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Boyce Symphony No 7, in B flat - Bournemouth Sinfonietta, directed by Ronald Thomas

7.14 Carl Stamitz Sinfonia concertante, in D - Isaac Stern (Violin), Pinchas Zukerman (Viola), English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim

7.36 Stravinsky Danses concertantes - English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis

8.0 News

8.5 Elgar Coronation March (1911) - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Groves

8.16 Mozart Concerto in C for flute, harp and orchestra (K 299) - Claude Monteux, Osian Ellis, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner

8.43 Verdi Vieni, o Levita (Nabucco) - Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Downes

8.50 Rachmaninov Scherzo - USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov

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Smetana
Smetana died in 1884 at ithe age of 60. For the last ten years of his life he was deaf, but he continued ito compose, producing some of his best works. It is from the music of these final years that this week's programmes are drawn. Vysehrad (Ma vlast)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Libuse: Act 3, scenes 4 and 5 PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE conductor JAROSLAV KROMBHOLC : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conductor:
Jaroslav Krombholc

directed by THOMAS FÜRI Richter Sinfonia in B flat Telemann Concerto in E minor
With MICHAEL COPLEY (recorder)
AURELE NICOLET (flute) Holzbauer Sinfonia concertante in A
THOMAS FURI (violin)
CHRISTOPH SCHILLER (viola) THOMAS DEMENGA (cello) gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Thomas Füri
Unknown:
Michael Copley
Flute:
Aurele Nicolet
Viola:
Christoph Schiller
Cello:
Thomas Demenga

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto)
WOMEN OF THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS
GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S CHORUS
(WFMT Recording.
Overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Amoco (UK) Ltd)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Edo de Waart
Unknown:
Glen Ellyn

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by ANTHONY RIDLEY
Rossini Overture: Semiramide
Fauré Dolly Suite
Derek Bourgeois Overture: The Green Dragon
Wolf Italian Serenade
Hoist, orch Jacob Suite in E flat major

Contributors

Leader:
John Bradbury
Conducted By:
Anthony Ridley
Unknown:
Jacob Suite

Stravinsky Symphony in c SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
Johann Kaspar Mertz Song without words ALICE ARTZT (guitar) Bernstein Halil
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
Hahn Chansons grises MARTYN HILL (tenor)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (DianO) Rossini, arr Respighi La boutique fantasque NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE

Contributors

Conducted By:
Charles Dutoit
Conducted By:
Johann Kaspar Mertz
Guitar:
Alice Artzt
Guitar:
Bernstein Halil
Flute:
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Unknown:
Hahn Chansons
Tenor:
Graham Johnson
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge

The programme of music for the early evening.
Roger Nichols takes the mountain air in a programme which includes music by Schubert. Grainger, Bax and Vaughan Williams and which ends at 6.15* with Berg's Altenberg Lieder , sung by MARGARET PRICE .
Producer ANDREW LYLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Unknown:
Altenberg Lieder
Sung By:
Margaret Price
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

The first of ten programmes in which 24 choirs compete to represent the United
Kingdom in the annual International Choral Competition
Let the Peoples Sing Large Choirs
READING PHOENIX CHOIR
CHOIR OF BATH COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Adjudicators NOEL cox GEOFFREY MITCHELL , HUW TREGELLES WILLIAMS Bernard Keeffe introduces the series and summarises the adjudicators' remarks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Mitchell
Unknown:
Huw Tregelles Williams
Introduces:
Bernard Keeffe

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Philharmonia Orchestra, leader Christopher Warren-Green, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

Mozart Symphony No 36, in C major (Linz) (K 425)

Contributors

Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Christopher Warren-Green
Conductor:
Carlo Maria Giulini

Michael Alexander, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling, who has published three volumes on old English poetry including the Penguin Classic edition of Beowulf, talks about the greatest Anglo-Saxon epic in the context of Anglo-Saxon poetry in general.
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Speaker:
Michael Alexander
Reader:
Julian Glover
Producer:
Brian Miller

Presenter Charles Fox GEOFF WARREN QUARTET Mark Wood (guitar) Ollie Blanchnower (double-bass)
Malcolm Ball (drums)
Geoff Warren (soprano, alto, saxes, flute)

Contributors

Presenter:
Charles Fox
Guitar:
Mark Wood
Double-Bass:
Ollie Blanchnower
Drums:
Malcolm Ball
Saxophones:
Geoff Warren

BBC Radio 3

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