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Alfred Cortot was born on 26 September 1877, and after graduating with a first prize from the Paris Conservatoire, began making appearances as both pianist and conductor.
Conducting was his chief interest in his early years, and he founded a number of concert societies; but from his recordings alone it will always be as a pianist that Cortot will be remembered.
Beethoven Sonata in A major, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
JACQUES THIBAUD (violin)
8.34* Chopin Tarantelle , Op 43
8.37* Franck Symphonic Variations: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR LANDON RONALD. Records

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Prokofiev Suite: The Love Of Three Oranges
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
9.21* Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (viola) DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
9.43* Verdi Ella giammai m'am6 (Don Carlos )
BORIS CHRISTOFF (baSS) LA SCALA ORCHESTRA conducted by GABRIELE SANTINI
9.51* Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by sir GEORG SOLTI

This week a commentary on Jean Barraqutf ; and SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON talks about 25 years of conducting.
Introduced by John Amis Producer DENYS GUEROULT

features the two Gold Medal winners of the Herbert von Karajan Youth Orchestra Festival 1976. Part 1
Wagner Prelude: Die Meistersinger: INTERNATIONAL
YOUTH ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Shostakovich, orch Barshat Chamber Symphony in c minor, Op 110: STRING ORCHESTRA FROM MK CIURLIONIS MIDDLE
SCHOOL, VILNIUS, USSR conducted by SAULTUS SONDEZKIS

Mary Goldring. economist, reflects on some of the things we say and write.
(Repeated: Wednesday 11,55 am)

Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 1, in D
NATIONAL YOUTH PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA OF WEST GERMANY conducted by CHRISTOF PRICK
(Recording from the 1976 Karajan Youth Orchestra Festival by RIAS, Berlin)

International Amateur Choral Competition (6)
Youth Class: Match 1
West Germany:
VIA NOVA CHOIR. MUNICH Canada:
LES JEUNES CHANTEURS D'ACADIB
Youth Class: Match 2 United Kingdom:
ARRAN GIRLS' CHOIR
Hungary: MIXED CHOIR or THE TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE, PECS Introduced by Bernard Keeffe

from the Berlin Festival 1979 Second of seven programmes ALBAN BERG QUARTET Part 1
Berg String Quartet, Op 3
Lutoslawski String Quartet
2.5* Interval Reading
2.15* String Quartets Part 2
Mozart String Quartet in G major (x 387)
(SFB Berlin recording)

A rare chance to hear Puccini's three strongly contrasted one-act operas as they were intended - in a triple bill.
(sung in Italian: records) Part 1: 11 Tabarro
Libretto by ADAMI after a play by DIDIER GOLD
High drama, love and violent death in a picturesque setting on the Seine under the shadow of Notre Dame.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ROME OPERA HOUSE conducted by VINCENZO BELLEZZA
3.50* Interval Reading
4.0* II Trittico
Part 2: Suor Angelica
Libretto by GIOVACCHINO FORZANO Set in a convent at the end of the 17th century, the story is of a mother's love for her illegitimate child, from whom she has been separated almost since its birth. News that this child has died means there is only one way the two of them can be reunited.
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
TilE ROME OPERA HOUSE conducted by TULLIO SERAFIN
5.0* Interval Reading
5.19* II Trittico
Part 3: Gianni Schlcchi
Libretto by GIOVACCHINO FORZANO Puccini's comic masterpiece - set in Florence in 1299. Gianni Schicchi is called in by the avaricious relatives of the deceased Buoso Donati to help sort out a little problem over his will. But Schicchi has his own ideas.
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROME OPERA HOUSE conducted by GABRIELE SANTINI

R. A. Hodgkin. Lecturer at the Department of Educational Studies. Oxford University, challenges the assumption that all secondary education should take place in schools and between the ages of 12 and 18. followed by an interlude

First of five broadcasts to include his symphonies and Concerto for orchestra played by the BBC symphony orchestra, here conducted by ANTAL DORATI Symphony No 1 (1952-3) gramophone record

David Pownall introduces Music to Murder By and explains why he had to write iti BBC Manchester

byDAVIDPOWNALL
With music by Gesualdo. Peter Warlock and Stephen Boxer
The Paines Plough production of a musical rewriting of the lives of two composers, Carlo Gesualdo. an Italian Prince, contemporary of Shakespeare. who composed motets and madrigals from the death of his first wife in 1590 to his own death in 1613; and Philip Hesel tine, alias Peter Warlock , born 1894, who committed suicide in 1930 after a career as music critic and composer.

Third of seven programmes In which all of Messiaen's music for piano will be played.
JEAN-RODOLPHE KARS (piano)
Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. Part 1 (1-10)
10.0* Robert Sherlaw Johnson , who introduces the series, discusses the Vingt Regards and Messiaen's use of religious symbolism.
10.20*
Messiaen Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. Part 2 (11-20)