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Gershwin Overture: Strike Up the Band
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
7.12* Granados Berceuse (Poetic Scenes)
THOMAS RAJNA (piano)
7.17* Nielsen Wind Quintet
DANISH WIND QUINTET
7.41* Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.0 News
8.5 Wagner Dich. teure Halle (Tannhauser)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
8.10* Dvorak Serenade in E
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
8.37* Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp (mono) DINU LIPATTI (piano)
8.46* Debussy Rondes de printemps (Images) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conducted By:
Granados Berceuse
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Wagner Dich.
Conducted By:
Walter Susskind
Conducted By:
Dvorak Serenade
Conducted By:
Rudolf Schwarz
Piano:
Debussy Rondes
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez

Stravinsky Symphonies of wind instruments (1920 version) NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
9.15* Danses concertantes ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
9.36* Concerto for piano and wind instruments (revised version 1950)
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT (piano) COLUMBIA SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Stravinsky Symphonies
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Conducted By:
Sir Colin Davis

Steven Isserlis
Robert Saxton Toccata (written for
Steven Isserlis - fiist broadcast) Dallapiecola Ciaccona , intermezzo e adagio

Contributors

Unknown:
Steven Isserlis
Unknown:
Robert Saxton Toccata
Unknown:
Steven Isserlis
Unknown:
Dallapiecola Ciaccona

JOHN BINGHAM (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader DENNIS SIMONS. conducted by ISRAEL EDELSON Part 1
Mussorgsky, arr Rimsky-Korsakov A Night on the Bare Mountain
Bartok Piano Concerto No 3

Contributors

Piano:
John Bingham
Leader:
Dennis Simons.
Conducted By:
Israel Edelson

Trio for flute, oboe and piano
Three Fantastic Variations on ' Lilliburlero ', for two pianos
Trio for oboe, bassoon and harpsichord
MUSICA DA CAMERA
Harold Clarke (flute) Roger Lord (oboe)
Kerry Camden (bassoon) Hubert Dawkes
(piano and harpsichord) Richard Nunn (piano)

Contributors

Flute:
Harold Clarke
Oboe:
Roger Lord
Bassoon:
Kerry Camden
Piano:
Hubert Dawkes
Piano:
Richard Nunn

Richard Jackson, Anton Weinberg, Graham Johnson

Hubert Parry Five songs from the English Lyrics to words by Elizabethan Poets: Follow a shadow; Take, O take those lips away: Love is a bable; And yet I love her till I die: Blow, blow thou winter wind

Judith Bingham A falling figure, for baritone, clarinet and piano

Arthur Benjamin Le tombeau de Ravel

Thea Musgrave Four Portraits, for baritone, clarinet and piano

(Repeat)

Contributors

Baritone:
Richard Jackson
Clarinettist:
Anton Weinberg
Pianist:
Graham Johnson

BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by BRIAN WRIGHT
Philip Cannon Te Deum Bliss Two Studies for Orchestra
Vaughan Williams Job: A masque for dancing

Contributors

Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Brian Wright
Conducted By:
Philip Cannon Te Deum

I find it curious that the people who arc most violent in their opinions about art are people who have the least interest in art.
The American artist Carl Andre talks with Edward Lucie-Smith about his reasons for using bricks, timber or metal plates and what he feels his own and other art is about. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(Andy Warhol: 16 March) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Artist:
Carl Andre
Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

Reflections on literature, current and classic
If we want to imagine what the London mob of 1680 was like, we have only to think of the modern streets of Belfast. The writer Julian Mitchell has been reading The Memons of Monmouthshire, a polemical essay by Nathan Rogers published in 1708, and finds that the political intrigues and religious rivalries of Rogers' day have ' a horribly modern ring' about them.

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Unknown:
Nathan Rogers

This week performances by the PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA of two large-scale ' public ' works Stockhausen JUBILEE, for orchestra
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader CARL PINI conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Cristobal Halffter
Cantata: Yes. speak out yes (words by NORMAN CORWIN : Commissioned by the United Nations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Universal declaration of human rights)
JANE MANNING (soprano)
MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone) PHILHARMONIA CHORUS chorus-master
SIMON JOHNSON
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA led by PETER THOMAS conducted by THE COMPOSER and ANTHONY RIDLEY
(Repeats of parts of concerts given in May
1980 and March 1979 in the Royal Festival Hall, London)

Contributors

Leader:
Carl Pini
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Norman Corwin
Soprano:
Jane Manning
Baritone:
Michael Rippon
Chorus-Master:
Simon Johnson
Unknown:
Peter Thomas
Unknown:
Anthony Ridley

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More