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Vladimir Horowitz has always been a noted exponent of Beethoven, and this morning there's a chance to hear his performance of the Appassionata Sonata, together with music by a contemporary of Beethoven, for whose rediscovery Horowitz was partly responsible - Muzio Clementi. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Horowitz
Unknown:
Muzio Clementi.

Vivaldi Dixit Dominus
KARLA SCHLEAN (soprano) ADELE BONAY (contralto) UGO BENELLI (tenor) GASTONE SARTI (baSS)
VIENNA CHAMBER CHOIR, VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA, CondUCted by ANGELO EPHRIKIAN
9.44* Schumann Soireestucke , Op 73: ALAN HACKER (clarinet) Richard BURNETT (fortepiano)
9.55* Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart. Op 132: SAXON STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ BONGARTZ gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivaldi Dixit Dominus
Soprano:
Karla Schlean
Contralto:
Adele Bonay
Tenor:
Ugo Benelli
Bass:
Gastone Sarti
Unknown:
Angelo Ephrikian
Unknown:
Schumann Soireestucke
Clarinet:
Richard Burnett
Conducted By:
Heinz Bongartz

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Paul Abraham Dukas : a rigorous self-critic by JAMES HARDING. A conversation with ROGER SMALLEY.
The strange case of John Bull: from a talk recorded in 1961, THURSTON DART investigates.
Producer CHRISTINE: HARDWICK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Introduced By:
Paul Abraham Dukas
Unknown:
James Harding.
Unknown:
Roger Smalley.

Zoltan Kocsis (piano) Alan Hacker (clarinet)
Scottish National Orchestra, leader Edwin Paling, conductor Sir Alexander Gibson

Haydn Symphony No 86, in D

Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat

(Stereo & Quad)

Contributors

Pianist:
Zoltan Kocsis
Clarinettist:
Alan Hacker
Musicians:
Scottish National Orchestra
Leader:
Edwin Paling
Conductor:
Sir Alexander Gibson

Opera in two parts. Libretto by METASTASIO. Music by Haydn (sung in Italian)
Fourth in a series of Haydn operas presented by the European Broadcasting Union.
Like Ariadne, Costanza believes herself abandoned on a desert island. With her is her little sister Silvia who, like Miranda in The Tempest, knows nothing of young men. Then one day a boat arrives.
LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Producer ERIK SMITH.
Part 1

Contributors

Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Producer:
Erik Smith

In the third programme from the 1977 iNESco International Rostrum uf Composers, two West European re-interpretations of symphonic form, and between them an unusual Finnish work conceived specially for radio.
Wolfgang Rihm Symphony No 2 BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted bVHIROSHI WAKASUGI RIAS Berlin recording) Paave Heininen Maiandros : tape composition based on the composer's own piano playing (Finnish Radio recording)
Rudolf Kelterborn Espansioni : Symphony No 3, for orchestra, baritone and tape
KURT WIDMER (baritone)
BASLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MOSHE ATZMON (Swiss Radio recording)
(first broadcasts in this country)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wolfgang Rihm
Unknown:
Paave Heininen Maiandros
Unknown:
Rudolf Kelterborn Espansioni
Baritone:
Kurt Widmer
Conducted By:
Moshe Atzmon

' There can be no philosopher who is of more professional interest to people working in other fields. Many distinguished scientists have found something they can recognise and profit from.'
At the age of 76, Sir Karl Popper with Sir John Eceles , has published a new book. Anthony Quintan. Fellow of New College. Oxford assesses The Self and its Brain and its relation to the bulk of Popper's work.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Karl Popper
Unknown:
Sir John Eceles
Unknown:
Anthony Quintan.

by John Cannon , Professor of Modern History in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The 1760s saw the appearance of a series of anonymous and vitriolic attacks upon the leading public figures of the day. under the pseudonym of Junius. Despite many attempts, the authorship of these letters has never been conclusively established and remains one of the great literary and historical puzzles. Professor Cannon, who is preparing a new edition of the Letters of Junius attempts to solve the mystery. Readers HUGH BURDEN and BRIAN HEWLETT
Producer ADRIAN JOHNSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cannon
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Producer:
Adrian Johnson

Szymanowski Two Dances from the ballet Harnasie
Lutoslawski Jeux vénitiens
Penderecki De natura sonoris I Moniuszko Mazurka from the opera Straszny Dw6r
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by ASHLEY ARBUCKLE conducted by JAN KRENZ
(Part of a studio concert on the occasion of Radio 3's Polish Evening in October 1974)

Contributors

Unknown:
Moniuszko Mazurka
Conducted By:
Jan Krenz

Emigres by SLAWOMIR MROZEK translated by TERESA AND MACIEJ WRONA. With ROBERT HOLMAN
Two East Europeans - one an immigrant worker and the other an ' intellectual ' - with diametrically opposed backgrounds and opinions, live together in a basement flat in a West European city. What keeps them together and why do they never return home?
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Slawomir Mrozek
Unknown:
Robert Holman
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
AA:
Jim Norton
XX:
Nigel Anthony

leader NONA LIDDELL conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
with Walter Trampler (viola) Paul Crossley (piano) John Morton (ondes martenot) London Sinfonietta Chorus

Part 1
Mozart Serenade In E flat (I 375)
Simon Bainbridge Viola Concerto (first performance)

Contributors

Leader:
Nona Liddell
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Violaist:
Walter Trampler
Pianist:
Paul Crossley
Ondes martenot player:
John Morton

Richard Hiilsenbeck , co-founder of the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich 1916), interviewed by BASIL TAYLOR. A shortened version of the programme first broadcast in the Third Programme in 1959. Introduced by Dawn Ades. author of the catalogue to the Arts Council Exhibition Dada and Surrealism Reviewed at present at the Hayward. Gallery, London.
The second of three programmes in Which participants in Dada and Surrealism recall their states of mind in the years during and after World War 1.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hiilsenbeck
Unknown:
Basil Taylor.
Introduced By:
Dawn Ades.

died 1928
A historic recording made in 1954 by a conductor whose name is linked with several of Janacek's scores.
Rhapsody: Taras Bulba
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV TALICH gramophone record

Contributors

Conducted By:
Vaclav Talich

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