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Walton
Comedy Overture: Scapino LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
7.14* Bruch Konzertstuck SALVATORE ACCARDO (violin)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURTMASUR
7.33* Mendelssohn
Konzertstuck No 1, Op 113 SABINE MEYER (clarinet)
WOLFGANG MEYER (basset horn) WURTTEMBERG CO/JORG FAERBER
7.41* Sibelius Karelia Suite
BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.0 News
8.5 Gretry
Overture: Le Magnifique ECO/RICHARD BONYNGE
8.16* Satie Trois morceaux en forme de Poire
ALDO ciccolini (piano)
8.28* Ibert Concertino da camera for alto saxophone and 11 instruments
EUGENE ROUSSEAU (saxophone) PAUL KUENTZ CO/PAUL KUENTZ
8.41* Smetana Symphonic Poem: Haakon Jarl
BAVARIAN RADIO SO/RAFAEL KUBELIK records

Tragedie lyrique in three acts Libretto by MARMONTEL Music by Cherubini (sung in French)
In classical antiquity:
Demophoon's son Osmide has secretly married Dircee, a commoner, although he is betrothed to Ircile, a foreign princess with whom his own brother is in love.
Unwittingly, Demophoon orders Dircee to be sacrificed to Apollo, and the tragedy unfolds.
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ITALIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. ROME conducted by GIANLUIGI GELMETTI Actl
2.55*
Interval Reading
3.0* Act 2
3.45*
Interval Reading
3.50* Act 3
(Italian Radio recording)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gianluigi Gelmetti

BRITISH AEROSPACE WINGATES BAND conductor JAMES SCOTT Peter Yorke Overture: The Explorers
Joseph Horovitz Concertino Classico (first broadcast) Bliss Belmont Variations BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conductor:
James Scott
Conductor:
Peter Yorke
Unknown:
Joseph Horovitz

The fifth of seven selections from DAVID WRIGHT 'S new verse translation of CHAUCER'S Canterbury Tales with Martin Jarvis as the Nun's Priest and John Franklyn-Robbins as the narrator
Music composed by MICHAEL BALL and directed by TIMOTHY REYNISH Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
David Wright
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Composed By:
Michael Ball
Directed By:
Timothy Reynish
Producer:
Fraser Steel

Six programmes adapted by Mike Steer from autobiographical writings of 20th-century composers. 4: Self-Advertisement with Nigel Anthony as Rutland Boughton By 1909 the 31-year-old
Boughton had enjoyed only a limited success. He felt constrained by the musical world, and in his frustration he printed privately a pamphlet in which, with disarming straightforwardness and self-deflating humour, he pleaded for the right of the composer to be heard.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Adapted By:
Mike Steer
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
Rutland Boughton
Producer:
John Theocharis

by COURTEUNE translated by RUARI MCLEAN Read by Peter Jeffrey
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
(Peter Jeffrey is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Translated By:
Ruari McLean
Read By:
Peter Jeffrey
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Unknown:
Peter Jeffrey

A programme of music for percussion ensemble, introduced by Paul Griffiths. Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martinez -
Jean-Pierre Guezec: "Onze pour cinq" (first UK broadcast)
Maurice Ohana: "Signes" (first UK performance)
Ingrid Culliford (flute), Paul Roberts (piano), Monique Rollin (zithers) James Dillon: "East 11th St, NY 10003" (first UK broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced by:
Paul Griffiths
Musicians:
null Lontano
Conductor:
Odaline De La Martinez
Flute:
Ingrid Culliford
Piano:
Paul Roberts
Zithers:
Monique Rollin
Producer:
Anthony Burton

Choral Music
Seventh of 11 programmes Cantata No 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Cantata No 36: Schwingt freudig euch empor
ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) PETER SCHREIER (tenor) THEO ADAM (bass)
CHOIR OF ST THOMAS'S. LEIPZIG
NEW BACH COLLEGIUM OF LEIPZIGI HANS-JOACHIM ROTZSCH (present Cantor of St Thomas's) records (1981)

Contributors

Unknown:
Heiden Heiland
Soprano:
Arleen Auger
Tenor:
Peter Schreier

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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