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Listeners' record requests Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
Bellini Oboe Concerto in r flat
HEINZ HOLLIGER BAMBERG SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PETER MAAG
Verdi Ave Maria
SALTARELLO CHOIR conducted by RICHARD BRADSHAW
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2, in E minor
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDREPREViN

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Colin Davis
Unknown:
Heinz Holliger Bamberg
Conducted By:
Peter Maag
Conducted By:
Verdi Ave Maria
Conducted By:
Richard Bradshaw

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Remembering
Gerald Finzi (1901-56): a portrait in words and music.
Nicolai Mvaskovsky : an arch-traditionalist, by ROBERT LAYTON. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated: Wed 2.5 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Gerald Finzi
Unknown:
Nicolai Mvaskovsky
Unknown:
Robert Layton.
Unknown:
Christine Hardwick

SIMON STANDAGE (violin) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello) TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Part 1
Muffat Sonata in d, for violin and continuo
Vivaldi Sonata in D minor, for violin and continuo (rv 12)
Bach Sonata in c minor, for violin (bwv 1001)
1.40* Interval Reading
1.50* Concert. Part 2
Vivaldi Sonata in d, for violin and continuo (RV 755)
Biber Sonata representaliva in A
Leclair Sonata in c, Op 5 No 10
(Given in Nov 1980)

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Bach Sonata

Opera in a prologue and three acts
Music by Verdi Libretto by PiAvE: and BOITO Given in the Bavarian State Opera House, Munich
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WOLFGANG BAUMGART BAVARIAN STATE OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICCARDO CHAILLY (Bavarian Radio recording)
Prologue and Act 1

Contributors

Music By:
Verdi Libretto
Music By:
Boito Given
Chorus-Master:
Wolfgang Baumgart
Conducted By:
Riccardo Chailly

Written and introduced by John Ashe
JOHN ASHE delves into some of the amusing details of relationships in this parallel study of two writers and their patrons: H. G. Wells and Frank Harris , and Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.
Readers
Richard O'Callaghan Clifford Norgate
Geoffrey Matthews
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Richard O'Callaghan is a member of the National Theatre Company)

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ashe
Introduced By:
John Ashe
Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Unknown:
Frank Harris
Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Readers:
Richard O'Callaghan
Readers:
Clifford Norgate
Readers:
Geoffrey Matthews
Producer:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
Richard O'Callaghan

The fifth of seven monologues for radio by PETER BARNES
Dilys Laye as Alison in The Theory and Practice of Belly-Dancing
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (Tuesday at 8.45: John Gielgud in Glory)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Barnes
Unknown:
Dilys Laye
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Unknown:
John Gielgud

A play for radio by WILLIAM TREVOR with David Burke and Elizabeth Proud
Terris is a middle-aged journalist with an obsession for the truth. He can never accept the surface appearance of things and when he meets the youthful
Dorothea and falls in love. there is something about her and her perfect-seeming, oh-so-English county family which nags at him. Just as the desire for truth always nags at him ...
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
William Trevor
Unknown:
David Burke
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Terris:
David Burke
Dr Lvsarth:
Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Lysarth:
Pauline Letts
Dorothea, their daughter:
Elizabeth Proud
Jonathan and Adam, their twin Sons:
Stephen Garlick
Jonathan and Adam, their twin Sons:
David Timson
Agnes Kemp:
Susan Sheridan

by VKRNON SCANNELL
Most of the major English poets seem to have been much preoccupied with death.
Vernon Scannell illustrates some of the deaths of the poets - characteristic, perhaps. of themselves as poets. Reader Michael Spice Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Vkrnon Scannell
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Producer:
Brian Miller

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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