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Parry Symphonic Variations: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.18* Vaughan Williams Te Deum in G (1928)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS GILLIAN WEIR (organ) conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON
7.24* Hoist Suite No 2. in F, Op 28 No 2
CLEVELAND SYMPHONIC WINDS conducted by FREDERICK FENNELL
7.35* Thalben-Ball Variations on a theme of Paganini: THE COMPOSER (organ of the Temple Church, London)
7,43* Arnold Serenade for small orchestra, Op 26 BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by RONALD THOMAS : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Singers:
Gillian Weir
Conducted By:
Stephen Wilkinson
Conducted By:
Frederick Fennell
Unknown:
Arnold Serenade
Conducted By:
Ronald Thomas

Alessandro Scarlatti Concerto No 2, in c minor I MUSICI
8.12* Mozart Concerto in E flat, for two pianos and orchestra (K 365)
ALFRED BRENDEL , IMOGEN COOPER , ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN THE-FIELDS. conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.37* Teleinann Suite: Don Quixote
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Imogen Cooper
Unknown:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Don Quixote
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner

Janacck Hospodine , pomiluj ny SOLOISTS
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JIRI PINKAS
9.9* Chorale Fantasia
MIROSLAV BUCEK (organ)
9.15* Glagolitic Mass SOLOISTS
CZECH SINGERS CHORUS
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS conducted by KAREL ANCERL gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Janacck Hospodine
Conducted By:
Jiri Pinkas
Conducted By:
Karel Ancerl

SARAH WALKER (meZZO-SOp) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Ives In the Alley; At the River Poulenc Three Metamorphoses (Louise de Vilmorin); Three songs of Garcia-Lorca
Ives Autumn; Nature's Way: Two little flowers
Poulenc Four poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
Ives The Side Show: The Circus Band

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Unknown:
Guillaume Apollinaire

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Bernard Roberts (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by Marcus Dods Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
Haydn Symphony No 103, in e flat (Drum Roll)

Contributors

Leader:
John Bradbury
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods

* Bruno Walter has brought the beauty of music to me perhaps more than anyone else,' wrote
SIR ADRIAN BOULT in My Own Trumpet.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT )
Brahms Symphony No 4. in E minor (conducted by BRUNO WALTER ): records

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruno Walter
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Bruno Walter

A Drama for
Yukio Mishima
The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed suicide by ritual disembowelment on 25 November 1970 at the age of 45. This programme explores his life and his work, his place in Japanese literature and the reasons for his savage death. with Garry Cooper as Yukio Mishima and John Church as Commentator and the voices of DOMINIQUE AURY, GEOFFREY BOWNAS. JOHN HAYLOCK , WILLIAM HORSLEY , HIDE ISHI-GURO. DONALD KEENE , ANDRE PIEYRE DE MAUDIARGUES JUNKO MATOBA , SHOICHIRO SAEKI. JUNE SHIRAGI and ANTHONY THWAITE
Words of other friends, critics and contemporaries spoken by DIANA BISHOP , GRAHAM FAULKNER , JOHN FORBES -ROBERTSON, JUDY FRANKLIN , GRIZELDA HERVEY, SiON PROBERT, JOHN QUINN and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Script advisers GEOFFREY BOWNAS and JUNE SHIRAGI
Compiled and produced oy PIERS
PLOWRIGIIT

Contributors

Unknown:
Yukio Mishima
Unknown:
Yukio Mishima
Unknown:
Garry Cooper
Unknown:
Yukio Mishima
Unknown:
John Church
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bownas.
Unknown:
John Haylock
Unknown:
William Horsley
Unknown:
Donald Keene
Unknown:
Andre Pieyre de Maudiargues
Unknown:
Junko Matoba
Unknown:
Shoichiro Saeki.
Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite
Spoken By:
Diana Bishop
Spoken By:
Graham Faulkner
Spoken By:
John Forbes
Unknown:
Judy Franklin
Unknown:
John Quinn
Unknown:
Christopher Scott
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bownas

Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die - only lack of it will.
Never to want to see the other side of the hill or that improbable country where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell) would kill us all. Only the curious have if they live a tale worth telling at all.
Alastair Reid introduces and reads a selection of his poetry.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland

Contributors

Introduces:
Alastair Reid
Producer:
Patrick Rayner

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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