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Handel, arr Beecham Suite: The Gods go a'begging
ROYAL FHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.24* Purcell Of all the Instruments: DELLER CONSORT
7.26. Arnold Concerto for Bute and string orchestra: JOHN SOLUM , PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE dilkes
7.38* Stanford The Blue Bird
PENELOPE WALMSLEY-CLARK (SOP) RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS
7.42* Williamson Music from The Display: SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by john hopkins: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
John Solum
Conducted By:
Neville Dilkes
Singers:
Richard Hickox

Haydn Symphony No 82, In c (The Bear)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL barenboih
8.32. Saint-Saens, arr Godowsky The Swan
SHURA CHERKJISSKY (plaHO)
8.36. Tchaikovsky Battle Scene of the Mice and Waltz of the Snowflakes (Act 1: The Nut-cracker) : MEMBERS OF THE AMBRO-SIAN SINGERS, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by andri previn: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboih

The Bach Family
Johann Ludwig Bach Suite in G: ENGLISH CHAMBERORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto in D minor (BWV 1063)
RAYMOND LEFPARD, ANDREW DAVIS PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichords) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Fantasy in c: CHRISTOPHER hogwood (fortepiano)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Concerto in F minor, for harpsichord and string orchestra
RAYMOND LEPPARD, INGLIS. CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Unknown:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Unknown:
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Records featuring the French cellist Pierre Fournier , who was born in 1907. He was for a time Professor of Cello at the Paris Conservatoire, but then relinquished the post to pursue an international career as a soloist.
Martinu Sonata No 1 with JEAN FONDA (piano)
3.22*MendelssohnRomance sans paroles with the Paris CONCERT ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-MARIE AUBERSON
3.27* Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1, in A minor
With the LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN martinon

Contributors

Unknown:
Pierre Fournier
Piano:
Jean Fonda
Conducted By:
Jean-Marie Auberson
Conducted By:
Jean Martinon

direct from Covent Garde. Die WalkUre
A music-drama In three aetJ by Richard Wagner (suns in German)
Siegmund, a Warrior, son of ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, leader JOHN BROWN conducted by COLIN davis. Act 1 The interior of Hunding's hut

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wagner
Leader:
John Brown
Conducted By:
Colin Davis.

Sir Karl Popper examines the development of consciousness. * I regard the emergence of mind as a tremendous event in the evolution of life. Mind illuminates the universe . » the entire range of phenomena connected with the evolution of life and mind. and also the products of the human mind, are illuminated by the great and inspiring idea we owe to Darwin.' (A shortened version of the 1977 Darwin lecture) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Karl Popper

Donald Davie reads Three for Watermusic, his most recent sequence of poems, and explains how the work took shape. ' Passages of poetry had come to me over the past six years. Some of these I have published as self-sufficient poems; others somehow didn't hold up as Independent statements in themselves. Only the three-part structure that I finally came on quite by surprise supplied the context in which they could live together and profit from one another.' BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Davie

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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