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Elgar Symphonic Prelude: Polonia: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.17* Stephen Dodgson Guitar Concerto No JOHN WILLIAMS
ENGLISH CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
7.40* Sullivan ' My gallant crew. good morning ... I am the captain of the " Pinafore " ' (HMS Pinafore)
JEFFREY SKITCH (baritone) D'OYLY CARTE OPERA CHORUS NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Of LONDON, conducted by ISIDORE GODFREY
7.41* Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dancei LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSES
8.0 News
8.5 Overture (continued) Berlioz Overture: Les francs-juges
CHICAGO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
1.16* Chopin Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat. Op 22 CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ELIAHU INBAL
8.32* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hungaria
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINE : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Guitar:
Stephen Dodgson
Unknown:
John Williams
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Baritone:
Jeffrey Skitch
Conducted By:
Isidore Godfrey
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti
Conducted By:
Grande Polonaise
Piano:
Claudio Arrau
Conducted By:
Eliahu Inbal
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitine

Songs
PETER SAVIDGE (baritone) STEUART BEDFORD (piano)
SeaFever;TheBellsof San Marie; Song-cycle: Marigold; If there were dreams to sell; Love and friendship: When I am dead; Santa Chiara: The Salley Gardens; Great Things
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Baritone:
Peter Savidge
Piano:
Steuart Bedford

BBC NORTHERN SINGIRS conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON
Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV 229)
Furchte dlch nicht (BWV 228)
Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachmheit auf (BWV 226)
(Part of a public concert given in the Guildhall. Bath, during the Bath Festival 1979)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Stephen Wilkinson

On the 394th anniversary of Thomas Tallis 's death Christopher Hogwood presents Byrd's Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis together with Tallis's largest-scale composition, the 40-part motet Spem in alium and part of the Lamentation of Jeremiah. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis

Presented by Jack Brymer Vivaldi and Haydn ITZHAK PERLMAN directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA in Summer, Autumn and Winter from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, and JAMES WATSON is the soloist in Haydn't Trumpet Concerto in a flat, with the BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader
CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Series producer RICHARD GRAVES BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer
Unknown:
Haydn Itzhak Perlman
Unknown:
James Watson
Unknown:
Christopher Warren-Green
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson
Producer:
Richard Graves

Opera in four acts
Musicby Dmitri Shostakovich
Libretto by PREIS and THE COMPOSER after LESKOV
(sung in Russian: records)
The highly acclaimed new recording of Shostakovich's second opera in its original version, banned by Stalin in 1936 and better known, until this recording, in its 1963 revision Katerina Ismailova. It concerns a married woman, rich but bored and lonely, who commits murder twice for the sake of her lover, but is eventually driven to suicide because of his infidelity.
Katerina Ismailova
CALINA VISHNEVSKAYA
(soprano)
Boris Timofeyevich. her father-in-law
DIMITER PETKOV (bass)
Zinovy Borisovich , Katerina's husband
WERNER KRENN (tenor)
Sergei, a newly-hired workman, later Katerina's lover
NICOLAI GEDDA aenor)
Shabby peasant
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
Aksinya, a servant girl
TARU VALJAKKA (soprano)
Teacher
MARTYN HILL (tenor)
Priest
LEONARD MROZ (bass)
Police sergeant
AAGE HAUGLAND (bass)
Sonyetka, a young female convict
BIRGIT FINNIL Ä (soprano)
SOLOISTS
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS LONDON PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by MSTISLAV ROSTBOPOVICH Act 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Musicby Dmitri Shostakovich
Unknown:
Katerina Ismailova.
Unknown:
Katerina Ismailova
Soprano:
Calina Vishnevskaya
Soprano:
Boris Timofeyevich.
Bass:
Zinovy Borisovich
Unknown:
Nicolai Gedda
Bass:
Leonard Mroz
Soprano:
Birgit Finnil
Conducted By:
Mstislav Rostbopovich

I think they were about as high
As haycocks are. They went running by . Touching bits of shade in the sunny street:
I've got one ' cried sister to brother,
I've got two ' ' Now I ve' got another '
But scudding away on their little bore feet.
They left the shade in the sunny street
Compiled and narrated by Patric Dickinson
Reader ELIZABETH BELL Producer
SHAUN MACLOuGHLIN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Reader:
Patric Dickinson
Reader:
Elizabeth Bell
Unknown:
Shaun MacLoughlin

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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