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Bax The Happy Forest
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/BRYDEN THOMSON Barrios Sueno en la floresta JOHN williams (guitar)
Johann Strauss (son) Tales from the Vienna Woods
BERLIN PO /HERBERT VON KARAJAN Liszt Die Loreley
SYLVIA SASS (soprano) ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
Smetana Vltava (Ma vlast) ISRAEL PO /WALTER WELLER
8.0 World Service News
8.10 Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor VIENNA PO /LORIN MAAZEL
Ravel Introduction and Allegro
MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
Rameau Courante; Gigues en rondeaux Nos 1 and 2; Le rappel des oiseaux (Suite in E minor) TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Respighi Suite: The Birds
SAN FRANCISCO SO /EDO DE WAART

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryden Thomson
Guitar:
John Williams
Guitar:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Berlin Po
Unknown:
Herbert Von Karajan
Soprano:
Ylvia Sass
Piano:
Andras Schiff
Piano:
Smetana Vltava
Unknown:
Israel Po
Unknown:
Walter Weller
Unknown:
Vienna Po
Unknown:
Lorin Maazel
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
San Francisco So
Unknown:
Edo de Waart

with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Beethoven's Quintet for piano and wind, Op 16, by Stephen Dodgson. Michael Kennedy reviews records of British music. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson.
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

conducted by Andrew Davis Louis Lortie (piano)
Berlioz Overture: Le corsaire
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat
12.10* pm Interval Reading
12.15* Mussorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an exhibition
(Given on 3 September in St David 's Hall, Cardiff, in association with British Alcan Aluminium)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Andrew Davis
Piano:
Louis Lortie
Unknown:
St David

Diabelli Four ceremonial fanfares
Fantini Sonata No
Stephen Keavey (trumpet) Simon Wright (organ) Viviani Sonata No 2
Mark Bennett (trumpet) Simon Wright (organ)
Mozart Divertimento in c (K 187)
Beno Sequenza X
John Wallace (trumpet)
Arnold Fanfare for a royal occasion; Fanfare for Louis; Railway Fanfare Ruggles Angels
Altenburg Concerto for seven trumpets and timpani Storace Battaglia
(Given on 30 August in the Queen's Hall. as part of the Edinburgh
International Festival) BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Keavey
Unknown:
Simon Wright
Unknown:
Mark Bennett
Unknown:
Simon Wright
Unknown:
Mozart Divertimento
Unknown:
John Wallace

First of two programmes 'The Natural Music of the Mountain Reed Pipes in the Liberal Air Byron, Goethe and Other Visitors
Liszt Au lac de Wallenstadt; Au bord d'une source (Annees de pèlerinage, Book 1)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Sonata in A, Op 100 (mono: 1933) ADOLF BUSCH (VIOlin) RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
Wagner Traume (Wesendonk Lieder)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) PHILHARMONU/OTTO KLEMPERER Hermann Goetz Spring Overture, Op 15
MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRAl EDOUARD VAN REMOORTEL
Schubert Gesang der Geister uber den Wassem (D 714)
BAVARIAN RADIO MEN'S CHORUS
BAVARIAN RSO /
WOLFGANG SAW ALUSCH Schweizerlied (D 559) RITA STREICH (soprano) ERIK WERBA (piano)
Der Wanderer (D 649)
Totengrabers Heimwehe (D842)
HEINZ REHFUSS (baritone) FRANK MARTIN (piano)
Schumann Manfred , Op 115
(Overture and excerpts from the incidental music to Byron's dramatic poem)
(sung in German)
With HARALD STAMM (bass)
RIAS CHAMBER CHORUS
BERLIN RSO /GERD ALBRECHT

Contributors

Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Piano:
Brahms Wie Melodien
Mezzo-Soprano:
Christa Ludwig
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Violin:
Adolf Busch
Piano:
Rudolf Serkin
Piano:
Wagner Traume
Mezzo-Soprano:
Christa Ludwig
Unknown:
Otto Klemperer
Unknown:
Hermann Goetz
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Unknown:
Edouard van Remoortel
Unknown:
Bavarian Rso
Soprano:
Rita Streich
Piano:
Erik Werba
Baritone:
Heinz Rehfuss
Piano:
Frank Martin
Piano:
Schumann Manfred
Bass:
Harald Stamm
Unknown:
Berlin Rso
Unknown:
Gerd Albrecht
Manfred:
Klausjürgen Wussow
Witch of the Alps:
Mona Seefried

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts
Jim Hiley (in the Chair) talks with Anthony Curtis, Ronald Hayman and Hilary Spurling.
This week's subjects:
John Byrne's six-part television series Tutti Frutti (Tuesday 9.30 pm BBC1); Ghetto by Seamus Finnegan at the Riverside Studios, London; sculpture by Tony Cragg at the Hayward Gallery, London; Robert Rossen's film The Hustler and its sequel, Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money; The Enigma of Arrival, a novel by V.S. Naipaul.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Hiley
Unknown:
Anthony Curtis
Unknown:
Ronald Hayman
Unknown:
Hilary Spurling
Producer:
Philip French

(Charodyeika)
Opera in four acts
Libretto by ippout VASIL YEVlCH
SHPAZHINSKY Music by Tchaikovsky
(sung in Russian): records (tenor) (tenor) (baritone) (bass-bar) (soprano) (soprano) (tenor) (bass) (tenor)(baritone) (baritone) (bass) (mezzo-soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (baritone)
MOSCOW RADIO CHORUS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ GENNADI PROVATOROV
The action takes place in Nizhny Novgorod (now the city of Gorky) and its environs in the last quarter of the 15th century. Acts 1 and 2 8.50* Interval Reading
8.55* Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Vasil Yevlch
Unknown:
Shpazhinsky Music
Balakin, a merchant of Nizhny Novgorod:
Vladimir Makhov
Paisy, a vagabond in the guise of a monk:
Andrei Sokolov
Foka, Nastasya's uncle:
Pyotr Gluboky
Potap, son of Balakin:
Sergei Strukachev
Nastasya (known as Kuma),young landlady of a waysideinn:
Rimma Glushkova
Polya, her friend:
Gauna Molodtsova
Lukash, son of Balakin:
Lev Eliseyev
Kichiga, a boxer:
Vladimir Matorin
Prince Yuri, son of Prince Nikita:
Lev Kuznetsov
Ivan Zhuran, Yuri's huntsman:
Boris Dobrin
Prince Nikita Kurlyatev,Viceroy of Nizhny Novgorod:
Oleg Klenov
Mamyrov, his elderly secretary:
Evgeny Vladmirov
Princess Yevpraksiya, Nikita'sWife:
Lyudmila Simonova
Nenila, her maid, Mamyrov's sister:
Nina Derbina
Kudma, a sorcerer:
Vlktor Rybinsky

I do not seeek to work abroad, but there seems no way I can work at home (ANDREI TARKOVSKY) The film critic Nigel Andrews presents a documentary about the health of Soviet cinema.
Taking part are directors within and without the system. Producer DAVID PERRY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Producer:
David Perry

introduced by, and in conversation with, Michael Berkeley
Second of seven programmes
Michael Finnissy String Quartet (first broadcast)
Bent Sorensen Alman
Brian Ferneyhough Adagissimo (first UK broadcast)
Jonathan Harvey Quartet No 2 record

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Michael Finnissy
Unknown:
Sorensen Alman
Unknown:
Brian Ferneyhough Adagissimo
Unknown:
Jonathan Harvey

During concert intervals this week, Elaine Padmore reads from a new novel called
The Beet Queen by LOUISE ERDRICH (published by HAMISH HAMILTON )

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Padmore
Unknown:
Louise Erdrich
Unknown:
Hamish Hamilton

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