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Offenbach Overture: La Belle Helene
PHILHARMONIA/NEVILLE MARRINER
7.07* Kreisler Siciliano and Rigaudon: LOLA BOBESCO (violin) WILHELM HELLWEG (piano)
7.13* Canteloube La-haut, sur Ie rocher (Songs of the Auvergne, Set 5): KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano) ECO/JEFFREY TATE
7.18* Bax Symphonic Scherzo RPO/VERNON HANDLEY
7.30 News
7.35 Johann Strauss (son) Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325 JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA OF VIENNA'WILU BOSKOVSKY
7.46* Delius, arr Fenby Late Swallows: BOURNEMOUTH
SlNFONIETT NORMAN DEL MAR
7.56* Bizet Chanson d'Avril ELLY AMELING (soprano) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
7.58* Jose Ferrer La Danse de
Naiades: SIMON WYNBERG (guitar)
8.02* Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals: PASCAL ROGE and CRISTINA ORTIZ (pianos): LONDON SINFONIETTA/DUTOIT. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Belle Helene

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann Record Review
Building a Library:
Mozart's c minor Mass (K 427), by William Mann.
Christopher Headington reviews discs of mainly British music.
10.40* Record Release Britten Cello Suite No 3
TIMOTHY HUGH
11.02* Bax Symphony No 6 LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
11.53* Tippett Songs for Dov NIGEL ROBSON (tenor) SCO THE COMPOSER
12.20*pm Britten Cello
Symphony: STEVEN isserlis
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA/HICKOX Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
('Record Review ' is re-broadcast on Wednesday at 2. 00pm) FM only from 10.40

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
William Mann.
Tenor:
Dov Nigel Robson
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

England v West Indies The second One-Day International for the Texaco Trophy.
Commentary from Headingley by Don Mosey , Henry Blofeld and Tony Cozier , with expert comments from FRED TRUEMAN and COLIN MILBURN.
Scorer MALCOLM ASHTON
1.05*pm News
1.10* Catch'Em Young
Alastair Hignell examines the decline of schools cricket.
1.30-1.40* County Scoreboard

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Mosey
Unknown:
Henry Blofeld
Unknown:
Tony Cozier
Unknown:
Fred Trueman
Unknown:
Colin Milburn.
Unknown:
Malcolm Ashton
Unknown:
Alastair Hignell

The first of four programmes of recordings of the great Australian soprano, introduced by Edward Greenfield. Norma Bellini 's lyric tragedy in two acts, libretto by FELICE ROMANI (sung in Italian): Records: 1964 LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, RICHARD BONYNGE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward Greenfield.
Introduced By:
Norma Bellini
Unknown:
Felice Romani
Unknown:
Richard Bonynge
Oroveso:
Richard Cross (bass)
Pollione:
John Alexander (tenor)
Flavio:
Joseph Ward (tenor)
Norma:
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Adalgisa:
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-Soprano)
Clotilde:
Yvonne Minton (mezzo-Soprano)

Anthony Thwaite (in the Chair) talks with Owen Dudley Edwards, Marina Vaizey and John Wilders. The Possibilities by Howard Barker (Radio 3, last Tuesday); In the Hothouse, a collection of poems by Alan Jenkins ; Angry Penguins: Art in Melbourne in the 1940s at the Hayward Gallery, London; Carl Schultz's film Travelling North; Emerald City by David Williamson at the Lyric Theatre, London. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite
Unknown:
Owen Dudley
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey
Unknown:
John Wilders.
Unknown:
Howard Barker
Unknown:
Alan Jenkins
Unknown:
David Williamson
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

MICHAEL THOMPSON. JOHN PIGNEGUY RICHARD WATKINS , ROBERT MASKELL Rossini Le Rendezvous de chasse Graham Whettam Quartet (first UK broadcast) Nikolai Tcherepnin Nocturne; Choeur danse; La Chasse

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Thompson.
Unknown:
John Pigneguy
Unknown:
Richard Watkins
Unknown:
Robert Maskell

5: Frederick, Lord Lugard (1858-1945) John Keay reflects on the ambitions and philosophies of five Englishmen whose lives span the period from the first serious stirrings of British rule in Asia to the start of the slow dismantling of the Empire after the Second World War.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keay

MARGARET MARSHALL (soprano)
FELICITY PALMER (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) BBC SINGERS
BBC SYMPHONY CHORUS directed by GARETH MORRELL TIFFIN SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR directed by NEVILLE CREED BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY conducted by DAVID ATHERTON Tippett Symphony No 4
Britten Spring Symphony

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Marshall
Mezzo-Soprano:
Felicity Palmer
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Directed By:
Gareth Morrell
Directed By:
Neville Creed
Unknown:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
David Atherton

In 1885, Sigmund Freud destroyed hundreds of notes, manuscripts and letters, remarking as he did: 'Let the biographers labour and toil - we won't make it easy for them.'
Undeterred by such a warning Peter Gay , Professor of History at Yale University, this week publishes Freud: A Life for Our Time. Dr Michael Neve talks to him about how useful Freud's ideas are when interpreting history or biography.
Producer ELIZABETH BURKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Gay
Talks:
Dr Michael Neve
Producer:
Elizabeth Burke

Charles Fox introduces a series of eight recordings from the 1987 festival.
5: Steve Coleman's Five ElementsThis young alto-saxophonist first went looking for work in New York in 1978. He played with various bands before Dave Holland asked him to join his Quintet for what became a successful European tour. Coleman formed the FIVE
ELEMENTS four years ago and at Bracknell the eight-piece band included:
Cassandra Wilson (vocals) Graham Haynes (trumpet) Robin Eubanks (trombone)
James Weidman (keyboards) David Gilmore (guitar)
Kevin Bruce Harris (bass)
Martin 'Smitty' Smith (drums)

Contributors

Introduces:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Dave Holland
Unknown:
Cassandra Wilson
Unknown:
Graham Haynes
Unknown:
Robin Eubanks
Unknown:
James Weidman
Guitar:
David Gilmore
Bass:
Kevin Bruce Harris
Bass:
Martin 'Smitty' Smith

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