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Brahms Tragic Overture, Op 81 CHICAGO SO/SIR GEORG SOLT1
7.18* Paganini Larghetto con passione; Moto perpetuo; Andante amoroso
SALVATORE ACCARDO (violin)
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF
EUROPE/FRANCO TAMPONI
7.29* Granados El fandango (Goyescas)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
7.34* Janacek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen
TORONTO SO/ANDREW DAVIS
8.0 News
8.5 Handel Concerto Grosso in f, Op 6 No 2
ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
8.16* Purcell As Amoret and Thyrsis lay
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) DAVID THOMAS (baritone) ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute)
8.20* Rossini String Sonata No 4, in E flat
CAMERATA BERN directed by THOMAS furi
8.34* Elgar Chanson de nuit; Chanson de matin, Op 15 Nos 1 and 2 NIGEL KENNEDY (violin) PETER PETTINGER (piano)
8.40* Gershwin Rhapsody No 2
LOS ANGELES PO/
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS (piano) records

Contributors

Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Unknown:
Andrew Davis
Directed By:
Trevor Pinnock
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Baritone:
David Thomas
Baritone:
Anthony Rooley
Directed By:
Thomas Furi
Violin:
Nigel Kennedy
Piano:
Peter Pettinger
Piano:
Michael Tilson Thomas

Phillipa Davies (flute)
Michael Collins (clarinet) Marcia Crayford (violin) David Ogden (violin)
Simon Rowland-Jones (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello) Rodney Slatford (double-bass) Skaila Kanga (harp)
With CATHERINE MICHEL (harp) Parti
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Julius Harrison Quintet in G flat, for harp and strings
2.15* Interval Reading
2.20* Debussy Danse sacree et danse profane
Rawsthorne Suite for flute, viola and harp
Ravel Introduction and Allegro (Given in July 1985 as part of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Flute:
Phillipa Davies
Clarinet:
Michael Collins
Violin:
Marcia Crayford
Violin:
David Ogden
Viola:
Simon Rowland-Jones
Cello:
Christopher van Kampen
Double-Bass:
Rodney Slatford
Harp:
Skaila Kanga
Harp:
Catherine Michel
Harp:
Julius Harrison

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN NIGEL KENNEDY (violin)
Beethoven Overture: Egmont Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
3.55* Interval Reading
4.0* Elgar Symphony No 1, in A flat, Op 55
(Given in December 1985 in the Adrian Boult Hall , Birmingham School of Music)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Conductor:
Christopher Seaman
Violin:
Nigel Kennedy
Unknown:
Adrian Boult Hall

BESSES O- TH' BARN BAND conducted by PETER PARKES Jean Balissat Burlesque (SinfoniettaNo2)
Rubbra Variations on The Shining River
Vaughan Williams Variations BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conducted By:
Peter Parkes
Conducted By:
Jean Balissat

The human ear can tell the difference between two sounds played 30 millionths of a second apart, or between the tones of wooden and metal flutes. How does it achieve this remarkable performance?
Professor Colin Blakemore explores our present understanding of the mechanisms of hearing with Professor Ted Evans
Professor Jim Hudspeth Professor Bob Capranica and Professor Axel Michelson. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Colin Blakemore
Unknown:
Professor Ted Evans
Unknown:
Professor Jim Hudspeth
Unknown:
Professor Bob Capranica
Unknown:
Professor Axel Michelson.
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

A sequence of poetry and prose drawn from the Japanese Noh
Theatre and the 'memory' plays of Samuel Beckett compiled by Lim Poh Sim and read by HELENA BRECK
ARNOLD DIAMOND. DAVID GARTH
WILLIAM HOPE , MOIR LESLIE and MAGGIE MCCARTHY
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Beckett
Unknown:
Lim Poh Sim
Read By:
Helena Breck
Read By:
Arnold Diamond.
Read By:
David Garth
Unknown:
William Hope
Unknown:
Moir Leslie
Unknown:
Maggie McCarthy
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Elisabeth Lutyens Six, Op 147
Theo Loevendie Music for contrabass and piano
Will Eisma Gezang XXIII
Lyell Cresswell Organic Music (first UK broadcasts)
Stockhausen Set Sail for the Sun
Roger Dean Heteronomy 3 (first UK broadcast) Free improvisation
Lysis
Colin Lawson (clarinets)
Hazel Smith (violin)
George Nicholson (piano)
Ashley Brown (percussion)
Bill Lockhart (percussion)
directors John Wallace (trumpets and flugelhorn)
Roger Dean (double-bass and piano)
Introduced by Roger Dean

Contributors

Presenter/Music Director:
Roger Dean
Clarinettist:
Colin Lawson
Violinist:
Hazel Smith
Pianist:
George Nicholson
Percussionist:
Ashley Brown
Percussionist:
Bill Lockhart
Music Director:
John Wallace

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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