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leader
CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN conductor
OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES Berlioz Overture: Le corsaire
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Delibes Ballet Suite: Sylvia (excerpts)
Satie. orch Debussy GymnopSdies: No 1, in D; No 3, in A minor
Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66 BBC Wales
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Shostakovich's Symphony No 10, by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
New opera records reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
11 Sogno di Scipione
The closing scenes of Mozart's early opera.
SALZBURG CHAMBER CHOIR SALZBURG MOZARTEUM
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD HAGER gramophone records
THE GUS BAND
Conductor KEITH WILKINSON Eric Ball Festival Music
Gilbert Vinter Triumphant Rhapsody
BBC Birmingham
John Amis presents a weekly selection of classics on record.
leader BARRY WILDE conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
Alun Hoddinott Concerto Grosso
Frank Bridge There is a willow grows aslant a brook
Vaughan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus Malcolm Arnold Concerto for 28 players
BBC Manchester
Elaine Padmore introduces her personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week.
Introduced by Peter Clayton
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with Paul Barker , Marina Vaizey and Alexander Walker. This week's subjects:
ROBERT BENTON 'S film Kramer v Kramer; American prints (1879-1979) at the British Museum; Make and Break by MICHAEL FRAYN at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; S.S. PRAWER'S study of horror movies Caligari's Children; and the Radio 3 Thursday evening series Book, Music and Lyrics'. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
played by STEFAN popov and ALLAN SCHILLER
Matyas Seiber Fantasy
Roberto Gerhard Sonata
Mendelssohn Sonata In D major, Op 58 (Repeal)
Opera in four acts
Libretto by jouy AND bis, after SCHILLER, sung in the Italian version by CALISTO BASSI
Music by Rossini
A Swiss Radio recording of a production staged last September to mark the centenary of the Grand Theatre in Geneva. In its original version this spectacular opera, known today mainly for its overture, was over five hours long. This is a shortened version.
The action takes place in Switzerland in the year 1340.
Cast in order of singing:
GRAND THEATRE CHORUS chorus-master
PAUL-ANDRÉ GAILLARD
SUISSE romande ORCHESTRA conductor GIUSEPPE PATANE Act 1
(Sunday 30 March: a feature about Rossini and William Teit , Lazy As I Am! 10.15 pm Radio 4)
Matthew Arnold commands attention as poet and social prophet of the Victorian Age - but is less well known as Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. an office he held for 35 years.
Richard Hoggart presents extracts from Arnold's series of annual reports and assesses his lasting contribution to education. Readings GABRIEL WOOLF
Act 2
In the second of three talks about his experiences as an English teacher in Tehran during the Islamic revolution, the writer and historian Ian Grimble reflects on Persia's pre-Islamic history and its relationship to recent events.
Acts 3 and 4
DRUVI DE SARAM (piano)
Scriabin Sonata-Fantasy , Op 19
Beethoven Sonata in c, Op 2 No 3
