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A weekly series of pieces based on all kinds of dance forms. including this week: English Dances by Malcolm Arnold , Chabrier's Quadrille on themes by Wagner. Corelli 's Oboe Concerto (arr BarbirollU. the Polonaise de Concert by Wieniawski, and some of Skalkottas's Greek Dances. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold
Unknown:
Wagner. Corelli

Mendelssohn Overture: Athalia NEW PIIILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MOSHE ATZMON
9.16* Glazunov Chant du Ménestrel, for cello and orchestra
9.21* Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
9.56* Respighi Trittico Botticelliano
PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Moshe Atzmon
Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa

Miriam Fried (violin)
Clifford Benson (piano) in the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House. London
Bach Sonata in B minor (Bwv 1014)
Ravel Sonata in G
Mozart Adagio in E major (K 261)
Bartok six Romanian Folk Dances

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Benson

Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812 (with chorus): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Haydn Variations on the Imperial Hymn (slow movement of String Quartet in c. Op 76 No 3): AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasia: Hamlet
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV Haydn Unfinished string quartet in B flat major and D minor, OP 103: AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasia: Romeo and Juliet
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Evgeny Svetlanov
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

Eight programmes written and presented by Ian Mclntyre
6: Books Will Speak Plain - Anglo- American Relations in Literature
Speakers: DANIEL J. BOORSTIN , MALCOLM BRADBURY , OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS. ANDREW HOOK, JESSICA MITFORD , ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR , STEPHEN SPENDER and LARRY ZIFF. Producer MICHAEL MASON (First broadcast on R4)

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian McLntyre
Unknown:
Daniel J. Boorstin
Unknown:
Malcolm Bradbury
Unknown:
Owen Dudley
Unknown:
Jessica Mitford
Unknown:
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Unknown:
Stephen Spender
Producer:
Michael Mason

Vivien Townley (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Francis Egerton (tenor), Paul Hudson (bass) Richard Rodney Bennett and Susan Bradshaw (pianos), Anne Shasby and Richard McMahon (pianos), James Holland, Terence Emery, David Johnson, Kevin Nutty, John Chimes, Peter Greenham (percussion)
BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Andrew Davis

direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Part I

Stravinsky: Les noces (sung in Russian)

Contributors

Soprano:
Vivien Townley
Mezzo-Soprano:
Gillian Knight
Tenor:
Francis Egerton
Bass:
Paul Hudson
Piano:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Piano:
Susan Bradshaw
Piano:
Anne Shasby
Piano:
Richard McMahon
Percussion:
James Holland
Percussion:
Terence Emery
Percussion:
David Johnson
Percussion:
Kevin Nutty
Percussion:
John Chimes.
Chorus Director:
John Poole
Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis

Stephen Koss , Professor of History at Columbia University, gives a single talk in this series. Professor Koss is a specialist in modern British political history, and the author of Asquith, a political life, published this week.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Koss

John Sparrow , Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, first met the Poet Laureate in Oxford more than 50 years ago. He talks about the life and verse of his old friend, who celebrates his 70th birthday today.
( Betjeman revisits places of his Childhood in Summoned by Bells- BBC1 tomorrow
10.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Sparrow

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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