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Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F, Op 10 No 5 (nv 434) STEPHEN PRESTON (flute)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
7.14* Mendelssohn
Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.43* Hoist Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.0 News
8.5 Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2: CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.19* Mozart Horn
Concerto No 3, in E flat (K 447)
ALAN CIVIL
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-the-fields, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.34* Copland Ballet Suite: Billy the Kid
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Contributors

Flute:
Stephen Preston
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
George Szell
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner

Vaughan Williams
' In the 25 years from 1918 to 1943, when his idiom was expanding, he wrote the most varied and powerful works of his career.'
(MICHAEL KENNEDY)
This week's programmes concentrate on music from the inter-war years. Concerto in D minor for violin and strings JAMES BUSWELL LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by andre previn A Pastoral Symphony
MARGARET PRICE (SOpranO) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
James Buswell London
Conducted By:
Andre Previn
Soprano:
Margaret Price
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Festival Overture
USSR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
Symphony No 11, in G minor
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KIRIL KONDRASHIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Evgeny Svetlanov
Conducted By:
Kiril Kondrashin

Quintet in G, Op 77
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) with ADRIAN BEERS (double-bass) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Violin:
Brendan O'Reilly
Cello:
Keith Harvey

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor
ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Eric Coates Overture: The Merrymakers
Philip Lord Three Court Dances
Offenbach Waltz: Evening Papers
Charles Barnes Five Sketches
Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
Falla Music from Ballet: Love the Magician

Contributors

Leader:
John Bradbury
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Conductor:
Eric Coates

Purcell Suite: The
Gordian Knot Untied
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord) Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor
PAUL TORTELIER (cello)
MARIA DE LA PAU (piano) Mahler Symphony No 2,
In c minor (Resurrection) (mono)
jo VINCENT (soprano) KATHLEEN FERRIER (contralto)
CHORUS, AMSTERDAM
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER

Contributors

Directed By:
Raymond Leppard
Cello:
Paul Tortelier
Piano:
Maria de la Pau
Soprano:
Jo Vincent
Contralto:
Kathleen Ferrier
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

Charles Dickens was not highly educated "his portraits of schools and school teachers are inimitable in their nostalgia, grotesque humour and seedy horror."
Compiled and presented by Donald Bancroft
Reader Harold Innocent
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Compiled and presented by:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Harold Innocent
Producer:
Pamela Howe

On behalf of the European Broadcasting Union, Radio France presents the first concert of the EBU's 16th
International Concert
Season, given earlier this evening in Sainte Chapelle , Paris
The concert consists of French polyphonic music from the School of Notre Dame to Dufay, performed by the ensemble A SEI voci Part 1:
Music by the Notre Dame School, including
Viderunt omnes by Perotin, and motets from the Montpelller manuscript
Bernard de Cluny Motet: Apollinis eclipsatur
Machaut Hoquetus David Motet: Inviolata genitrix Andrieu Armes , Amours

Contributors

Unknown:
Sainte Chapelle
Unknown:
Andrieu Armes

A short story by SPENA MACKAY , the second prize-winner in the Radio 3 Short Story Competition. This is the second story of hers to be broadcast; a third one. Bananas, will be broadcast later this year. Read by Peter Vaughan Producer ALEC REID
(Peter Vaughan is in ' Seasons Greetings 'at the Apollo Theatre, London)

Contributors

Story By:
Spena MacKay
Read By:
Peter Vaughan
Producer:
Alec Reid
Unknown:
Peter Vaughan

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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