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Mendelssohn Overture: A
Midsummer Night's Dream LSO/CHMURA
7.17* Schumann Three Fantasy Pieces
JACQUELINE DU PR9 (cello) GERALD MOORE (piano)
7.28* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge ECO/THE COMPOSER
8.0 News
8.5 Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict LSO/PREVIN
8.12* Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 in G (K 453) MURRAY PERAHIA/ECO
8.42* Elgar Symphonic Prelude: Polonia LPO/BOULT records

Contributors

Piano:
Gerald Moore

with Christine Croshaw (piano) direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House,London
Jean Francaix Petit Quatuor J. B. Singelee 4e Solo de
Concert for tenor saxophone and piano Alfred Desenclos Quatuor
Burnet Tuthill Sonata for tenor saxophone and piano, Op 56 Neil Richardson Impressions
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Christine Croshaw

Comic opera in three acts Music by Donizetti
Libretto by GIOVANNI RUFFINI and THE COMPOSER
(sung in Italian) records
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO MUTI The action takes place in Rome during the course of a single day.
Acts 1 and 2 3.25* Interval Reading
3.30* Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Ruffini
Conducted By:
Riccardo Muti

Ingrid Seifert (violin)
Charles Medlam (bass viol) William Hunt (bass viol) John Toll (harpsichord)
Handel Harpsichord Suite No 6 in F sharp minor
C. P. E. Bach Sonata in D for bass viol and basso continuo (wQ 137)
Telemann Trio Sonata in G

Contributors

Violin:
Ingrid Seifert
Bass:
Charles Medlam
Bass:
William Hunt
Unknown:
E. Bach Sonata

It's got that fun about it; it's playing a game against Nature.
Richard Gregory is Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. Among his personal scientific armoury he numbers puzzles, gadgets, o puns and visual illusions.
In conversation with Lewis Wolpert of the Middlesex g Hospital Medical School, t London, he reflects on his somewhat unconventional attempts to catch out the cunning mechanisms of the mind.
Producer ALISON Richards

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gregory
Unknown:
Lewis Wolpert
Producer:
Alison Richards

Harrison Birtwistle
Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
Verses for ensembles Songs by myself
(first performance) conducted by THE COMPOSER Secret Theatre
(London Sinfonietta commission: first performance) PENELOPE WALMSLEY-CLARK (soprano)
LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by DAVID ATHERTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle
Conducted By:
David Atherton

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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