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Berlioz Overture:
Le carnaval romain
BERLIN PO/LORIN MAAZEL
7.14* Scriabin Sonata No 4, in F sharp, Op 30
ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
7.23* Clementi
Symphony No 1, in c
PHILHARMONIA/CLAUDIO SCIMONE
7.48* Ravel
Introduction and Allegro OSIAN ELLIS (harp) NASH ENSEMBLE
8.0 News
8.5 Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in A minor (rv 498): MARTIN GATT
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN-THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
8.17* lbert Escales
FRENCH NATIONAL RO/MARTINON
8.32* Honegger
Concerto da Camera for flute, cor anglais and strings DAVID SHOSTAC (flute)
ALLAN VOGEL (cor anglais)
LOS ANGELES CO/GERARD SCHWARZ
8.48* Frank Martin
Overture: The Tempest BERLIN PO/THE COMPOSER records

Liszt: The Last Years 4: The Old Mephisto Mephisto Waltz No
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURTMASUR
Mephisto Waltz No 3
CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano) Three Petrarch Sonnets HERMANN PREY (baritone)
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano) orch Tchaikovsky
Concerto in the Hungarian style CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA/ORMANDY records

Contributors

Piano:
Alexis Weissenberg

Opera in three acts
Libretto by CARLO pepoli Music by Bellini
(sung in Italian): mono records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
OF LA SCALA, MILAN conducted by TULLIO SERAFIN The action takes place in a Puritan fortress near Plymouth at the time of the Civil War. Act 1 sc 1: The courtyard of the fortress sc 2: In Elvira's apartments sc 3: In the great hall of arms
2.55* Interval Reading
3.0* Act 2: A hall in the fortress Act 3: A grove near the fortress

Contributors

Conducted By:
Tullio Serafin

BAND OF THE WELSH GUARDS Director of Music
MAJOR DEREK TAYLOR
Gordon Jacob Two movements from Music for a Festival: March and Scherzo; Ballad for Band (first broadcast)
B. Walton O'Donnell Theme and Variations, Op 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Major Derek Taylor
Unknown:
Gordon Jacob
Unknown:
B. Walton O'Donnell

leader FELIX KOK conductor Simon Rattle
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
Silvia Gualda and Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham Part 1 Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro Bartok Concerto for two pianos and percussion

Contributors

Leader:
Felix Kok
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Pianos:
Silvia Gualda
Pianos:
Jean-Pierre Drouet
Unknown:
Figaro Bartok

Two selections from the correspondence between Flaubert and Turgenev translated by BARBARA BEAUMONT
1: Literature and Gout
'Poetry has got its bodkin in our backs, goading us on, my dear Flaubert.'
'Don't think of treating your gout, my poor Turgenev; all remedies are dangerous.' Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (Part 2 next Thursday)

Contributors

Translated By:
Barbara Beaumont
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Flaubert:
Robert Stephens
Turgenev:
Stephen Moore

Recent poems about Libya and Saudi Arabia by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH compiled by ROBERTA BERKE and read by the author, BRIAN CARROLL and CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Roberta Berke
Unknown:
Brian Carroll
Unknown:
Christopher Douglas
Producer:
Piers Plowright

in G minor. Op 20 No 3; in B flat major, Op 64 No 3 LINDSAY QUARTET
Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) (R)

Contributors

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

BBC Radio 3

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