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Rossini Overture: William Tell
LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.12* Knechtl Horn Concerto in D
BARRYTUCKWELL
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THEFIELDS/
IONA BROWN
7.19* Boyce Symphony No 3 in c ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK
7.30 News
7.35 Sullivan Overture di ballo
RLPO CHARLES GROVES
7.47* German Song without Words
COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet) OLIVER DAVIES (piano)
7.54* Franz Schmidt Variations on a Hussar's Song
NEW PHILHARMONIA/HANS BAUER Records

Contributors

Unknown:
William Tell

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann Record Review
Building a Library:
Prokofiev's cantata Alexander Nevsky by Edward Seckerson. Bryce Morrison on recent discs of Schubert piano music.
Stephen Pettitt reviews records of polyphonic music by the Tallis Scholars and the Taverner Consort.
10.40* Record Release
Gesualdo Astiterunt reges; Aestimatus sum; Sepulto Domino
TALLIS SCHOLARS/PETER PHILLIPS Cristobal de Morales Lamentabatur Jacob
TAVERNER CONSORT/ANDREW PARROTT
11.05* Richard Osborne talks to Herbert von Karajan, who is 80 this week, and introduces his 1939 mono recording of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony (Pathetique), with the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
12.15*pm Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat (D 960) MAURIZIO POLLJNI
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Alexander Nevsky
Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Unknown:
Bryce Morrison
Unknown:
Stephen Pettitt
Unknown:
Gesualdo Astiterunt
Unknown:
Morales Lamentabatur Jacob

The first of three programmes English and Scottish Sacred Music
David Fallows introduces liturgical works from the cathedrals of St Andrews , Worcester and Durham.
TAVERNERCONSORT directed by ANDREW PARROTT (In association with the Royal Academy of Arts)
Series producer GRAHAM DIXON

Contributors

Introduces:
David Fallows
Unknown:
St Andrews
Directed By:
Andrew Parrott
Producer:
Graham Dixon

Wagner Parsifal, Act 3
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS chorusmasters MARTIN HANDLEY and DAVID DRUMMOND
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA led by RAYMOND OVENS conducted by REGINALD GOODALL (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley
Unknown:
David Drummond
Conducted By:
Reginald Goodall
Parsifal:
Warren Ellsworth (tenor)
Gurnemanz:
Gwynne Howell (bass)
Amfortas:
Neil Howlett (baritone)
Kundry:
Shelagh Squires (soprano)

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. Alexander Walker
(in the Chair) talks with Ronald Hayman. Peter Porter and John Spurling.
This week's subjects:
Rob Reiner 's film The Princess Bride; an installation by David Mach at the Tate Gallery,
London; A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill at the Comedy Theatre, London; The South
Bank Show: Nicaragua - Poets as Politicians, Sunday, ITV; The Renewal of Literature by Richard Poirier.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
Ronald Hayman.
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
John Spurling.
Unknown:
Rob Reiner
Unknown:
David MacH
Unknown:
Eugene O'Neill
Unknown:
Richard Poirier.

... from a Lot of Small Stupid Things
For Professor Marvin Minsky , the brain is a loose federation of specialised agencies which act in concert to produce deeds, feelings and thoughts. In conversation with Colin Tudge he paints a picture of what he calls the 'society of mind'.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Marvin Minsky
Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Nicholas Morgan

BRODSKY STRING QUARTET With SUSAN BICKLEY (mezzo-soprano)
Gyorgy Kurtag 12 Microludes (Homage to Andras Mihaly ) Philip Hammond Chanson d'automne, for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
(Sonorities commission: first broadcast performance) (Given last April in the Queen's University, Belfast, aspartof
Sonorities 1987 - Northern Ireland's festival of 20th-century music)

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Susan Bickley
Mezzo-Soprano:
Gyorgy Kurtag
Unknown:
Andras Mihaly
Unknown:
Philip Hammond Chanson

(1763-1845)
Sinfonia piccola in D; Piano
Concerto No 2 in c; Aria: Qual terribil vendetta (La passione); Sinfonia: L'amor coniugale; Cantata: Annibale a Cartago IAN CADDY (bass-baritone) KEITH SWALLOW (piano) NORTHERN SINFONIA led by HARRY CAWOOD conducted by RICHARD HICKOX BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Cawood
Conducted By:
Richard Hickox

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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