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Listeners' record requests
Rossini Overture: 11 Turco in Italia
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
9.13* Mozart Oboe Concerto in C (K 314): LEON GOOSSENS
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by COLIN DAVIS
9.35* Wagner Brunnhilde's Immolation (Gotterdammerung) BIRGIT NILSSON (soprano) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
9.47* Schubert Nocturne in E flat (D 897)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) MAURICE GENDRON (cello)
HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano)
9.56* Bartok Piano Concerto No 3
DANIEL BARENBOIM
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Conducted By:
George Szell
Oboe:
Leon Goossens
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Soprano:
Birgit Nilsson
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Cello:
Maurice Gendron
Piano:
Hephzibah Menuhin
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Prokofiev and the Piano: by ROBERT LAYTON.
GERARD SCHÜRMANN talks about his new work, The double heart.
The Ten Senses of Music: by TERENCE MCLAUGHLIN.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Michael Oliver 's The Larks of Dean: Tuesday 9.40 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Robert Layton.
Music By:
Terence McLaughlin.
Producer:
Christine Hardwick
Unknown:
Michael Oliver

HENRYK SZERYNG (violin)
DELFINA AMBROZIAK (soprano) STEFANIA TOCZYSKA (contralto) ANDRZE .J HIOLSKI (baritone)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND CHOIR conducted by HEINZ RÖGNER Part 1
Berg Violin Concerto

Contributors

Violin:
Henryk Szeryng
Soprano:
Delfina Ambroziak
Contralto:
Stefania Toczyska
Baritone:
Andrze .J Hiolski
Conducted By:
Heinz Rögner

P. J. Kavanagh , novelist and poet, reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.50am) Words, in which 14 well-known broadcasters examine some of the things we say and write, £3.25 from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Kavanagh

played by STEPHEN PRESTON (flute)
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Flute Sonata No 1, in B minor (bwv 1030)
(From a BBC Lunchtime Concert given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London, on 4 April 1973)

Contributors

Flute:
Stephen Preston
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock

United Kingdom Rounds (7)
The first final in this year's competition:
School Choirs
HOWELI.SSCHOOLCHOIR,LLANDAFF conductor gaynor Howard KIDDERMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL
MADRIGAL CHOIR conductor SUSAN ELLIS
ST BERNARD 'S CONVENT CHOIR conductor GILLIAN GRIFFITHS
Adjudicators: CHARLES BEARDSALL GILES BRYANT , RICHARD BUTT
Bernard Keeffe introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the results,

Contributors

Conductor:
Susan Ellis
Conductor:
St Bernard
Conductor:
Gillian Griffiths
Unknown:
Charles Beardsall
Unknown:
Giles Bryant
Introduces:
Bernard Keeffe

A Midsummer Night's Dream
An opera in three acts, with libretto by PETER PEARS and THE COMPOSER, based on SHAKEspeare's play.
CHOIR OF DOWNSIDE AND
EMANUEL SCHOOLS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records
Act 1: The depths of a wood near Athens: Act 2: The same
3.55* Interval Reading
4.5* A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 3: The same, changing to the palace of Theseus
(The Turn of the Screw: 25 June)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Pears

by HAROLD PINTER
A professor in an American university introduces his wife to his father, uncle and two brothers living in the family home in North London.
A major success in London and New York, this play is the choice of Nigel Anthony , winner of the 1976 Imperial Tobacco Radio Actors Award.
Directed by guy VAESEN
(First broadcast on Radio 4)
(Bill Fraser is in ' The Circle' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Pinter
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Directed By:
Guy Vaesen
Unknown:
Bill Fraser
Max:
Bill Fraser
Lenny:
Nigel Anthony
Sam:
Malcolm Hayes
Joey:
Ray Lonnen
Teddy:
Jim Norton
Ruth:
Vivien Merchant

played by the Quartetto Italiano
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffi (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello) Part 1
Quartet in F major, Op 18 No 1 Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)

Contributors

Violin:
Paolo Borciani
Violin:
Elisa Pegreffi
Viola:
Piero Farulli
Cello:
Franco Rossi

The Roman satirist, no less than the playwright, wrote for public performance, says Frederic Raphael. He argues that, although the performer has yet to play his full part as translator, without his collaboration ' I doubt if we shall manage to restore laughter to its. rightful place in our view of the ancient world - too long faced with the tendentious marble of scholarly deference.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederic Raphael.

No 175: Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen
ANNA REYNOLDS (contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone record

Contributors

Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Conducted By:
Karl Richter

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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