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Debussy, orch Ravel Sarabande AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/RICCARDO CHAILLY
7.05* Faure, orch Rutter Cantique de Jean Racine CAMBRIDGE SINGERS, CITY OF LONDON
SINFONIA/JOHN RUTTER
7.12* Balakirev Russia USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV
7.30 News
7.35 Rossini Overture: Otello NATIONAL PORICCARDO CHAILLY
7.41* Salieri Concerto in c HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe) AURELE NICOLET (flute) BAMBERG SO/PETER MAAG
8.00* Glazunov Concert Waltz No 1
BAMBERG SO NEEME JARVI. Records

Four weekly sequences of English madrigals
Byrd Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
Weelkes Death Have Deprived Me Wilbye Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers
Morley Fyer , Fyer!
Gibbons Dainty Fine Bird
Wilbye Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis CAMBRIDGE SINGERS directed by JOHN RUTTER. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Morley Fyer
Directed By:
John Rutter.

Introduced by Richard Osborne Record Review
Building a Library:
Sibelius's Violin Concerto by John Warrack
George Pratt reviews two new versions of Handel's Messiah conducted by Trevor Pinnock and Charles Mackerras and Blow's Venus and Adonis
10.40* Record Release
John Blow Venus and Adonis (soprano) (tenor) (tenor)(bass)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Osborne
Unknown:
John Warrack
Unknown:
George Pratt
Conducted By:
Trevor Pinnock
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
John Blow Venus
Cupid:
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Venus:
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Adonis:
Stephen Varcoe (bass)
Shepherdess:
Emily van Evera
Shepherdess:
John Mark Ainsley
Shepherdes:
Charles Daniel
Shepherdes:
Gordon Jones
ROGERS:
Covey-Crump (tenor)
LONDON:
Baroque/charles Medlam
11 34* A:
Conversation With
the pianist:
Graham Johnson
about a project to:
Record All
11 50* Faure:
Suite: Pelleas
Actor:
Et Melisande
FRENCH:
National Orchestra/
Actor:
Charles Munch
12 10*:
Roussel Evocations
JOSE VAN:
Dam (baritone)
Actor:
Nicolaigedda (tenor)
NATHALIE:
Stutzmann (contralto)
TOULOUSE:
Capitole Orchestral
Actor:
Michel Plasson
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers
('Record Review ' is:
Repeated On
Wednesday at:
2 00pm)

Broadcasting and the Arts i: Television
Robert Hewison chairs a discussion with Michael Jackson of the BBC and Roger Graef of Channel 4.
Woducer JULIAN HALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hewison
Unknown:
Michael Jackson
Unknown:
Roger Graef
Unknown:
Woducer Julian Hale

Savonlinna Festival
A complete performance of Handel's Messiah given in July at Olavinlinna Castle.
MARGARET MARSHALL (soprano) SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) PETTERI SALOMAA (bass) BBC WELSH CHORUS chorusmaster JOHN HUGH THOMAS BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by JAMES CLARK
Conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON (Finnish Radio recording)

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Marshall
Mezzo-Soprano:
Sarah Walker
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Bass:
Petteri Salomaa
Unknown:
John Hugh Thomas
Unknown:
James Clark
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington

Richard Cork (in the Chair) talks with John Peter , Peter Porter and Hilary Spurling.
The Most Dangerous Man in the World, directed by Gavin Millar on BBC1; Nils Gaup 's film Pathfinder; the Sergei Eisenstein exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London; The Sneeze by Michael Frayn at the Aldwych Theatre, London; The Letters of T. S. Eliot (volume one), edited by Valerie Eliot. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Cork
Unknown:
John Peter
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Hilary Spurling.
Directed By:
Gavin Millar
Unknown:
Nils Gaup
Unknown:
Sergei Eisenstein
Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Edited By:
Valerie Eliot.

A musical adaptation of Voltaire's satire by Leonard Bernstein , who celebrated his 70th birthday in August.
Humphrey Burton introduces
Scottish Opera's new production. (In association with Standard Life)
0 Simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 See page 32 for full details

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Introduces:
Humphrey Burton

Henry Cowell Saturday Night at the Firehouse
MILWAUKEE SO/LUKAS FOSS Aaron Copland Corral
Nocturne, Saturday Night
Waltz and Hoe Down (Rodeo) DETROIT SO/ANT AL
DORATI Leonard Bernstein Three Dance Episodes (On the Town) ISRAEL PO;THE COMPOSER
Charles Ives Central Park in the Dark
BOSTON SO/SEUI OZAWA. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorati Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Charles Ives

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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