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Prokofiev March. Op 99 Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra conducted by Louis Frémaux
7.8* Brahms Four Songs for women's voices, two horns and harp, Op 17 Gächingen Kantorei
Heinz Lohan and Karl Ludwig (horns), Charlotte Cassedanne (harp), conducted by Helmuth Rilling
7.26* Spohr Nonet in F, Op 31; Members of the Vienna Octet
8.0 News
8.5 Tchaikovsky Cossack Dance (Mazeppa)
Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel
8 9* Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op 61 Salvatore Accardo Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Masur

Two historic instruments: FRANCIS CHAPELET plays the 1746 Bosch organ in the Monastery of St Jerome, Palma. Majorca
Scheldt Variations on Von der Fortuna
Bohni Chorale Prelude:
Christ lag in Todesbanden Schcldcmann Chorale
Preludes: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her: Ach Golt. vom Ilimmel sieh clarein; Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verdcrbt
Swcelinck Ballet du Grand-due gramophone record
HANS otto plays the 1714 Silbermann organ in Freiburg Cathedral, dor J. C. Bach Prelude and Fugue in F. flat major
W. F. Bach Triple Fugue in F major
J. S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in 0 minor (bwv 505)
(Radio DDR recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Chapelet

PORTIA WIND ENSEMBLE RUBE NSTEIN-HAR TUNG
PIANO DUO
Richard Rodney Bennett Travel Notes
Gilbert Vintcr Two Miniatures
Arensky Suite No 1, for twopianos
Irnnkel Early Morning Music
Pa trie Slandford Suite franchise
Richard Rodney Bennett Four-piece Suite, for two pianos

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett

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Franz Schubert Quartet Florian Zwiauer and Michael Gebauer (violins) Hartmut Pascher (viola) Rudolf Leopold (cello)
Mozart Quartet in E flat (K 42S)
Schumann Quartet in r. Op 41 No 2
(Given before a studio audience)

Contributors

Unknown:
Florian Zwiauer
Violins:
Michael Gebauer
Viola:
Hartmut Pascher
Cello:
Rudolf Leopold

Molecular biology has come of age.
As genetic manipulation and cloning are transformed from obscure laboratory techniques to trials, multi-million pound companies are rapidly emerging to exploit the commercial potential. But how real is this potential? And can the 'unholy alliance' of academe and business survive the demands of each?
John Maddox talks to Dr Charles Weissmann of the University of Zurich, who has a foot in each camp.

Contributors

Interviewer:
John Maddox
Interviewee:
Dr Charles Weissmann
Producer:
Brian Leith

To celebrate the birth of Beta Bartok 100 years, ago today, a concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's
50th Anniversary Season, direct from the Royal Festival Hall. London Sylvia Sass (soprano)
John Mitchinson (tenor) Brian Rayncr Cook (baritone
BBC Singers director JOHN POOLE
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DLKINY conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Part 1
Cantata profana orch Kodaly Five Songs

Contributors

Unknown:
Beta Bartok
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Baritone:
Brian Rayncr Cook
Director:
John Poole
Conductor:
Brian Wright
Leader:
Bela Dlkiny

The publication in Switzerland of Alexander Zinoviev s first novel The Yawning Heights cost him his membership of the Soviet Communist Party and his Soviet citizenship. His second novel, The Radiant Future, was published in exile. On the eve of its publication in English, Leonard Schapiro ,
Emeritus Professor of Political Science with special reference to
Russian Studies at the London School of Economics, considers the extent to which The Radiant Future is a further critique of Soviet society.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Zinoviev
Unknown:
Leonard Schapiro

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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