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Gershwin Overture* Strike up the Band
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
8.12* Joplin Solace: A Mexican Serenade JOSHUA RIFKIN (piano)
8.19* trad Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Dry
Bones: THE KING'S SINGERS
8.23* Bernstein Ballet: Fancy Free
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE composer; records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Piano:
Joshua Rifkin

Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library:
Poulenc's Concerto for organ, timpani and string orchestra, by Felix Aprahamian.
New cassettes reviewed by Edward Greenfield.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Lade
Reviewer:
Felix Aprahamian
Reviewer:
Edward Greenfield
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Mozart Sonata in A minor (K 310)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) Delius Appalachia
(Variations on an old slave song): ALUN JENKINS (baritone), AMBROSIAN
SINGERS, HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by sir JOHN BARBIROLLI : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Mozart Sonata
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Baritone:
Alun Jenkins
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

An American edition, in which John Amis includes music by Bernard Herrmann ,
Harold Shapero , Virgil Thomson and Carl Ruggles , and performances by the BENNY GOODMAN TRIO and ANDRÉ PREVIN and his quartet: records

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Music By:
Bernard Herrmann
Music By:
Harold Shapero
Music By:
Virgil Thomson
Music By:
Carl Ruggles
Unknown:
Benny Goodman

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
John Higgins (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork ,
Owen Dudley Edwards and Margaret Walters. This week's subjects:
Private Dick by Richard Maher and Roger Michell at the Lyric.
Hammersmith.
Rough Treatment, directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Peter Adam 's BBC2 Documentary on Hockney at Work.
The Robert Rauschenberg retrospective at the Tate Gallery.
Gore Vidal 's new novel Creation.

Contributors

Chairman:
John Higgins
Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Owen Dudley Edwards
Unknown:
Margaret Walters.
Unknown:
Richard Maher
Unknown:
Roger Michell
Directed By:
Andrzej Wajda.
Directed By:
Peter Adam
Unknown:
Robert Rauschenberg
Unknown:
Gore Vidal

First of four programmes played by MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN in the Parish Church of St Germain-en-Laye, near Paris
Jehan Alain died in the Battle of Saumur in 1940 at the age of 29. His original and memorable music highlights this tragedy, and his sister
Marie-Claire has recorded it in the church where Jehan and their father Albert Alain were organists before her. Prélude et Fugue Petite piece
Troisdanses:Joies: Deuils; Luttes
A BBC Digital recording (A specification of the instrument is available: send a large stamped addressed envelope to:
Alain Organ Specification, [address removed])

Contributors

Played By:
Marie-Claire Alain
Unknown:
Albert Alain

by A. S. BYATT
' I have this problem with my landlady . . . ' says a man to a girl at a party: and a story unfolds about the way that grief can extinguish love.
Reader John Moffatt
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Contributors

Unknown:
A. S. Byatt
Reader:
John Moffatt
Producer:
Louise Purslow

The last concert in its 50th
Anniversary
Season, direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor
Gonnadi Rozhdestvensky Colin Carr (cello)
Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor

Contributors

Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Gonnadi Rozhdestvensky

Part 2
Maxwell Davies St Thomas Wake: Foxtrot for orchestra
Britten The Young
Person's Guide to the Orchestra
The BBC Symphony
Orchestra 1930-1980, by Nicholas Kenyon , will be published on Thursday. It will be available from booksellers, price £22.50.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Kenyon

(soprano) with David Harper (piano) Schubert Abendbilder ; Strauss Das Bachlein ; Sausle, liebe Myrte Schubert Hoffnung
(Schiller); Das Madchen (Schlegel)
Strauss Three Ophelia Songs
Schubert Himmelsfunken ; An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht

Contributors

Piano:
David Harper
Piano:
Schubert Abendbilder
Piano:
Strauss Das Bachlein
Unknown:
Myrte Schubert Hoffnung
Unknown:
Das Madchen
Unknown:
Schubert Himmelsfunken

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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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