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Haydn Overture: Armid* LAUSANNE CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.11* Hummel Septet in c (Military)
CONSORTIUM CLASSICUM
7.37* Chopin Berceuse
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
7.42* Smetana Symphonic Poem: Wallenstein's Camp BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Unknown:
Chopin Berceuse
Piano:
Arthur Rubinstein
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

Beethoven Overture: Fidelio: LONDON
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted byANDREW DAVIS
8.12* Moscheles Piano Concerto in G minor MICHAEL PONTI
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by OTHMAR MAGA
8.38* Mozart Symphony No 20, in D (K 133)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BŌHM: records

Contributors

Conducted Byandrew:
Andrew Davis
Conducted By:
Othmar Maga

Bartok
Historic Recordings
The Ideal (Two Portraits, Op 5): JOSEPH SZIGETI (ViOlin), PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by CONSTANT LAMBERT
Piano Concerto No 3
GYORGY SANDOR, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY ed Serly Viola Concerto WILLIAM PRIMROSE
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by TIBOR SERLY gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Constant Lambert
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Tibor Serly

MARJA BON (piano)
Janacek In the Mist
Mendelssohn Songs without Words: E flat, Op 38 No 1; r sharp minor, Op 19 No 5; E minor, Op 102 No 1; r sharp minor. Op 67 No 2; F sharp minor, Op 30 No 6; B minor, Op 30 No 4
Messiaen Le regard du père; Le regard de la vierge; Le regard des prophetes, des bergers et des mages (Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus)
Debussy Mouvement (Imi ages)

The first of a series of three programmes exploring the musical cultures of three regions situated at the crossroads of the east and west.
The programme includes traditional music from the Tatras, part of a Christmas Mass from the 18th century, a pastoral symphony that foreshadowed Beethoven, an excerpt from the first Slovak opera and a Heroic Ballad for string orchestra by Dezider Kardos , dedicated to the Slovak Uprising: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Dezider Kardos

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One of a fortnightly series of concerts, given before an invited audience, direct from the Broadcasting Centre. Birmingham Lindsay String Quartet Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Part 1 Tippett Quartet No 4

Contributors

Violin:
Peter Cropper
Violin:
Ronald Birks
Viola:
Roger Bigley
Cello:
Bernard Gregor-Smith

The story of a remarkable South African, in a programme by MARY BENSON , based on his life and writings
Narrator Michael Johnson Sol Plaatje
JOHN MATSHIKIZA with BRIAN CARROLL PATRICK BARR
JOHN BOTT
GORDON DULIEU and HUGH QUARSHIE
Plaatje was a self-taught young African who became a journalist and later a famous politician. The programme contains extracts from his vivid diaries kept during the Boer War. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Benson
Narrator:
Michael Johnson
Narrator:
Sol Plaatje
Narrator:
John Matshikiza
Unknown:
Brian Carroll
Unknown:
Patrick Barr
Unknown:
John Bott
Unknown:
Gordon Dulieu
Unknown:
Hugh Quarshie
Directed By:
Christopher Venning

The Ring poses questions which can perhaps only be solved in the cinema. Yet, as Shaw wrote, to be devoted to Wagner, ' reverencing his superiority without understanding it', is no true Wagnerism.
John Culshaw talks about some of the demands and rewards of Gbtterdammerung, that summit of a musical Everest, the climax of which is, or should be, ' one of the most shattering musical and dramatic experiences of a lifetime
(The English National Opera Twilight of the Gods: next Sunday)

Contributors

Talks:
John Culshaw

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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