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Schubert Overture in D i In the Italian style)
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
7.13* Monteverdi
Madrigals: 0 mio bene; Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti
NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baSS) INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted bv
JÜRGEN JURGENS
7.23* Chopin Variations on La ci darem la mano, from Mozart's Don Giovanni
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ELIAHU INBAL
7.43* Haydn Symphony No 1, in D
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.0 News
8.5 Dvorak Prague
Waltzes: DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.14* Medtner Sonata in C, Op 11 No 2
HAMISH MILNE (piano)
8.24* Bach Violin Concerto in A minor
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX SOLISTES ROMANDS conducted by ARPAD GERECZ
8.39* Gounod Petite Symphonie for wind instruments: NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE, conducted by EDO DE WAART gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Bass:
Christopher Keyte
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Piano:
Claudio Arrau
Conducted By:
Eliahu Inbal
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Piano:
Hamish Milne
Conducted By:
Arpad Gerecz

Mendelssohn
This week's music was all composed before he reached the age of 20. Piano Sonata in G minor, Op 105: CHRISTIAN IVALDI Symphony No 9, in c, for string orchestra
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT MASUR : records
Producer PETER TANNER

Contributors

Conducted By:
Kurt Masur
Producer:
Peter Tanner

WALTER HILLSMAN at the organ of the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban.
Dudley Buck Concert
Variations on The Star Spangled Banner
Barber Chorale Prelude on Silent Night (Die
Natali, Op 37): Variations on a shape-note hymn, Wondrous Love
Ives Variations on a national hymn, America

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Hillsman

PHILIP FOWKE (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMOMS conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Elgar Overture: Froissart Delius Piano Concerto Arnold Symphony No 8 BBC Manchester

Contributors

Leader:
Dennis Simoms
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves

direct from St John 's. Smith Square, London Zvi Zeitlin (violin)
Clifford Benson (piano) Schubert Fantasy in c major (D 934)
Schoenberg Phantasy Ravel Tzigane
(Tickets, £1.50, available from 11.0 am today or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Repeated: 10 January)

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Piano:
Clifford Benson
Piano:
Schubert Fantasy

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor
ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Mendelssohn Overture: Fingal's Cave
Barber Adagio for Strings Alan Langford Suite Internationale Faure Pavane
Ernest Tomlinson
Fantasia on Auld Lang Sync (first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Leader:
John Bradbury
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Auld Lang

The fourth of ten programmes
Coming to Maturity
JACEK STRAUCH (baritone) EDWARD DOWNES (piano)
Svetik Savishna (Darling Savishna); Akh ti, p'yanaya teterya (You drunken sot!); Seminarist (The seminarist); Hopak (Gopak); Pesn' Yaremi
' Na Dnepre ' (Yarema's song ' On the Dnieper '); Evreyskaya pesnya
(Hebrew song); Pirushka (The feast)

Contributors

Baritone:
Jacek Strauch
Piano:
Edward Downes

Sibelius En Saga
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY Rachmaninov Valse:
Barcarolle; Melodie (from Seven Pieces, Op 10) RUTH LAREDO (piano)
Beethoven Symphony No 6, in f (Pastoral)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT SANDERLING

Contributors

Conducted By:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conducted By:
Kurt Sanderling

The image of the blues singer is of a man with a guitar singing unhappily about his lost love, but this is only partly true.
The American black uses the blues to express his attitudes to life and society. In this series
Francis Smith discovers how revealing blues (and gospel) can be. 1: Instruments
The most unlikely objects were used to produce music-shoe cleaning rags, Jugs and razors.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Smith
Producer:
Derek Drescher

A story by KINGSLEY AMIS Read by Richard Vernon Scientists have developed a time travel pill and can project a man into the year 2010. The
Politicians want to know what the Russians will be doing. But the time traveller is a wine expert. Producer PETER KING

Contributors

Story By:
Kingsley Amis
Read By:
Richard Vernon
Producer:
Peter King

abridged by MICHAEL
AI.EXANDER from his own translation. Read by Harvey Hallsmith
The first in a six-part reading of the Old
English Epic Poem, the greatest work of Anglo-Saxon literature. It tells of the heroic struggle of Beowulf against Grendel's evil and. through this story, of the life and death of a civilisation. Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Read By:
Harvey Hallsmith
Producer:
Brian Miller

with Charles Fox
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia
Barbara Thompson (flute and saxophone) Peter Hartley (violin) Colin Dudman (keyboards) Dill Katz (bass) Jon Hiseman (drums)

Contributors

Presenter:
Charles Fox
Flautist/Saxophonist:
Barbara Thompson
Violinist:
Peter Hartley
Keyboard player:
Colin Dudman
Bassist:
Dill Katz
Drummer:
Jon Hiseman

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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