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Based on Bach orch Schoenberg Prelude and Fugue in E flat (St Anne)
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY GounodAve Maria (mono) JOAN HAMMOND (soprano) with accompaniment Grainger Blithe Bells
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY orch Holst Fugue in G (The Jig)
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA conducted by ARTHUR FIEDLER arr Walton Suite: The Wise Virgins
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Soprano:
Joan Hammond
Conducted By:
Kenneth Montgomery
Conducted By:
Arthur Fiedler
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Saint-Saens's Symphony No 3, by JAMES HARDING.
New records of chamber music and song, reviewed by ANDREW KEENER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
James Harding.
Reviewed By:
Andrew Keener.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

CAMBORNE TOWN BAND conductor DEREK GREENWOOD Frank Wright Sirius
Eric Ball Rhapsody: Journey into Freedom
Shipley Douglas March: Mephistopheles BBC Bristol

Contributors

Conductor:
Derek Greenwood
Conductor:
Frank Wright Sirius
Conductor:
Eric Ball
Unknown:
Shipley Douglas

'There is more than a touch of the hearthrug about today's programme', says Jeremy Siepmann. His selection of records includes four-hand waltzes by Brahms, domestic pieces by Schumann and Dvorak, a madrigal by Gibbons and Haydn's version of All through the night, and a complete piano quintet by Hummel.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann.

Hugh Keyte presents a programme about William Byrd , two series of whose music permeate the next four weeks on Radio 3.
Philip Brett talks about the relationship between Byrd's music and his spiritual and religious life.
Followed by the first of five programmes of Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae of 1589. Domine secundum, multitudinem; Laetentur coeli; In resurrectione tua; Tribulationes civitatum CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD conductor SIMON PRESTON
(Other programmes of Early Music: Tallis and Byrd, Monday 10.0 am; The English Ayre, Tuesday 9.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Keyte
Unknown:
William Byrd
Talks:
Philip Brett
Conductor:
Simon Preston

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
Paul Barker (in the Chair), talks with John Hollander. Marghanita Laski and Bryan Robertson
This week's subjects: Kingsley Amis's novel Russian Hide and Seek: drawings by David Smith at the Serpentine Gallery; Derek Jarman's film version of The Tempest, The Hothouse by Harold Pinter at the Hampstead Theatre; and the Radio 2 Tuesday night series The American Way of Laughs.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Barker
Unknown:
John Hollander.
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Producer:
Philip French

A series of programmes devoted to the guitar and guitarists. In today's edition, recorded before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, Edinburgh, Anthea Gifford plays music by Francis Cutting. Diabelli, Villa-Lobos. Roberto Gerhard and Albeniz. Introduced by DORITA SENSIER
Producer GARETH WALTERS (Music for Guitar plaited by Laurie Randolph : Monday 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthea Gifford
Introduced By:
Dorita Sensier
Producer:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Laurie Randolph

Opera in three acts Words and music by Sir Michael Tippett
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS Act 1

Contributors

Music By:
Sir Michael Tippett
Conducted By:
Sir Colin Davis
Actor:
Dov. His White Friend, A Robert Tear (tenor)

Further excerpts from Edward Holmes's Ramble among the Musicians of Germany, published in 1828. In this episode Holmes, still in Munich, observes the citizens at play. He enjoys Hummel's Mass in E flat, and endures a most uncomfortable journey on the road to Vienna.
Read by Richard Briers

Contributors

Author:
Edward Holmes
Reader:
Richard Briers
Adapted by/Producer:
Graham Sheffield

The tractor stands frozen
- an agony
To think of. All night
Snow packed its open entrails.
In the second of three programmes of his recent works, Ted Hughes presents a selection of poems from his experiences of farming in Devon, poems which form the title-sequence of his book Moortown.
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Hughes

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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