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Delius Summer night on the river
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
NORMAN DEL MAR
7.12* Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: The Blue Danube
VIENNA PO/WILU BOSKOVSKY
7.22* Weill Complainte de la Seine
TERESA STRATAS (SOpranO) RICHARD WOITACH (piano)
7.26* Lambert The Rio Grande CRISTINA ortiz (piano)
JEAN TEMPERLEY (mezzo-soprano) LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS
LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
7.40* Smetana Vltava (The Moldau)
BERLIN PO'KARAJAN
7.53* Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge
BOSTON SO/MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
8.0 News
8.5 Delius Paris: The song of a great city
RLPO/SIR CHARLES GROVES
8.25* Copland Quiet City CELIA NICKLIN (cor anglais) MICHAEL LAIRD (trumpet)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FTELDS/ SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
8.34* Suk Symphonic Poem: Prague
CZECH PO/LJBOR PESEK records

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Johann Strauss

Quintet in A, Op 81
WARSAW PIANO QUINTET
Jan Tawroszewicz (violin) Krzysztof Jakowicz (violin) Stefan Kamasa (viola) Andrzej Orkisz (cello)
Wladyslaw Szpilman (piano) (R)

Contributors

Violin:
Jan Tawroszewicz
Violin:
Krzysztof Jakowicz
Viola:
Stefan Kamasa
Cello:
Andrzej Orkisz
Piano:
Wladyslaw Szpilman

Opera-ballet in a prologue and three acts
Libretto by VOLTAIRE Music by Rameau
(sung in French): records Le temple de la gloire was commissioned by the court of Louis XV in 1745 to commemorate the French victory at Fontenoy.
Rameau and Voltaire revised the work extensively before it was revived the following year. Today's performance is of an abridged version of the 1746 revision.
JEAN BRIDIER VOCAL ENSEMBLE
LA GRANDE ÉCURIE ET LA CHAMBRE
DUROY conducted by JEAN-CLAUDE MALGOIRE

JOHN GOUGH (piano)
Faure, arr Grainger Nell ; Apres un reve
Gershwin, arr Grainger The man I love
Gershwin Three Preludes; Two Song arrangements: Do-do-do; I got rhythm
Grainger Walking Tune (1905); Handel in the Strand (Clog Dance) BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Piano:
John Gough
Unknown:
Grainger Nell

BRODSKY STRING QUARTET
Michael Thomas (violin) Ian Belton (violin)
Paul Cassidy (viola)
Jacqueline Thomas (cello)
Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (The Sunrise)
Janacek String Quartet No 1 BBCBirmingham (R)

Contributors

Violin:
Michael Thomas
Violin:
Ian Belton
Viola:
Paul Cassidy
Cello:
Jacqueline Thomas

Central Band of the Royal Air Force conducted by Wing Commander Eric Banks (Principal Director of Music, RAF)
Gordon Jacob An Original Suite for Military Band
B. Walton O'Donnell Songs of the Gael
(R)

Contributors

Conductor:
Wing Commander Eric Banks

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London Sequeira Costa (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor Edward Downes Parti Strauss Symphonic Poem:
Macbeth
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor

Contributors

Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conductor:
Edward Downes

by ARTHUR MILLER abridged in four parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Read by Arthur Miller Part 2
The author goes into rehearsals with his Chinese company and they begin to comprehend their task.
Producer NED CHAILLET (R) (Part 3: next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Miller
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Read By:
Arthur Miller
Producer:
Ned Chaillet

In the quincentenary of the death of Richard III at Bosworth the Suite arranged by Muir Matheson from Sir William Walton's score for Laurence Olivier's film of the Shakespeare play, preceded by Olivier's performance of the opening monologue. (Records)
(Richard III, starring Ian Holm, is The Monday Play next week on Radio 4)

Contributors

Arranged By:
Muir Matheson
Unknown:
William Walton
Unknown:
Laurence Olivier

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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