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Copland Quiet City
MICHAEL WINFIELD (cor anglais)
WILLIAM LANG (trumpet) LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER
7.14* Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, in F EUGENE LIST (piano) MOSCOW RADIO AND
TELEVISION SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. conducted by MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH
7.31* Chausson Chanson perpetuelle JANET BAKER
(mezzo-soprano)
MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
7.37* Milhaud Suite provencale: BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.0 News
8.5 Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D
JOHN WILBRAHAM , ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.12* Monn Cello Concerto In G minor: JACQUELINE DU PRt, LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
8.35* Rossini La Danza ELLY AMELING (soprano) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
8.38* Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52 DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH : records

Contributors

Unknown:
William Lang
Piano:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Conducted By:
Maxim Shostakovich
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Conducted By:
Charles Munch
Unknown:
John Wilbraham
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Palestrina at St Peter's
Conditor alme siderum; Exultate Deo: choir OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, conducted by GEORGE GUEST
Magnificat primi toni, in eight parts;
Stabat Mater : CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
Mass: Aeterna Christi munera: PRO CANTIONE antiqua, conducted by BRUNO TURNER : records

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Conducted By:
George Guest
Unknown:
Stabat Mater
Conducted By:
Sir David Willcocks
Unknown:
Aeterna Christi
Conducted By:
Bruno Turner

L'Allegro, II Penscroso ed II Moderate
(performed on original instruments)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS leader NONA LIDDELL conductor
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
PATRIZIA KWELLA (soprano) ROSEMARY HARDY (soprano) STEPHEN LAYTON (treble) WILLIAM KENDALL (tenor) MALDWYN DAVIES (tenor)
STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone)

Contributors

Leader:
Nona Liddell
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soprano:
Patrizia Kwella
Soprano:
Stephen Layton
Tenor:
William Kendall
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe

Presented by Roger Nichols
The Britten Connection continuing last Thursday's theme of music by Britten and musicians closely associated with him. including Britten's Song Cycle: On this Island and at 6.0* Bridge's Suite for string orchestra. Producer
ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE

Contributors

Presented By:
Roger Nichols

by CHRISTOPH GAIIL translated by ANTHONY VIVIS with jn Its ARD production In German for Hessischer Rundfunk this play won the 1981 Italia Prize for radio drama.
Lorenz, a long-term cancer patient, struggles to die with dignity in the face of ambitious doctors and selfish relatives.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christoph Gaiil
Translated By:
Anthony Vivis
Lorenz:
Hugh Dickson
Hypnos:
John Rowe
Othilde:
Rosalind Adams
Fleurette:
Patience Tomlinson
Severin:
Stephen Thorne
Pavel:
Crawford Logan
Judge:
Alan Dudley
Father:
Ronald Herdman
Chaplain:
John Warner
Directed by:
Horst Vollmer

(died 24 June 1882)
ALBERNI STRING QUARTET
EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano) ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano)
Quartet No 1, In D minor. Op 77
Immer bei dlr; Keine sorg um den Weg;
Standchen; Rastlosc
Liebe: Tears, Idle tears (first setting)
Quartet in D major, Op 192 No 2 (Die Schone Mullerin)
(First broadcast performances)
Series producer ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE

a short story by RAINER MARIA RILKE translated by DAVID HEALD
Read by Ian Saynor
In the gymnasium of a German Military Academy, a young cadet considered weak and insignificant by the officers and pupils takes drastic measures to prove himself.

Contributors

Story By:
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated By:
David Heald
Read By:
Ian Saynor

To end the current series, a programme of music by Iannis Xenakis, in celebration of his 60th birthday on 29 May.
Anaktoria for eight instruments (1969)
Ikhoor for string trio (1978)
Dikhthas for violin and piano (1979)
Palimpsest, for 11 instruments (1979)
(first UK broadcasts, except Anaktoria)
SPECTRUM director GUY PROTHEROE
Introduced by The Composer in conversation with Bernard Jacobson

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Jacobson
Series Editor:
Anthony Burton

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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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