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Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
7.14* Brahms Six Hungarian Dances: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.31* Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Piano:
Julius Katchen
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Stravinsky Fireworks
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
8.9* Rimsky Korsakov Suite: The Golden Cockerel
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVICH
8.35* Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2: LEONARD BERNSTEIN directing the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa
Conducted By:
Igor Markevich
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein

played by DAVID BUTTERWORTH at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Nottingham
Flor Peeters Toccata, Fugue and Hymn on Ave maris stella, Op 28
Bach Concerto No 5. in D minor (after Vivaldi's Op 3 No 11)
Karg-Elert Two Chorale Improvisations (Op 65): Mach hoch die Tiir; Mit Ernst, 0 Menschenkinder
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Dorian) (bwv 538) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Played By:
David Butterworth

Jennifer Smith (soprano) Judith Pearce (flute)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) Stephen Pruslin (piano) direct from the Guildhall, Bath Ravel Sonatina; Chansons madecasses
Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor; Syrinx; Trois Chansons de Bilitis
(Arranged by the Bath Festival Society Ltd' in association with the National Westminster Bank Ltd) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Soprano:
Jennifer Smith
Flute:
Judith Pearce
Cello:
Jennifer Ward Clarke
Piano:
Stephen Pruslin

The second programme of the series in which neville GARDEN looks at some of the work of the Scottish Ballet, the Glasgow-based company under the artistic direction of Peter Darrell.
Intimate Pages
Ballet by HAROLD KING
Music by JANACEK (String Quartet NO 2): JANACEK QUARTET Excerpts from Carnival Ballet by FOKINE
Music by SCHUMANN WILHELM KEMPFF (piano) Jeux
Ballet by PETER DARRELL Music by DEBUSSY: SUISSE
ROMANDE ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Darrell.
Unknown:
Harold King
Music By:
Schumann Wilhelm Kempff
Unknown:
Peter Darrell

Beethoven String Trio in 9, Op » No 2
3.32* Schubert Sonatina No 2, in A minor (D 385)
3.49* Brahms Piano Quartet in A, Op 26
NELLA WISSEMA (violin)
LUDMILA NAVRATIL (viola) DAVID FLETCHER (cello) KEITH SWALLOW (piano)
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Cello:
David Fletcher

Country Edition
The rural scene in music: Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Smetana), Grainger's Country Gardens, Norfolk Rhapsody by Vaughan Williams and a multitude of rustic dance music from the Renaissance to the present day.
Record requests from the more bucolic under-20s farmed out by Christopher Hogwood.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood.

Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Music Hall
Four programmes about the British music hall
1: The Taverns, Clubs and Pleasure Gardens of the 18th Century
Presented by TOM VERNON
Readings by LESLIE HERITAGE and DAVID NEAL
Series producer ALAN WILDING
7.0 British Folk Music
Six programmes in which DAVE ARTHUR gives a personal account of folk music of all kinds. 3: Virtuosi or Vagabonds
Stories of folk musicians who delighted audiences in Connemara farm kibeheniS, drummed them up at street corners and horse fairs and brought traffic to a standstill in Dundee.

Contributors

Presented By:
Tom Vernon
Producer:
Alan Wilding
Unknown:
Dave Arthur

Music by Purcell
Adapted from WILLIAM Shake SPEARE'S comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, and interspersed with various masques by ELKIANAH SETTLE
The English Music Theatre Company production direct from Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
The play is given in two Pants and a Prologue: the scene is set in A Wood, with various transformations to Titamia's Bower, An Enchanted Lake, and A Chinese Garden. The Actors in the Play
The Singers in the Various Masques
IRIS saunweiRis (scpnano)
ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) JOHN YORK SKINNEIR ( eou mter- 1 enor)
Nbil jenkins (tenor)
JOHN TOM LIN SON (baGS) MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE COMPANY
ENGLISH MUSIC THEATRE ORCHESTRA leader Jonathan straniGB
NICHOLAS KRAEMER
( ha rpsii chord eonrtinuo) conductor steuairt bedfom director COLIN GRAHAM Prologue and Part 1
8.50* A Second Orpheus
An anthology of poems about Purcell by his contemporaries chosen and read by DAVID LLOYD JAMES
9.10* The Fairy Queen Part 2 (Britten's A Midsummer Night' Dream: 12 June)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shake
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ann Murray
Mezzo-Soprano:
John York
Leader:
Jonathan Stranigb
Leader:
Nicholas Kraemer
Director:
Colin Graham
Read By:
David Lloyd James
Peter Quince, carp enter and poet (Prologue)..:
Michael Bauer
PUCk:
Robert Ipjguendn
A Fadry:
Cathewine Sydee
Oberon, King of the Fairies:
Michael Bulman
Titanfia, the Fairy Queen:
Susan Daniel
An Indian boy:
Peter Crowe
Deimetnius, in love with Hermia:
Peter Savidge
Helena, in love with Demetrius:
Penelope MacRay
Lysander, betrothed to Hermia:
Martin McEvoy
Hermia:
Judith Rebs
N,ick Bottom, weaver:
Donald Stephenson
Tom Snout, tinker:
Christopher Booth-Jones
Robin Starveling, taiiflor:
Alexander Magri
Francis Flute, beHows-<mendeir:
Justin Lavender
Snug, joiner:
Glyn Davenport

This week a conversation with the conductor Zubin Mehta, and a round-up of some of the more interesting Jubilee events from Tony Barnfield.
Introduced by John Amis

Contributors

Presenter:
John Amis
Interviewee:
Zubin Mehta
Reporter:
Tony Barnfield
Producer:
Natalie Wheen

BBC Radio 3

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