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Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D (BWV 1050) (Mono) - Marcel Moyse (flute), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Busch Chamber Players directed by Adolf Busch (violin)

7.27* Handel I Know that My Redeemer Liveth (Messiah) - Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), LPO/ Adrian Boult

7.35* Dvorak Bagatelles - Rudolf Firkusny (harmonium), Jiulliard String Quartet

7.53* trad Gospel Train - Jessye Norman (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

8.00 News

8.05 Corelli Concerto in C minor, Op 6 No 3 - La Petite Bande, directed by Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)

8.16* Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor - Murray Perahia, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner

8.39* Copland Simple Gifts (Old American Songs) (Mono) - Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) (Records)

8.40* Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3 - Cleveland SO/Isaiah Jackson (WCLV recording)

Contributors

Producer:
Jane Bevan
Piano:
Rudolf Serkin

The Aspersion and Mass of the Holy Innocents as it might have been celebrated in Mexico City Cathedral, in 1656
Plainchant from Spain and Mexico with polyphony by Francisco Lopez
Stephen Cleobury (organ)
London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble

Promusica Sacra/Bruno Turner

(R) (Part 8 tomorrow at 10. 00am)

Contributors

Organist:
Stephen Cleobury
Musicians:
London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
Musicians:
Promusica Sacra
Conductor:
Bruno Turner

Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Scarlatti Sonatas: in B minor (Kk 87); in E (Kk380); in E (Kk135)

Mozart Sonata in C (K 330)

Rachmaninov Preludes: in G, Op 32 No 5; in G sharp minor, Op 32 No 12

Scriabin Etudes: in C sharp minor, Op 2 No 1; in D sharp minor, Op 8 No 12

1.50* Interval Reading

1.55* Schubert Impromptu in B flat (D 935 No 3)

Schubert, transc Liszt Soiree de Vienne No 6 (Valses-caprices d'apres Franz Schubert)

Liszt Petrarch Sonnet No 104 in E major

Chopin Mazurkas: in C sharp minor, Op 30 No 4; in F minor, Op 7 No 3
Polonaise in A flat, Op 53

(R)

Contributors

Pianist:
Vladimir Horowitz

(first broadcast in 1961)
with Hugh Burden as the scholar, Herbert Reeve
The first of three investigations by Henry Reed, broadcast as a tribute to the poet and to Douglas Cleverdon, who produced the series.
Settings of Schopenhauer and Don Hurl My Heart composed and played by Donald Swann
(Mono)
('A Hedge, Backwards' on Wednesday at 5.10pm)
(Hear This! page 20)

Contributors

Writer:
Henry Reed
Producer:
Douglas Cleverdon
Composer/Musician:
Donald Swann
Herbert Reeve:
Hugh Burden
Stephen Shewin:
Carleton Hobbs
Connie, his wife:
Gwen Cherrell
Muffy:
Vivienne Chatterton
Miss Adela Burkley:
Janette Richer
Miss Betty Burkley:
Marjorie Westbury
Richard Shewin's valet:
Frank Duncan
T.H. Powers, another novelist:
Norman Shelley
Lady Blackie:
Betty Hardy
Hilda Tablet, a composeress:
Mary O'Farrel
Elsa:
Marjorie Westbury
Miss Rich:
Cecile Chevreau
Nancy Shewin:
Dorothy Primrose
Janet, her daughter:
Gwen Cherrell
Owen, Brian and George, a few of her sons:
Denis Quilley
Owen, Brian and George, a few of her sons:
Anthony Reese
Owen, Brian and George, a few of her sons:
Marjorie Westbury
Narrative prose:
Frank Duncan

The first of three programmes

Prelude and Fugue in B, Op 7 No 1; Variations sur un Noel, Op 20; Prelude and Fugue in A flat, Op 36 No 2 - played by Jane Watts on the organ of Westminster Cathedral, London

BBC Wales
(R)

Contributors

Organist:
Jane Watts

On this, the feast day of the Holy Innocents, Margaret Horsfield asks whether children were really put to the sword by an angry king in Bethlehem. Can the dreams and metaphor, fantasy and dogma of the Bethlehem stories be reconciled?

Contributors

Presenter:
Margaret Horsfield
Producer:
Frances Gumley

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