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7.35 Delius Dance Rhapsody No 2
RPO THOMAS BEECHAM
7.43 Chopin Polonaise in A flat
MALCOLM FRAGER (piano)
7.50 Bax Dance of Wild Irravel
LPO BRYDEN THOMSON
7.57 Alabiev
The Nightingale EDITA GRUBEROVA (soprano)
SOUTH GERMAN RSO/
KURT EICHHORN
8.04 Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella
ECO/ALEXANDER GIBSON Records
Producer HUGH WARWICK

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Chopin Polonaise
Piano:
Malcolm Frager
Unknown:
Kurt Eichhorn
Producer:
Hugh Warwick

Bach at Cothen
When Bach arrived at the Cothen court in 1717 he found himself in the employment of a discerning musical enthusiast. Prince
Leopold had studied music and could play the violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord. The well-trained court orchestra which he had recently formed contained several eminent players and Bach set to work with enthusiasm composing music for them.
Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1:
Preludes and Fugues Nos 1 and 2 WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord)
Suite in G (BWV 1007)
PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1: Preludes and Fugues Nos 3 and 4 WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord)
Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Records
Producer MCHOLAS ANDERSON

Contributors

Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Directed By:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Producer:
McHolas Anderson

Dvorak The Wild Dove CZECH PO/
VACLAV NEUMANN. Record Schumann Kinderszenen INGRID HAEBLER (piano) Britten The Young
Person's Guide to the Orchestra
BBC PO BRYDEN THOMSON Bridge String Sextet RAPHAEL ENSEMBLE
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op 24
YEFIM BRONFMAN (piano) Producer MARK ROWLINSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaclav Neumann.
Unknown:
Schumann Kinderszenen
Piano:
Ingrid Haebler
Piano:
Yefim Bronfman

led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK
BARRY TUCKWELL (horn)
Sibelius Incidental music: Pelleas et Melisande Thea Musgrave Horn Concerto
Roberto Gerhard Ballet suite: Don Quixote BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Trabichoff
Conducted By:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Horn:
Barry Tuckwell
Horn:
Melisande Thea Musgrave
Unknown:
Roberto Gerhard Ballet
Unknown:
Don Quixote

live from St John 's,
Smith Square, London. COULL QUARTET with ROGER BIGLEY (viola) Robert Simpson String
Quintet (BBC commission: first performance)
Dvorak String Quintet in E flat, Op 97
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Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Viola:
Roger Bigley
Viola:
Robert Simpson

led by PAUL BARRITT conducted by GILBERT VARGA
C.P.E. Bach Sinfonia in F (Wq 181)
Leopold Mozart
Divertimento No 1 in c
Honegger Pastorale d'ete Haydn Symphony No 82 in c (Bear) BBC Manchester.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Barritt
Conducted By:
Gilbert Varga
Conducted By:
C.P.E. Bach Sinfonia

Purcell's ode, Welcome. Welcome Glorious Morn. first performed on 30 April 1691, and his setting of Nahum Tate 's Celebrate This Festival, given on Queen Mary's 31st birthday in 1693. THE SIXTEEN CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA led by DAVID WOODCOCK conducted by HARRY CHRISTOPHERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Nahum Tate
Unknown:
David Woodcock
Conducted By:
Harry Christophers

live from the Royal
Festival Hall, London
WAYNE MARSHALL (piano) BBC SINGERS chorusmaster SIMON JOLY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by RODNEY FRIEND conducted by PAUL DANIEL Parti
Robert Saxton Choruses to Apollo (first broadcast) Stravinsky Apollo (1947)
8.15 Simon Bainbridge in conversation with Michael Berkeley.
8.35 Part 2 Bainbridge Fantasia for double orchestra

Contributors

Piano:
Wayne Marshall
Unknown:
Simon Joly
Unknown:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Paul Daniel
Unknown:
Simon Bainbridge
Unknown:
Michael Berkeley.

A series of poetry readings recorded at the Voice Box on London's South Bank, Matthew Caley reads new poems and work from his collections More Songs Written in Health Food
Restaurants and Dancing in the Lone Star Diner.

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Caley

Colin Tudge splits science into six programmes.
Just How Many Species Are There? Your guess probably isn't quite as good as Bob May 's. Renaissance Man?
Jean Gimpel demotes
Leonardo to the Middle Ages - and does him a good turn in the process. Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN Mono

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Unknown:
Bob May
Unknown:
Jean Gimpel
Producer:
Nicholas Morgan

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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