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Planquelte Overture: Les cloches de Cornville NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Kreisler Rondino on a theme of Beethoven; Tambourin chinois
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) SAMUEL SANDERS (piano)
Barber String Quartet. Op 11: CLEVELAND QUARTET
Sinding Suite for violin and orchestra
ITZHAK PERLMAN
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN Johann Strauss Fleder maus Quadrille
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY gramophone records M a

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Kreisler Rondino
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Piano:
Samuel Sanders
Conducted By:
André Previn
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Johann Strauss Fleder
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky

Introduced by John Lade Building a Library: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, by STEPHEN DODGSON. New opera records reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson.
Unknown:
Charles Osborne.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Monteverdi 11 ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Act 1 Scenes 1 and 2) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Handel Overture: Ariodante
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Korngold Violanta (closing scene)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by MAREK 1ANOWSKI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Korngold Violanta
Conducted By:
Marek 1anowski

CRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND conductor RAY FARR
George Benjamin Silver Jubilee Fanfare and March
Philip Sparke Fanfare. Romance and Finale (first broadcast performance)
Wilfred Heaton Contest Music
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conductor:
Ray Farr
Conductor:
George Benjamin
Unknown:
Philip Sparke

Introduced by Nicholas Kenyon St Cecilia 's Day
RICHARD LUCKETT traces the curious process by which St Cecilia became the Patron Saint of music, culminating in the foundation in 1585 of the Roman vertuosa compagnia di musici', which survives today as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. MARTINDALE SIDWELL conducts Palestrina's motet Cantantibus organis Caecilia and the triple-choir Mass based on it, which was composed jointly by founder-members of the society: Stabile, Soriano, Dragoni, Giovanelli, Santini. Mancini and Palestrina himself.
MARTINDALE SIDWELL SINGERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nicholas Kenyon
Introduced By:
St Cecilia
Unknown:
Richard Luckett

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
Anthony Quinton (in the Chair) talks with J. W. Lambert. Eric Rhode and Margaret Walters.
This week's subjects:
Akira Kurosawa 's new film Kagemusha.
Paintings by Jose Clemente Orozco at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
E. L. Doctorow's novel Loon Lake. The Hull Truck Company in Mean Streaks at the Bush Theatre.
Carey Harrison 's I Never Killed My German, the winner of the 1979 Giles Cooper Award for the best Radio 3 script. Producer
PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert.
Unknown:
Eric Rhode
Unknown:
Margaret Walters.
Unknown:
Akira Kurosawa
Unknown:
Jose Clemente
Unknown:
Carey Harrison
Unknown:
Giles Cooper

played by Carlos Barbosa-Llma
Francesco Mignone Etude No 5
Bach, arr Burbosa Lima Allegro (Violin Sonata No 2, bwv 1003)
Scarlatti, arr Barbosa-Lima Sonatas (Kk 476 and Kk 15)
John Duarte Mesto e cantabile (Partita)
Ginastera Sonata. Op 47 (first UK broadcast) Introduced by DORITA SENSIER
Producer GARETH WALTERS followed by an interlude

Contributors

Played By:
Carlos Barbosa-Llma
Played By:
Francesco Mignone
Unknown:
John Duarte Mesto
Unknown:
Ginastera Sonata.
Introduced By:
Dorita Sensier
Producer:
Gareth Walters

Opera in four acts Music by Verdi Libretto by ANTONIO GHISLANZONI (sung in Italian)
Aida, the Ethiopian Princess. and Amneris, the Pharaoh's daughter, to whom Aida is slave, are both in love with Radames, the Egyptian general, who leads the attack on Aida's people. Radames is inveigled into betraying military secrets. and condemned to death. His life depends on Amneris's pardon, but he loves Aida.... Cast:
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS,
SOPHIA
SALZBURG CHAMBER CHOIR chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
(Austrian Radio record-ing from the 1980 Salzburg Festival) Acts I and 2

Contributors

Music By:
Verdi Libretto
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

An Idea of England in 1698 Last of four selections from the journal of the courageous and entnusiastic traveller
Compiled by MELISSA DUNDAS and introduced by Michael Bakewell
Through the West Country to Cornwall Read by Prunella Scales Producer
MARGARET ETALL followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Melissa Dundas
Introduced By:
Michael Bakewell
Read By:
Prunella Scales
Producer:
Margaret Etall

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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