Vivaldi Concerto In G minor, for strings (p 392)

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Ciiorzempa

(The woman without a shadow) An opera in three acts
Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL (sung in German)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
3.10* Interval Reading
3.15* Die Frau ohne Schatten Act 2
4.15* Interval Reading
4.20* Die Frau ohne Schatten Act 3

Contributors

Music By:
Richard Strauss
Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Chorus-Master:
Walter Hagen-Groll
Conducted By:
Karl Bohm

Leisure and Recreation
C.30 It's Catching
NICK HUGHES takes a look at fakes, curiosities, rubbish. music boxes and clockwork toys to find out why people collect them.
7.0 Special Report
MAUREEN GALVIN visits a photographic workshop in North London which has developed out of a successful exchange of amateur and professional skills.
7.10 Listen Here
Continuing his backward look at musical progress, BRUCE COLE arrives at the classical period.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Hughes
Unknown:
Maureen Galvin
Unknown:
Bruce Cole

Lives of the English Poets
Passages from the Life of Alexander Pope read by STEPHEN MURRAY
Dr Johnson's short biography, admiring but without illusions. of the genius whose life, by his own admission, was a I long disease

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Pope
Read By:
Stephen Murray

This week: NATALIE WHEEN reports from Belgrade on the International Competition of Jeunesses Musicales and a medal for Messiaen.
Introduced by John Amis Producers DENYS GUEROULT and NATALIE WHEEN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Introduced By:
John Amis
Producers:
Denys Gueroult
Producers:
Natalie Wheen

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More