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Bach, arr Stokowski Little Fugue in G minor
CINCINNATI POPS ORCHESTRA/
ERICH KUNZEL
7.04* Grainger Blithe Bells LESUE HOWARD (piano)
7.08* Walton Suite: The Wise Virgins
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/LOUIS LANE
7.30 News
7.35 Offenbach Intermezzo on themes from Rossini's 'William Tell'
COLOGNE PHILHARMONIC CELLISTS
7.40* Martinu Variations on a theme of Rossini SASA VECTAMOV (cello)
JOSEF PALENICEK (piano)
7.48* Giuliani Operatic potpourri in A: Le Rossiniane, Op 121
JULIAN BREAM (guitar)
8.02* Respighi Suite: Rossiniana
RPO/ANTAL DORATI Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Erich Kunzel
Piano:
Josef Palenicek
Piano:
Giuliani Operatic

Malcolm Ruthven presents a look ahead to some of the highlights of the coming week's broadcasting on Radio 3 - including music, drama and documentaries - through conversations with some of the performers and producers involved. Producer PETER BERG

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Ruthven
Producer:
Peter Berg

Introduced by Paul Vaughan Record Review
Building a Library:
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by Richard Osborne.
Stephen Walsh reviews Mahler symphonies conducted by Sinopoli and Rattle. Record Release includes an interview with Simon Rattle , and his recording of Mahler's Second Symphony with ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Keith Hardwick talks about preparing vintage recordings for issue and introduces a 1935 recording of Elgar's Enigma
Variations made in the Queen's Hall, London, by the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
Stephen Walsh
Unknown:
Simon Rattle
Soprano:
Arleen Auger
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Talks:
Keith Hardwick
Conducted By:
Arturo Toscanini.
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Principal cellist of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra with GORDON BACK (piano)
Debussy Sonata in D minor Paganini, arr Luigi Silva
Introduction and Variations on a theme from Rossini's 'Moses' Reger Suite in G, for solo cello Boccherini Sonata No 4 in A

RODNEY FRIEND (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by GENNADIROZHDESTVENSKY
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Act 2
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Prokofiev Violin Concerto NolinD
Shostakovich Suite: The Bolt (excerpts)
... an atmosphere of pure joy on stage
GUARDIAN
Series producer CHRIS DE SOUZA (R)

Gillian Reynolds (in the Chair) talks with Robert Carver Richard Cork and Jeremy Treglown. This week's subjects:
The Vision by WILLIAM NICHOLSON on BBC2; ERIC ROHMER 'S film
Four Adventures ofReinette and Mirabelle; Young Turner: Early Works to 1800 at the Tate Gallery; Man to Man by MANFRED KARGE at the Royal Court Theatre; A Capote Reader, an anthology of writings by TRUMAN CAPOTE. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
Robert Carver
Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
Jeremy Treglown.
Unknown:
William Nicholson
Unknown:
Eric Rohmer
Unknown:
Manfred Karge

(Infidelity Outwitted)
Musical farce in two acts
Libretto by MARCO COLTELLINl Music by Haydn (sung in Italian)
ORCHESTRA OF THE
AGE OF ENUGHTENMENT led by CATHERINE MACKINTOSH Continuo:
JOHN TOLL (harpsichord) SUSAN SHEPPARD (cello) conducted by SIGlSWALD KUIJKEN Act
8.35* Sigiswald Kuijken talks to Michael Oliver about L 'infedeità delusa
8.40* Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Marco Coltellinl
Unknown:
Catherine MacKintosh
Conducted By:
Siglswald Kuijken
Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Vespina, a spirited young woman, sister of Nanni and in love with Nencio:
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Sandrina, a simple girl, in love with Nanni:
Lena Lootens (soprano)
Nencio, a well-to-do farmer:
Markus Schaeffer (tenor)
Filippo, an old peasant, Sandrina's father:
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)
Nanni, a peasant, in love with Sandrina:
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)

Charles Fox introduces a series of four very varied recordings made in the Shaw Theatre during the 1987 Festival.
The American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who died in 1982, is still one of the most influential figures in jazz. Last April, an international group of musicians came together to play some of their own music, but mainly that of Monk.
Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone) George Lewis (trombone) Misha Mengelberg (piano) Ernst Reisinger (Cello) Han Bennink (drums)
Monk Hornin' In; Let's Call This
Misha Mengelberg Reef
Monk Reflections
Lacy Dutch Masters

11.00* Charles Fox discusses Monk's music with Steve Lacy, who worked with Monk in 1960.

11.10* Monk Off Minor; Monk's Mood
Steve Lacy Utah
Monk Four In One; Bemsha Swing

Contributors

Presenter:
Charles Fox
Saxophonist/Guest (Interval):
Steve Lacy
Trombonist:
George Lewis
Pianist:
Misha Mengelberg
Cellist:
Ernst Reisinger
Drummer:
Han Bennink [billed as Han Bennick]
Series Producer:
Derek Drescher

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