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Opera in three acts
Libretto by LUIGI ILUCA and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA adapted from the play by VICTORIEN SARDOU Music by Puccini (sung in Italian)
CHOIR OF THE VIENNA VOLKSOPER
THE BREGENZ FESTIVAL CHORUS
WEILER-KLAUS CHILDREN'S CHOIR
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GARCIA NAVARRO (Austrian Radio recording)
Act 1
2.45* Interval Reading
2.50* Act 2
3.35* Interval Reading
3.40* Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Giacosa
Play By:
Victorien Sardou
Conducted By:
Garcia Navarro

Bax Octet for horn, piano and strings
Spohr String Sextet in c, Op 140
PARK LANE MUSIC PLAYERS Roger Garland and Lyn Fletcher (violins) John Graham and Robert Duncan (violas) Moray Welsh and Melissa Phelps (cellos)
John Bakewell (double-bass) Tim Brown (horn)
Harold Lester (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bax Octet
Unknown:
Roger Garland
Violins:
Lyn Fletcher
Violins:
John Graham
Violas:
Robert Duncan
Double-Bass:
John Bakewell
Horn:
Tim Brown
Piano:
Harold Lester

The poetry of the Great War is well known but not well understood.
Dominic Hibberd takes a critical look at the anthologies of First World War poetry and challenges some of the historical and political assumptions that inform them. Readers Russell Dixon and Stephen Thorne.
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
Dominic Hibberd
Reader:
Russell Dixon
Reader:
Stephen Thorne
Producer:
Fraser Steel

Music in Our Time
The last of five editions reflecting 1984 Musica Nova , Glasgow's sixth international Festival of Contemporary Music.
Introduced by Roger Wright in conversation with some of the composers and performers. SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader EDWIN PALING conducted by MATTHIAS BAMERT ALEXANDER BAILLIE (Cello)
Per Norgaard Symphony No 4 Lyell Cresswell Cello Concerto (first performance)
Elliott Carter Variations for Orchestra. BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Musica Nova
Introduced By:
Roger Wright
Leader:
Edwin Paling
Conducted By:
Matthias Bamert
Cello:
Alexander Baillie

DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (baritone)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
Schubert Der Wanderer (D 649); Gruppe aus dem Tartarus
(D 583); Freiwilliges Versinken Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake , Op 74
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Unknown:
Freiwilliges Versinken
Unknown:
Britten Songs
Unknown:
William Blake

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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