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Schubert Overture in D (In the Italian Style)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RUDOLF SCHWARZ
7.14* Mozart Concertone in c (K 190): IONA BROWN. CARMEL KAINE (violins) TESS MILLER (Oboe)
KENNETH HEATH (cello)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.39* Haydn Symphony No 10, in D: L'ESTRO
ARMONICO, directed by DEREK SOLOMONS
8.0 News
8.5 Hummel Partita in E flat: WHISPERING WIND BAND, conducted by ALAN HACKER
8.20' Arne Where the bee SUCkS: SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano), MARTIN ISEPP (harpsichord)
8.22* Schumann Konrertstuck in G. Op 92
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano) BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.39* Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country NEW PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rudolf Schwarz
Unknown:
Iona Brown.
Violins:
Carmel Kaine
Cello:
Kenneth Heath
Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Directed By:
Derek Solomons
Conducted By:
Alan Hacker
Soprano:
Sheila Armstrong
Piano:
Wilhelm Kempff
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Menotti (b 7 July 1911) Menotti combines the theatrical sense of a popular playwright and a Pucciniesque musical vocabulary with an Italianate love of liquid language and a humane interest in characters.
(H. WILEY HITCHCOCK )
Excerpts from The Old Maid and the Thief
Miss Pinkerton MARGARET BAKER (SOpranO) ORCHESTRA OF THE TEATRO
VERDI, TRIESTE, conducted by JORGE MESTER : records

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Wiley Hitchcock
Soprano:
Miss Pinkerton Margaret Baker
Conducted By:
Jorge Mester

led by TREVOR WILLIAMS conducted by JONATHAN DEL MAR ANTON WEINBERG (clarinet) Bartok Dance Suite Busoni Concertino in B flat major, for clarinet and orchestra Seiber Concertino for clarinet and strings Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2, in c minor BBC Scotland.

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Williams
Conducted By:
Jonathan Del Mar
Clarinet:
Anton Weinberg

Bartok String Quartet No 3, in c sharp (1927) LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Rachmaninov The harvest of sorrow; A dream MARTTI TALVELA (bass) RALF GOTHONI (piano) Szymanowski Mythes, Op 30 KAJA DANKZOWSKA (violin) KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN (piano)

Contributors

Bass:
Martti Talvela
Piano:
Ralf Gothoni
Violin:
Kaja Dankzowska
Piano:
Krystian Zimerman

Last of six concerts
Introduced by Arnold Whittall
BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader Bela Dekany conducted by Michael Gielen.

Part 1
Webern Two Songs on texts by Goethe, Op 19; Symphony, Op 21
Michael Gielen Four Poems of Stefan George

Contributors

Introduced By:
Arnold Whittall
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Micnael Gielen.
Unknown:
Michael Gielen
Unknown:
Stefan George

A short story by NICHOLAS BURBRIDGE. Read by Patience Tomlinson
Arthur Moth is trying to complete his History of the Decline of Western Democracy but the distress caused by a cold sore - herpes simplex - has no limits.

Contributors

Story By:
Nicholas Burbridge.
Unknown:
Tomlinson Arthur Moth
Producer:
Pat Trueman

Part 2
Jonathan Lloyd Toward the whitening dawn (first performance)
Wolfgang Rihm Cuts and dissolves (first UK performance)
Webern Variations for orchestra,Op30
(Given on 4 March in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wolfgang Rihm

Last of six conversations with Alastair Hetherington When Michael books a room for the honcumoon with twin beds that are screwed to the wall, people say it must be autobiographical. It's not. That gives me satisfaction, that people usually guess wrongaboutwhat's' autobiographical and what isn't.
David Lodge , satirical novelist, Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham University, and winner of the Hawthornden and Whitbread prizes, on how the academic rates the novelist and how the writer rates the academics, structuralists included. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Hetherington
Unknown:
When Michael
Unknown:
David Lodge
Producer:
Louise Purslow

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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