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Wagner Overture:
The Flying Dutchman
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/EDO DE WAART
Liszt Petrarch Sonnet No 47 (Annees de pelerinage: Italie) JORGE BOLET (piano)
Verdi Son giunta! Madre, pietosa vergine (La forza del destino, Act 2): RENATA TEBALDI (soprano)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ACADEMY OF
SANTA CECILIA, ROME/
FRANCESCO MOUNARI PRADELJ Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F,
Op 10 No 1 (La tempesta di mare) (RV 433): STEPHEN PRESTON ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Grainger Rustic Dance; Eastern Intermezzo (Youthful Suite) BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
KENNETH MONTGOMERY
Ravel Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit): VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano) Hoist To Varuna; To Agni;
Funeral Chant (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda)
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHAMBER CHOIR. RPO/SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS Debussy L'isle joyeuse
ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov Symphonic suite: Scheherazade, Op 35 NORMAN CAROL (violin)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA/ RICCARDO MUTI : records

Contributors

Piano:
Jorge Bolet
Soprano:
Renata Tebaldi
Unknown:
Francesco Mounari
Unknown:
Stephen Preston
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Piano:
Vlado Perlemuter
Piano:
Alexis Weissenberg
Unknown:
Riccardo Muti

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Mozart's Symphony No 35, (Haffner) by John Warrack. Joan Chissell reviews a set of Beethoven's piano trios played by Ashkenazy, Harrell and Perlman.
Andrew Clements on recent releases of 20th-century music. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
John Warrack.
Unknown:
Joan Chissell
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Strauss Don Juan , Op 20 (mono) NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Voice of America recording: 1940) Mozart Madamina (
Don Giovanni ): EZIO PINZA (bass) NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA: mono record (1946)
Haydn Symphony No 88, in G COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA record (1961)
Beethoven Triple Concerto in c, Op 56: JOHN CORIGLIANO (violin) LEONARD ROSE (cello) WALTER HENDL (piano)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA mono record (1949)
Brahms Symphony No 4, in E minor: BBC so mono record (1934)

Contributors

Unknown:
Strauss Don Juan
Unknown:
Mozart Madamina
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Violin:
John Corigliano

Robert Hewison (in the Chair) talks with Victoria Glendinning ,
Waldemar Januszczak and Chris Peachment about
Oliver Stone 's film Salvador; a revival of Philip Barry 's
Holiday, directed by Lindsay Anderson , at the Old Vic,
London; the six-part television series State of the Art (Sunday, C 4) and the accompanying exhibition at the ICA Gallery
Victor Gollancz , a biography by Ruth Dudley Edwards Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hewison
Unknown:
Victoria Glendinning
Unknown:
Waldemar Januszczak
Unknown:
Chris Peachment
Unknown:
Oliver Stone
Unknown:
Philip Barry
Directed By:
Lindsay Anderson
Unknown:
Victor Gollancz
Unknown:
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Producer:
Philip French

In the last of nine programmes PIET KEE plays the Christian Miiller organ of St Bavo, Haarlem
Sweelinck Ballo del granduca Antoon van der Kerckhoven Fantasie
Bach Chorale prelude: Erbarm' dich mein, 0 Herre Gott (Bwv 721);
Prelude and Fugue in c minor (Bwv 546) Hendrik Andriessen Passacaglia
Daan Manneke Patronen
Anthon van der Horst Psalm 121 Piet Kee Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Contributors

Unknown:
Christian Miiller
Unknown:
Antoon van Der Kerckhoven
Unknown:
Hendrik Andriessen

The Suez crisis of 1956 both hastened and symbolised
Britain's loss of great power status. What do the recently released official papers reveal about the events that led to Britain's humiliation?
Peter Hennessy talks to many of the senior surviving figures, who speak freely for the first time about the operation.
They include a former Prime
Minister, Lord Home, as well as Sir Guy Millard , Eden's private secretary, and Marshal of the RAF, Sir Dermot Boyle. Producer MARK LAITY

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Hennessy
Unknown:
Sir Guy Millard
Unknown:
Sir Dermot Boyle.

Richard Cook introduces the fourth of seven recordings made at the 1986 Festival.
John Stevens ' Freebop - a 12-piece group, led by the drummer John Stevens , with Bobby Bradford (trumpet) Evan Parker (tenor sax)
Courtney Pine (tenor sax)
Annie Whitehead (trombone) Eddie Parker (flute)
John Stevens Float indigo; Just
'or joy; Harmonica; Nuts; E.D.

Contributors

Introduces:
Richard Cook
Unknown:
John Stevens
Unknown:
John Stevens
Unknown:
Bobby Bradford
Tenor:
Evan Parker
Tenor:
Courtney Pine
Unknown:
Annie Whitehead
Flute:
Eddie Parker
Flute:
John Stevens

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