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Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
VIENNA PO/CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI

7.15* Debussy La puerta del vino (Preludes, Book 2) CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)

7.18* Ives Central Park in the dark (Two contemplations)
NEW YORK PO/Seiji OZAWA (piano)

7.26* Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER

8.0 News

8.5 Poulenc L'embarquement pour Cythere BRACHAEDEN and ALEXANDER TAMIR (pianos)

8.7* Borodin In the Steppes of central Asia
BAVARIAN RSO/ESA PEKKASALONEN

8.16* Delius Florida Suite
RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

8.51* Villa-Lobos The little train of the Caipira (Bachiana Brasileira No 2)
PARIS ORCHESTRA/PAUL CAPALONGO

(records)
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON

Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) who plays the piano in each work
Fairy Tale in E minor, Op 14 No 2, for piano
Spanish Romance; Butterfly With TATIANA MAKUSHINA (soprano)
Round Dance, for two pianos with BENNO MOISEIWITSCH
Piano Concerto No 1, in c minor PHILHARMONIA/GEORGE WELDON records
Producer ANDREW MUSSETI

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolai Medtner
Producer:
Andrew Musseti

leader JAMES CLARK conducted by Bryden Thomson Frank Lloyd (horn) Robert Bruce Music on three themes
William Mathias Horn Concerto, Op 93
Geoffrey Bush Symphony No 2 (Guildford)
(all first broadcasts)

Contributors

Leader:
James Clark
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson
Horn:
Frank Lloyd
Horn:
Robert Bruce Music
Unknown:
William Mathias Horn
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bush

direct from St John 's, Smith Square, London
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Peter Wallfisch (piano)
Suk Ballade and Serenade, Op 3 Kenneth Leighton Alleluja Pasca Nostrum
Martinu Sonata No 2
(Tickets, £2.50 available from 11.0 today,orinadvancefromtheBox Office, tel: [number removed])
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Piano:
Peter Wallfisch
Piano:
Suk Ballade
Unknown:
Kenneth Leighton Alleluja

Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
VIENNA PO/CLAUDIO ABBADO Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
ALBAN BERG QUARTET PHILIPPE ENTREMONT
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
HEINRICH SCHIFF
BAVARIAN RSO/THE COMPOSER
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, in B minor (Pathetique)
NEW YORK PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Schiff
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein

It's not that a massacre of cats is important in itself but it can open up an understanding of a symbolic world that has disappeared.
In conversation with Colin McLaren , Robert Darnton , Professor of History at
Princeton University and an authority on 18th-century France, talks about his unorthodox approach, one which made his latest book a best-seller in English and French.
Producer MARIA BALINSKA (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin McLaren
Unknown:
Robert Darnton
Producer:
Maria Balinska

Vermeer String Quartet
Shmuel Ashkenasi (violin) Pierre Menard (violin) Richard Young (viola) Marc Johnson (cello) with Nobuko Imai (viola) direct from Snape Maltings Parti
Haydn Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1 Ligeti Quartet No 1 (1953-4) (Metamorphoses nocturnes)

Contributors

Violin:
Shmuel Ashkenasi
Violin:
Pierre Menard
Viola:
Richard Young
Cello:
Marc Johnson
Viola:
Nobuko Imai
Unknown:
Snape Maltings

Mother makes contacts with guides who are willing to take us through forests back to the German side. However, the guides are not keen on a party which includes a yapping dog and a crippled teenager, but additional rewards and assurances that the dog understands the gravity of the situation finally persuade them. September 1939: Hitler invades Poland. Through the eyes of the 4-year-old boy he was then,
Adam Czerniawski recalls his experiences of war-torn Poland and his family's escape to Istanbul.

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Czerniawski

An anthology of poetry and prose, compiled by EDWARD BLACK and read by Richard Derrington , Nigel Graham , Michael N. Harbour ,
Roger Hume , Patricia Gallimore and Carole Boyd
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Black
Read By:
Richard Derrington
Read By:
Nigel Graham
Read By:
Michael N. Harbour
Unknown:
Roger Hume
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
Carole Boyd
Producer:
Peter Windows

Presented by Charles Fox featuring Music Doctors
Mark Hewins (electric guitar/ bongoes/toys)
Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone) Johnny Oslo (piano/bass guitar) Elton Dean (saxello/alto saxophone)

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Mark Hewins
Piano:
Johnny Oslo
Guitar:
Elton Dean

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