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7.35 Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus Mono
BERLIN PO/KARAJAN
7.43 Verdi Ernani , Ernani, involami (Emani)
CAROL VANESS (soprano) BRITISH CONCERT
ORCHESTRA/FRANK RENTON
7.50 Mahler Piano Quartet Movement: DOMUS
8.01 Borodin Overture and Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
LSO/GEORG SOLTI Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Verdi Ernani
Soprano:
Carol Vaness

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Weber Overture and March for Turandot LSO/SCHONZELER
Purcell The Fairy Queen: Act 5 (excerpt)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
10.11 Couperin Les
Chinois KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)
Gluck Le Cinesi (excerpts) SCHOLA CANTORUM
BASILIENSIS ORCHESTRA/ RENE JACOBS
10.51 Debussy Pagodes (Estampes)
PETER KATIN (piano); Rondel chinois
MADY MESPLÉ (soprano), DALTON BALDWIN (piano) Bemers Trois morceaux
RLPO/BARRY WORDSWORTH Puccini In questa reggia (Turandot)
SOLOISTS: ROME OPERA
ORCH AND CHORUS/
ERICH LEINSDORF
11.22 Britten The Prince of the Pagodas: Act 2 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
ORCHESTRA/THE COMPOSER Producer JONATHAN STRACEY BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soloists:
Couperin Les
Harpsichord:
Chinois Kenneth Gilbert
Harpsichord:
Gluck Le Cinesi
Unknown:
Rene Jacobs
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Unknown:
Erich Leinsdorf

The third of four programmes.
The madrigal ... lost the prize, as I expected it would; for I could not prevail upon myself to scrawl absolute nonsense, even for a silver cup.
SAMUEL WESLEY (1813)
BBC SINGERS/JOHN LUBBOCK Madrigal: 0 sing unto My Roundelay;
Ode: Drusi laudes BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Wesley

The second of four programmes on the pianist, composer and bandleader Thomas 'Fats' Waller, by Alyn Shipton. Up to 1934, Waller recorded with members of the Luis Russell Orchestra or the Rhythmakers. Then came Fats Waller and his Rhythm, with popular hits like Dinah and Blue
Turning Grey over You. Mono

Contributors

Unknown:
Alyn Shipton.
Unknown:
Luis Russell Orchestra
Unknown:
Fats Waller

As an 'upbeat' to this year's season, a sound history of the Promenade Concerts, told entirely in the voices of those who were there, whether as performers, composers or audience, and including Sir Henry Wood himself. Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Henry Wood

live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Bela Dekany conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
8.05 Roger Nichols, with Madeleine Milhaud and Doda Conrad, looks back to Jean Cocteau's musical collaborations in the 1920s.
8.25 Stravinsky Oedipus Rex
BBC Singers (men's voices) chorusmaster Malcolm Hicks

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC2)
( For details see page 61)
(See David Gillard, right)

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Speaker:
Roger Nichols
Speaker:
Madeleine Milhaud
Speaker:
Doda Conrad
Singers:
BBC Singers (men's voices)
Chorusmaster:
Malcolm Hicks
Oedipus:
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Jocasta:
Felicity Palmer (soprano)
Creon/Messenger:
Gwynne Howell (bass)
Tiresias:
Aage Haugland (bass)
Shepherd:
Robert Tear (tenor)

A film script by JEAN cocteau. translated and adapted for radio by MICHAEL BAKEWELL. With and
Other parts played by ADRIAN BRINE , ELIZABETH
PROUD. FIONA NICHOLSON.
JEANNE LE BARS.
GILLIAN WEBB and members of the BBC DRAMA REPERTORY
COMPANY.
Special effects by the BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Producer MICHAEL BAKEWELL (First broadcast in 1962)

Contributors

Script By:
Jean Cocteau.
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell.
Played By:
Adrian Brine
Unknown:
Fiona Nicholson.
Unknown:
Gillian Webb
Producer:
Michael Bakewell
Orpheus:
Hugh Burden
Eurydice:
Muriel Pavlow
the Princess:
Catherine Dolan
Heurtebise:
Robert Rietty
Aglaonice:
Sheila Brennan
Cegeste:
Christopher Guinee
Neanthus:
Anthony Jacobs
Chief of Police:
Derek Blomfield
Reporter:
Donald McKillop
First judge:
Derek Birch
Second judge:
Lewis Stringer
Third judge:
Michael Burrell

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More