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Third of seven programmes Fantasia on Greensleeves ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Five Tudor Portraits
ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE
(contralto), JOHN CAROL
CASE (baritone). BACH CHOIR NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Contralto:
Elizabeth Bainbridge
Contralto:
John Carol
Unknown:
David Willcocks

Listeners' record requests Lovelock Trumpet Concerto in c: JOHN ROBERTSON SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOSEPH POST
9.22* Rossini Ballet music: The Siege of Corinth: MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
9.36* Rossini Vegliar mat sempre (Count Ory)
NORMAN TREIGLE (bass) VIENNA VOLKSOPER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JUSSI JALAS
9.42* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat (Emperor): MAURlZIO POL-LINI, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BÖHM

Contributors

Conducted By:
Joseph Post
Conducted By:
Antonio De
Bass:
Norman Treigle
Conducted By:
Jussi Jalas

A magazine about music and personalities in this year's Promenade Concerts
The BBC's Controller, Music, Robert Ponsonby, on some of the music to be heard.
Elgar as visionary: Jerrold Northrop Moore on The Apostles.
A review of a new history of the Proms by David Cox.
Presented by Jeremy Siepmann.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Cox
Presenter:
Jeremy Siepmann
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

WILLIAM BENNETT and DAVID NICHOLSON (0Utes) CAROLYN SPAREY (VlOla) HAFLIDI HALLGRIMSSON (cello)
W. F. E. Bach Trio in o W. F. Bach Duo in F Haydn Trio in c BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
William Bennett
Unknown:
David Nicholson
Unknown:
Carolyn Sparey
Cello:
Haflidi Hallgrimsson

Music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner (sung in German)
Welsh National Opera production, conducted by Reginald Goodall (whose 79th birthday it is today)
"Why does opera matter? Because when it is like this Goodall Tristan, it is the ritual of enlightenment." (THE GUARDIAN)
MALE CHORUS OF WELSH NATIONAL OPERA, chorus-master JULIAN SMITH
ORCHESTRA OF WELSH NATIONAL OPERA leader JOHN STEIN
The action takes place in Arthurian times. Act 1

Contributors

Composer:
Richard Wagner
Conducted by:
Reginald Goodall
Chorus Master:
Julian Smith
Orchestra Leader:
John Stein

Wagner controlled the orchestra as if it were a single instrument and he were playing on it ... He really seems to be improvising on his orchestra.
Pat Starr reads the fifth of six extracts from Music Study in Germany, the home correspondence, 1869-73, of Amy Fay.

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Starr
Unknown:
Amy Fay.

by VACLAV HAVEL
Translated and adapted by VERA BLACKWELL , With
Ferdinand Vanek is a dissident playwright in Czechoslovakia - he has just come out of prison and is awaiting trial for his political activities. Stanek is a successful writer who has remained in favour with the authorities.
STANEK: Forgive me, Ferdinand, but you don't happen to live in a normal environment. You only mix with people who are making a stand. You give each other hope and encouragement. You've no idea the sort of environment I've got to put up with! It turns your stomach!
The National Theatre version. originally directed by MICHAEL KUSTOW
Produced for radio by BERNARD KRICHFFSKI
(John Norminqton is a National Theatre plaurr) (Pavel Kohout '.i The Licence: Tuesday 8.0 pm)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Vera Blackwell
Unknown:
Bernard Krichffski
Unknown:
John Norminqton
Unknown:
Pavel Kohout
Stanek:
Robin Bailey
Vanek:
John Normington

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BBC Radio 3

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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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