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Historic recordings of the pianist Dinu Lipatti
Ravel Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
8.11* Chopin Four Waltzes from Opp 70 and 34 8.23* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN: records

Contributors

Pianist:
Dinu Lipatti
Pianist:
Ravel Alborada
Conducted By:
Herbert Von

Listeners' record requests Haydn Symphony No 88, in G: BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETTA, directed by RONALD THOMAS (violin)
9.25. Mozart Adagio and Rondo (K 617): BRUNO HOFF-MAN (glass harmonica), AURÈLE NICOLET (flute), HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe). KARL SCHONTEN (viola), JEAN DECROOS (cello)
9.42* Dupare L'invitation au voyage
KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano) RICHARD AMNER (piano)
9.47* Boellmann Symphonic Variations
PAUL TORTELIER (cello) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VAN PASCAL TORTELIER
10.0* Holmboe Symphony No 10, Op 105
GOTHENBURG SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING : record.,

Contributors

Violin:
Ronald Thomas
Oboe:
Heinz Holliger
Conducted By:
van Pascal Tortelier
Conducted By:
Sixten Ehrling

with Michael Oliver
The music of Lutoslawski, by MICHAEL BERKELEY.
When and why did the organ become a church instrument? by PETER WILLIAMS.
Hail, bright Cecilia! - conversation with the patron saint of music.
(Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Michael Berkeley.
Unknown:
Peter Williams.

Opera in one act
Music by Mascagnl
Libretto by GIOVANNI TARGIONI-TOZZETTI and GUI-DO MENASCI (sung in Italian) Turiddu, a young soldier
PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)
Santuzza, a village girl in love with Turiddu RENATA scotto (soprano)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAMES LEVINE : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Unknown:
Turiddu Renata
Conducted By:
James Levine

by CAREY HARRISON
Willy Benefer is a retired registrar of births, marriages and deaths, living in a large house on the fringes of Ipswich. His daughter. Juliet, now divorced and footloose on the Continent, sends him a Protestant Bishop, the Bishop of Frankfurt who. it transpires, has fallen in love with Juliet. But the Bishop has also lost his Faith and it is this that most disturbs Willy.
Music directed and composed by SIDNEY SAGER Flute player
SEBASTIAN BELL Directed by SHAUN MAC -LOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol (Kepeat)
The full text of this play is included in Best Radio Plays of 1979, a BBC anthology, £6.95 from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Carey Harrison
Unknown:
Willy Benefer
Directed By:
Shaun Mac
Willy:
Maurice Denham
the Bishop of Frankfurt:
Stephen Murray
Alison:
June Barrie
Juliet:
Penelope Lee
Hanno:
Peter Tuddenham
Mrs Carr:
Daphne Heard
King Tut:
Malcolm Hayes

MICHAEL THOMPSON (horn) MARK CRESSWELL (treble) SINFONIA CHORUS chorus-master ALAN FEARON NORTHERN SINFONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by STEUAKT BEDFORD
Purcell Suite: The Fairy Queen
Stephen Oliver The Child from the Sea (first performance: BBC Commission for the Newcastle 900 Festival)

Contributors

Horn:
Michael Thompson
Chorus-Master:
Alan Fearon
Conducted By:
Steuakt Bedford
Unknown:
Stephen Oliver

Can one write the history of art ' up to the present day ' as one can perhaps write the history of cviationt
(E. H. GOMBRICH )
Dr Roy Strong , Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , has been reading The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton and he reflects on the difficulties facing the historian of 20th-century art.

Contributors

Unknown:
E. H. Gombrich
Unknown:
Dr Roy Strong
Unknown:
Albert Museum
Unknown:
Norbert Lynton

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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