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Samuel Barber Summer Music: BARRY TUCKWELL WIND QUINTET
8.15* Chopin Nocturne in D flat, Op 27, No 2 (mono) JOSEF HOFMANN (piano)
8.20* Borodin String Quartet No 1, in A
FITZWILLIAM QUARTET gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Barber
Music:
Barry Tuckwell
Piano:
Josef Hofmann

Introduced by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:
Haydn's Symphony No 94, in G (Surprise), by STEPHEN DODGSON.
Miscellaneous new releases reviewed by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson.
Reviewed By:
Richard Osborne.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Schumann Toccata, Op 7 YOURI EGOROV (piano) Rossini Stabat Mater CATHERINE MALFITANO , AGNES BALTSA (sopranos) ROBERT GAMBILL (tenor) GWYNNE HOWELL (bass) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF FLORENCE MAGGIO MUSICALS conducted by RICCARDO MUTI : records

Contributors

Piano:
Youri Egorov
Piano:
Catherine Malfitano
Sopranos:
Agnes Baltsa
Tenor:
Robert Gambill
Bass:
Gwynne Howell
Conducted By:
Riccardo Muti

Viraldt Chamber Concertos Including two concertos for four violins (Op 3 Nos 7 and 4) and two versions of the Flue Concerto in D (The Goldfinch) (Op 10 No 3 and Rv 90) STEPHEN PRESTON (flute) ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC director CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD FRANS BRUGGEN (flute) directing the 18th CENTURY ORCHESTRA records:

Contributors

Flute:
Stephen Preston
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Flute:
Frans Bruggen

Weber Overture: Turandot LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS-HUBERT SCHONZELER Schoenberg Two Wunderhorn settings (Six Orchestral Songs. Op 8) ANJA SILJA (soprano) VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by CIIRISTOPH VON DOHNANY1 Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G (K 216) MAYUMI FUJIKAWA (violin) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by WALTER WELLER Krenek Die frulien Griiber: Erinnerung Gottfried von Einrm Ein junger Dichter: In der Fremde: Dietrich fischer-dieskau (baritone) ARIBERT REIMANN (piano) Britten Sinfonia da requiem: London SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER Mahler Das Lied von der Erde: christa LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) FRITZ WUNDERLICH (tenor) NEW Pini.lIARMOMA orchestra, conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Hans-Hubert Schonzeler
Soprano:
Anja Silja
Conducted By:
Ciiristoph Von
Violin:
Mayumi Fujikawa
Conducted By:
Walter Weller
Piano:
Aribert Reimann
Piano:
Britten Sinfonia
Tenor:
Fritz Wunderlich
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

Presented by Roger Nichols Today: the final years, Including movements from the Cello Sonata, the Sonata for flute, viola, and harp and the Violin Sonata: records. Voice of Debussy lyndon BROOK Series producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE

Contributors

Presented By:
Roger Nichols
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork Benedict Nightingale and Peter Porter This week: Don Quixote dramatised by Keith Dewhurst at the National Theatre. Vanishina Heroes by Aldan Higgins on Radio 3. Zoos: an exhibition at the ICA. Arthur Penn's film Georgia's Friends. The Memoru of War poems 1968-81 by James Fenton.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Benedict Nightingale
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Don Quixote
Dramatised By:
Keith Dewhurst
Unknown:
Aldan Higgins
Unknown:
James Fenton.
Producer:
Philip French

A short storv by JANE FAIRFAX
Little did Leonard Slope know that Mrs Barnum 's pet name for him.
' Turn ', bore no relation to his Incipient paunch. Reader Suzanne Bertish Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Fairfax
Unknown:
Leonard Slope
Unknown:
Mrs Barnum
Reader:
Suzanne Bertish
Producer:
Margaret Windham

' I had the notion that to study to be a lawyer would give you a bit of a leg up in the practice of literatureandthatat some suitable day one could glide over and become a successful novelist. Hopeless notion.' Roy Fuller , solicitor, poet, novelist and critic, talks to Anthony Thwaile about a life ' part managerial, part poetic '.
Producer TOM sutcliffe

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Fuller
Unknown:
Anthony Thwaile
Producer:
Tom Sutcliffe

'His bearing could give you a great many clues to a kind of America that most of our writers have never really understood.' Song-and-dance man, golfer, entrepreneur. philanthropist, crony of presidents, BOB HOPE at 79, is the United States' most established comedian.
Charles Marowlti reflects on Hope's longevity and patriotism in conversation with his colleagues. critics and co-stars: JANE RUSSELL , MEL SHAVELSON , ANDREW SARRIS , WARD GRANT and BOB Bore himself.
Including rare excerpts from some of his live broadcasts.
Producers LOUISE PURSLOW and CATHERINE WEARING (First broadcast on R4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Hope
Unknown:
Charles Marowlti
Unknown:
Jane Russell
Unknown:
Mel Shavelson
Unknown:
Andrew Sarris
Unknown:
Ward Grant
Unknown:
Bob Bore
Producers:
Louise Purslow
Producers:
Catherine Wearing

An all-night concert devised by Vilayat Khan (Sitar)
"The gateway to the wider appreciation not just of Indian music but of an entire culture." (Guardian)

Irshad Khan (surbahar) Sultan Khan (sarangi) Niyaz Ahmed Khan (singer) Zakhir Hussein, Avtar Singh (tabla) Darambir Singh, Ballavi Shah (tanpura)

Rag Vllayat Khani Kanhra Thumri; Rag Jog

1.20* In a Saint's Ear
Peter Baker reads a selection of Rabindranath Tagore's observations on our music and concerts.

1.40* Proms 81, Part 2
Tabla solo: Rag Bageshwari, Pilu Thumri: Naghma: Rag Shahana Kanhra

3.40* The Greatest Guru
Muz Murray reflects on three years exploring Indian religious communities.

4.0* Proms 81, Part 3
Rag Rageshwart; Rag Bhairav Bahar Rag Laltt

4.15* The Gardener
Tagore's poems read by Peter Barker

4.20* Proms 81, Part 4
Rag Misra Bhairavl

(Given in the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 28 and 29 August, 1981)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Sitar player/Devised by:
Vilayat Khan
Surbarhar player:
Irshad Khan
Sarangi player:
Sultan Khan
Singer:
Niyaz Ahmed Khan
Tabla player:
Zakhir Hussein
Tabla player:
Avtar Singh
Tanpura player:
Ballavi Shah
Tanpura player:
Darambir Singh
Reader:
Peter Barker
Presenter (The Greatest Guru):
Muz Murray

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