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Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola
PHILIIARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by TULLIO SERAFIN
8.13* Wolf Die Spinnerin ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
GERALD MOORE (piano)
8.16* Chopin Rondo a la Mazur, in F
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)
8.23* Suk A Fairy Tale
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JIRI BELOHLAVEK : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Tullio Serafin
Soprano:
Spinnerin Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Piano:
Chopin Rondo
Conducted By:
Jiri Belohlavek

Introduced by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:
Tchaikovsky's Fantasy-Overture: Romeo and Juliet, by MICHAEL KENNEDY.
SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS talks about his two latest opera recordings: Martinu's The Greek Passion and Verdi's
La Traviata (in English). New opera records reviewed by RODNEY MILNES. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy.
Talks:
Sir Charles MacKerras
Reviewed By:
Rodney Milnes.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Delius A Song of Summer ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERIC FENBY Ibert Trois pièces brèves Francaix Wind Quintet PRO ARTE QUINTET, ZURICH Reger Gesang der Verklarten
NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHOIR AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROLAND BADER : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eric Fenby
Conducted By:
Roland Bader

with Lionel Salter
1981 Innsbruck Radio
Prize for Interpretation of Early Music
The second of three programmes featuring the winning entries in this new international competition.
The second prize was awarded to the BBC for its entry. A Feather on the Breath of God - Hildegard of Bingen, devised and presented by CHRISTOPHER PAGE and performed under his direction by GOTHIC VOICES ,DOREEN MUSKETT (symphony) Readers Penelope Lee ,
Alan Dudley and John Rye Also extracts from other entries which attracted favourable comments from the jury
Producer CHRIS SAYERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Salter
Presented By:
Christopher Page
Unknown:
Gothic Voices
Unknown:
Doreen Muskett
Readers:
Penelope Lee
Readers:
Alan Dudley
Producer:
Chris Sayers

Alexander Walker
(in the Chair) talks with James Fenton , Eric Rhode and Claire Tomalin.
Talk of Love and War, by Don Haworth on Radio 3. Second Sight: a comparison of Mantegna's Samson and Delilah, and Degas' Beach Scene at the National Gallery. 'Harold Nicolson , a biography by James Lees-Milne . Frank Perry 's film Mommie Dearest. The Orestcia by Aeschylus in a new translation by Tony Harrison at the NT.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
James Fenton
Unknown:
Eric Rhode
Unknown:
Claire Tomalin.
Unknown:
Don Haworth
Unknown:
Harold Nicolson
Unknown:
James Lees-Milne
Unknown:
Frank Perry
Translation By:
Tony Harrison

by PETER BARNES adapted from
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by MAXIM GORKY Chekhov was a lifelong enemy of banality. But the outcome of his struggle was determined by longevity - and the Russian railways. Read by David Suchet. Producer MARGARET WINDHAM (David Suchet is an Associate Artist of the RSC)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Barnes
Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
Maxim Gorky
Read By:
David Suchet.
Producer:
Margaret Windham
Producer:
David Suchet

JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER Novelette (first UK broadcast) Les Espaces du sommeil
9.20* Interval Reading
9.25* Lutoslawski Part 2
Concerto for Orchestra
(Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk

When I began to write in South Africa, that very qualifying phrase, ' in South Africa ' didn't exist for me. In the writing sense I did not ' know that I was a white writing in a colour bar society. The poet and critic Tom Paulin considers the connection between public and private life, histories and stories, in the writings of Nadine Gordimer , with contributions from the novelist and readings from her novels and short stories.
Reader Eva Haddon
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Paulin
Unknown:
Nadine Gordimer
Reader:
Eva Haddon
Producer:
Thomas Sutcliffe

BBC Radio 3

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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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