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Gounod String Quartet in A minor
ZURICH TONHALLE QUARTET Poulenc Sextet
ian BROWN (piano)
ATHENA WIND ENSEMBLE Saint Saens Septet
ANTOINE LAGORCE (trumpet) JEAN LAPORGE (piano) JACQUES CAZAURAN (double-bass)
PARIS INSTRUMENTAL
GROUP gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Ian Brown
Unknown:
Saens Septet
Unknown:
Antoine Lagorce

Listeners' record requests Bach Cantata Ne 33
JULIA HAMARI (contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER Dvorak String Quintet in E flat, Op 97
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA OCTET
Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 4, In G minor ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ETTORE CRACIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Bach Cantata
Contralto:
Julia Hamari
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Conducted By:
Karl Richter
Unknown:
Arturo Benedetti
Conducted By:
Ettore Cracis

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Schubert's last Quartet: a talk by ROBERT ANDERSON ; Sir Compton Mackenzie (born January 1883): 100 years in octaves ... ; From Jazzolettes to
Permutations: ARNOLD whittall considers the music of Matyas Seiber. Producer
PIERS BURTON-PAGE
(Repeated: Tues 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Talk By:
Robert Anderson
Talk By:
Sir Compton MacKenzie
Unknown:
Matyas Seiber.

LINDA ESTHER CRAY (SOp) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY friend conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
Debussy Poème dansé: Jeux Wagner, orch Mottl Wesendonk Lieder 12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* pm Elgar
Symphony No 1, in A fiat major
I have not heard such magical colours as Haitink drew from (Jeux). nor so lightly assured a hand on its volatile pulse.
(THE FINANCIAL TIMES)
(Given last July in the Royal Albert Hall , London) A BBC digital recording

Contributors

Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Albert Hall

Opera in four acts Music by Mozart, libretto by LORENZO DA ponte, after the play by beaumarchais (sung in Italian): records
LONDON OPERA CHORUS
JEFFREY TATE (harpsichord) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI Acts 1 and 2 3.351 Interval Reading
3.45* Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

A five-part series
2: Waiting for Hero
India boasts the most productive and buoyant film Industry in the world. Stars are mobbed in the streets and adulated even more than their counterparts in the Hollywood of the 1930s.
John Keay reflects on the blockbuster song-and-dance movies of the Indian mainstream and on an art-cinema tradition that is growing In confidence.
Contributors include SATYAJIT RAY
SHASHI KAPOOR , MRINAL SEN APARNA SEN, SHY AM BENEGAL Producer DAVID PERRY

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keay
Unknown:
Satyajit Ray
Unknown:
Shashi Kapoor
Producer:
David Perry

Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Staff ,
Han Wilson (trumpets)
Peter Goodwin , David Percer , Colin Sheen , Stephen Saunders (trombones)
Robert Howes (timpani) Christopher Bowers -Broadbent (organ) directed by MICHAEL LAIRD (trumpet)
David Speer Fanfare;
Sonata for trumpet and three trombones; Sonata for three trombones:
Sonata for two cornetts and three trombones; Fanfare
Gottfried Reiche
Sonatina for organ Johann Pezel Two Intradas
Gottfried Reiche Organ Fugue
Heinrich Blber Sonata ' Sancti Polycarpl

Contributors

Unknown:
David Staff
Unknown:
Han Wilson
Unknown:
Peter Goodwin
Unknown:
David Percer
Unknown:
Colin Sheen
Unknown:
Stephen Saunders
Unknown:
Robert Howes
Unknown:
Christopher Bowers
Directed By:
Michael Laird
Unknown:
David Speer
Unknown:
Gottfried Reiche
Unknown:
Johann Pezel

by NIGEL BALDWIN
A pop singer gets unthinkingly caught up with Irish revolutionaries. From prison he is allowed to visit his dying father. Meanwhile, he has sent ' the old man a cassette recording to explain other aspects of his troubled life.
Twelve string and acoustic guitar played by MAX BRITAIN. Special music composed and conducted by ILONA SEKACZ Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Baldwin
Played By:
Max Britain.
Conducted By:
Ilona Sekacz
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Michael:
William Nigby
the old man:
Geoffrey Matthews
Letty:
Maggie Shevlln
a boy/Irish-Michael woman:
Susan Sheridan
a boy David:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Jean, Michael's mother:
Heather Bell
Teacher/nurse:
Patience Tomlinson
a man David:
David McAlister
Headmaster:
Michael Spice
Tudor:
Spencer Banks
Actor:
Hospitalsister Rianabishop
Irishman:
Sion Frobert
School:
Corps Captain/
Prison warder.:
Alan Dudley

Derek Robinson finds a good deal of entertainment value in the personal ad section of the New York Review of Books.
Readers STELLA FORGE and JOHN LIVESEY
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Robinson
Unknown:
John Livesey
Producer:
Brian Miller

Anthony Thwalte explores the variety of 19th-century poetry, familiar and forgotten. 1830-39
Readers FRANCES horovitz
GARY WATSON and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster Is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Thwalte
Readers:
Frances Horovitz
Readers:
Gary Watson
Readers:
Paul Webster
Unknown:
Paul Webster

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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