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Schubert Overture in D (D 556): VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER
7.12* Borodin Piano Quintet in c minor Members of the VIENNA OCTET
7.33* Boyce Symphony No 6, in F: BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETTA, directed by RONALD THOMAS
7.40* Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.0 News
8.5 Vivaldi Piccolo
Concerto in A minor
(RV 445): MILES ZENTNER LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
8.17* Balakirev Piano
Concerto No 1, in F sharp minor: IGOR ZHUKOV
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALEXANDER DMITRIEV
8.31* Bliss Suite: Miracle in the Gorbals
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Munchinger
Directed By:
Ronald Thomas
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta
Conducted By:
Alexander Dmitriev
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund

BBC SINGERS conducted by STEPHEN PORTMAN
STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ) Henschel Mass for eight voices (first broadcast performance*
Frederick Kelly Prelude in E flat; A Christmas Prelude Brian Easdale Mass for mixed choir and organ (first performance)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Stephen Portman
Conducted By:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Brian Easdale Mass

conducted by KLAUS TENNSTEDT
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
Penderecki Adagietto (Paradise Lost)
Shostakovich Symphony No 9, Op 70
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3. in c
Ravel La valse
(North German Radio recording)
(Shostakovich
Symphonies, by Hugh Oltaway , and Ravel Orchestral Music, by Laurence Davies , are two BBC Music Guides fl.50p from retailers)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Klaus Tennstedt
Piano:
Alexis Weissenberg
Unknown:
Hugh Oltaway
Music By:
Laurence Davies

Opera seria in three acts Music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Libretto by PIETRO METASTASIO
(sung in Italian)
(first UK broadcast) A characteristically high-minded drama of a Roman legate in whom reason and virtue triumph over the baser passions so that he restores his beloved to her betrothed and a kingdom to the enemy he has conquered. NEW PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA OF RADIO FRANCE conducted by VITTORIO NEGRI
(French Radio recording) The action takes place in Antioch in the year 117.

Contributors

Unknown:
Pietro Metastasio
Conducted By:
Vittorio Negri

by Frederic Raphael

A classics schoolmaster takes his annual holiday in Italy, which brings back memories, hopes, disappointments....
with John Bennett as Narrator and Norman Rodway as Gilbert Sage
'An elegy both for greatness and for pettiness, a tribute to scholarship and to its counterparts, a comic reading of tragedy, a tragic reading of comedy, a lament and a celebration of a classic case.'

(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Writer:
Frederic Raphael
Director:
Anthony Moncrieff
Narrator:
John Bennett
Gilbert Sage:
Norman Rodway
Janny Mortimer:
Kara Wilson
James Mortimer:
Stephen Raphael
Mungo Mortimer:
John Rye
MacGlashan:
Stephen Garlick
Roger Hopkinson:
Toby Robertson
Hugo Transom:
Daniel Brown
Cobbold:
William Tollemache
Frances:
Anna Carteret
Mario:
Alfredo Michelson
Harry Dribbs:
Alexander John

(born 1906, died 5 August 1981) An appreciation by Stephen Trier of this famous clarinettist, with personal reminiscences, introducing examples from Kell's many recordings, including works by Mozart, Brahms, Weber, Holbrooke and Debussy. Producer
ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Trier
Producer:
Anthony Friese-Greene

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More