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Handel Overture: Teseo SIMON STANDAGE (violin)
ENGLISH CONCERT/TREVOR PINNOCK

7.05* Faure Ballade
ROBERT CASADESUS (piano)
NEW YORK PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN

7.17* F. Benda Sinfonia No 1 in G
ARS REDIVIV A/MILAN MUNCLINGER

7.30 News

7.35 Sibelius Karelia Suite
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/NEVILLE MARRINER

7.50* Dvorak Slavonic Dance in F, Op 72 No 3
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/KURT MASUR

7.54* Ravel Alborada del gracioso
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK

8.02* Mendelssohn String Symphony No 10 in B minor LONDON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA/ ROSS POPLE.

(Records)

Contributors

Unknown:
Faure Ballade
Piano:
Robert Casadesus

Introduced by Jeremy Siepmann Record Review
Building a Library: Verdi's
Don Carlo by Rodney Milnes. David Nice reviews recent orchestral releases.
10.40 Record Release
Martinu Symphony No 5 BERLIN SO/CLAUS PETER FLOR
11.11* Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio) RPO/ANDREWUTTON
11.34* Miechyslaw Karlowicz Violin Concerto in A, Op 8 KONSTANTY KULKA
WARSAW NATIONAL PO/
WITOLD ROWICKI
12.05* Bax Symphonic poem: The Garden of Fand HALLE; JOHN BARBIROLLI
12.23* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 in F minor LSO/BRYDEN THOMSON
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Don Carlo
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.

Brighton Festival
Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Music by Handel Libretto by CARDINAL BENEDETTO PAMPHIU (sung in Italian)
This allegorical oratorio is better known in its English version of 1757, The Triumph of Time and Truth. The original Italian version was Handel's first oratorio, and was written in 1707 during the composer's time in Rome.
CHIAROSCURO directed by NIGEL ROGERS
Parti
2.45* Interval Reading
2.50* Part 2
(Given on 27 May in Lancing College Chapel in association with Neville Russell Chartered Accountants)

Contributors

Music By:
Handel Libretto
Unknown:
Cardinal Benedetto Pamphiu
Directed By:
Nigel Rogers
Beauty:
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Beauty:
Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
Beauty:
Nicholas Clapton (countertenor)
Time:
Nigel Rogers (tenor)

On 17 October Professor
Sir James Black received the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
His achievement: to create the front-line drugs in the treatment of high blood pressure and ulcers. He took as his starting point the body's own drugs, the hormones, and, as he reveals to Colin Tudge , he believes such 'redesigning' to be the key to the pharmacopoeia of tomorrow.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir James Black
Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Nicholas Morgan

Philip Oakes (in the Chair) talks with A.S. Byatt , John Elsom and Bryan Robertson. This week's subjects:
Cigarettes and Chocolate by Anthony Minghella on Radio 4; Ben Jonson 's Bartholomew Fair at the National Theatre; Peter Yates 's film The House on Carroll Street; Panoramania! at the Barbican Art Gallery;
Theoria, Art and the Absence of Grace by Peter Fuller. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
A.S. Byatt
Unknown:
John Elsom
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson.
Unknown:
Anthony Minghella
Unknown:
Ben Jonson
Unknown:
Peter Yates
Unknown:
Peter Fuller.

live from the Royal Festival Hall, London as part of the South Bank Centre's
Schoenberg cycle, 'The
Reluctant Revolutionary'. Schoenberg Suite, Op 29
ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Berio Piano Concerto (first UK performance)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) ORCHESTRE DE PARIS conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
8.30* David Osmond-Smith , Robert Saxton ,
Susan Bradshaw and Roger Marsh compare impressions of Berio's Piano Concerto and their reactions to this evening's Performance.
8.50* Stravinsky The Rite of Spring ORCHESTRE DE PARIS conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Conducted By:
David Osmond-Smith
Conducted By:
Robert Saxton
Unknown:
Susan Bradshaw
Unknown:
Roger Marsh
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim

Stirabout by TOM MACINTYRE and Strange dreams trouble the otherwise contented King. Trouble deepens when a gentleman the size of his little finger arrives in a jam pot,
Plumbs depths when another arrives in the porridge, and turns to tragedy when they Persuade him to believe in his dreams.
Music and special effects created by HENRY DAGG Directed by JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom MacIntyre
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
the King:
With Sean Barrett
his Queen:
Barbara Brennan
Minister of Home Affairs:
Tom Hickey
Thing of the Lake:
Richenda Carey
Esirt:
Joan Sheehy
Esirt's King:
James Murphy
Lady Minerva:
Alngeal Grehan
Radio 3 voice:
Michael Baguley

'Poetry, as I know it, is a bit like mining. One day you strike and strike the rock and nothing happens: the next, you hit it and extract silver.'
The Irish poet Eavan Boland introduces and reads a selection of her work.
Producer FRASER STEEL (R)

Contributors

Introduces:
Eavan Boland

BBC Radio 3

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