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Byrd Ave verum Corpus CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, conducted by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
7.9* Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet
MEMBERS OF THE MUSIC
GROUP OF LONDON
7.25* Mendelssohn I am a roamer (Son and Stranger. Op 89)
ROBERT EASTON (bass) with ORCHESTRA
7.28* Haydn Symphony No 99, in E flat
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.0 News
8.5 Copland Three Latin American Sketches: NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.16* Shostakovich Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra
ANDRE PREVIN (piano) WILLIAM VACCHIANO
(trumpet), NEW YORK
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.38* Roy Harris Symphony No 3
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by I.EONARD BERNSTEIN : records Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir David Willcocks
Bass:
Robert Easton
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Piano:
Andre Previn
Piano:
William Vacchiano
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Roy Harris
Conducted By:
I.Eonard Bernstein
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Rossini
Scenes from the second act of Guillaume Tell (1829) with GABRIEL BACQUIER in the title role, NICOLAI GEDDA as Arnold, MONTSERRAT CABALLE as Mathilde, KOLOS KOVACS as Walter, and the AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS and ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI : record Producer PETER TANNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Bacquier
Unknown:
Nicolai Gedda
Unknown:
Kolos Kovacs
Conducted By:
Lamberto Gardelli
Producer:
Peter Tanner

leader Richard HOWARTH conducted by HILARY DAVAN-WETTON Mozart Serenade in D (K 100)
Franz Rclzensteln
Serenade in F, Op 29a BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Leader:
Richard Howarth
Conducted By:
Hilary Davan-Wetton
Conducted By:
Mozart Serenade
Unknown:
Franz Rclzensteln

STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) NIGEL NORTH (19th-century guitar)
Songs arranged for guitar accompaniment, published in the composers' lifetimes.
Weber Die Schaferstunde (j 91); Lass mich schlummcr (j 112):
Serenade (j 65): Die Zeit (J 97); Betllerlied (J 137) Schubert Der Pilgrim (d 794): Der Schlffcr
(D536): Nachtstuck (»672)

Contributors

Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe

Robin Orr Symphony in one movement
SCOTTISH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON Ferguson Four Short
Pieces: THEA KING (clarinet) CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
MalcolmArnold Symphony NO 5: CITY OF DIRMINGHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Orr Symphony
Conducted By:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Piano:
Clifford Benson

from Worcester Cathedral
Introit: 0 nata lux (Thomas Tallis )
Versicles and Responses: Gibbons and Barnard
Psalms 28. 29 (Camidge, Randall)
Lessons (Rsv): Exodus 24. vv 12-18; Luke 9, vv 28-45
Canticles: Wood In r
Anthem: Lo. the full final sacrifice (Gerald Finzi )
Voluntary: Fugue No 6 on BACH (Schumann)
Organist ADRIAN PARTINGTON
Master of the Choristers DONALD HUNT

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
Gerald Finzi
Organist:
Adrian Partington

There was this wonderfut slogan: Black is Beautiful '. But there was something about it that bothered me ...
Toni Morrison. author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby, tn conversation with Paul Bailey.
Producer DAVID PERRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Toni Morrison.
Unknown:
Paul Bailey.
Producer:
David Perry

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Isobel Buchanan (soprano)
Ralph Holmes (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Maurice Brett, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)

Hans Werner Henze Ariosi

Contributors

Soprano:
Isobel Buchanan
Violinist:
Ralph Holmes
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Maurice Brett
Conductor:
Dennis Russell Davies

New poetry selected and introduced by Michael Schmidt, with poems by Anne CLUYSENAAR, Rita Goldberg, Robin Ivy, Chris MCCl'LLY, Neil Powell, Robert Welch and ROBERT WELLS.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Schmidt
Unknown:
Anne Cluysenaar
Unknown:
Rita Goldberg
Unknown:
Robin Ivy
Unknown:
Ciiris McCl'Lly
Unknown:
Neil Powell
Unknown:
Robert Welch
Unknown:
Robert Wells
Producer:
Fraser Steel

A fertilised human egg contains a set of instructions which will enable it to give rise to a human being who looks very much like all other human beings. But how is this actually accomplished? How do the cells of a developing embryo move around. become different, give rise to forms like the hand and the brain?
Professor Lewis Wolpert of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School has made a major contribution to the understanding of these problems, and In conversation with John Mnddox he discusses what is now known about the way cells.in an embryo behave.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Lewis Wolpert
Unknown:
John Mnddox
Producer:
Alison Richards

(died 5 August 1958)
Clarinet Quintet, Op 27 JOHN MCCAW
DELME STRING QUARTET Five Songs
IAN CADDY (baritone)
JENNIFER COULTAS (piano) The Birds of Rhiannon, Op 87
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by VERNON HANDLEY gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
John McCaw
Piano:
Jennifer Coultas
Conducted By:
Vernon Handley

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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