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Purcell Suite in G
LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
7.12* Rameau Dances from Zoroastre
EDUARD MELKUS ENSEMBLE
7.28* Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1
LA GRANDE ECURIE ET LA
CHAMBRE DU roy, conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE (Oboe)
7.38* Telemann Suite: Don Quichotte: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Gustav Leonhardt
Unknown:
Eduard Melkus
Oboe:
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner

Stravinsky Ragtime for 11 instruments: BOSTON SYMPHONY
CHAMBER PLAYERS
8.9* Barber Piano Concerto JOHN browning (piano) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.35* Bernstein Symphonic Dances: West Side Story NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Stravinsky Ragtime
Conducted By:
George Szell

Martinu Primrose : Duets to Moravian folk poetry texts (mono) CZECH SINGERS' CHORUS with instrumentalists conducted by josef VESELKA
9.13* Nonet (mono) CZECH NONET
9.30* The Opening of the Wells: Final song
JINDRICH JINDRAK (baritone) CZECH SINGERS' CHORUS with instrumentalists conducted by JOSEF VESELKA gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Martinu Primrose
Conducted By:
Josef Veselka
Baritone:
Jindrich Jindrak
Conducted By:
Josef Veselka

leader MICHAEL DAVIS conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN JANE MANNING (soprano) MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
HELEN WATTS (contralto) Part 1
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
Nicholas Maw Scenes and arias

Contributors

Leader:
Michael Davis
Conductor:
James Loughran
Soprano:
Jane Manning
Mezzo-Soprano:
Meriel Dickinson

Lulu
Ballet by JACK CARTER Music: MILHAUD
(Le boeuf sur Ie toit)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI Elite Syncopations
Ballet by KENNETH MACMILLAN
Music: SCOTT JOPLIN and others
MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA
COVENT GARDEN, directed by PHILIP GAMMON (piano) gramophone records
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Carter
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Unknown:
Kenneth MacMillan
Music:
Scott Joplin
Piano:
Philip Gammon
Introduced By:
Cormac Rigby

Second of two programmes, which also includes two Brahms songs, sung in English translations by LESLIE MINCHIN JOHN BARROW (baritone) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Parry Weep you no more; Dirge in Woods; Through the ivory gate
Brahms I rose and went out (Wie rafft' ich mich auf)
Parry Nightfall in winter; Under the greenwood tree
Brahms Irresistible (Uniiberwindlich)
Parry Looking backward; From a city window; What part of dread eternity?

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Minchin
Baritone:
John Barrow

Time for Revision or A first look (?)
From the works set for this year's examinations by the GCE A-level Boards, Christopher Hogwood selects three examples of musical symbolism and pictorialism to discuss in today's programme: Purcell's Come, ye sons of art away, Smetana's Vltava and Strauss's Don Juan gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Don Juan

Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Putting on a Show
The sixth of eight programmes . in which anthony cornish, drama producer, lecturer and adjudicator, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the amateur theatre.
6: Owning Your Own Theatre - The Law and Finance
7.0 Where It's At
6: It Gives Me Great Pleasure
In an up-dated final programme JOHN PEEL chooses some of the bands, both newer and established, that augur well for the future of rock music.
Series producer DAVID EPPS

Contributors

Producer:
David Epps

The last of four concerts direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Pinchas Zukerman (violin and viola)
Jaime Laredo (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra leader JOSÉ-LUlS GARCIA conducted by PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Part 1
Serenade in D (K 239) (Serenata notturna)
Violin Concerto No 5, la A (K219)

Contributors

Violin:
Jaime Laredo
Unknown:
Luls Garcia
Conducted By:
Pinchas Zukerman

or Maxims for Locomotion by WILLIAM KITCHINER , MD (died 1827)
Adapted for broadcasting in three parts and narrated by David Lloyd James Part 2 with Victor Lucas as the Doctor
PETER HALL and PAUL TAYLOR (tenors)
ALAN JONES (baritone) RICHARD NUNN (piano)
Producer TERENCE TILLER (Part 3: Monday 23 May)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Kitchiner
Unknown:
David Lloyd James
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Tenors:
Paul Taylor

Three readings from the translation by MICHAEL ALEXANDER 2: The Fight with Grendet Reader John Glen accompanied by MARY REMNANT on a reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo lyre, loaned by courtesy of the British Museum Producer MICHAEL MASON
(Part 3, The Fight with the Barrow Dragon: 27 May)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Alexander
Reader:
John Glen
Accompanied By:
Mary Remnant
Unknown:
Sutton Hoo
Producer:
Michael Mason

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it.
This week: after the recent publication of DEREK JEWELL 'S biography, Duke, an assessment of Duke Ellington's contribution to American music. Introduced by JOHN amis Producer BRIAN COOK

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jewell
Introduced By:
John Amis
Producer:
Brian Cook

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More