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Grieg, orch Sitt Norwegian Dances, Op 35, Nos 1-3 ECO/LEPPARD
Dohnanyi Variations on a Hungarian Folk song
HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
Thomas Ballet Music (Hamlet) WELSH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA/BONYNGE
Svendsen Norwegian Rhapsody No 1: BERGEN SO/KARSTEN ANDERSEN records

Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor: AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW/ KIRILL KONDRASHIN
Shostakovich Concertino for two pianos
JOHN OGDON AND BRENDA LUCAS Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
ALBION ENSEMBLE
Prokofiev Symphony No 3 in c minor: AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW/ KONDRASHIN records

Contributors

Pianos:
John Ogdon
Pianos:
Brenda Lucas

Sheherazade: ouverture de feerie; Trois chansons for unaccompanied chorus; Daphnis and Chloe (complete) BBC SINGERS
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

Contributors

Conductor:
Brian Wright
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
David Atherton

Opera in four acts
Libretto by Yakov Polonsky, based on Gogol's story 'Christmas Eve'
(Sung in Russian)
(records)

Act 1

2.55* Interval Reading

3.0* Cherevichki Act 2

3.45* Interval Reading

3.50* Cherevichki Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Librettist:
Yakov Polonsky
Musicians:
Moscow Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Solokha, Vakula's mother (a witch):
Ludmila Simonova (mezzo-sop)
Devil:
Oleg Klenov (baritone)
Chub, an old Cossack:
Alexei Krivchenya (bass)
Panas, Chub's friend:
Ivan Kartavenko (tenor)
Oxana, Chub's daughter:
Nina Fomina (soprano)
Vakula, the blacksmith:
Konstantin Lisovsky (tenor)
Mayor:
Gennadi Troitsky (bass)
Schoolmaster:
Vladimir Makhov (tenor)
Wood-Goblin:
Ivan Budrin (baritone)
Old Zaporozhets, a Cossack:
V. Godunov (bass)
Attendant:
V. Rybin (tenor)
Master of Ceremonies:
Viktor Selivanov (bass)
Count Potyomkin:
Alexander Polyakov (baritone)

Robert Cushman (in the Chair) talks with Richard Cork , Christopher Frayling and Marghanita Laski. This week's subjects:
Daniel Vigne 's film The Return of Martin Guerre.
The Hard-won Image exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
The Monday night BBC2 series Round and Round by John Fortune.
The Steiner Reader and Antigones by George Steiner.
Simon Gray 's play The Common Pursuit at the Lyric, Hammersmith.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Cushman
Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski.
Unknown:
Daniel Vigne
Unknown:
Martin Guerre.
Unknown:
John Fortune.
Unknown:
George Steiner.
Unknown:
Simon Gray

In 1971 the pianist
VYACHESLAV GANELIN , the saxophonist VLADIMIR CHEKASIN and the drummer VLADIMIR TARASOV , got together in Lithuania to play free jazz. In March, when this concert was recorded, they became the first group of Soviet jazz musicians to perform in Britain. Part 1
Non Troppo
10.15* Interval Reading
10.20* Part 2
New Wine; Mack the Knife;
The return of the Prodigal Fun

Contributors

Pianist:
Vyacheslav Ganelin
Unknown:
Vladimir Chekasin
Unknown:
Vladimir Tarasov

BBC Radio 3

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