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Purcell, ed Britten Chaconne in G minor
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
7.13* Mozart Concerto in E flat major, for two pianos and orchestra (K 365)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY and DANIEL BARENBOIM who also directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
7.39* Beethoven Twelve German Dances: ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDO DE WAART: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim

Boieldieu Overture: La dame blanche
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.13* Paganini Violin Concerto No 1, in D: SALVATORE ACCARDO LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
8.52* Chabrier Danse slave (Le roi malgré lui): SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA, Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Charles Dutoit
Conducted By:
Chabrier Danse
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

Spohr and Hummel Spohr Liebe ist die Zarte Bliite (Faust, Act I)
WOLFGANG ANHEISSER (baritone)
BERLIN RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT HANELL
9.11* Hummel Septet in D minor. Op 74: MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Hummel Spohr Liebe
Unknown:
Zarte Bliite
Baritone:
Wolfgang Anheisser
Conducted By:
Robert Hanell

leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by ARTHUR BUTTERWORTH
A programme emphasising the work of living British composers
David Morgan Partita John Ireland A London Overture
Trevor Roberts Pastorale
Arthur Butterworth Concertante Alan Langford Pastorale for Strings
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance: March No 2

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Arthur Butterworth
Unknown:
David Morgan Partita John

OnTuesdayinBournemouth the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet was joined by Sir Robert Help mann performing with them as the Red King in Checkmate and as Dr Coppelius. He will appear in both roles at Sadler's Wells in the next few days. Today's programme celebrates with a complete performance of Coppelia
Music by DELIBES: SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Robert Help
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

A second chance to hear these two programmes of woodwind quintets by the 21-year-old Elgar. In the first programme MICHAEL KENNEDY introduces some of the shorter pieces from the period:
... tiny unpretentious fragments containing little or nothing identifiably Elgarian, but full of bubbling wit and formidable technical know-how.
(EDWARD GREENFIELD ,
THE GUARDIAN)
Five Intermezzi; Andante cantabile; Gavotte; Sarabande; Six Promenades
ATHENA ENSEMBLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Greenfield

Who were the three masked guests? Who was the jailer's new assistant? Who was the bold warrior defeated by Tancredi? In a sequence of ' unmasking' music Christopher Hogwood reveals all at the request of the under-20s. Operatic disguises are stripped away by Mozart (Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute), Beethoven (Fidelio), and Monte-verdi (II combattimento); more than that is removed by Salome, and masked identities are revealed even in Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony, gramophone records

Contributors

Music:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Don Giovanni

Leisure and Recreation
6.36 Putting on a Show
The second of eight programmes in which ANTHONY CORNISH, drama producer, lecturer and adjudicator, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the amateur theatre.
2: Where Do You Get Helpf
7.0 Where It's At
2: Rock Art and Rock Folly
JOHN PEEL considers why so many rock groups that set out to create lasting music are largely unsuccessful, while the most durable music is often produced almost unconsciously.

In the last of three programmes Sir John Gielgud reads from the reminiscences Disraeli wrote in the first half of the 1860s. before he became Prime Minister for the first time. In them he looks back on 40 years of striving for literary and political success and social acceptance, and the stories are the nearest Disraeli came to non-fictional autobiography, containing some of his finest and wittiest writings. Introduced and selected by Producer
Lord Blake JOHN KNIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Gielgud
Unknown:
Lord Blake John Knight

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
A conversation with GUNTHER SCHULLER ; and PETER HEYWORTH on Kurt Weill reassessed. Introduced by John Amis Producer NATALIE WHEEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Gunther Schuller
Unknown:
Peter Heyworth
Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Introduced By:
John Amis
Producer:
Natalie Wheen

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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