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Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO
7.09 Schubert Impromptu in A flat (D 899 No 4)
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
7.17 Puccini, ed Spada Preludio sinfonico
MONTE CARLO OPERA
ORCHESTRA /SCIMONE
7.30am News
7.35 Bernstein Three dance episodes from 'On the Town'
ISRAEL PO/
THE COMPOSER
Joplin, arr Perlman Magnetic Rag
ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) ANDRE PREVIN (piano)
7.50 Schubert Symphony No 4 in C minor (Tragic) BERLIN POI
DANIEL BARENBOIM. Records

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Spada Preludio
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Unknown:
Perlman Magnetic Rag
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Piano:
Andre Previn
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim.

Dvorak
Although I have moved quite enough in the great musical world, I still remain what I have always been - a simple Czech musician.
Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op 46 No 7
CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN Three Modern Greek Songs, Op 50
JINDRICH JINDRAK (bar)
ALFRED HOLECEK (piano) Bagatelles, Op 47 MANFRED KLIER (harmonium)
MEMBERS OF THE
VIENNA OCTET
Symphonic Variations, Op 78
LSO/ISTVAN KERTESZ. Records

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Holecek

A sequence of music for Children in Need day.
Victor Herbert March of the Toys
9.40 Bizet Jeux d'Enfants
10.03 Britten Friday Afternoons (excerpts)
10.10 Gordon Crosse Meet My Folks
10.44 Schumann Kinderszenen
11.05 Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
11.25 Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
11.55 Faure Dolly Suite (Berceuse)
The performers this morning include the LABEQUE SISTERS (piano duet); BENJAMIN BRITTEN accompanying JOHN HAHESSY and a very youthful MICHAEL BERKELEY who impersonates a cuckoo; THE FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S
MUSIC GROUP, ORCHESTRA NATIONAL. PARIS, the pianist DANIEL LEVY and the actor CHRISTOPHER LEE , discarding his Dracula's cloak and fangs to narrate Peter and the Wolf in a performance conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN. Producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Herbert
Unknown:
Gordon Crosse
Unknown:
Schumann Kinderszenen
Unknown:
Prokofiev Peter
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
John Hahessy
Pianist:
Daniel Levy
Unknown:
Christopher Lee
Conducted By:
Yehudi Menuhin.
Producer:
Paul Spicer

The last of three selections from Angelo Neumann's Personal Recollections of Richard Wagner adapted by Bert Coules. Neumann gives a vivid account of the performances of The Ring in London at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1882, and the great European tour that followed them. Read by Edward De Souza .

Contributors

Author:
Angelo Neumann
Adapted by:
Bert Coules.
Reader:
Edward de Souza
Producer:
John Theocharis

Portuguese-Galician love songs by the 13th-century troubadour Martin Codax. SINFONYE: Mara Keik
(singer); Stevie Wishart (symphony); Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) Jim Denley (pandeiro)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Codax.
Singer:
Mara Keik
Singer:
Stevie Wishart
Harp:
Jim Denley

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by CYNTHIA FLEMING conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE Hoist Ballet music: The Perfect Fool
Berners, arr Lambert Caprice Peruvien Constant Lambert Ballet Pomona
4.25 Interval Reading
4.30 Vaughan Williams Suite: The
Wasps Walton , arr Tausky Ballet Suite: The Quest (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Cynthia Fleming
Conducted By:
Ashley Lawrence
Conducted By:
Hoist Ballet
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Wasps Walton

The depression in the 1930s drastically reduced record sales, but at the same time it increased the popularity of the juke box. In the first of three programmes.
Donald Clarke introduces records which were popular on the juke boxes of Harlem at that time - records by Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton , Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson. Mono

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald Clarke
Unknown:
Lionel Hampton
Unknown:
Fats Waller
Unknown:
Teddy Wilson.

by Richard Wagner.
Recorded at Bayreuth in August during the second year of HARRY KUPFER 'S production. Bryan Magee introduces the cycle. 1: Das Rheingold
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ORCH conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
(Bavarian Radio recording) ('Die Walküre' tomorrow
10.40am)
0 See panel, left

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wagner.
Unknown:
Harry Kupfer
Introduces:
Bryan Magee
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Gods Wotan:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Donner:
Bodo Brinkmann (baritone)
Froh:
Kurt Schreibmayer (tenor)
Fricka:
Graham Clark (tenor)
Fricka:
Linda Finnie (mezzo-Soprano)
Freis:
Eva Johansson (soprano)
Erda:
Anne Gjevang (mezzo-Soprano)
Fasolt:
Siegfried Vogel (bass)
Fafner:
Philip Kang (bass)
Nibelungen Alberich:
Gunter Von Kannen (bass)
Mime:
Helmut Pampuch (tenor)
Woglinde:
Hilde Leidland (soprano)
Wellgunde:
Annette Kuttenbaum (soprano)
Flosshilde:
Jane Turner (mezzo-Soprano)

A concert given earlier this evening in the Salle Pleyel.
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BELA DEKANY
YVONNE LORIOD (piano)
PHYLLIS BRYN JULSON (sop) ELIZABETH LAURENCE (mezzo-soprano) BBC SINGERS chorusmaster RONALD CORP conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Stravinsky Chant du Rossignol
Messiaen La ville d'En-Haut (first performance)
10.05 Pierre Boulez introduces his two cantatas.
10.10 Boulez Le Soleil des eaux; Le Visage nuptial (first broadcast of complete version)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bela Dekany
Piano:
Yvonne Loriod
Piano:
Phyllis Bryn
Mezzo-Soprano:
Elizabeth Laurence
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Conducted By:
Stravinsky Chant
Introduces:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Boulez Le Soleil

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