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PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Victor Herbert (died 26 May 1924) Pan Americana (mono)
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1, in F sharp minor
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT
Rimsky-Korsakov Spanish Caprice gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Victor Herbert

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, by CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON. Beecham centenary records reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMIAN.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Christopher Headington.
Reviewed By:
Felix Aprahamian.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp) HAROLD LESTER (harpsichord)
HOWARD SHELLEY (pianO) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
Martin Petite symphonie concertante, for harp. harpsichord, piano and double string orchestra
Dvorak Legends: No 5, in A flat major; No 6, in c sharp minor; No 9, in D major; No 7, in A major

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Harold Lester
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Sir Charles MacKerras
Conducted By:
Martin Petite

C.V. Wedgwood, OM, historian of the Thirty Years War and biographer of, among others, Oliver Cromwell and William the Silent, declares that her ambition 'was from the first to be a writer, and I had settled for history by the time I was 12'.

Music has always been a recreation, and,this afternoon her selection includes music by Vaughan Williams, with whom she once used to plant spring flowers, and Yvonne Printemps singing an aria from Reynaldo Hahn's operetta, Mozart

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Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Veronica Wedgwood
Unknown:
C. V. Wedgwood
Unknown:
Oliver Cromwell
Music By:
Vaughan Williams
Music By:
Yvonne Prin
Unknown:
Reynaldo Hahn

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
This week: Richard Cork (in the Chair) talks with Barbara Bray. Peter Porter and Clancy Sigal
Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Barbara Bray.
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Clancy Sigal
Producer:
Patricia Brent

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. In this month's programme, recorded for the Cambridge University Classical Guitar Society, Sergio Abreu plays works by Bach, Purcell and Manuel Ponce , and gives the first broadcast performance of Tom Eastwood 's Romance d'Histoire and Plainte.
Introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT
Producer GARETH WALTERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Sergio Abreu
Unknown:
Manuel Ponce
Unknown:
Tom Eastwood
Introduced By:
Michael Jessett
Producer:
Gareth Walters

direct from the Town Hall for the Leeds Musical Festival 1979
Helen Attfield (contralto) Philip Langridge (tenor) Neil Howlett (baritone) Christopher Underwood (baritone)
Leeds Festival Chorus chorus-master SIMON WRIGHT
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by Norman Del Mar Part 1 arr Britten National Anthem
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Mendelssohn The First Walpurgis Night

Contributors

Contralto:
Helen Attfield
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Baritone:
Neil Howlett
Baritone:
Christopher Underwood
Chorus-Master:
Simon Wright
Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar

Throughout the 1970s, BILL BRUFORD has built a reputation as one of the most adventurous and skilful of rock drummers and composers. Now, leading his own band, he has produced one of the year's outstanding instrumental albums, from which Derek Jewell plays extensively tonight. Songs of very different kinds come from MAGAZINE, ART GARFUNKEL and SUNNY: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Bruford
Unknown:
Derek Jewell

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