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Dvorak Overture: My Homeland CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN
7.14* Liszt Concert Paraphrase on Verdi's Ernani
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
7.23* Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Capriccio (Omaggio a Paganini) ALICE ARTZT (guitar)
7.33* Walton Variations on a theme by Hindemith CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, GEORGE SZELL
8.0 News
8.5 Balakirev Oriental Fantasy: Islamey
USSR SO'EVGENY SVETLANOV
8.13* Mussorgsky Memories of Childhood; A childish prank KUN woo PAIK (piano)
8.20* Kalinnikov Symphony No 1, in G minor
USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV records. Producer RAY ABBOTT

Contributors

Piano:
Claudio Arrau
Guitar:
Alice Artzt
Unknown:
George Szell
Unknown:
Evgeny Svetlanov
Producer:
Ray Abbott

George Gershwin (1898-1937) True music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today ... (GERSHWIN, 1926) Swanee (mono)
AL JOLSON With SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA/ALEXANDER STEINERT Lullaby
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
Blue Monday (135th Street) Chamber Opera in one act
GREGG SMITH SINGERS and ORCHESTRA/GREGG SMITH Lady be good (mono) WILLIAM KENT
EMPIRE ORCHESTRA/J. HEUVEL
Fascinating rhythm; I'd rather Charleston; Hang on to me; Half of it dearie blues (Lady be good) (mono)
FRED ASTAIRE , ADELE ASTAIRE
GEORGE GERSHWIN (piano): records Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
0 HEAR THIS! page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
George Gershwin
Singers:
Gregg Smith
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Adele Astaire
Piano:
George Gershwin
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers
Vi:
Joyce Andrews
Mike:
Patrick Mason
Sam:
Walter Richardson
Joe:
Thomas Bogdan
Tom:
Jeffrey Meyer

The sixth of eight programmes showing the influence of folk dance on western music

Arnold Four Cornish Dances, Op 91 CBSO/THE COMPOSER
Grainger Shepherd 's Hey ECO, BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Grainger Molly on the Shore (Irish Reel) MEMBERS OF THE ECO/STEUART BEDFORD
Arthur Benjamin Jamaica Rumba: Mattie Rag; Cookie MARTIN JONES and RICHARD MCMAHON (pianos)
Ernest Tomlinson Suite of English Folk Dances ORCHESTRA OF THE LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY/SIR VIVIAN DUNN
(records)
BBC Birmingham

Handel Suite No 1, in F (Water Music): SCOTTISH CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA'SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON George Dyson Hierusalem VALERIE HILL (soprano) ST MICHAEL 'S SINGERS
THOMAS TROTTER (organ) RPO/JONATHAN RENNERT
Arnold Horn Concerto No 2
ALAN CIVIL
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA,
NORMAN DEL MAR trad, arr Canteloube
Songs of the Auvergne (selection)
JILL GOMEZ (soprano) RLPOiVERNON HANDLEY
Bax Tone Poem: In the Faery Hills
ULSTER ORCHESTRA BRYDEN THOMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Unknown:
George Dyson Hierusalem
Soprano:
St Michael
Singers:
Thomas Trotter
Unknown:
Norman Del Mar
Soprano:
Jill Gomez
Soprano:
Rlpoivernon Handley

A concert for
European Music Year conducted by John Poole David Russell (guitar) Francisco Guerrero I wo Spanish carols arr Llobet Two Catalan folk songs
Poulenc Chansons francaises or Variations on Marlbrouk s en va-t-en guerre
Vaughan Williams Five English folk songs
(Given in January at the Barbican Concert Hall, London)

Contributors

Conducted By:
John Poole
Guitar:
David Russell
Guitar:
Francisco Guerrero

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Ronald Brautigam (piano) London Sinfonietta, leader Nona Liddell, conducted by Simon Rattle

Gershwin Overture: Strike up the band

Copland Appalachian Spring

Ives Central Park in the Dark; Three Places in New England

(Hear This! page 16)
(A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2)
See also page 36

Contributors

Pianist:
Ronald Brautigam
Musicians:
London Sinfonietta
Orchestra leader:
Nona Liddell
Conductor:
Simon Rattle

(bom 26 August 1915)
Cat Variations on a theme from Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf ALAN HACKER (clarinet) PAUL HAMBURGER(piano)
Two Practical Cats (mono) PETER LEEMING (speaker) HAROLD CLARKE (flute)
ISABEL SMITH (guitar) DENIS VIGAY (cello) Labyrinth
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor sot JOHN PRITCHARD (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Leeming
Flute:
Harold Clarke
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Unknown:
John Pritchard

BBC Radio 3

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