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(Manon Lescaut, Act 3) BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARA. IAN
8.10* Franck, arr Fuller Pièce héroïque: PHILIP JONES BRASS KNSEMBLE directed by JOHN iveson
8.19* Ireland Suite: The Overlanders
WEST AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by DAVID MEASHAM
8.40* Mascagni Duet:
Suzel, bon di (L'amico Fritz)
MIRELLA FREN1 (soprano) LUCIANO PAVAROTT1 (tenor) ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT garden, conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI
8.49* Schmidt Intermezzo (Notre Dame): RERUN
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records
Introduced by John Lade Building a Library:
Music of Sir Arthur Bliss , by EDWARD GREENFIELD New opera records reviewed by RODNEY MILNES
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
Janacek Capriccio for piano (left hand) and wind ensemble PAUL CROSSLEY
MEMBERS OF THE LONDON sinfonietta, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
Sibelius Symphony No 5, in E flat: BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND : records
BRIGHOUSE AND RASTRICK BAND
Conductor JAMES SCOTT Philip Sparke Land of the long white cloud
Derek Bourgeois Serenade Edward Gregson Connotations
BBC Manchester
Travellers' Tales
Composers abroad provide the theme for
Jeremy Siepmann 's selection of records this week, including Britten in Bali, Willaert in Italy, Handel in England, and Mozart in Prague. Aaron Copland visits Mexico, Bizet conjures up Spain. and Brahms. travelling purely inimagination,finds himself (or thinksitie does) in Hungary.
Nicolas Bernier Cantata: Le café
Marin Marais La gamme Michel de Monteclair
Cantata: Le triomphe de la Constance
Chris de Souza introduces his personal selection of outstanding music broadcasts of the past week. VIIF only
with Peter Clayton
Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair) talks with Anthony Curtis. William leaver and Stuart Hood This week's subjects-The Blood of Hussain directed by Jamil Dehlavi. Swan Song in the Radio Theatre 81 series on Radio 3.
Looking into the Deep
End, a first collection of verse by David Sweetman. The NT revival of Miller's The Crucible at the Comedy Theatre.
Opera in three acts
Music by Verdi, libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE (sung in Italian) direct from the Metropolitan
Opera House. New York
Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House chorus-master
DAVID STIVENDER Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House conducted by James Levine
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. See page
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Act 1
Compiled with introductions by JOHN ASH 1: My First Acquaintance with Poets
In 1798 Hazlitt set out through the mud to hear Coleridge preach at Shrewsbury. Here he describes his impression of the poet
Presented by Robin Holmes with John Woodvine as William Hazlitt
Producer BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol
Act 2
The Music Critic
Howard Mills. Senior Lecturer at Kent
University, comments on the little-known aspects of Thomas Love Peacock with Geoffrey Matthews as Peacock, and the voices Of DOUGLAS BLACKWELL and KENNETH SHANLEY
Act 3
A shortened version of his 1980 Inaugural Address to a Joint Session of the Anstotelean Society and the Mind Association, by Ronald Hepburn ,
Professor of Philosophy at Edinburgh University
by Bach: first of two Programmes
No 1 in F major; No 4, in G major; No 6, in B flat major
John Holloway(violin) Philip Pickett and Rachel Beckett (recorders) David Reichenberg (Oboe)
Continuo: Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello)
Francis Baines (violone) John Toll (harpsichord) Taverner Players leader John Holloway
directed by Andrew Parrott (harpsichord)
(Second prog: Sun 6.20)
Where are you, little star?; Yeromushka's Cradle Song: BERNARD kruysen (baritone)
NOËL LEE (piano): record