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Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Brahms Symphonies. RICHARD OSBORNE completes his two-week survey by examining individual issues of each symphony. New records of instrumental music and song, reviewed by DAVID MURRAY Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Reviewed By:
David Murray
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Wolf Harfenspicler Lieder NORMAN BAILEY (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
Mozart Sonata in c minor (K 457): DAVID WARD (piano) Schumann Liederkreis, Op 39: PETER PEARS (tenor) MURRAY PERAHIA (piano) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Wolf Harfenspicler Lieder
Baritone:
Norman Bailey
Piano:
John Constable
Piano:
Mozart Sonata
Piano:
David Ward
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Piano:
Murray Perahia

Eric Rhode (in the Chair), talks with Robert Cushman. J. W. Lambert and Polly Toynbee.
This week's subjects: the Otto Preminger film of Graham Greene's The Human Factor; the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Greeks; Thames Television s Hollywood series; Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet by Richard Gil man; and Abstraction: Towards a New Art at the Tate Gallery.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gil
Producer:
Philip French

Whither is fled the visionary gleamf
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
The writer and historian. Ian Grimble, went to Iran in August 1978 to teacn English at a college in Tt hran. He remained there, the only British teacher in the country, throughout the year cf the Islamic revolution.
In the first of three talks he describes his experiences as a teacher and the changes he saw in his pupils' attitudes and thought during that time.

A short story by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Read by Peter Marinker
Her son was a successful author. She had by no means abetted him in the choice of that profession ... an author was something distinctly peculiar.' Producer ANTHONY VIVIS

Contributors

Story By:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read By:
Peter Marinker
Producer:
Anthony Vivis

C. Gervaise and P. Attaignant Renaissance Dances
Arnold Symphony for Brass, Op 123
Britten Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
Michael Berkeley Among the Lilies
(Part of a public concert sponsored by Whitbread Limited and given last July in the Town Hall as part o) the 1979 Cheltenham International Festival of Music)
BBC Birmingham

A sequence of music at the Court of Isabella d'Este, the ruler of Mantua around 1500. The lutenist Anthony Rooley first sketches the social and historical background to the programme and then, with his Consort of Musicke, performs songs by several composers, including Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Antonio Capriolo, interspersed with Hexachord Recercare a 3 by Isabella's music tutor Johannes Martini.

(A public concert given in Hazelwood Castle, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, as part of the 1978 York Early Music Festival)

Contributors

Lutenist:
Anthony Rooley

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More