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Prokofiev March and Scherzo (The Love of Three Oranges) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.9* Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella: LONDON MOZART PLAYERS conducted by YUVAL ZALIOUK
7.22Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Conducted By:
Yuval Zaliouk
Piano:
Paganini Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conducted By:
Andre Previn

Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS
8.15* Paganini Violin Concerto No 2. in B minor
SALVATORE ACCARDO
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARGES DUTOIT
8.46' Liszt Mephisto Waltz No I THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Charges Dutoit
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

Samuel Barber
Suite: Medea. Op 23
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF
LONDON conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.30* Andromache's Farewell, Op MARTINA ARROYO (soprano) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
9.42* Piano Sonata. Op 26 (mono): VLADIMIR HOROWITZ gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Barber
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers
Unknown:
Vladimir Horowitz

direct from the Library Theatre Cécile Ousset (piano)
Chopin Ballade No 4, in r minor; Nocturne in D flat: Etudes, Op 10 Nos 4, 8 and 12 Ravel Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
Fauri Nocturne No 6. in D flat
Saint-Saens Etude en forme de valse
(The first of twelve concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in association with the BBC) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Piano:
Chopin Ballade

Comic opera in two acts
Words by LORENZO DA PONTE Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
'The man who founds his hopes on the heart of a woman might as well seek to plough the sea. sow seeds in gravel, or hope to catch the wandering wind in a net.'
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BAVARIAN STATE OPERA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Bavarian Radio recording of a performance at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, last February) Act 1
3.25* In Short
Donald Mitchell discusses the significance of the quotations in Act 2 of Cosi fan tutte.
3.35* Cost fan tutle. Act 2

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Last of four programmes Including all the sonatas printed as Opus I in the 1879 Handel Complete Edition by Chrysander, performed in the majority of cases on original instruments.
Today, Sonatas in c minor, Op 1 No 8 (BRUCE HAYNES , 18th century oboe by Thomas Stanesby , Junior); in G minor, Op 1 No 10 (EDUARD MELKUS. with accompaniment of organ, cello, and lute); in F, On 1 No 11 (DAVID munrow, treble recorder by Pierre Bressan ): in A, Op 1 No 14 (EDUARD MELKUS, baroque violin) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Haynes
Unknown:
Thomas Stanesby
Unknown:
Eduard Melkus.
Unknown:
Pierre Bressan

medium only
Presented by Jack Brymer The Sound of the Flute
JAMES GALWAY is Soloist with the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by TIMOTHY REYNISH
Mozart Flute Concerto in D (it 314) Delibes Ballet Suite: Sylvia
Poulenc, orch Lennox Berkeley Sonata for flute
(From a concert given at the Guildhall, London last year) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer
Conducted By:
Timothy Reynish

(Die Dreigroschcnoper)
A play with music in a Prologue and Three Acts, after The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
Words by Bertolt Brecht
Music by Kurt Weill
English translation by RALPH MANHEIM and JOHN WILLETT

Brecht and Weill wrote their updated version of The Beggar's Opera in 1928 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Gay's original. Now, 50 years on the BBC marks the birth of this most famous product of their collaboration.

Starring in alphabetical order: Sarah Badel, Paul Bentley, Harold Kasket, Julia McKenzie, Johanna Peters, Peter Pratt, Jan Waters
Polly's songs sung by ELAINE PADMORE
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by MARCUS DODS coach NEIL RHODEN
Technical presentation PETER NOVIS, MARTIN PAGE, PETER SIDHOM.
Produced and directed by IAN COTTERELL and ELAINE PADMORE.

(Julia McKenzie is in 'Ten Times Table' at the Globe Theatre, London)

Act 1
8.25* Interval Reading
8.30* The Threepenny Opera Act 2
9.25* Interval Reading
9.30* The Threepenny Opera Act 3

Contributors

Words:
Bertolt Brecht
Music:
Kurt Weill
Translation by:
Ralph Manheim
Translation by:
John Willett
Additional singing by:
Elaine Padmore
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Unknown:
Neil Rhoden
Technical presentation:
Peter Novis
Technical presentation:
Martin Page
Technical presentation:
Peter Sidhom
Produced and directed by:
Ian Cotterell
Produced and directed by:
Elaine Padmore
Narrator:
John Hollis
Ballad Singer:
Roderick Horn
Mr Peachum:
Harold Kasket
Filch:
Andrew Branch
Mrs Peachum:
Johanna Peters
Matthew:
John Hollis
Macheath:
Paul Bentley
Polly Peachum:
Sarah Badel
Jake:
Bill Monks
Bob:
Roy Spencer
Ned:
Manning Wilson
Jimmy:
Roderick Horn
Rev Kimball:
Peter Williams
Tiger Brown:
Peter Pratt
Low-Dive Jenny:
Julia McKenzie
Vixen:
Heather Bell
Vixen:
Sarah Badel
Betty:
Rachel Cook
Old Whore:
Hilda Kriseman
Smith:
Roderick Horn
Lucy Brown:
Jan Waters

Last of three programmes in which Geoffrey Skelton examines the genesis of The Ring. Tonight he recounts the developments which led up to the first performance of The Ring at Bavreuth in 1876. with Marius Goring as Wagner The parts of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Nietzsche Porges Tchaikovsky and others read by WILFRID CARTER
Producer ROBERT LAYTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Skelton
Unknown:
Marius Goring
Read By:
Wilfrid Carter
Producer:
Robert Layton

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