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Waldteufel Waltz: Grenadios
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HENRY KRIPS Arensky Suite No 1 for two pianos
ADOLF AND MIKHAIL GOTUEB Dell'Acqua Villanelle
EDITA GRUBEROVA (soprano) STUTTGART RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT EICHHORN
Fucik The Bear with a Sore Head
LAURENCE PERKINS (bassoon) MICHAEL HANCOCK (piano)
Ole Bull Visit to a Summer Farm
ARVE TELLEFSEN (violin)
BERGEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by KARSTEN ANDERSEN
Shostakovich Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Themes
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Henry Krips
Conducted By:
Kurt Eichhorn
Bassoon:
Laurence Perkins
Piano:
Michael Hancock
Conducted By:
Karsten Andersen
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink

Presenter Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Strauss's opera 'Salome', by RODNEY MILNES.
New records of chamber music, reviewed by NOEL GOODWIN. Producer
ANTHONY CHEEVERS
Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.
Reviewed By:
Noel Goodwin.
Unknown:
Anthony Cheevers
Editor:
Arthur Johnson

Poulenc Clarinet Sonata GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) CHARLES WADSWORTH (piano) Dvorak String Quartet in G, Op 106
GABRIEU STRING QUARTET Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) LOREN GUCKMAN (bassoon) records

Contributors

Bassoon:
Loren Guckman

A series of 16 programmes 7: Variations
Parry Symphonic Variations
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Delius Appalachia:
Variations on an old slave song with final chorus JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar) LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by RICHARD HICKOX
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Grainger Green Bushes: Passacaglia on an English folk song
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY arr Grainger Brigg Fair IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
THE ELIZABETHAN SINGERS conducted by LOUIS HALSEY Delius Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
John Shirley-Quirk
Conducted By:
Richard Hickox
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Conducted By:
Kenneth Montgomery
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Unknown:
Halsey Delius Brigg
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Gilbert Adair , Peter Porter and Hilary Spurling.
This week's subjects:
Swimmer: a play for radio by Christopher Russell on Radio 3.
A film version of Proust's Swann in Love, directed by Volker Schlondorff.
English Romanesque Art at the Hayward Gallery. Ilya Ehrenburg : a biography by Anatol Goldberg.
Michael Frayn 's new play Benefactors. Producer
THOMAS SUTCUFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Gilbert Adair
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Hilary Spurling.
Unknown:
Christopher Russell
Directed By:
Volker Schlondorff.
Unknown:
Ilya Ehrenburg
Unknown:
Anatol Goldberg.
Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Unknown:
Thomas Sutcuffe

The writer is less important than the book. The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah , in conversation with Graham Fawcett about his recently completed trilogy of novels set in Somalia of the 1970s, and about how he sees his role as a writer in Africa today. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Contributors

Unknown:
Nuruddin Farah
Unknown:
Graham Fawcett
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

Opera in three acts Libretto by MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Music by Paul Dukas
(sung in French): records
FRENCH RADIO CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA OF FRENCH RADIO conducted by ARMIN JORDAN The action takes place in Bluebeard's castle, in the Middle Ages: Act 1
8.5* Interval Reading
8.10* Ariane et
Barbe-bleue: Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Maeterlinck
Music By:
Paul Dukas
Conducted By:
Armin Jordan

Compiled and presented by Patric Dickinson De la Mare's later poems, many in the form of internal dialogues or monologues, are original and fascinating. 'He uses common words to carry a sound and meaning never heard before.'
Reader SEAN BARRETT
Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHUN

Contributors

Presented By:
Patric Dickinson
Reader:
Sean Barrett
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughun

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