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Rossini Overture: Semiramide
PHILHARMONIA/RICCARDO MUTI
7.11* Vivaldi Concerto in D (RV 93) JURGEN HUBSCHER (lute)
I SOLISTI VENETI/CLAUDIO SCIMONE
7.22* Scarlatti Sonata in A (Kk 209)
CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS (piano)
7.30 News
7.35 Chabrier. orch Felix Mottl Bourree fantasque
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
ARMIN JORDAN
7.42* Strauss Suite: Le
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op 60 NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA
OP CANADA/EDUARDO MATA
8.18* Strauss Cacilie ;
Standchen; Zueignung
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano) Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jurgen Hubscher
Unknown:
Felix Mottl
Unknown:
Armin Jordan
Unknown:
Strauss Cacilie
Piano:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Nielsen
The language of Funen sings.... who can resist this magic where all is perfect and permanent harmony? The Song of Funen Wind Quintet (1922) DANISH WIND QUINTET
Pan and Syrinx (1918) CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
Fynsk Forar (Springtime in Funen) (1921)
KIRSTEN HERMANSEN (Soprano) KURT WESTi (tenor)
IB HANSEN (baritone) ZAHLE GIRLS' CHOIR
COPENHAGEN BOYS'CHOIR
DANISH RADIO CHORUS AND SO/ MOGENS WÖLDIKE. Records BBC Manchester

Contributors

Soprano:
Kirsten Hermansen

led by PETER POOLE conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON PORTSMOUTH FESTIVAL CHOIR
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano) HUGH MILLER (viola)
Boyce Symphony No 1 in B flat Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Christopher Headington The Healing Fountain (first UK broadcast)
11.55* Interval Reading
12.00* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op 10
Vaughan Williams Flos Campi (Given on 21 May in the Guildhall,
Portsmouth, in association with N. M. Schroder Financial Management Ltd aspartofthe 1987 Portsmouth Festival) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Poole
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington
Mezzo-Soprano:
Susan Kessler

Opera in a prologue and five acts
Music by Monteverdi Libretto by ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO (sung in Italian): Records
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS
HIS MAJESTY'S S AGBUTTS AND
CORNETTS/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

Contributors

Music By:
Monteverdi Libretto
Unknown:
Alessandro Striggio
Unknown:
Eliot Gardiner
Music:
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Orpheus:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Eurydice:
Julianne Baird (soprano)
First shepherd/Echo:
Mark Tucker (tenor)
Second shepherd/Apollo:
Nigel Robson (tenor)
Third/Fourth shepherds:
Michael Chance (counter-Tenor)
Third/Fourth shepherds:
Simon Birchall (bass)
Messenger:
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-Soprano)
Hope:
Mary Nichols (mezzo-Soprano)
Charon/Third spirit:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Proserpine:
Diana Montague (mezzo-Soprano)
Pluto:
Willard White (bass-Baritone)
Spirits:
Howard Milner(tenor)
Spirits:
Nicholas Robertson (tenor)

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND conducted by LT JAMES M. BANKHEAD John Heins Overture
Michael Colgrass Winds ofNagual
(both first UK broadcasts) (WGBH Boston recording)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lt James M. Bankhead
Conducted By:
John Heins
Unknown:
Michael Colgrass

Musical Rostra
Some permanent conductorships are more permanent than others. What is their value? Michael Hall talks to the Managing Director of the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, John Willan , and writer and journalist, Nicholas Kenyon.

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Hall
Unknown:
John Willan
Unknown:
Nicholas Kenyon.

The last of five concerts direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester PETER FRANKL (piano)
HALLE CHOIR (women's voices) chorusmaster RONALD FROST
HALLE ORCHESTRA led by MICHAEL DAVIS conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES Debussy Nocturnes
Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in c (k 467)
8.30* Tippett and His Fourth Symphony A talk by Ian Kemp
8.45* Tippett Symphony No 4 BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Frost
Unknown:
Michael Davis
Conducted By:
Owain Arwel
Talk By:
Ian Kemp

Robert Franz was one of the most celebrated 19th-century composers of songs, which he said were meant 'not to arouse, but to create peace and tranquillity'..
Seven of them are sung by MiTSUKO shirai (soprano) with HARTMUT HÖLL (piano) (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Franz
Soprano:
Mitsuko Shirai

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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