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' Mendelssohn Trumpet
Overture: LSO/Abbado
7.09 Schubert Impromptu in A flat, Op 90 No 4
Alfred Brendel (piano)
7.17 Puccini, ed Spada Prelude sinfonico
Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra/
Claudio Scimone
7.30am News
7.35 Bernstein Three
Dance Episodes (On the Town): Israel PO/ Leonard Bernstein
7.45 Joplin, arr Perlman Magnetic Rag
Itzhak Perlman (violin) Andre Previn (piano)
7.50 Schubert Symphony
No 4 in C minor (Tragic) Berlin PO/
Daniel Barenboim. Records

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Claudio Scimone
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Piano:
Andre Previn
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim.

Delius
5: Der Einsame
Sea Drift (Mono: 1954) i Bruce Boyce (baritone)
BBC Chorus; RPO/Beecham An Arabesque (Mono: 195S) Einar Norby (baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Chorus; RPO/Beecham A Mass of Life: Part 2
Nos 5 and 6 (The Song of Rapture; The Paean to Joy) Heather Harper (sop) Helen Watts (alto) Robert Tear (tenor)
Benjamin Luxon (bar) London Philharmonic
Choir; LPO/
Charles Groves. Records

Contributors

Baritone:
Bruce Boyce
Baritone:
Einar Norby
Baritone:
Royal Philharmonic
Unknown:
Heather Harper
Unknown:
Helen Watts
Tenor:
Benjamin Luxon
Unknown:
Charles Groves.

Two Schubert overtures conducted by Wolfgang I Sawallisch , Bach's
Concerto in F (BWV 971) and Liszt's Paganini Studies played on the piano by Ju Hee Suh.
Plus studies for violin by Paganini played by Shlomo Mintz , Berlioz's Harold in Italy conducted by Colin Davis and three I rarely heard Haydn arias i sung by Teresa Berganza. I Producer Jeremy Hayes

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wolfgang I Sawallisch
Unknown:
Ju Hee Suh.
Played By:
Shlomo Mintz
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Sung By:
Teresa Berganza.
Producer:
Jeremy Hayes

conductor Leo Brouwer
Julian Bream (guitar) Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G
Henze Derjunge Torless (Fantasia for strings)
Leo Brouwer Concerto elegiaco for guitar and orchestra (R)

Contributors

Conductor:
Leo Brouwer
Guitar:
Julian Bream
Unknown:
Henze Derjunge Torless
Unknown:
Leo Brouwer

A commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of the music scholar Donald Francis
Tovey. From 1937: Music and the Ordinary Listener: Tovey talks, sings and plays, demonstrating counterpoint and harmony. Tovey Piano Quintet in C Gabrieli String Quartet Peter Wallfisch (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Francis
Piano:
Peter Wallfisch

In this fifth of six programmes, Mel Hill looks at the work of pianist and band leader Stan Kenton.
From The Peanut Vendor and Artistry in Rhythm to City of Glass, Kenton relentlessly concentrated on his own controversial path of musical progress.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Hill
Leader:
Stan Kenton.

Eskimos used complex weapons to obtain food, but Tasmanians managed with just a few spears. Colin Tudge talks to anthropologist Robin Torrence about her work on tools and how it has changed her view of progress in human societies.
Producer Deborah Cohen (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Colin Tudge
Unknown:
Robin Torrence
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

leader Andrew Orton conductor
Edward Downes
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus with members of the BBC Opera Chorus chorusmaster
Stephen Jackson
Ravel Suite: Mother
Goose
Sibelius Symphony No 7 Szymanowski Harnasie (Presented by the South Bank Centre)

Contributors

Leader:
Andrew Orton
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Tenor:
Neil Jenkins
Unknown:
Stephen Jackson

In Shakespeare's time, Hamlet's castle was a great musical centre. The King of Denmark,
Christian IV, invited the English lutenist Dowland to his court, and sent Danish musicians to study in Italy.
Music by Dowland and Pedersen.
Rogers Covey-Crump (ten) Dowland Consort
Consort of Musicke. Records

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
A radio version by the author, based on his original stage play, marks the beginning of Radio Drama's
Tom Stoppard Season.
Music by Marc Wilkinson Director John Tydeman (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Music By:
Marc Wilkinson
Director:
John Tydeman
Rosencrantz:
Edward Hardwicke
Guildenstern:
Edward Petherbridge
Player:
Freddie Jones
Hamlet:
Martin Jarvis
Gertrude:
Maxine Audley
Claudius:
Robert Lang
Polonius:
William Squire
Ophelia:
Angela Pleasence
Horatio:
John Rye
First ambassador:
Michael Deacon
Alfred:
Anthony Daniels

BBC Radio 3

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