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Rossini Overture:
The Barber of Seville
NATIONAL PO/RICCARDO CHAILLY Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor: JASCHA HEIFETZ
RCA SO/WALTER HENDL
Torroba Sonata trianera, for four guitars and castanets LOS ROMEROS
Puccini Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine, Act 1) KIRITE KANAWA (soprano) LPO/SIR JOHN PRITCHARD
Strauss Serenade in E flat
NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE/
EDO DE WAART
Mozart Sonata in D (K 448) MURRAY PERAHIA and RADU LUPU (pianos) Nielsen Tone poem: Pan and Syrinx
CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
Busoni Divertimento, Op 52 AURELE NICOLET (flute)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURT MASUR
Puccini 0 mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
KIRITE KANAWA (soprano) LPO/SIR JOHN PRITCHARD
Janacek, arr Jilek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen
CZECH PO/FRANTISEK JILEK: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jascha Heifetz

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Wagner's Ring (3): Siegfried by Alan Blyth.
Richard Osborne reviews new recordings of Beethoven string quartets.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday 2.50pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Alan Blyth.
Unknown:
Richard Osborne
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

First of seven programmes A concert of music by Roger Sessions (1896-1985) conducted by Yoel Levi Symphony No 1 (1927)
Three Choruses on Biblical Texts (1972) with the Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Choir
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Piano Concerto (1956) with Monique Duphil (piano) Concerto for Orchestra (1981)
(Given in February 1984 in Severance Hall. Cleveland) (WCLV recording)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Yoel Levi
Piano:
Monique Duphil

Quartet in A (K 464) Quartet in D (K 575)
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
Andrew Watkinson (violin) James Clark (violin)
Gartield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello) BBC Birmingham (R)

Contributors

Violin:
Andrew Watkinson
Violin:
James Clark
Viola:
Gartield Jackson
Cello:
David Waterman

Plays the first of two
Programmes of British piano music
Alan Rawsthome Four Bagatelles
David Ellis Piano Sonata No 1 John McCabe Three Impromptus
John Ogdon Sonata super Boris (Kaleidoscope) (first broadcast)
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Piano:
David Ellis
Unknown:
John McCabe
Unknown:
John Ogdon

Stage festival play for three days and a preliminary evening
Words and music by Wagner
Sung in the English translation by Andrew Porter

Third day of the festival play in a prologue and three acts
Welsh National Opera production recorded last Thursday at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Prologue and Act 1

Contributors

Composer:
Richard Wagner
Translation:
Andrew Porter
Singers:
Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Chorus-master:
Andrew Greenwood
Musicians:
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Leader:
John Stein
Conductor:
Richard Armstrong
Norns:
Anne Collins (contralto)
Norns:
Caroline Baker (mezzo-sop)
Norns:
Christine Teare (soprano)
Brunnhilde:
Anne Evans (sop)
Siegfried:
Jeffrey Lawton (tenor)
Gunther:
Barry Mora (baritone)
Hagen:
John Tranter (bass)
Gutrune:
Kathryn Harries (sop)
Waltraute:
Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)
Alberich:
Nicholas Folwell (bar)
Rhinemaidens - Woglinde:
Eirian Davies (soprano)
Rhinemaidens - Wellgunde:
Deborah Stuart-Roberts (mezzo-soprano)
Rhinemaidens - Flosshilde:
Patricia Bardon (mezzo-sop)

Christopher Frayling
(in the Chair) talks with William Feaver , John Peter and Gillian Tindall. This week's subjects:
Pinero's The Magistrate at the National Theatre: Paradjanov s film The Legend of the Suram
Fortress; The New Architecture at the Royal Academy; the nine-part television series The Story of English on BBC2 (Monday evenings); and The Fifties by Edmund Wilson
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Unknown:
William Feaver
Unknown:
John Peter
Unknown:
Gillian Tindall.
Unknown:
Edmund Wilson
Producer:
Philip French

An anthology of poetry and prose about eating and drinking compiled by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by Stephen Thome Michael N. Harbour and Richard Derrington
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Scotney
Read By:
Stephen Thome
Read By:
Michael N. Harbour
Read By:
Richard Derrington
Producer:
Peter Windows

Charles Fox introduces the last of 11 recordings from the International Piano Event at the 1985 Pendley Manor Jazz Festival, Tring, Hertfordshire. Jaki Byard and Howard Riley play their own compositions 'Open' and 'Space', as well as 'Round Midnight' and 'Straight, no chaser' by Thelonious Monk, and 'Lady bird' by Tadd Dameron.

Contributors

Introduces:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Howard Riley
Unknown:
Tadd Dameron.

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