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Woodcock Oboe Concerto in E flat
NEIL BLACK (Oboe)
THAMES CO/MICHAEL
DOBSON Purcell Come ye sons of art NORMA BURROWES (soprano) JAMES BOWMAN and CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenors) ROBERT LLOYD (bass)
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON/DAVID MUNROW
Hamilton Harty Variations on a Dublin Air
RALPH HOLMES (violin)
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN
THOMSON
Bax Dance in the Sunlight
ENGLISH SINFONIA/NEVILLE DILKES
Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes
KEITH PUDDY (clarinet)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Sheherazade-Fantasia (arrangement from the Symphonic Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov)
SERGE PROKOFIEV (piano roll) (mono)
Khachaturian Violin Concerto in D minor
DAVID OISTRAKH (violin)
MOSCOW RADIO SO/THE COMPOSER records

Contributors

Unknown:
Dobson Purcell
Soprano:
Norma Burrowes
Soprano:
James Bowman
Soprano:
Charles Brett
Clarinet:
Keith Puddy

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Debussy's Images for piano, by ROGER NICHOLS.
Ten Schubert Symphonies! WILLIAM MANN on a new collection which includes reconstructions of unfinished works.
New records of chamber music reviewed by NOEL GOODWIN. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS Editor ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Roger Nichols.
Unknown:
William Mann
Reviewed By:
Noel Goodwin.
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers
Editor:
Arthur Johnson

Bach Violin Sonata in G (BWV 1019)
MONICA HUGGETT (violin)
TON KOOPMAN (harpsichord)
Schubert, realised by Brian Newbould Symphony in D (D 936a) ACADEMYOFSTMARTIN-1N-THE-FIELDS/
MARRINER records

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Newbould Symphony

leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor EDWARD DOWNES
ELISABETH LEONSKAJA (piano)
Roger Smalley Variations for strings
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
12.15 pm* Interval Reading
12.20* Sibelius Symphony No 5 in E flat major
(Given on 16 October in the Kongresshaile. Augsburg)

Contributors

Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Piano:
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Piano:
Roger Smalley

KENNETH SILLITO (violin) KEITH HARVEY (Cello)
THOMAS MARTIN (double-bass) THEA KING (clarinet)
TIMOTHY BROWN (horn) NICHOLAS HILL (hom)
MALCOLM BINNS (piano)
Moscheles Fantasy, Variations and Finale, Op 46 for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Ferdinand Ries Grand Septuor in E flat. Op 25
(first broadcast performances)

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Horn:
Timothy Brown
Piano:
Malcolm Binns

II corsaro
Opera in three acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE, after LORD BYRON
(sung in Italian): records
AMBROSLAN SINGERS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA/ GARDELLI
The action takes place on an island in the Aegean and at the city of Coron at the beginning of the 19th century. Acts 1 and 2 2.55* Julian Budden on Il corsaro
3.0* Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria
Unknown:
Julian Budden

John Wallace (trumpet) James Watson (trumpet) Michael Thompson (horn) Peter Goodwin (trombone) John Jenkins (tuba)
Gordon Crosse Chime
Gershwin, arr Martin Cotton Pictures from Shall We Dance (two movements) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wallace
Unknown:
James Watson
Horn:
Michael Thompson
Horn:
Peter Goodwin
Unknown:
John Jenkins
Unknown:
Gordon Crosse Chime

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. Paul Bailey (in the Chair) talks with Waldemar Januszczak, Helen McNeil and Alexander Walker.

This week's subjects: BBC2's Arena on Francis Bacon. The James Tissot retrospective at the Barbican Gallery. The National Theatre production of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. John Milius's film Red Dawn. J.G. Ballard's novel Empire of the Sun.

Contributors

Chairman:
Paul Bailey
Panellist:
Waldemar Januszczak
Panellist:
Helen McNeil
Panellist:
Alexander Walker
Producer:
Philip French

The fourth in a series of nine programmes
String Quartet No 1 in A major ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET
Peter Carter , David Roth
(violins), Keith Lovell (viola), Bruno Schrecker (cello)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Carter
Violins:
David Roth
Violins:
Keith Lovell
Cello:
Bruno Schrecker

If the Sun Goes Down All this was fading, like the sun going down, and not being saved.
That was the reaction of one
American visitor to the Gaelic culture of the Hebrides in the 1930s. Half a century later, what remains?
Derick Thomson. Professor of Celtic at Glasgow University and editor of the Companion to Gaelic Scotland, offers a perspective on the Gaelic language and culture of Scotland and explores the issues that affect its future. Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Derick Thomson.

leader jose-luis GARCIA conducted by GUSTAV KUHN KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano)
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Berlioz Song-cycle: Les nuits d'ete
8.55* Interval Reading
9.0* Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne: Lou Boussu; Lo
Fiolaire; Malurous qu'o uno Fenno; Batlero
Schubert Symphony No 3 in D (Given in association with N.M. Rothschild and Sons Ltd)

Contributors

Leader:
Jose-Luis Garcia
Conducted By:
Gustav Kuhn
Soprano:
Kiri Te Kanawa

Wind Quintet, Op 26 - Fodor Wind Quintet: Marieke Schneeman (flute), Bart Schneeman (oboe), Harmen de Boer (clarinet), Simon bij de Ley (horn), Ronald Karten (bassoon)

(A Netherlands Radio recording)

Contributors

Flautist:
Marieke Schneemann [billed as Marieke Schneeman]
Oboist:
Bart Schneeman [billed as Bart Schneeman]
Clarinettist:
Harmen de Boer
Horn player:
Simon bij de Ley
Bassoonist:
Ronald Karten

conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON DERRICK CANTRELL (Organ) Bax Magnificat
Liszt Pater noster 1; Das Vater unser
Verdi Pater noster
Bairstow Our Father in the Heavens
Stanford Eternal Father Finzi Magnificat BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conductor:
Stephen Wilkinson
Conductor:
Derrick Cantrell
Unknown:
Das Vater
Unknown:
Verdi Pater

Overture: Le Pescatrici
L'ESTRO ARMONICO/DEREK SOLOMONS Cello Concerto in D
CHRISTOPHE COIN (cello)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/ CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Symphony No 41 in c
L'ESTRO ARMONICO/DEREK SOLOMONS records

Contributors

Music:
Christopher Hogwood

BBC Radio 3

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