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Boieldieu Overture: The Caliph of Baghdad
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
7.13* Berlioz Rêverie and Caprice: ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
7.22* Schumann Symphony No 2, in C: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Edo de Waart
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

Handel Overture: Ariodante: AC
ADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.11* Leclair Oboe Concerto in c, Op 7 No 3
HEINZ HOLLIGER , MEMBERS OF THE DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by VITTORIO NEGRI
8.28* Haydn Symphony No 103, in E flat (Drum-roll)
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA, COnducted by ANTAL DORATI : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Heinz Holliger
Conducted By:
Vittorio Negri
Unknown:
Antal Dorati

Balakirev and Borodin
Excerpts from Borodin's opera, Prince Igor, with BORIS CHRISTOFF , RENI PENKOVA CONSTANTIN CHEKERLIISKI
SOFIA NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by jERZY SEMKOW : record

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Christoff
Unknown:
Reni Penkova
Conducted By:
Jerzy Semkow

9: Almack's Assembly Rooms/ Willis's Rooms
Opened in 1765 Almack's, known later as Willis's, provided a wide variety of musical entertainment for well over a century. Today's programme includes music associated with the Bach-Abel subscription concerts, the Vocal Concerts, the Musical Union and Quartett Association.
J. C. Bach Symphony in B flat, Op 18 No 2 (Overture to Lucia Silla )
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
10.5* Arne Catch: Which is the properest day to drink DELLER CONSORT
10.7* Haydn Chorus: Then breaks that great and glorious day (The Seasons): BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by COLIN DAVIS
10.13* Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor. Op 80 BARTHOLDY QUARTET
10.36* Hummel Finale from the Clarinet Quartet in E flat
THE MUSIC PARTY gramophone records
Compiled by KEITH HORNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucia Silla
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Keith Horner

ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) KEITH SWALLOW (piano)
Wolf Nun wandre, Maria; Die ihr schwebet um diese Palmen; Ach, des Knaben Augen sind mir (Spanisches Liederbuch, 1)
11.4* Brahms Vier ernste Gesange. Op 121
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Unknown:
Knaben Augen
Unknown:
Brahms Vier

direct from the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Yossi Zivoni (violin)
Norma Fisher (piano) Bartok Sonata No 2 Franck Sonata in A
(The tenth of 12 concerts promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in assoc with the BBC) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Violin:
Yossi Zivoni
Piano:
Norma Fisher
Unknown:
Franck Sonata

Opera in four acts. Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE
Music by Verdi (sung in Italian: first broadcast in this country)
Aroldo returns from the Crusades to find that his wife has been unfaithful in his absence.
MILAN CHORUS AND SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master MINO BORDIGNON conducted by MAURIZIO RINALDI
Set in England and Scotland in rhe 13th century.
Act 1: Egberto's castle in Kent

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria Piave
Chorus-Master:
Mino Bordignon
Conducted By:
Maurizio Rinaldi

The Wider World
6.30 The English Novel Abroad 4: Kamala Markandaya
JOHN SPENCER , Director of the Institute of Modern English Language Studies, Leeds University, talks to the South Indian author about her novel, Nectar in a Sieve.
7.0 What Right Have You Got? A 26-part course on the rights and responsibilities of the citizen - intended primarily for listeners in England and Wales. 18: Job Security
In what circumstances can an employer dismiss an employee? What is 'unfair dismissal'? How are disputes resolved?
Presented by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Kamala Markandaya
Unknown:
John Spencer
Presented By:
Michael Molyneux

Professor Norman MacKenzie of Sussex University considers DAVID MARQUAND 's new biography, published today, of Ramsay MacDonald , the Labour Prime Minister I who left his party to form a coalition government in the economic crisis of 1931.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Norman MacKenzie
Unknown:
David Marquand
Unknown:
Ramsay MacDonald

A conversation about some changes in English law during the past 30 years and other matters between Lord Denning.
Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Scarman,
Chairman of the Law Commission. 1965-73
There is no importance in a rule unless it is a moral rule. That is as true of a legal rule asitisofaprivatedomestic rule. (SIR LESLIE SCARMAN ) Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Leslie Scarman
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

Graphomaniaes by ABRAM TERTZ translated and dramatised for radio by NICHOCAS BETHELL with Noel Johnson as Paul Straustin , the novelist and Kerry Francis as Simon Gaulkin. the poet
Abram Tertz is the author of A Voice from the Chorus, which describes his experiences in a Russian prison. In 1965 ' Tertz ' was revealed to be the literary critic Andrey Sinyavsky , who had been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. He was allowed to leave the USSR in 1973 and now lives in Paris. The play is a non-political comedy about an underground literary circle in Moscow and the illusions of some of its members. It is introduced by the translator Nicholas Bethell
Produoed and directed by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Nichocas Bethell
Unknown:
Noel Johnson
Unknown:
Paul Straustin
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Simon Gaulkin.
Unknown:
Abram Tertz
Unknown:
Andrey Sinyavsky
Unknown:
Nicholas Bethell
Directed By:
Norman Wright
Zinaida Straustin:
Hilda Schroder
Editor:
David Sinclair
Secretary:
Sandra Clark
Colonel:
Timothy Bateson

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