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Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending: HUGH BEAN (violin), NEW PHILHARMONIA orchestra, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.20* Philibert de Lavigne Sonata in c for. recorder and continuo
FRANS BRÜGGEN (recorder) ANNER BYLSMA (Cello) GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
7.27* Butterworth Two English Idylls: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.37* Praetorius Dances from Terpsichore
COLLEGIUM TERPSICHORE
7.53* Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.0 News
8.5 Overture (continued) Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.12* Constant Lambert The Rio Grande
CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
JEANTEMPERLEY (meZZO-SOp) LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREV!N
8.27* Sullivan, arr Mackerras Pineapple Poll: Scene 3: ROYAL PHlLHARMONic orchestra, conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
8.48* Ireland Epic March LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Rio Grande
Piano:
Cristina Ortiz
Conducted By:
Sir Charles MacKerras
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

played by George McPhee in Paisley Abbey
Peter Naylor Toccata
Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor (bwv 544)
Samuel Barber Variations on a shape-note hymn (Wondrous Love)
Marcel DuprG Prelude and Fugue in B

Contributors

Played By:
George McPhee
Unknown:
Marcel Duprg Prelude

5: Earl ' Fatha ' Hines
For most of his career, Hines has worked as a solo pianist or as a leader of his own small group, but. as he reminds Charles Fox , he first attracted attention when he played alongside Louis Armstrong in Chicago. He then led a big band for several years before becoming one of Armstrong's All-Stars in 1948. Producer DEREK DRESCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Louis Armstrong
Producer:
Derek Drescher

This week Christopher Hogwood discovers various permutations of The Barber of Seville, beginning with Rossini's original and an alternative by Paisiello. The Barber of Seville then ' goes to the devil ' (Gordon Jacob ) and finally emerges transformed at the hands of Thalberg, Wenzal Sedlak and Ted Heath. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Gordon Jacob
Unknown:
Wenzal Sedlak
Unknown:
Ted Heath.

Presented by Jack Brymer Khachaturian Russian Fantasie
Haydn Notturno No 5, in c Khachaturian Violin Concerto
JEAN-JACQUES KANTOROW BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence

Gillian Widdicombe takes a critical look at the past seven days' music broadcasting on radio, in a week which includes a simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 of Richard Strauss's Arabella, and live relays from the Royal Festival Hall of music by Ravel, Berlioz and Debussy. BBC Manchester

Part of the Stravinsky Festival, in which the LSO and the London Sinfonietta are performing Stravinsky complete orchestral and instrumental works.
Michel Boroff (piano)
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) London Sinfonietta leader NON LIDDELL conducted by David Atherton direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
Monumentum (Gesualdo, arr Stravinsky) Violin Concerto

Contributors

Piano:
Michel Boroff
Violin:
Kyung-Wha Chung
Leader:
Non Liddell
Conducted By:
David Atherton

1: Socialist Transformation and Economic Miracle In the first of four talks Dennis Duncanson , Reader in South-East Asian Studies. University of Kent. Canterbury, who has just made a return visit to countries where he lived and worked for 20 years, reflects on political and social developments in the People's Republic and among the Overseas Communities.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Duncanson

'I think (I hope I'm not deceiving myself) that my intellect is no better and no worse than it has always been, but the simple gift of consigning things to memory seems to be disappearing.'
The retired Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, reflects on Growing Old. followed by an interlude

Second of two programmes including recent pieces commissioned by the BBC
John Casken Amarantos, for nine instruments LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by PETER EOTVOS
Douglas Young Vers d'un voyage vers I'hiver (Apollinaire) (first performance): BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
Oliver Knussen Symphony No 3
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA guest leader PETER THOMAS conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS

Contributors

Conducted By:
Peter Eotvos
Director:
John Poole
Unknown:
Oliver Knussen
Leader:
Peter Thomas
Conducted By:
Michael Tilson Thomas

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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