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Hellendaal Concerto in E flat. Op 3 No 4
ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK Bach Cantata No 89: Was soil ich aus dir machen, Ephraim?: MARCUS KLEIN (treble), PAUL ESSWOOD (counter-tenor)
MAX VAN EGMOND (bass) HANOVER BOYS' CHOIR
COLLEGIUM VOCALE, GHENT LEONHARDT-CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
Rameau Overture and Suite of dances from
Hippolyte et Aricie: LA
PETITE BANDE , directed by SIGISW ALD ItUIJKEN: records

Contributors

Directed By:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Marcus Klein
Unknown:
Paul Esswood
Bass:
Max van Egmond
Directed By:
Gustav Leonhardt
Unknown:
Petite Bande

Listeners' record requests Handel Overture: Esther ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Sibelius Kullervo Symphony
RAILI kostia (soprano)
USKO VIITANEN (bass-bar) HELSINKI UNIVERSITY MALE
VOICE CHOIR
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Sibelius Kullervo
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund

with Michael Oliver Mussorgsky's
Khovanshchina: a talk by david BROWN ;
1Writtentoorder':
ROBERT SIMPSON diSCUSSeS his eighth symphony; A conversation with RUGGIERO RICCI.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (Repeated: Tues 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Talk By:
David Brown
Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Unknown:
Ruggiero Ricci.
Producer:
Graham Sheffield

Verdi Requiem
LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano) JANET BAKER (meZZO-SOp) VERIANO LUCCHETTI (tenor) JOSE VAN DAM (baSS)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS director MARGARET HILLIS conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
(WFMT recording.
Overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Amoco (UK) Ltd)

Contributors

Director:
Margaret Hillis
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

The story of the unrequited love of Mary Ann Evans for Herbert Spencer in the early
1850s. before she became famous as George Eliot the norelist, and he as a philosopher.
Compiled from their correspondence and presented by Gabriel Woolf with Maureen O'Brien
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Ann Evans
Unknown:
Herbert Spencer
Unknown:
George Eliot
Presented By:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Maureen O'Brien
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Herbert Spencer:
Alan Rowe
John Chapman:
Martyn Read
Housekeeper:
Judy Franklin

BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bar) KEITH SWALLOW (piano) Jean Rlvler Prière Faure Song-Cycle:
L'horizon chimérique
Henri Dutllleux Quatre mélodies (first UK broadcast)
Ravel Don Qulchotte a Dulcinée
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Rayner
Piano:
Jean Rlvler
Unknown:
Henri Dutllleux Quatre

The last of a six-part series containing a selection of the works commissioned by the BBC during its first 60 years.
Up to date
Geoffrey Poole Chamber Concerto (1980)
London Sinfonietta conducted by Elgar Howarth
Giles Swayne 'creatures of the air and water' and 'creatures of the dry land' from Cry (1980) BBC Singers conductor John Poole
Richard Rodney Bennett Anniversaries (1982)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN
(Repeats)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Poole
Unknown:
Howartm Giles Swayne
Conductor:
John Poole
Conductor:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
James Loughran
Series Producer:
Piers Burton-Page
Series Producer:
Anthony Burton

Since the practice of psychiatric medicine emerged in the early
19th century, doctors f have been intrigued by Shakespeare's tragic heroes and Hamlet in particular. oesapsychiatric analysis of Shakespeare's protagonists bring us any closer to the author's Intentions? Do we understand Shakespeare's attitude to madness?
Michael Neve , Lecturer in the History of Medicine at University
College, London, reflects on some of the writings.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Neve

A story of 16th-century
Scotland by ROBERT FORREST
Alison is a tinker lass who enjoys telling stories and making love; but when she practises both arts on the king she is accused of witchcraft. Sharp writing and performances an imaginative feat, reinventing an all-but-unknowableworld (THE LISTENER)
Director TOM KINNIMMONT BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Forrest
Alison Alrd:
Maureen Carr
Tarn Fisher:
Ron Bain
James Stewart, King of Scotland:
Benny Young
Sir James Hamilton of Kincavel:
Alec Heggie
Brother Matthew:
Michael Elder
Rab Cowan:
Jimmy Yuill
Davy Nicol:
Charles Kearney
Ellie Duncan:
Monica Brady
Alec Sutton:
Gerard Slevin

Superior gossip related by Maxine Audley ,
Clive Swift and John Warner and compiled by BARBARA PATERSON from A Century of Anecdotes by MR JOHN TIMMS
Producer JENYTII WORSLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Maxine Audley
Unknown:
Clive Swift
Unknown:
John Warner
Unknown:
Barbara Paterson
Unknown:
Mr John Timms
Producer:
Jenytii Worsley

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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