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Bach Suite No 3, in D
BATH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA/MENUHIN
7.24* Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 82 (mono) ALBERT SAMMONS (violin) WILLLAM MURDOCH (piano)
7.47* Chopin Mazurkas: in A minor (Notre Temps); in G minor, Op 67 No 2; in A minor, Op 68 No 2
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN (piano)
8.0 News
8.5 Johann Strauss Intermezzo (1,001 Nights)
GERMAN OPERA ORCHESTRA, BERUN/ KURT GAEBEL
8.11* Hertel Concerto a 5 JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.24* Hovhaness And God Created Great Whales COLUMBIA SO/KOSTELANETZ (with the sounds of the Humpback Whales)
8.35* Prokofiev Suite: The Love of Three Oranges
JUNGE DEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIE/ CHAILLY records

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Kurt Gaebel
Unknown:
John Wilbraham
Directed By:
Neville Marriner

Debussy: For the Piano
There is too much writing of music ...my desire is to reproduce only the sounds I hear around me.
Preludes (Book 1) played by THE COMPOSER and WALTER GIESEKING Pour Ie piano
WALTER GIESEKING records

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Gieseking
Piano:
Walter Gieseking

Recitals given by artists of the younger generation, direct from the Concert Hall,
Broadcasting House, London Jane Leslie MacKenzie (soprano)
Richard Balcombe (piano)
Mozart Als Luise die Briefe; Abendempfindung; An Chloe; Der Zauberer
Brahms Madchenlieder Milhaud Reves
Rachmaninov Lilacs; Harvest of sorrow; How fair this spot (Tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW)

Contributors

Piano:
Richard Balcombe

Excerpts from 'The Crompton Suite'.
TONY COE , ART THEMEN and ALAN WAKEMAN (reeds) STAN TRACEY (piano)
ROY BABBINGTON (bass) CLARK TRACEY (drums)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Coe
Unknown:
Alan Wakeman
Piano:
Stan Tracey
Bass:
Roy Babbington
Bass:
Clark Tracey

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by ROBIN STAPLETON GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF (violin) Roy Slack Overture: Pimlico (first broadcast)
Lars-Erik Larsson Prelude: Disguised God
Britten Soirees
Musicales Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
George Macllwham Suite: My Native Land BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Buurman
Conducted By:
Robin Stapleton
Violin:
Geoffrey Trabichoff
Unknown:
Musicales Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
George MacLlwham

Piano Quintet in A minor RICHARD MARKHAM (piano) COULL STRING QUARTET Roger Coull (violin)
Philip Gallaway (violin) David Curtis (viola)
Martin Thomas (cello) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Richard Markham
Violin:
Roger Coull
Violin:
Philip Gallaway
Viola:
David Curtis
Cello:
Martin Thomas

direct from Worcester Cathedral
Versicles and responses: Hunt
Psalms 147, 148, 149, 150 (Elgar, Attwood, Stanford)
Lessons (rsv): Leviticus 8; I Corinthians 15, w 20-34
Canticles: Stanford in C
Anthem: For Lo, I raise up (Stanford)
Organ voluntary: Chorale Prelude on 'Hanover' (Parry)
Conductor DONALD HUNT
Organist ADRIAN PARTINGTON
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Conductor:
Donald Hunt
Organist:
Adrian Partington

Artists give their first recital on Radio 3.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS (horn) JULIAN JACOBSON (piano) Dukas Villanelle
Beethoven Sonata in f Op 17
Poulenc Elegie '

Contributors

Horn:
Jonathan Williams
Piano:
Julian Jacobson
Piano:
Dukas Villanelle
Piano:
Beethoven Sonata

by STEWART PARKER
The famous traveller on a million dust-jackets has kept his wife's secret for half a lifetime. Now her secret's out and his nightmare journey starts.... in the dark.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Parker
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Sweeney:
Donal McCann
Merriman:
Derek Halligan
Alfred/Guard:
Christian Rodska
Caroline:
Eleanor Bron
Rex:
Alan Rothwell
Vera:
Carole Nimmons
Bellamy:
Paul Webster
Mrs P:
Lesley Nicol
Tully:
Hugh Ross
Gerry/Soldier:
Malcolm Raeburn
Mr P:
Dennis Blanch
Olive:
Judith Barker
Dill:
Philip George
The Survivor:
Davld Ross
Drunken Scotsman/Sergeant:
Robert Keegan
Woman on the boat:
Valerie Ulley
Security man:
Walter McMonagle
Prison warder:
Trevor Moore
Man with the glass eye:
Daragh O'Malley
Dennis Hackett:
Ian McElhinney
Stitt:
Denys Hawthorne
Taxi driver:
Colum Convey
Vera's mother:
Leila Webster

James Clark , Elizabeth Wexler (violins), Sally Beamish (viola) Andrea Hess , William Conway (cellos)
Borodin String Quintet in F minor (first broadcast)
Arensky Quartet in A minor, Op 35
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
James Clark
Violins:
Elizabeth Wexler
Violins:
Sally Beamish
Viola:
Andrea Hess
Cellos:
William Conway

BBC Radio 3

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