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Schubert Overture in E minor LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD

8.12* Monteverdi Madrigals: O mio bene: Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti: NIGEL ROGERS (tenor), IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE directed by JURGEN JURGENS

8.22* Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano (from Mozart's Don Giovanni) CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ELIAHU INBAL

8.42* Ravel Bolero: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI

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The Bach Family
Johann Christoph Friedrlch Bach Symphony No 6, in c COLOGNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, COnducted by HELMUT MÜLUR-BRÜHL Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach Trio in G, for two flutes and viola: JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, EU-GENIA ZUKERMAN. PINCHAS ZUKSR -MAN: gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Christoph Friedrlch
Unknown:
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach
Unknown:
Genia Zukerman.
Unknown:
Pinchas Zuksr

Thirty radio stations from 13 European countries where folk music is still a living force entered recordings for this international contest. In connection with the contest, a gala concert of folk and traditional music was held and the last two programmes in the series are of highlights from that concert.
(Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio) (Final programme : Next Fri)

A programme of some of the early songs of the prolific American composer, critic and diarist, sung by Margaret Cable (mezzo-soprano) accompanied by The Composer, and introduced by him in conversation with Anthony Burton Poemes Dour la paix (1953)
Love (1953)
Echo's Song (1948)
Five Poems of Walt Whitman (1946/57)

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Contributors

Mezzo-soprano:
Margaret Cable
Accompanist/Interviewee:
Ned Rorem
Interviewer:
Anthony Burton

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Presented by Jack Brymer
A Toscanini Concert Reconstructed.
On 26 July 1952, the following concert by the NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA under Maestro Toscanini at Carnegie Hall was broadcast across the USA. Thomas Overture: Mignon Lyadov Kikimora
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Ponchielli Dance of the Hours
Sibelius Finlandia
Three days after the concert Toscanini performed these pieces in Carnegie Hall for the gramophone recordings included in this reconstruction.
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer

A selection from Rainer Maria Rilke's letters to a young poet compiled by Mary Benson
with John Carson as Rilke
Narrated by Dinah Sheridan
and with Robin Soans as Franz Cappus

This is the first of two programmes based on Rainer Maria Rilke's letters.

Rainer Maria Rilke created a world of inwardness and was a fascinating and generous letter writer. To a young poet he wrote about poetry, criticism, nature and the need for solitude, about women and childhood.

Contributors

Compiled by:
Mary Benson
Directed By:
Christopher Venning
Rilke:
John Carson
Narrator:
Dinah Sheridan
Franz Cappus:
Robin Soans

This year marks the 1.200th anniversary of the battle of Roncevaux, which Is at the heart of the French medieval epic, the Chanson de Roland. A number of mysteries surround the event of 15 August 778. One of the most fascinating questions is whether Roland was In fact present - or even existed. Wolfgang van Emden. Professor of French at Reading University and Chairman of the British Branch of the Société Rencesvals. throws fresh light on this puzzle.
Readings from the Song of Roland by GARY BOND Oliphant blown by MICHAEL LAIRD
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (Rpe

Contributors

Unknown:
Gary Bond
Unknown:
Michael Laird
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

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