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Debussy, orch Busser Petite Suite
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by AVIVA EINHORN
7.19' Kabalevsky Piano Concerto No 3
VLADIMIR FETSMAN
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by FHAT MANSUROV
7.32* Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Aviva Einhorn
Conducted By:
Fhat Mansurov
Conducted By:
Herbert Von Karajan

Listeners' record requests Telemann Magnificat in c SOLOISTS
LAUSANNE YOUTH CHOIR
MUNICH PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT REDEL
9.27* Blumenfeld Etude for the left hand (mono) SIMON BARERE (piano)
9.35* Schmidt Symphony No 4, in c: VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by zubin MEHTA

Contributors

Conducted By:
Kurt Redel
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Alban Berg : some contradictions, by ROBERT HENDERSON.
Postcards from London (4): Charles Gounod - the untranquil vale.
In search of Calixa Lavallée, by Francis COLEMAN. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated: Wed 2.5 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Introduced By:
Alban Berg
Unknown:
Robert Henderson.
Unknown:
Francis Coleman.
Unknown:
Christine Hardwick

Recordings from the early 1950s of Toscanini's orchestra conducted by his protégé, Guido Cantelli.
Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4, In F minor (Voice of America recording of a broadcast concert given in Carnegie Hall, New York, on 14 February 1954) (First broadcast in the series At Home)

Contributors

Unknown:
Guido Cantelli.

Opera in four acts
Music by Verdi. Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE (sung in Italian)
The original 1847 version. Edition prepared by GEORGE BADACSONYI
BBC SINGERS, chorus-master GORDON KEMBER director JOHN POOLE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY , conducted by JOHN MATHESON

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria Piave
Unknown:
George Badacsonyi
Chorus Master:
Gordon Kember
Director:
John Poole
Leader:
John Bradbury
Unknown:
John Matheson

Second of three recitals comprising Beethoven's Rasumovsky Quartets and Robert Simpson 's Quartets Nos 4, 5 and 6, which owe their existence to them.
GABRIEL! STRING QUARTET
Beethoven Quartet in 2 minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)
5.40* Robert Simpson talks with Malcolm Mac Donald
6.0* Concert, Part 2
Simpson Quartet No 5 (1974) (first performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Talks:
Robert Simpson
Unknown:
Malcolm Mac

Sixth of nine concerts BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
Vaughan Williams Three Elizabethan Part-Songs
Tippett Four Songs from the British Isles
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
7.20* Interval Reading
7.30* Sacred and Profane Part 2 Bantock
Atalanta In Calydon
(A public concert given on 24 January in St John 's, Smith Square, London)

Contributors

Conductor:
John Poole
Conductor:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
St John

by Tom MALLIN. adapted for radio by PENNY LEICESTER
An elderly failed actress reminisces about her life In the dressing-room of a provincial theatre. This quasi-monologue was originally written as a stage performance for Sylvia Coleridge , who now re-creates it for radio.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLET

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Mallin.
Radio By:
Penny Leicester
Unknown:
Sylvia Coleridge
Directed By:
Richard Wortlet
Mrs Argent:
Sylvia Coleridge
Lord Willoughby:
John Church
Intercom:
John Sort

Written and narrated by James McNeish with Michael Cochrane as Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler went to New Zealand as a young man In 1860. When he died 40 years later. Bernard Shaw acknowledged him as ' one of the greatest English satirists '. with Malcolm Muggerldge Other voices: PETER WICK
HAM, BRYAN MURRAY , NICOL-ETTE MCKENZIE , PAMELA BUSCHNER and GODFREY KENTON. Directed by CHRISTOPHER YENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
James McNeish
Unknown:
Michael Cochrane
Unknown:
Samuel Butler
Unknown:
Samuel Butler
Unknown:
Malcolm Muggerldge
Unknown:
Peter Wick
Unknown:
Bryan Murray
Unknown:
Ette McKenzie
Unknown:
Pamela Buschner
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton.
Directed By:
Christopher Yenning

BBC Radio 3

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