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Handel Overture: Atalanta
CAPELLASAVARIA/
NICHOLAS MCGEGAN
7.12* Milhaud Paris, for four pianos
CHRISTIAN IV ALDI. MICHEL BEROFF
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD and NOEL LEE
7.23* Beethoven Symphony No2inD
LONDON CLASSICAL PLAYERS/
ROGER NORRINGTON
8.00 News
8.05 Josef Strauss Waltz: Music of the Spheres
VIENNA PO/WILLI BOSKOVSKY
8.14* Schumann Konzertstiick for four horns and orchestra
GERD SEIFERT. NORBERT HAUPTMANN
CHRISTOPH KOHLER and MANNFRED KLIER
BERLIN PO/KLAUS TENNSTEDT
8.32* Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
ST LOUIS SO/LEONARD SLATKIN
8.39* Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien
DETROIT SO/ANTAL DORATI Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas McGegan
Unknown:
Michel Beroff
Unknown:
Jean-Philippe Collard
Unknown:
Roger Norrington
Unknown:
Josef Strauss
Unknown:
Schumann Konzertstiick
Unknown:
Gerd Seifert.
Unknown:
Norbert Hauptmann
Unknown:
Christoph Kohler

John Field
The audience's excitement and applause (for the seventh Concerto) made the hall shake. And, what's more, the Adagio had to be repeated - a very rare thing indeed.
REVUE DE PARIS (1832)
Quintet for piano and strings
MUSICIANS OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE (R)
Grande Valse in A
DAVID BRANSON and ANDREW DAVIES (piano duet)
Concerto No 7 in c minor JOHN O'CONOR (piano)
NEW IRISH CO/JANOS furst. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
John Field
Piano:
John O'Conor
Piano:
New Irish

direct from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester PETER NOKE and HELEN krizos (pianos)
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by DENNIS SIMONS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Parti
Bliss Introduction and Allegro Elis Pehkonen Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (BBC commission: first performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Allegro Elis Pehkonen

SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) DAVID OWEN NORRIS (piano)
Haydn The mermaid's song; the spirit's song; Pastoral song Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
2.45* Interval Reading
2.50* Howells The Goat Paths
Madeleine Dring Five Betjeman Poems
Britten Cabaret songs
(Given on 29 January in association with University College. Bangor) BBC Wales

Contributors

Piano:
Owen Norris

recorded in Ely Cathedral Responses (Lloyd)
Psalm 45 (Conway, Parry) First Lesson (Rsv): Wisdom 7, w 7-14
Office Hymn (EH 191): Son of a virgin
Canticles (Howells in G) Second Lesson (rsv): Revelation 19, vv 4-9
Anthem: In honour of Etheldreda (Wills)
Hymn (EH 170): Christ is made the sure foundation
Organ voluntary: Symphonia Eliensis (parts 7 and 8) (Wills) Director of music ARTHUR WILLS Assistant organist STEPHEN LE PREVOST

Contributors

Unknown:
Symphonia Eliensis
Organist:
Stephen Le Prevost

by JAMES SAUNDERS
'It's my stratiotes sylvaticus. I've cloched it, I've watered it, I've sprayed it. It's against the south wall, nicely protected. And yet, it's not well. And we don't know why. Well then, perhaps it'll get better, as you say; but then again, perhaps it'll get worse. Why not?'
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Saunders
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Charles Carboy:
Dinsdale Landen
Daphne Carboy:
Gwen Watford
their daughter, Helen:
Alison Steadman
The Rev Wandsworth Teeter:
Peter Howell
Sandra, the maid:
Sheila Grant

Levon Chilingirian (violin) Mark Butler (violin)
Louise Williams (viola) Philip de Groote (cello) direct from Studio 1, Birmingham
Beethoven Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5
Martinu Quartet No 5
8.20* During the interval
Jan Smaczny talks about the Martinu string quartets which are a feature of this season's Birmingham concerts.
8.40* Dvorak
Quartet in G, Op 106 BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Violin:
Levon Chilingirian
Violin:
Mark Butler
Viola:
Louise Williams
Talks:
Jan SmacZny

Poems by the Eastern Armenian poet PARUIR SEVAK (1924-71)
Selected and translated by MISCHA KUDIAN
Paruir Sevak had a distinctive tone of voice, a strong sense of social justice, a wry sense of humour, and an individual and compassionate way of looking at the world.
Poems read in English by John Rowe and in the original by Mischa Kudian
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Translated By:
Mischa Kudian
Translated By:
Paruir Sevak
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Mischa Kudian
Producer:
John Theocharis

The pre-eminent saxophonist in jazz and one of the ultimate masters of improvisation.
INDEPENDENT
This concert by the ROLLINS QUINTET was recorded at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon last November. Sonny Rollins (tenor sax)
Clifton Anderson (trombone) Mark Soskin (piano) Jerome Harris (bass)
Tommy Campbell (drums)
Mercer/Kern I'm old fashioned Myrow/Gannon Autumn nocturne
Rollins U.T.
10.25* Interval Reading
10.30*
Rollins Best wishes
Wood/Mellin My one and only love
Rollins Don't stop the carnival Stevie Wonder Isn't she lovely Rollins Allison; Tenor madness

Contributors

Tenor:
Sonny Rollins
Unknown:
Clifton Anderson
Piano:
Mark Soskin
Bass:
Jerome Harris
Bass:
Tommy Campbell

BBC Radio 3

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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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