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Weber Overture: Oberon AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA. conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.14* Honegger Concerto da camera: JOHN SOLUM (flute), ANTHONY CAMDEN (cor anglais)
ENGLISH SINFONIAORCIIESTRA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
7.30* Schubert Impromptu in E flat (D 946 No 2)
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) 7.40* Sibelius Karelia
Suite: BOSTON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
8.0 News
8.5 Giuseppe Snmmartinl Concerto in F major
MICIIALA PETRI (recorder) ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-
THE-FIELDS directed by IONA BROWN
8.18* Johann Strauss Waltz: Roses from the South
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.28* Dvorak Sonatina in r. major. Op 100 JOSEF SUK (violin)
ALFRED IIOLECEK (piano)
8.49* Ives. orch William Schuman Variations on ' America '
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ZUBIN MEliTA : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Flute:
John Solum
Flute:
Anthony Camden
Conducted By:
Neville Dilkes
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Conducted By:
Sir Colin Davis
Unknown:
Giuseppe Snmmartinl
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Piano:
Alfred Iiolecek
Unknown:
William Schuman
Conducted By:
Zubin Melita

Chopin
He has found, If not a complete renewal of piano music, at least a part of that which we hare long sought in vain, namely an abundance of original ideas to be found nowhere else ...
(FRANCOIS FÉTIS, 1832)
Introduction and Polonaise in c major. Op 3 MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICII (cello)
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano) Five Mazurkas. Op 7
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano) Piano Trio in r, minor, Op 8: BEAUX ARTS TRIO gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Martha Argerich
Piano:
Arthur Rubinstein

direct from St John 's Smith Square. London Vermeer Quartet
Shmuel Ashkenasl and Pierre Menard (violins) Bernard Zaslav (viola) Marc Johnson (cello)
Ilaydn Quartet in d. Op 20 No 4
Mendelssohn Quartet in A. Op 13
(Tickets £1.50, available from 11.0 am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])
(Repeated: Easter Day)

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
Shmuel Ashkenasl
Violins:
Pierre Menard
Viola:
Bernard Zaslav
Cello:
Marc Johnson

ULSTER ORCHESTRA leader Richard HOWARTH conducted by HOWARD WILLIAMS Joseph Horovitz
Overture: Horizon
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
Wolf Italian Serenade ASHLEY MASON (SOlOiSt)
Larsson The Winter's Tale Bridge There is a willow Jacob Suite in F
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Leader:
Richard Howarth
Conducted By:
Howard Williams
Conducted By:
Joseph Horovitz
Unknown:
Jacob Suite

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor - Krystian Zimerman (piano) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

Bruch Septet in E flat - Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet

Nielsen Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable) - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

4: Changes in the Countryside
* At first, no one could publish what famine and collectivisation were doing. Then peasants began creeping back into fiction as quaint survivors of an outmoded way of life. Gradually, touches of real life began breaking through. resulting in a new school of writers who are the pride of official publishers and admired by emigre writers like Solzhenitsyn.' Mary Seton-Watson . of the BBC's Russian
Service, with the last of her selections from stories and novels published in the many state-owned literary journals.
Readers GWEN WATFORD BENJAMIN WHITROW
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Seton-Watson
Producer:
Louise Purslow

The Passion and Death of Our Lord
Jesus Christ. according to St Luke.
MARY THOMAS (soprano) BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bar) MARIUS RINTZLER (bass) RAIMUND IIERINCX (narrator)
CHETHAM'S SCHOOL OF
MUSIC CHORUS chorus-master
STEPHEN PINNOCK HALLE CHOIR chorus-master
RONALD FROST
HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Part 1

Contributors

Soprano:
Brian Rayner
Bass:
Marius Rintzler
Chorus-Master:
Stephen Pinnock
Chorus-Master:
Ronald Frost
Leader:
Martin Milner
Conducted By:
Maurice Handford

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 comments from the rovelist and readings from her work.
Reader EVA HADDON
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Paulin
Unknown:
Nadine Gordimer.
Producer:
Thomas Sutcliffe

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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