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Schumann Overture: Manfred
CHICAGO SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
7.19* Bizet Seguidilla and Duet (Carmen): MARIA
CALLAS (soprano), NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor), PARIS OPERA orchestra, conducted by GEORGES PRÊTRE
7.24* Svendsen Romance in G: JOSEF suk (violin)
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
7.32* Stravinsky Ballet
Suite: Petrushka: COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER
8.0 News
8.5 Mozart Sonata in D, for two pianos (K 448)
VLADIMIR ASIIKENAZY and MALCOLM FRAGER
8.28* Berwald Symphony in E flat: LONDON symphony ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIXTEN ehrling : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Soprano:
Nicolai Gedda
Conducted By:
Georges Prêtre
Conducted By:
Vaclav Smetacek
Unknown:
Vladimir Asiikenazy
Unknown:
Malcolm Frager
Conducted By:
Sixten Ehrling

First of two programmes today based on a concert given at the 1980 Schwetzingen Festival by ROBERT ZIMANSKY (violin) JAN POLASEK (cello)
MICHAEL PONTI (piano) Brahms Trio in it. Op 8 (South German Radio recording)

Contributors

Violin:
Robert Zimansky

leader
Christopher warren-green , conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
RUGGIERO RICCI (violin)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Beethoven Symphony No 3, in E flat (Eroica)
(Given on 13 March at Sir Thomas Picton
School, Haverfordwest. in association with the Welsh Arts Council)

Contributors

Leader:
Christopher Warren-Green
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund
Violin:
Ruggiero Ricci

Symphony No 10 in o (K 74); Recitative and Aria: Basta, vincesti - Ah, non lasciarmi (K486a); Aria: Voi avete un cor fedele (K 217); Symphony in D (after the Posthorn Serenade, K 320)
SONA ghazarian (soprano) SALZBURG MOZARTEUM
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GERHARD WIMBERGER
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1980 Salzburg Festival)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gerhard Wimberger

First of three programmes to mark the anniversary of his death on 31 March 1631
Compiled and presented by Michael Flinch
Readers Hugh Burden and Rosalind Shanks

"Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot...."

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Compiled by/Presenter:
Michael Flinch
Reader:
Hugh Burden
Reader:
Rosalind Shanks
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin

(1839-81)
A concert direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Yvonne Lea (soprano)
Stephen Roberts (baritone) Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
London Symphony Chorus director RICHARD HICKOX London Symphony Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS conductor Claudio Abbado Triumphal March;
Scherzo; Intermezzo; A Night on the Bare Mountain; Songs and Dances of Death

Contributors

Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Bass:
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Leader:
Michael Davis
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

A portrait of the Wiltshire poet
Alfred Williams , written and narrated by John Wells , with Timothy West as Alfred Williams
At the beginning of this century, a young farm-hand created a minor sensation when he chalked Greek verbs on his steam-hammer in the Great Western Railway Works at Swindon.
Alfred Williams continued his own private war against his surroundings by teaching himself Greek, Latin and Sanskrit,wrotea definitive account of the Railway works, published volumes of poetry, collections of folk songs as well as translations of traditional Indian fables.
Recorded on location in and around Swindon by LLOYD SILVERTHORNE Producer
MARGARET WINDBAM Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Williams
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Timothy West
Unknown:
Alfred Williams
Unknown:
Lloyd Silverthorne
Unknown:
Margaret Windbam
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins

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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