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Listeners' record requests Ethel Smyth Overture: The Wreckers
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Boyce Concerto Grosso in E minor, for two violins, cello and orchestra THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL DOBSON
Arensky Trio In D minor JASCHA HEIFETZ (Violin)
GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (cello) LEONARD PENNARIO (piano) Krommer Clarinet Concerto In E flat
BOHUSLAV ZAHRADNIK PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRANTISEIt VAJNAR Bartok Hungarian Sketches
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA

Contributors

Unknown:
Ethel Smyth
Conducted By:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Conducted By:
Michael Dobson
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Cello:
Gregor Piatigorsky
Piano:
Leonard Pennario
Unknown:
Bohuslav Zahradnik Prague
Conducted By:
Frantiseit Vajnar
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

Presented by Michael Oliver In search of the composer - in the first of two talks, PETER WILLIAMS considers whether authenticity Is possible:
A celeste player's guide totheorchestra:
Harmoniums and Organs, by MICHAEL ROUND; The poem and the song: a talk by GEORGE BIRD.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (Repeated: Tues 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Talk By:
George Bird.
Producer:
Graham Sheffield

YO YO MA (Cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by SIR JOHN PRITCHARD
Mozart Symphony No 38, in D (Prague) (K S04)
Giles Swayne Orlando's Music
12.10pm* Interval Reading
12.15*
Strauss Don Quixote , Op 35
An incomparably elegant performance of Don Quixote ; a reading fully equal to each and every exhausting demand.
(DAILY TELEGRAPH)
(Given last August in the Royal Albert Hall , London) A BBC digital recording

Contributors

Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Sir John Pritchard
Unknown:
Strauss Don Quixote
Unknown:
Don Quixote
Unknown:
Albert Hall

A portrait of the writer Nigel Dennis compiled and presented by Liane Aukln
With MICHAEL FRAYN
J. W. LAMBERT ,
JAMES OLIVER , ARTHUR MULLARD and NIGEL DENNIS
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Dennis
Presented By:
Liane Aukln
Presented By:
With Michael Frayn
Presented By:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
James Oliver
Unknown:
Nigel Dennis
Producer:
Piers Plowright

YURI MASUROK (baritone) CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano) Klmsky-Korsakov
Octave; On the hills of Georgia; The billowy clouds are dispersing
RachmanlnovInthesilent night; I came to her; All things depart; Night is mournful; When yesterday we met; Oh no, my beloved, do not leave me Two Ukranian folk songs: Why is your heart as hard as a walnut?; Black eyebrows
(Given in 1981 in the Wigmore Hall, London)

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music composed by DAVID TIMSON sung by ALAN DUDLEY THERESA STREATFEILD ,
DAVID TIMSON , PATIENCE TOMLINSON Directed by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Composed By:
David Timson
Sung By:
Alan Dudley
Sung By:
Theresa Streatfeild
Unknown:
David Timson
Unknown:
Patience Tomlinson
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Leontes, King of Sicilia:
Ronald Pickup
Hermione, his wife:
Hannah Gordon
Polixenes,King of Bohemia:
Gary Bond
Paulina:
Michael Gough
Antigonus Camillo:
Spice Michael
Autolycus:
Derek Smith
a rogue:
Cyril Luckham
the Old shepherd:
David Timson
the Clown,his son:
Angela Pleasence
Perdita, his ' daughter:
Christopher 'Guard
Florizel Time:
John Glelgud
Actor:
Patience Tomlinson
Dion/Court officer:
John L Ivesey
Actor:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Actor:
Spencer Banks
Paulina's steward:
Alan Dudley
Emilia:
Pauline Letts
Mopsa:
Theresa Streatfeild
First Lord/Mariner:
Stephen Thorne
Jailer/Rogero:
George Parsons
Lord/Shepherd's servant:
Steve Hodson
Gentleman at court:
Hugh Dickson
Shepherdess:
Stella Forge

A short story by RAYMOND DIXON
Read by John Le Mesurier Travelling on the Underground, Frank Waldock looks around and discovers he is locked up with the living dead.
Producer PETER KING

Contributors

Story By:
Raymond Dixon
Unknown:
Frank Waldock
Producer:
Peter King

Anthony Thwaite explores the variety of 19thcentury poetry, familiar and forgotten.
1880.89
Readers FRANCES HOROVITZ , GARY WATSON , PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

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

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