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Nicolai Overture: The
Merry Wives of Windsor ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN /
NEVILLE MARRINER
7.08 Dvorak Romance
ST PAUL COIPINCHAS ZUKERMAN (violin)
7.21 Puccini 0 Mimi, tu piii non torni (La Boheme) JUSSI BJOERLING (tenor)
ROBERT MERRILL (baritone) RCA VICTOR ORCH/CELLINI

Contributors

Unknown:
St Martin

7.35 Prokofiev Suite: The Love for Three Oranges DALLAS SO/EDUARDO MATA
7.51 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
MARTHA ARGERICH (piano) PARIS ORCH/BARENBOIM
8.16 Strauss Waltz Suite (Der Rosenkavalier)
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA ORCH/KEILBERTH. Records

Smetana Shakespeare Festival March
CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN Characteristic Pieces JAN NOVOTNY (piano) From My Homeland
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) SAMUEL SANDERS (piano) Prague Carnival
BOSTON SO /KUBELIK. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaclav Neumann
Piano:
Jan Novotny
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Piano:
Samuel Sanders
Piano:
Boston So

Music by composer-virtuosi, including a few rare examples from the present day.
Scarlatti, Chopin. Liszt, Paganini, Spohr, Litolff, Rachmaninov,
Koussevitzky, Tortelier, Nathan Milstein and John Wallace.
Producer JONATHAN STRACEY BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Nathan Milstein
Unknown:
John Wallace.

A dramatic cantata by Johann Christian Bach. (sung in Italian)
Dalisa, a nymph, hostile to love
PATRIZIA KWELLA (soprano) Alcidoro, a hunter
CATHERINE DENLEY
(mezzo)
SINFONIA CHORUS chorusmaster ALAN FEARON
NORTHERN SINFONIA led by BRADLEY CRESWICK conducted by RICHARD HICKOX

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Christian Bach.
Soprano:
Patrizia Kwella
Unknown:
Catherine Denley
Unknown:
Alan Fearon
Unknown:
Bradley Creswick
Conducted By:
Richard Hickox

The last of six concerts.
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Dvorak Overture: Armida, Op 115
Martinu Symphony No 6 Dvorak The Noonday Witch, Op 108
(Given on 15 March in St David 's Hall, Cardiff)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Haskey
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson
Unknown:
St David

An introduction to black gospel music in eight programmes presented by Francis Wilford-Smith . He looks first at the tradition of small spiritual harmony groups, with examples from the early part of the century - the Dinwiddie Coloured
Quartet, the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Bethel Jubilee Quartet - and at some rural evangelists - Annie Dodson , Ella Hall and Effie Fitts. Series producer
DEREK DRESCHER. Mono

Contributors

Presented By:
Francis Wilford-Smith
Unknown:
Annie Dodson
Unknown:
Ella Hall
Unknown:
Effie Fitts.
Unknown:
Derek Drescher.

Studio potter Lucie Rie was bom in Vienna in 1902 and came in 1938 as a refugee to England, where she developed a style that combines function with decorative delicacy and refinement. She talks with David Attenborough about her life and craft. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucie Rie
Unknown:
David Attenborough
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

led by JAMES CLARK conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN
CÉCILE OUSSET (piano) live from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. Verdi Overture: La forza del destino
Schumann Piano
Concerto in A minor
8.10 Swansea writer
Alun Richards tells the tale of two rocky islets known as the Mumbles. BBC Wales. Mono
8.30 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

Contributors

Unknown:
James Clark
Conducted By:
James Loughran
Piano:
Cécile Ousset
Unknown:
Alun Richards

An Giall (The Hostage) by BRENDAN BEHAN translated from the Irish by LORCAN OTREASAIGH and adapted by JEREMY HOWE. Withand
1958: the IRA are preparing a safe house in which to hold hostage a British soldier.
Narrator MICHAEL BAGULEY BRIAN KIDD (bagpipes)
Directed by JEREMY HOWE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brendan Behan
Unknown:
Lorcan Otreasaigh
Adapted By:
Jeremy Howe.
Narrator:
Michael Baguley
Narrator:
Brian Kidd
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
Leslie, a soldier:
Kieron Smith
Trassa:
Ann Callanan
Patrick:
John Hewitt
Kate:
Anne Kent
Monsoor:
Anthony Finigan
IRA officer:
Stephen Ryan
IRA volunteer:
Sean Kearns
Bray Harrier, a detective:
Tom Jordan

BBC Radio 3

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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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