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A weekly series of records of the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Sonata in F, Op 54; Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)

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Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (PV 383):
Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hans Stadlmair
9.16* attrib Pergolesi Magnificat: Elizabeth Vaughan (soprano) Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Ian Partridge (tenor) Christopher Keyte (bass) Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by David Willcocks
8.30* Rachmaninov Variations on a theme by Corelli Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
9.51* Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Groves
10. 0* Berwald Sinfonie singuliere: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sixten Ehrling

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Simon Boccanegra: Verdi's revisions discussed by Charles Osborne.
Arturo Toscanini: a portrait in recorded reflections and recollections.

Music drama in three acts by Wagner (sung in German)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra,
chorus-master Norbert Balatsch
conducted by Horst Stein

Prelude and Act 1

(Bavarian Radio recording)
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Cardew Robinson

A personal choice of songs you may not know performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and others. The seventh in a series of nine Sunday lunchtime programmes.

Sonata Eroica in C major, Op 29 for solo violin
Trio in D minor Op 14: Members of the Music Group of London - Hugh Bean (violin),
Michael Winfield (cor anglais), David Parkhouse (piano)
(Tovey Piano Quintet: 7 Jan)

Act 2

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 10.0 am)

Act 3

The novels of Henry Green (1905-73)
His real name was Henry Vincent Yorke. He was a successful engineering industrialist who wrote novels in his spare time. He died two years ago, on 13 December. His novels include Living, Caught, Party Giving and Loving: all of them reveal a rare and individual talent. Paul Bailey assesses Henry Green's achievement, with contributions from A.S. Byatt, V.S. Pritchett, Anthony Quinton, Alan Ross, Angus Wilson and Francis Wyndham.
Reader Hugh Burden

conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY
YFRAH NEAMAN (violin)
Mozart Symphony No 29, in A major (K 201)
Bruch Violin Concerto No 2, in D minor
Hlndemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber

A radio play by Olwen Wymark
with Jane Wymark as Augusta, John Rowe as Thomas, Ruth Goring as the Female Inspector and Hugh Manning as the Male Inspector

"We'll go through this door ... out of the building.... and climb up into the lorry. You'll like it. It's little and warm in there - safe, quite safe. And you sit so high up you can see everything."

died 28 December 1937
Manuel Rosenthal - who conducted the first concert performance of "L'enfant et les sortileges" and who was both friend and pupil of the composer - in conversation with Ashley Lawrence, (mono)
9.20* "L'enfant et les sortileges"
Opera in two parts
Music by Ravel
Libretto by Colette
(sung in French: records)
Bench, Sofa, Stool, Wicker Chair, Numbers, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Frogs, Animals and Trees: ORTF Choir
Paris National Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel

The action takes place in a room of an old Norman country house, opening on to a garden.

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Earlier this year the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko read some of his poems at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature with English translations introduced and spoken by P.J. Kavanagh.

In tonight's programme they read three poems: 'Stolen Apples,' 'Babi Yar' and 'Dwarf Birches,' followed by an Interlude

During the year Derek Jewell has promised to play tracks from a number of albums 'at a later date.' In this programme he fulfils that promise with music by Steve Howe, Hatfield and the North, Catherine Howe and Bruce Springsteen, together with the recording made at one of Bob Marley's London concerts and a new album from Weather Report.

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