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Schubert Overture in c (In the Italian Style) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
7.13* Wolf-Ferrari Concertino (Idillio) for oboe. string orchestra and two horns
PIERRE PIERLOT (oboe) I SOLISTI VENETI conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
7.31* Haydn Symphony No 60. in c (II distratto) PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz
Conducted By:
Claudio Scimone
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Arnold Overture: Tam O'Shanter
NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONDON, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.13. Britten/Berkeley Mont Juic LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
8.24* . Elgar Ballet: The Sanguine Fan
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.42* Lambert The Rio Grande
JEAN TEMPERLEY (contralto) CRISTINA ortiz (piano)
LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Conducted By:
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
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André Previn

MANOUG PARISIAN MALCOLM BINNS
Schubert Duo in A (d 574) Delius Sonata No 2 (1924)
10.20* Interval Reading
10.25* Recital Part 2 Strauss
Sonata in E flat, Op 18
(A concert given last October in St Peter Man -croft Church as part of the 1979 Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Binns
Unknown:
Schubert Duo
Unknown:
St Peter Man

plays English harpsichord music, including some pieces by John Blow , edited by Watkins Shaw , broadcast in the UK for the first time.
Blow Ground in G
Purcell Suite No 7, in D minor
Blow Chacone; Suite in D minor
Purcell Suite No 5, in c major
Blow Prelude

Contributors

Unknown:
John Blow
Edited By:
Watkins Shaw

Symphony No 2, in D major
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD HAGER
(Austrian Radio recording) (Brahms Orchestral Music, a BBC Music Guide by John Horton , £1.00 from bookshops)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leopold Hager
Unknown:
John Horton

direct from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol Allan Schiller (piano)
Fitzwilliam String Quartet Christopher Rowland (violin)
Jonathan Sparey (violin) Alan George (viola) loan Davies (cello)
Schumann Kinderscenen Shostakovich Piano Quin tet
(Tickets: 85p at the door) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
St George
Unknown:
Brandon Hill
Piano:
Bristol Allan Schiller
Violin:
Christopher Rowland
Violin:
Jonathan Sparey
Viola:
Alan George
Cello:
Schumann Kinderscenen
Cello:
Shostakovich Piano Quin

Comic Opera in two acts Music by Rossini
Libretto by FELICE ROMANI (sung in Italian: records)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA, MILAN, conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI As Donna Fiorilla , Maria Callas gave an infectiously frivolous performance ... it was possibly her best comic characterisation.
(STELIOUS GALATOPOULOS)
3.20* Interval Reading
3.25* II Turco In Italia Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Felice Romani
Unknown:
Donna Fiorilla
Unknown:
Maria Callas

by STEPHEN JEFFREYS
' In 60 seconds' time, I will catapult a woman from the bank of the river across 200 feet of water into a safety net on the other side. Now there's only two possibilities. One, she soars like a bird and breaks the record. Two, she splatters her brains and bones across half of Shrews-bury.'
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Jeffreys
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley
Hannigan:
David Calder
Zuki:
Carole Hayman

JOHN STEANE talks about the role of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg as recorded by NORMAN BAILEY , DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU, FRIEDRICH SCHORR , THEO ADAM, PAUL SCHÖFFLER, and others. (A Bavarian Radio recording of Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the role of Sachs, will be broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Talks:
John Steane
Unknown:
Hans Sachs
Unknown:
Norman Bailey
Unknown:
Friedrich Schorr
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

' Unlike some other great interpreters of the past, Gibbon was not enticed or driven to his subject by the urgencies of his time, or a revolutionary, religious or patriotic passion.'
The American historian, Daniel J. Boorstin , Librarian of Congress, rereads Edward Gibbon s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and finds an intimate character to it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel J. Boorstin
Unknown:
Edward Gibbon

First of three fortnightly programmes from the 26th International Rostrum of Composers held in Paris last May.
Gyorgy Kurtag Homage to Andras Mihaly : 12 microludes for string quartet
Lyell Cresswell Wa, for trombone, percussion and tape
Otto Ketting Symphony for four saxophones and orchestra
EDER STRING QUARTET JAMES FULKERSON (trombone)
GARY BRAIN (percussion) NETHERLANDS SAXOPHONE
QUARTET, AMSTERDAM CON-CERTCEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
(Hungarian, New Zealand and Netherlands Radio recordings)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gyorgy Kurtag
Unknown:
Andras Mihaly
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink

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