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Listeners' record requests Suppe Overture: Pique Dame
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL PARAY
9.13* Weber Ocean, thou mighty monster (Oberon) JOAN SUTHERLAND (SOp)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
9.22* Grieg Holberg Suite, Op 40 (piano version) WALTER KLIEN
9.42* Tchaikovsky Suite No 3, in G, Op 55
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS

Contributors

Conducted By:
Paul Paray
Unknown:
Joan Sutherland
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Grieg Holberg
Unknown:
Walter Klien
Conducted By:
Michael Tilson Thomas

A magazine programme about this year's Proms. Going authentic - JOHN ELIOT
GARDINER on a new departure for his Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra.
Schumann and Faust: a case of mistaken selfidentiScation?
Profile: the National Youth Orchestra.
DAVID WOOLDRIDGE On his new songs for Heather Harper.
Presented by Jeremy Siepmana

Contributors

Unknown:
John Eliot
Unknown:
David Wooldridge
Unknown:
Heather Harper.
Presented By:
Jeremy Siepmana

3: Equal Voice Clou (1)
Poland: MEN'S CHOIR or POZNAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY; United Kingdom: READING PHOENIX LADIES' CHOIR; West Germany: ST MARTIN MALI VOICI CHOIR OF KASSEL; Norway: KIRKEVOLD KANTORI Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
(Organised by the BBC <n association with the SBU)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Keeffe

An opera based on GOGOL'S short story. Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Words by Y. PREIS (sung in the English translation by EDWARD DOWNES)
The New Opera Company production with the composer's son, Maxim, making his theatrical debut.
With GRAEME MATHESON-BRUCE. EDMUND BARHAM, MICHAEL BURCH, JUSTIN LAVENDER, NEVILLE WILLIAMS, PETER BAMBER, BRUCE OGSTON, GAVIN WALTON, GRAHAM TITUS, PETER SAVIDGE, JOHN KITCHINER , PAUL WILSON, ROBERT CARPENTER-TURNER, FRANK OLEGARIO , RODERICK EARLE
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS, chorus-master KENNETH CLEVELAND assisted by SIMON JOLT
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY COLLINS, conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH
Acts 1 and 2

Contributors

Music By:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Unknown:
Y. Preis
Unknown:
Graeme Matheson
Unknown:
Michael Burch
Unknown:
Justin Lavender
Unknown:
Neville Williams
Unknown:
Peter Bamber
Unknown:
Gavin Walton
Unknown:
Peter Savidge
Unknown:
John Kitchiner
Unknown:
Paul Wilson
Unknown:
Robert Carpenter
Unknown:
Frank Olegario
Unknown:
Roderick Earle
Assisted By:
Simon Jolt
Leader:
Barry Collins
Conducted By:
Maxim Shostakovich

An anthology of poems by Ogden Nash
Specially devised for radio by PETER GALE with Elaine Strltch Blain Fairman and Paul Maxwell
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Ogden Nash
Unknown:
Peter Gale
Unknown:
Elaine Strltch
Unknown:
Blain Fairman
Unknown:
Paul Maxwell
Producer:
Michael Rolfe

CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET Mozart Quartet in a minor (K 421)
Prokofiev Quartet No 2
6.15* Interval Beading
6.20* Concert Part 2 Mozart
Quartet in E fiat (K 428)
(A Kettle's Yard concert given in the Concert Hall of the New Music School, Cambridge, in February) BBC Birmingham

Tchaikovsky Overture-fantasy: Hamlet
STADIUM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of NEW YORK, conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
Sullivan Incidental Music to The Merchant of Venice CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN
Shostakovich Incidental Music to Hamlet: NATIONAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ! conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leopold Stokowski
Conducted By:
Sir Vivian Dunn
Conducted By:
Shostakovich Incidental
Conducted By:
Bernard Herrmann

A study of the conse- quences for Italy of the struggle to impose Tuscan as the national lan- guage on a population of whom, when the country was finally unified in 1861, 97 per cent spoke only some other dialect.
Written and presented by Jonathan Steinberg , with recordings made throughout Italy. Producer STAN-LEY WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Jonathan Steinberg

BBC Radio 3

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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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