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Mendelssohn Symphony No 5, in B fiat, for strings AMSTERDAM CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MARINUS VOORBERG
7.16* Borodin Piano Quin tet in c minor -
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA
OCTET
7.37* Tchaikovsky Fantasy-Overture: Romeo and Juliet
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Marinus Voorberg
Conducted By:
Borodin Piano Quin
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Vivaldi Concerto in G, for two mandolins and strings (RV 532)
HUGO D ALTON, ROBERT CALCUTT (mandolins)
L'ESTRO ARMONICO ENSEMBLE
8.19* Mozart Symphony No 33. in B flat (K 319) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
8,39* Ravel Rhapsodie espagnole
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX : recorda

Contributors

Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz
Conducted By:
Ravel Rhapsodie
Conducted By:
Pierre Monteux

Walton-Between the Wars Ballet sequence from the film: Escape me never NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN
9.9* Faqade (excerpts) CATHY BERBERIAN ROBERT TEAR
Ensemble conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
9.23* Violin Concerto KYUNG-WIIA CHUNG
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÈ PREVIN: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Bernard Herrmann
Unknown:
Cathy Berberian
Violin:
Steuart Bedford

by Alan Brown
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D minor (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book n) Racnmaninov Etude-tableau in D minor, Op 39 No S; Prelude in D, Op 23 No 4: Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5
Lennox Berkeley Four Concert Studies
Prokofiev Sonata No 7 in B flat

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Brown
Unknown:
Bach Prelude
Unknown:
Racnmaninov Etude-Tab

Christopher Hogwood presents a sequence of seasonal music, contrasting the Fall of the Leaf by Martin Pearson with Debussy's Feuilles mortes, Stravinsky's Fireworks with Debussy's Feux d'artifice, an ancient and modern version of Vivaldi's Autumn with an Easter view as seen by Takemitsu in his November
Steps. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Martin Pearson

CHARLES BRETT
(counter-tenor)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Catherine Mackintosh (violin)
Monica Huggett (violin)
Bill Hunt (viola da gamba) directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
Trio-sonatas and songs by Purcell and his contemporaries
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Bath Festival 1980 Part 2
(Concert arranged by the Bath Festival Society in association with Phillips and Jollys Auction Rooms) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Violin:
Catherine MacKintosh
Violin:
Monica Huggett
Viola:
Bill Hunt
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood

Introduced by Clive Bennett
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Symphonic Poem: Im Sommerwind
(Part of a public concert given in 1978 in the Royal Festival Hall)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Clive Bennett
Leader:
Maurice Brett
Conducted By:
David Atherton

Nicholas Kenyon , music critic of The
New Yorker, has written the history of the BBC SO for publication during this anniversary season. He looks back to the orchestra's first concerts and reflects on its contribution to musical life and its changing role in the BBC during its first half-century.
Producer CLIVE BENNETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Kenyon
Producer:
Clive Bennett

Part 2
Chausson Poème
Szymanowski La fontaine d'Arethuse
Suk Quasi baUata and Appassionato
Wienlawski Polonaise brillante in D
(One of a fortnightly series of concerts, given before an invited audience) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Wienlawski Polonaise

Selected and compiled round a theme by PATRIC DICKINSON
4: Some variations
Poems by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE , WALTER RALEGH , JEAN ELLIOTT , C. DAY LEWIS, J. K. STEPHEN. COLERIDGE , STEVIE SMITH , EDITH SITWELL and w. H. DAVIES
Readers Jill Balcon. Elizabeth Bell and Michael Spice
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Unknown:
Walter Ralegh
Unknown:
Jean Elliott
Unknown:
J. K. Stephen. Coleridge
Unknown:
Stevie Smith
Unknown:
Edith Sitwell
Readers:
H. Davies
Readers:
Jill Balcon.

Nordic Music Days
First of two surveys by Patric Standford of the 1980 Nordic Music Days, held in Helsinki, Tampere and Hameenlinna in September. The Days are organised biennially in Scandinavia by the Nordic Composers' Council and this year featured music and musicians from Great Britain, the guest country. (Finnish Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Patric Standford

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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