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Rossini Grand Overture
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/
GERARD SCHWARZ
7.12* Elgar Romance, Op 62 DANIEL smith (bassoon) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
7.18* Martinu Variations on a theme by Rossini JANOS STARKER (cello) GYORGY SEBOK (piano)
7.25* Schubert Symphony No 6, in c
RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.0 News
8.5 Dvorak Legends, Op 59: No 5, in A flat; No 6, m c sharp minor; No 7, in A
ECO/ RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.18* Froberger Suite No 3, in g minor
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)
8.28* Suk Four pieces for violin, Op 17 josEF suK (violin)
JAN PANENKA (piano)
8.42* Dvorak Legends, Op 59: No 2, in G; No 3, in G minor ECO/RAFAEL KUBEUK records

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard Schwarz
Bassoon:
Daniel Smith
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Unknown:
Rossini Janos
Piano:
Gyorgy Sebok

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London Lindsay Quartet
Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) Beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op 132
(Tickets fl. 70, available from 11.0am today, or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Violin:
Peter Cropper
Violin:
Ronald Birks
Viola:
Roger Bigley
Cello:
Bernard Gregor-Smith

Janacek Lachian Dances
ROTTERDAM PO/JAMES
CONLON Dvorak String Quartet in E flat, Op 51
KOCIAN QUARTET
Pavel Hula (violin) Jan Odstrcil (violin) Jiri Najnar (viola)
Vaclav Bemasek (cello)
Suk Symphony in c minor, Op 27 (Asrael)
CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN

Contributors

Unknown:
Conlon Dvorak
Violin:
Pavel Hula
Violin:
Jan Odstrcil
Viola:
Jiri Najnar
Cello:
Vaclav Bemasek

played by GRAHAM BARBER (organ) in the Reid Hall of the University of Edinburgh Georg Bohm Prelude and Fugue in D minor; Chorale Prelude: Nun bitten wir den heil'gen Geist; Partita: Freu dich sehr, 0 meine Seele; Chorale Prelude:
Christum wir sollen loben schon; Prelude, Fugue and Postlude in G minor

Contributors

Played By:
Graham Barber

In these three short essays written in 1903, W. B. Yeats , forceful, acerbic, bitter and contemptuous, writes about his concept of an Irish theatre more like the passionate visionary than a dramatist.
Reader James Hayes
Compiler ANTHONY ASTBURY Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Reader:
James Hayes
Reader:
Compiler Anthony Astbury
Producer:
John Theocharis

The opening concert direct from the Barbican Hall, London Oscar Shumsky (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, eller Hall conducted by David J. Marshall
Parti Walton Ceremonial Fanfare
Shostakovich Festival Overture Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op 77

Contributors

Violin:
Oscar Shumsky
Leader:
Michael Davis
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Conducted By:
David J. Marshall
Conducted By:
Parti Walton

'You will find poets,
Philosophers and even patriots marching in luxury's train.' Reviewing the luxury debate which occupied the great minds of the Augustan Age, Julian Hoppit , Fellow of Magdalene
College, Cambridge, argues that while the pessimists questioned the social benefits of increased wealth, the optimists were right to regard luxury as a source of economic growth and civilised advance.

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Hoppit

MARTYN HILL , NUALA HERBERT
Robin Holloway Willow cycle (first UK broadcast)
Britten Canticle V: The death of St Narcissus
Robin Holloway The noon s repose (first performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martyn Hill
Unknown:
Nuala Herbert
Unknown:
Robin Holloway Willow
Unknown:
St Narcissus
Unknown:
Robin Holloway

BBC Radio 3

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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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