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Delius Fantasy-Overture: Over the hills and far away RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.18* Granados La maja y el ruisenor (Goyescas)
PILAR LORENGAR (soprano) LPO/JESUS LOPEZ-COBOS
7.25* Raff Ode to spring MICHAEL PONTI (piano)
HAMBURG SO/RICHARD KAPP
7.38* Boccherini Symphony in A, Op 35 No 3
CANTILENA ORCHESTRAl
ADRIAN SHEPHERD
8.0 World Service News
8.10 Halvorsen Suite: Maskarade
NORWEGIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA/
OIVINDBERGH
8.37* Liszt Feux follets JORGE BOLET (piano)
8.41* Delius English Rhapsody: Brigg Fair
RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM: records

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto by Edward Greenfield.
Rodney Milnes reviews new opera recordings: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, and Strauss's Ariadne aufNaxos
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 2.50pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield.
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Britten A charm of lullabies
CAROLYN WATKINSON (contralto) TAN CRONE (piano)
Schubert Lied der Mignon
(D 877 No 4); Der Konig in Thule (D 367); Gretchen am Spinnrade (D118)
BARBARA HENDRICKS (SOpranO) RADU LUPU (piano)
Britten Songs and proverbs of William Blake
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
DAVID WILLISON (piano): records

Contributors

Contralto:
Carolyn Watkinson
Soprano:
Barbara Hendricks
Piano:
Radu Lupu
Unknown:
William Blake
Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon
Piano:
David Willison

leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Yuri Temirkanov Natalia Gutman (cello)
Rimsky-Korsakov Introduction and march (Le coq d'or) Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante in E minor
12.5* pm Interval Reading
12.10* Stravinsky Petrushka (1947)
(Given on 22 May in the Teatro Comunale, Florence)

Contributors

Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Yuri Temirkanov
Cello:
Natalia Gutman
Unknown:
Stravinsky Petrushka

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
Alexander Walker (in the Chair) talks with Michael Billington , Marghanita Laski and Richard Mayne. This week's subjects: a television version of Harold Pinter 's The Birthday Party on BBC2; Melon by Simon Gray at the Haymarket Theatre; The
Artist's 's Eye: Lucien Freud at the National Gallery; The Song Lines, a novel by Bruce Chatwin ; Woody Allen 's film Radio Days.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Richard Mayne.
Unknown:
Harold Pinter
Unknown:
Simon Gray
Unknown:
Lucien Freud
Novel By:
Bruce Chatwin
Novel By:
Woody Allen

by EUGENE DUBNOV translated by THE AUTHOR and JOHN HEATH STUBBS Read by Sam Dastor
A Moscow student is pleased with himself when he manages to cheat a second-hand bookseller, but the effect on his work is curious and unnerving. Produced by MATTHEW WALTERS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eugene Dubnov
Unknown:
John Heath Stubbs
Read By:
Sam Dastor
Produced By:
Matthew Walters

Massimilla Doni Opera in four acts
Libretto by ARMIN RUEGER based on the novel by HENRI DEBALZAC
Music by Othmar Schoeck (sung in German)
Love and art in the opera world of 1830s Venice. Massimilla, torn between her love for Emilio and duty to her husband, Cattaneo, epitomises the artistic conflict between feeling and order.
Her husband, meanwhile, is advancing the career of a young soprano, and his friend Capraja, that of a young tenor.
COLOGNE RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GERD ALBRECHT Act

Contributors

Unknown:
Massimilla Doni
Unknown:
Armin Rueger
Novel By:
Henri Debalzac
Music By:
Othmar Schoeck
Conducted By:
Gerd Albrecht

Now which of us two is mad? say you and you point at me
(PIRANDELLO)
Reality and dreams are both impressions (LIE zie) A sequence of prose drawn from the plays of luigi PIRANDELLO and Daoist and Zen writing by UM POH SIM with David Goodland, David Graham , Francis Middleditch and John Samson
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Graham
Unknown:
Francis Middleditch
Unknown:
John Samson
Producer:
Piers Plowright

BRODSKY STRING QUARTET
Michael Thomas (violin) Ian Belton (violin)
Paul Cassidy (viola)
Jacqueline Thomas (cello) Schumann Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3
Goehr Quartet No 3, Op 37 BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Violin:
Michael Thomas
Violin:
Ian Belton
Viola:
Paul Cassidy
Cello:
Jacqueline Thomas

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More