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Berlioz Overture:
Waverley, Op 2: SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.15* Debussy Two Arabesques (mono)
MARGUERITE LONG (piano)
8.22* Massenet Four Songs: HUGUETTE TOURANGEAU (meZZO-SOP)
RICHARD BONYNGE (piano)
8.33* Devienne Flute Concerto No 2, in D
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL ANTIQUA MUSICA, conducted by JACQUES ROUSSEL : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Piano:
Marguerite Long
Songs:
Huguette Tourangeau
Piano:
Richard Bonynge
Unknown:
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Conducted By:
Jacques Roussel

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Schubert's Symphony No 8, in b minor (Unfinished) by STEPHEN DODGSON. An interview with JESSYE NORMAN, whose recent records of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Berlioz's La mort de Cléopâtre are included in the first of EDWARD GREENFIELD 'S two Summer Retrospects. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson.
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Mozart Symphony No 10, in G (K 74): ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC, directed by JAAP SCURÖDER and CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
10.23* Haydn Cello Concerto in D: PAUL TORTELIER , WÜRTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JORG FAERBER
10.53* Fauré Five Impromptus: JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano): records

Contributors

Directed By:
Jaap Scuröder
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Paul Tortelier
Conducted By:
Jorg Faerber
Piano:
Jean-Philippe Collard

IDA HAENDEL (violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Part 1 Stravinsky Fireworks, Op 4: Violin Concerto in D; Scherzo a la Russe
11.50* Interval Reading
11.55* Part 2 Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony, Op 58 (Given on 1 September in the Usher Hall) BBC Scotland.

Contributors

Violin:
Ida Haendel
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Manfred

Centred on St Cecilia's Hall with its fine collection of early keyboard instruments, this week-long international competition also embraced master-classes, recitals, lectures and an exhibition of harpsichords by modern makers. Last Saturday saw the final round, with competitors playing music by William Byrd and J.S. Bach . Lionel Salter introduces excerpts from the performances and talks to some of the competitors and judges. ( Competition in association with Sony (UK) Ltd)

Contributors

Music By:
William Byrd
Unknown:
J.S. Bach
Introduces:
Lionel Salter

Ninth of ten centenary programmes, Including: The KinK of the Stars BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Four Russian peasant songs (first and second versions): CHORUS OF RADIO FRANCe, conducted by JACQUES JOUINEAU Duo concertant (mono) SAMUEL DUSHKIN (violin) the COMPOSER (piano) gramophone records Canticum sacrum: SOLOISTS LONDON SINFONIETTA AND chorus, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conducted By:
Jacques Jouineau
Violin:
Samuel Dushkin
Conducted By:
David Atherton

A special Edinburgh Festival edition Philip French (in the chair) talks with Owen Dudley - Edwards, William Feaver , J. W. Lambert and Allan Massie about the American Repertory Theatre versions of Soanarelle and Lulu and the Carlo Colla Marionette Company: the Festival Fringe; the world premiere of Peter Greenaway 's feature film The 'Draughtsman's Contract; exhibitions of Scottish Art; and collections of verse by Ron Butlin and Kathleen Jamie.

Contributors

Unknown:
Owen Dudley
Unknown:
William Feaver
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Allan Massie
Unknown:
Carlo Colla
Unknown:
Peter Greenaway
Unknown:
Ron Butlin
Unknown:
Kathleen Jamie.

direct from the Royal Albert
Hall, London
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Bruno Giuranna (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Part 1 Beethoven
Piano Sonata In F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert
Viola:
Bruno Giuranna
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Poems arranged round a theme by Fatrlc Dickinson. Read by JILL BALCON DENYS HAWTHORNE , MICHAEL SPICE and ELIZABETH BELL.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Fatrlc Dickinson.
Read By:
Jill Balcon Denys Hawthorne
Read By:
Michael Spice
Read By:
Elizabeth Bell.
Producer:
Piers Plowright

'A witch: witty, civilised, curious,' said one admirer of Anne Tyler , the American writer whose books have been a critical and commercial success since she was In her early 20s. Her
Pictures of family life in the new South are now reaching readers in Britain. She talks to David Wheeler
Reader FRANCES JEATER
Producer LOUISE purslow

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Tyler
Reader:
David Wheeler
Reader:
Frances Jeater
Producer:
Louise Purslow

NONA LIDDELL (Violin)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) Pawlu Grech Duo I (first UK broadcast) Messlaen Louange a l'immortalité de Jesus Roberto Gerhard Gemini

Contributors

Violin:
Nona Liddell
Piano:
John Constable
Piano:
Pawlu Grech
Unknown:
Messlaen Louange
Unknown:
Roberto Gerhard Gemini

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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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