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Walton Comedy Overture? Scapino
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.13* Britten Prelude and Fugue for 18-part String Orchestra, Op 29
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.22* Elgar Harmony Music 4 ATHENA ENSEMBLE
8.34* Bliss Ballet Suite: Check-mate: SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Charles

Messiaen Des canyons aux étoiles: Les ressuscités et le chant de l'étoile Aldébaran
YVONNE LORIOD (piano)
GEORGES BARBOTEU (horn) ALAIN JACQUET (xvlorimba)
FRANÇOIS DUPIN i glockenspiel) ARS NOVA ENSEMBLE conducted by MARIUS CONSTANT
9.15* Et exspecto resurrection-em mortuorum
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by SERGE BAUDO gramophone records
(More Messiaen at 12.20 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Messiaen Des
Piano:
Yvonne Loriod
Horn:
Georges Barboteu
Horn:
Alain Jacquet
Conducted By:
Marius Constant
Conducted By:
Serge Baudo

CYNTHIA BUCHAN (mezzo-soprano) ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano) ANTONY PEEBLES (piano)
Brahms Intermezzi : B minor, Op 119 No 1: E, Op 116 No 6 Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole
Poulenc Chanson d'Orkenise: Sanglots; C'est le joli printemps; Les gars qui vont a la fete
(Part of a recital first broadcast in 1975)

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Cynthia Buchan
Piano:
Brahms Intermezzi

with Josephine Nendick (mezzo-sop) directed by Edward Harper
Edward Harper Quintet (1974) Thomas Wilson One Foot to Eden (first performance)
Margaret Lucy Wilkins Ave Maria. BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Josephine Nendick
Directed By:
Edward Harper
Directed By:
Edward Harper
Unknown:
Thomas Wilson
Unknown:
Margaret Lucy Wilkins Ave

(The Unceasing)
An oratorio by Paul Hindemith EDITH MATHIS (soprano) josef HOPFERWIESER (tenor) DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone and bass) CHOIR AND BOYS OF
ST HEDWIG'S CATHEDRAL
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Recording from last year's Berlin Festival made available by courtesy of RIAS Berlin)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Hindemith
Soprano:
Edith Mathis
Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

The Vocational Muse
Musical results of holidays are featured by Christopher Hog-wood in today's programme of record requests from the under-20s to mark the end of freedom from the academic routine: Schubert's ' Grand duo Sonata ' (on holiday in Hungary), Barber's Cello Sonata, Op 6 (on holiday in the Alps), Charles Ives ' recollections of Decoration Day in Connecticut (with two rival brass bands playing simultaneously!) and the work Ravel left behind in a shop when about to leave on a yachting trip ... To quote Antony Holborne - Heigh Ho, Holiday.
(The Academic Muset

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Ives
Unknown:
Antony Holborne

medium only
Leisure and Recreation
6.30 Music in Principle
Ten programmes looking at common ground shared by many styles of music. 7: What a Performance !
STEVE RACE takes a look at the performer's role in Interpreting and perhaps improving on the composer's work.
7.0 Local Arts
Who are the arts for? And how responsive are they to local needs and interests? Six visits to representative regional centres in England, 3:
Telford ALBERT HUNT , Senior Lecturer in Community Studies at Brad-ford College, explores provision for arts and entertainment in a new town in Shropshire and challenges assumptions about what people want.

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Telford Albert Hunt

direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Gillian Weir (organ) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar Delius Paris: the song of a great city
Justin Connolly Diaphony for organ and orchestra (BBC commission: first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Gillian Weir
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Justin Connolly Diaphony

The inheritance of intelligence is a matter of continuing controversy. Mary Midgley , Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, asks: is any belief in inherited tendencies inseparable from Fascism and Racism. and all talk of innateness offensive to human dignity and incompatible with freedom and equality?

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Midgley

MARTYN HILL (tenor)
JAMES WALKER (piano)
Reynaldo Hahn Dune prison; Paysage; L'heure exquise; Le rossignol des lilas; Si mes vers avaient des ailes; Mai
Jules Massenet Stances; Nuit despagne; Chant provencal; Serenade du passant; Serenade d'automne
Gabriel Fauré Au bord de l'eau; S.ylvie; Clair de lune; Chanson d'amour; Après un reve. BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Reynaldo Hahn

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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