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Herald Overture: Zampa NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Coleridge-Taylor Onaway! awake, beloved! (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) RICHARD LEWIS (tenor)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Shostakovich Three pieces for two violins and piano ITZHAK PERLMAN
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN SAMUEL SANDERS
Gavin Gordon Sarabande and Orgy (Ballet: The Rake's Progress)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN conducted by ROBERT IRVING
Coates London Suite
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Piano:
Itzhak Perlman
Piano:
Pinchas Zukerman
Piano:
Samuel Sanders
Piano:
Gavin Gordon Sarabande
Conducted By:
Robert Irving
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, by MICHAEL KENNEDY.
Summer Retrospect (3): opera records reviewed by ALAN BLYTH.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy.
Reviewed By:
Alan Blyth.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

(baritone), with Roger Vignoles (piano) Part 1
Norman Dello Joio Songs of Remembrance
Rachmaninov Six Songs: On the death of a linnet; I came to her; Oh. never sing to me again; When yesterday we met; Love's flame: The pied piper (sung in Russian)
2.451 Interval Reading
2.50* John Shirley-Quirk Part 2 Britten
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake , Op 74
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Unknown:
John Shirley-Quirk
Unknown:
William Blake

Three major works and a song from an 18-month spell towards the end of his life
Symphony No 38, in D major (Prague) (K 504)
Abendempfindung (K 523) Sonata in c major (K 521) (mono)
Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
SALZBURG MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEOPOLD HAGER
MARGARET MARSHALL (Sop) with JOHN FRASER (piano) BENJAMIN BRITTEN and SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano duet)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leopold Hager
Conducted By:
Margaret Marshall
Piano:
John Fraser
Piano:
Benjamin Britten
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurting (in the Chair), talks with James Fenton , Gillian Reynolds and J. G. Weightman
This week's subjects: the Radio 4 Saturday-Night Theatre play, The English-man Abroad; the Roland Penrose 80th birthday exhibition at the ICA; Donald Sinden as Othello in the RSC production, directed by Ronald Eyre , at the Aldwych Theatre; Alain Resnais 's new film, My American Uncle; and The Letters of Evelyn Waugh , edited by Mark Amory. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
James Fenton
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
J. G. Weightman
Unknown:
Roland Penrose
Unknown:
Donald Sinden
Directed By:
Ronald Eyre
Unknown:
Alain Resnais
Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Edited By:
Mark Amory.

played and introduced by Peter Hurford
Organ of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Prelude and Fugue in c major (Bwv 531); Trio in G minor (bwv 584); Fugue in D major (bwv 580); Fantasia and Fugue in A minor (BWV 561); Prelude and Fugue in F minor (bwv 534) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Hurford

direct from the Royal Albert Hall,
London
Judith Rees (soprano)
Anne Collins (contralto) Gareth Roberts (tenor)
Brian Rayner Cook (bar) BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Delius Sea Drift, for baritone, chorus and orchestra
Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert
Contralto:
Anne Collins
Tenor:
Gareth Roberts
Tenor:
Brian Rayner Cook
Director:
John Poole
Conductor:
Brian Wright
Conducted By:
Sir Charles MacKerras

Part 2
Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1, in D
Grainger Shepherd's Hey; Brigg Fair; Colonial Song; Molly on the Shore
Henry Wood Fantasia 00 British Sea Songs
Arne, orch Sargent Rule,
Britannia Parry , orch Elgar Jerusalem
Part 2 of this concert is a simultaneous broadcast with BBCly
The Henry Wood Proms, by David Cox , price £8.75 . from book and music shops. View: p 93 *

Contributors

Unknown:
Britannia Parry
Unknown:
David Cox

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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