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Weber Overture: Ruler of the Spirits: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.10* Beethoven Violin Sonata in F (Spring)
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
7.29* Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Conducted By:
Claudio Abbado

Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
8.12* Gluck Ballet: Don Juan (Act 3): ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.34* Tchaikovsky Don Juan 's Serenade: ROBERT TEAR (tenor) PHILIP LEDGER (piano)
8.37* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan : BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BOHM : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Conducted By:
Leopold Stokowski
Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Directed By:
Tchaikovsky Don Juan
Unknown:
Don Juan
Conducted By:
Karl Bohm

led by JÜRGEN HESS conducted by ERICH SCHMID ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano)
Rossini Overture: Tancredi Kodaly Summer evening
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G
BBC Bristol followed by an interlude on VHF

Contributors

Conducted By:
Erich Schmid
Piano:
Anthony Goldstone
Unknown:
Tancredi Kodaly

Test Match Special England v Australia at The Oval (Final day)
Commentary by JOHN ARLOTT , BRIAN JOHNSTON
DON MOSEY and ALAN MCGILVRAY
Comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY and FRED TRUEMAN with close-of-play summary by TONY LEWIS
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
10.55-1.35* inc lunch summary
1.35*-1.40* News
1.40*-2.0* The Arts Worldwide
2.0*-2.10* Lunchtime Scoreboard
2.10*-4.20*; 4.35*-6.30 inc tea and close-of-play summaries

Contributors

Commentary By:
John Arlott
Commentary By:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Don Mosey
Unknown:
Alan McGilvray
Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Unknown:
Fred Trueman
Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Bill Frindall

Direct from Leith Theatre, Edinburgh Jessye Norman (soprano) Dalton Baldwin (piano) Handel E pur cosi in un giorno; Piangero la sorte mia (Giulio Cesare) Strauss Einerlei; Lob des Leidens; Seitdem dein Aug'; Mit deinen blauen Augen; Cacilie Schubert Ganymed; Wanderers Nachtlied II; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Auf dem See
11.40* Festival Comment ... in which performers, critics and personalities in Edinburgh this week have their say about the Festival. Presented by ELAINE PADMORE
11.55* Festival Part 2 Poulenc Voyage a Paris; Montparnasse; La grenouilliere; Valse chantée: Les chemins d'amour Gounod OÙ voulez-vous allez?; Mignon; Sérénade Debussy Beau soir; Mandoline; Air de Lia (L'enfant prodigue) BBC Scotland followed by an interlude

Contributors

Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Presented By:
Elaine Padmore

Norfolk and Norwich Music Club GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Part 1 Haydn Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2 Alwyn String Quartet No 2 (first broadcast performance: commissioned for this 25th anniversary concert)
2.50* Before one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces, TOM CROWE reads a new translation of the speech which the Austrian poet Franz Grillparzer delivered at the composer's graveside.
3.0* Concert Club Part 2 Beethoven Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Crowe
Unknown:
Franz Grillparzer

Work and Training
6.30 The Fifth Estate
Te,n programmes on trade unions in Britain.
7: Without the Law
Attempts to control union activity by legislation have failed. But is trade union power a real threat, and are we now evolving new ways of containing it? Presented by JOHN TUSA
7.0 Teaching Languages
A series offering guidance and suggestions to teachers of foreign languages.-
5: What Shall We Do with the Language Labf
PROFESSOR ERIC HAWKINS , BRIAN PAGE and DAVID SMITH discuss the use of the language lab and other teaching aids.
Book, £1.85 from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Professor Eric Hawkins
Unknown:
David Smith

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Han de Vries (oboe)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Goren, conducted by Norman Del Mar

Schoenberg Transfigured Night

Strauss Concerto for oboe and small orchestra

Contributors

Oboist:
Han de Vries
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Eli Goren
Conductor:
Norman Del Mar

In the last of a series of three programmes, Sir John Gielgud reads from the reminiscences Disraeli wrote down in the first half of the 1860s. Not yet Prime Minister for the first time, he could look back upon 40 years of striving for literary and political success and social acceptance.
Introduced by Lord Blake , who also made the selection.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Gielgud
Introduced By:
Lord Blake
Producer:
John Knight

The Abortion Amendment Bill ran out of Parliamentary time last month. The Bill was the latest attempt to change the 1967 law and the likelihood is that MPs will find themselves considering similar proposals in the new Session this autumn. Bernard Williams , Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, explores some moral and philosophical views arising from the question of abortion.
BBC Manchester followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Williams

Arnolfini Music
GEMINI
Kathryn Lukas (flute) Ian Mitchell (clarinet)
David Takeno (violin and viola) Marilyn Sansom (cello)
Steve Saunders (percussion) directed by PETER WIEGOLD
Dufay, arr John Hopkins Se la face ay pale (first broadcast performance)
John Hopkins Stone Circle (first broadcast performance)
David Lumsdaine Mandala II
(Part of a public concert recorded at the Arnolfini Galleries, Bristol, on 6 May) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Flute:
Kathryn Lukas
Clarinet:
Ian Mitchell
Violin:
David Takeno
Cello:
Marilyn Sansom
Cello:
Steve Saunders
Directed By:
Peter Wiegold
Unknown:
John Hopkins
Unknown:
David Lumsdaine Mandala

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