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Tchaikovsky Waltz (Eugene Onegin): BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

8.12* Berlioz Two choruses, Op 20: La menace des Francs; Hymne a la France
SCHUTZ CHOIR AND CHORALE PETER SMITH (piano) conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON

8.21* Schumann Symphony No 2, in C: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

(records)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Played by the Vienna Philharmonic

Schubert, Johann Strauss (son), Schoenberg

Strauss Emperor Waltz (Schoenberg's arrangement)
Schubert Octet in F
Vienna Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
(mono)

11.45 Interval Reading

11.50 Viennese Music Part 2
Strauss Annen-Polka; Emperor Waltz
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karl Bohm

(Recordings from concerts at this year's Vienna Festival by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Musicians:
Vienna Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
Musicians:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Karl Bohm

Horn Concerto No 2, in D major (attrib Haydn)
HERMANN BAUMANN (horn) VIENNA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTON NANUT
(Part of a recording from this year's Vienna Festival made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Horn:
Hermann Baumann
Conducted By:
Anton Nanut

Misha Donat introduces a programme containing Beethoven's Op 16 both in its familiar form, as a quintet for piano and wind, and in the composer's recomposed version as a piano quartet. He argues that here is a case of an arrangement that is actually preferable to the original.

Beethoven Quintet in E flat major, Op 16
Stravinsky Septet
Beethoven Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op 16

Melos Ensemble of London with Michael Isador (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Misha Donat
Musicians:
Melos Ensemble of London
Pianist:
Michael Isador

Hans Haselbock (organ) Choir of the Society of Friends of Music
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Miltiades Caridis

Poulenc Concerto in G minor, for organ, strings and timpani
Milhaud Symphony No 3, for choir and orchestra

(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Organist:
Hans Haselbock
Singers:
Choir of the Society of Friends of Music
Musicians:
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Miltiades Caridis

with David Munrow
Some traditional Hungarian instruments: the zither, bag-pipes, harp and cimbalom. The Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl talks about his country and his own career.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Munrow
Guest:
Peter Frankl
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Leisure and Recreation

6.30 Nations as Neighbours
Programmes for people planning a holiday in the British Isles. Scotland. In the second of four programmes, John Duncanson introduces the Highlands - the countryside, the people, their Gaelic heritage and language. (Repeated: Sun 3.30 pm R4 VHF)

7.0 Village Prospects
Explored by Brian Milton
A series of four programmes 2: Home by the Sea
Once a prosperous Cornish fishing and smuggling centre, Portscatho today is full of second homes, empty for much of the year, while local young people cannot afford to buy houses.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Duncanson
Unknown:
Brian Milton

direct from the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham
PATRICIA GREIG (soprano)
CYNTHIA BUCHAN (mezzo-soprano) WYNFORD EVANS (tenor) GRAHAM TITUS (baritone) PETER WALLFISCH (piano) MICHAEL FREYHAN (piano)
Mozart Sonata in C (K 521)
Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer

Contributors

Soprano:
Patricia Greig
Mezzo-Soprano:
Cynthia Buchan
Tenor:
Wynford Evans
Baritone:
Graham Titus
Piano:
Peter Wallfisch
Piano:
Michael Freyhan

Sir Cecil Parrott, Professor of Central and South European Studies at the University of Lancaster, looks at the current exhibition of Landscape Masterpieces from Soviet Museums to be seen at the Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. He examines in particular the close correlation between Russian painting and literature, especially in the work of Issak Levitan and Anton Chekhov.

Contributors

Speaker:
Sir Cecil Parrott

by THOMAS MANN. born 1875 translated by H. T. LOWE-PORTER and abridged for radio in three parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM Read by Paul Scofield
3: Pestilence and Death Producer JOHN TYDEMAN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Mann.
Translated By:
H. T. Lowe-Porter
Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Read By:
Paul Scofield
Producer:
John Tydeman

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
This week, a chance to hear again some of the year's best talks on music, and to hear for the first time a rare song by Gershwin, sung and played by COURTNEY KENNY.
Introduced by John Amis Producers DENYS GUEROULT and NATALIE WHEEN

Contributors

Played By:
Courtney Kenny.
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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