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Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
7.22* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5, in D
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Rameau Suite: Le temple de la gloire
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
8.27* Couperin The frightened linnet; The mournful warbler; The victorious nightingale (Ordre No 14)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord)
8.35. Couperin La Franchise (Les nations) : QUADRO AMSTERDAM FRANS VESTER (flute)
MARIE LEONHARDT (violin) gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Raymond Leppard
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm
Flute:
Frans Vester
Violin:
Marie Leonhardt

led by COLIN SAUER conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS MARGARET MARSHALL (SOpranO) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baSS)
BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS Part 1
Mozart Symphonv No 29, in 1 (K 201)
Finzi Dies Natalis. for tenor and string orchestra

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Sauer
Conducted By:
David Willcocks
Soprano:
Margaret Marshall
Bass:
Stephen Roberts

Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasia: Romeo and Juliet
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
3.26* Gounod Ange adorable, ma main coupable (Romeo et Juliette. Act 1)
MADY MESPLE (soprano) NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor) PARIS OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by Pierre dervaux
3.32* Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo (Dramatic Symphony: Romeo et Juliette)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by coi.in DAVIS
3.41* Prokofiev Juliet's Funeral and Juliet's Death (Ballet music, Act 4)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Andre Previn
Soprano:
Mady Mesple
Tenor:
Nicolai Gedda
Conducted By:
Pierre Dervaux
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

Nona Liddell (violin) .lean Stewart (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello) Bernard Roberts (piano) from the RODEWALD MUSIC SOCIETY Brahms Piano Quartet No 1, in c, minor, Op 25
4.35' Faure Piano Quartet No 1. in c minor. Op 15
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Violin:
Nona Liddell
Viola:
.Lean Stewart
Cello:
Bernard Richards

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Work and Training

6.30 Life Inside
Six programmes for those who work in closed communities, presented by Dr Eric Miller 5: The Need for Change
Innovation and change in institutions.

7.0 Teaching Adults to Read 4: Approaches to Reading
Ways of teaching the different skills involved in the process of reading.
Presented by Ruth Lesirge
(BBC Adult Literacy Handbook, £1.10, from bookshops. To help an adult learn to read, write to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Dr Eric Miller
Presented By:
Ruth Lesirge

Opera in four acts
Music by Puccini. Libretto by GIOVANNI GIACOSA , LUIGI ILLICA based on the novel
Seines de la Vie de Boheme by HENRI MURGER
(sung in Italian) (records)
RCA VICTOR CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA COLUMBUS BOYS' CHOIR, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM. Acts 1, 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Giacosa
Unknown:
Henri Murger
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham.

A short story by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by ROGER COLET He had never been loved his life had been a failure, an absolute failure. All the same he had been in love ... Reader DENHOLM ELLIOTT
Abridged and produced by GORDON HOUSE

Contributors

Story By:
Guy de Maupassant
Translated By:
Roger Colet
Reader:
Denholm Elliott
Produced By:
Gordon House

Concrete
A satirical farce by IAN DOUGALL , Inspired by the notion of private armies. witn
David Ryall as George Rawk
' When is a battlefield not a battlefield? What has become of my little girl? What was that hyena doing in unfurnished accommodation? Let the hopes and fears, the aspirations and anxieties of the ordinary administrative classes be expressed for at least once in their lives! Pass the ammunition. Mavis! '
Guitar accompaniment composed and played by JOHN BULL Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Dougall
Unknown:
David Ryall
Unknown:
George Rawk
Played By:
John Bull
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Announcer:
Stephen Thorne
MaViS:
Percy Edwards
Deirdre:
Frances Jeater
Bosworth:
Jeffrey Segal
Smithy:
Garard Green
Archie:
Douglas Blackwell
Towers:
Leslie Heritage
Foiksinger:
John Bull
Mrs Riley:
Sheila Grant

BBC Radio 3

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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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