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Rossini Overture: n Signor Bruschino
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICCARDO CHAILLY
S. 9* Ponce Concierto del sur
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
9.34* Meyerbeer, arr Lambert Ballet: Les Patineurs
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Signor Bruschino
Conducted By:
Riccardo Chaii.
Conducted By:
Andre Previn
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge

Introduced by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:'
Mozart's Oboe Quartet, by JOHN WARRACK ;
New choral and organ records reviewed by GORDON REYNOLDS.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
John Warrack
Reviewed By:
Gordon Reynolds.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Bach Chorales: Sehmucke dich, 0 liebe Seele (bwv 654); Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (bwv 655): ALBAN SINGERS
PETER HURFORD (organ) Messlaen Les corps glorieux, Nos 6 and 7 (Joie et clarte des corps glorieux: Le mystère de la Sainte-Trinite)
JENNIFER BATE (organ)
Bach Cantata No 134: Ein Herz , das seinen Jesum lebend weiss
JULIA HAMARI (contralto) kurt equiluz (tenor)
KANTOREl BARMEN-GEMARKE, GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS conducted by HELMUT WINSCHERMANN gramophone records

Contributors

Singers:
Peter Hurford
Unknown:
Messlaen Les
Unknown:
Ein Herz
Unknown:
Jesum Lebend Weiss
Contralto:
Julia Hamari
Conducted By:
Helmut Winschermann

LEWIS MERTHYR BAND conductor NIGEL SEAMAN
Mervyn Bunch Overture: Pinocchio (first gerformance) eter Graham Dimensions: a symphonic study for brass band (first broadcast performance) Edward Gregson Essay for brass band BBC Walej

Contributors

Conductor:
Nigel Seaman
Unknown:
Edward Gregson

Seoirse Bodley is one of Ireland's leading composers. His Third
Symphony was recently premiered at the opening of Dublin's new Concert Hall. His personal choice of records includes several with an Irish flavour, as well as part of Finnegans Wake read by James Joyce himself.
Producer PIERS burton-page

Contributors

Unknown:
Seoirse Bodley
Read By:
James Joyce

Presented by Lionel Salter
East Meets West
The tenor NIGEL ROGERS describes how an encounter with a modern Indian singer threw new light on one of the more intractable problems of singing early Baroque music; with recorded examples by BHIMSEN joshi and NIGEL ROGERS.
NICHOLAS KENYON reviews ROBERT DONINGTON 'S recent book The Rise of Opera.
The fifth of the six
Florentine Intermedi of 1589:TheSavingof
Arion by the Dolphin
NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) with MUSICA RESERVATA director MICHAEL MORROW conducted by ANDREW PARROTT

Contributors

Presented By:
Lionel Salter
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Unknown:
Bhimsen Joshi
Unknown:
Nigel Rogers.
Unknown:
Nicholas Kenyon
Unknown:
Robert Donington
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Director:
Michael Morrow
Conducted By:
Andrew Parrott

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books broadcasting and the visual arts.
Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Margaret Drabble ,
Philip Oakes and Bryaa Robertson.
This week's subjects: Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn at the Greenwich Theatre;
Paintings and sculpture by tire Dutch artist Ger Van Elk at the Serpentine Gallery;
The BBC2 serialisation of Iris Murdoch 's The Bell-
The Great Fire of London, a first novel by Peter Ackroyd ;
Lawrence Kasdan 's film
Body Heat, which stars William Hurt.
Producer pbjup French

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
Bryaa Robertson.
Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn
Artist:
Ger van Elk
Unknown:
Iris Murdoch
Novel By:
Peter Ackroyd
Novel By:
Lawrence Kasdan
Unknown:
William Hurt.

A short story by BERNARD MACLAVERTY
' The Post Office could catch on. Even the Law. Or the taxman.' It's not against the law? ' ' I wouldn't be too sure.'
It's against the law the other way round but not the way we do it.'
Read by Dorcen Hepburn Producer ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Story By:
Bernard MacLaverty
Read By:
Dorcen Hepburn
Producer:
Robert Cooper

leader Malcolm Stewart, conductor David Atherton, with Alfred Brendel (piano)
Part 1
Blomdahl Choreographic Suite: Sisyphos
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in b flat
8-55* Interval Reading
9.0* Concert Part 2
Sibelius Symphony No 2, in D major
(A public concert promoted by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society in Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on 13 October 1981)
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Leader:
Malcolm Stewart
Conductor:
David Atherton
Piano:
Alfreo Brendel

Compiled and written by Sam Richards
A portrait of Robert Hard, 19th-century stonebreaker and singer in South Brent, Devon, whose songs were written down by that indefatigable collector, The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould. A portrait also of South Brent itself, as it is recollected by present-day people who remember earlier times.
Readers Eric Allan and Kenneth Shanley with the voices of David Ashford, Heather Bell and Geoffrey Serle
Music arranged by Sam Richards and sung by Sam Richards, Martin Scragg and Tish Stubbs
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Compiled by/Writer:
Sam Richards
Director:
Brian Miller
Reader:
Eric Allan
Reader:
Kenneth Shanley
Voice:
David Ashford
Voice:
Heather Bell
Voice:
Geoffrey Serle
Music arranged by/Singer:
Sam Richards
Singer:
Martin Scragg
Singer:
Tish Stubbs
Robert Hard:
Fred Bryant
Baring-Gould:
John Linstrum
Eliza Hard:
Constance Chapman
John Helmore:
Francis Lunt
Mr Bate:
John Gabriel
Mr Sheppard:
Timothy Kichtley

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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