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Gershwin Cuban Overture
Saint Louis SO/Slatkin
7.10 Copland Quiet City Philip Smith (trumpet)
Thomas Stacy (cor anglais) NYPO/Bernstein
7.30am News
7.35 Beethoven
Overture: Egmont London Classical
Players/Norrington
7.42 Dvorak Serenade in E, Op 22: Orpheus CO
8.10 Respighi Fountains of Rome: Philadelphia
Orchestra/Riccardo Muti Records

Handel
Concerto Grosso in C
(Alexander's Feast)
English Concert/Pinnock Dettingen Te Deum
Christopher Tipping (atto) Harry Christophers (ten) Stephen Varcoe (bass) Michael Pearce (bass) Choir of Westminster
Abbey, English Concert/ Simon Preston. Records

Contributors

Bass:
Stephen Varcoe
Bass:
Michael Pearce
Unknown:
Simon Preston.

Music from Poland, framed by traditional Polish carols.
Trad Three Polish Carols (Mono)
Prague Radio Children's Choir/Kulinsky
9.43 Szymanowski
Nocturne and Tarantella,
Op 28: Wanda Wrtkomirska (violin),
Tadeusz Chmielewski (piano)
9.56 trans Landowska
Three Polish Dances (Mom) Wanda Landowska
(harpsichord)
10.01 Chopin Krakowiak , Op 14
Alexis Weissenberg (piano) Paris Conservatoire
Concert Society
Orchestra/Skrowaczewski
10.16 Panufnik
Hommage a Chopin Karen Jones (flute)
London Musici/Stephenson
10.32 Chopin Leaves Are Falling (Op 74)
Elisabeth Soderstrom (sop) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
10.38 Kilar Krzesany Warsaw PO/Rowicki
10.55
Paderewski Nocturne , Op 16 No 4 Ignace Jan Paderewski (piano)
11.01 Szymanowski String Quartet No 2 Wilanov Quartet
11.20 arr Lutoslawski
Polish Carols:
Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa (mezzo) Andrzej Hiolski (bar)
Jerzy Witkowski (piano) Records. Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Violin:
Wanda Wrtkomirska
Violin:
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Harpsichord:
Wanda Landowska
Harpsichord:
Chopin Krakowiak
Flute:
Chopin Karen Jones
Unknown:
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Paderewski Nocturne
Piano:
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Unknown:
Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa
Unknown:
Andrzej Hiolski
Piano:
Jerzy Witkowski
Producer:
Alan Hall

Johann Strauss
Overture: Die Fledermaus Vienna PO/Lorin Maazel
Kreisler Caprice Viennois Fritz Kreisler (violin) Carl Lamson (piano) Josef Strauss Waltz:
Transaktionen
Vienna PO/Maazel. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Violin:
Fritz Kreisler
Piano:
Carl Lamson
Piano:
Josef Strauss

(The Treasure Seekers)
Franz Schreker's opera (1915-18), in Gunter Kramer's production for the Hamburg State Opera. Sung in German.

Hamburg State Opera Chorus
Hamburg State PO/ Gerd Albrecht

(Records)

Contributors

Composer:
Franz Schreker
Stage Producer:
Gerd Albrecht
Singers:
Hamburg State Opera Chorus
Musicians:
Hamburg State PO
Conductor:
Gerd Albrecht
Els, a young woman:
Gabriele Schnaut (sop)
Elis, a minstrel and student:
Josef Protschka (tenor)
King:
Harald Stamm (bass)
His jester:
Peter Haage (tenor)
Bailiff:
Hans Helm (bar)
Albi:
Heinz Kruse (tenor)

The popular Canadian jazz pianist,
Oscar Peterson - once known as the 'brown bomber of boogie woogie' - talks about his career to
Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

Pianist:
Oscar Peterson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith.
Producer:
Derek Drescher

In 1938 a young
Englishman set out for
India to work with a rajah and his son. There he met and fell in love with a beautiful girl who was already married.
This is the story of that journey and love affair, in the words of Claire Watson and the letters and journals of the man who was to become her husband - Francis, writer, critic and broadcaster, who died in 1988. Readers Garard Green, Saeed Jaffrey ,
David King and Simon Treves. Producer Piers Plowright

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Watson
Unknown:
Saeed Jaffrey
Unknown:
David King
Unknown:
Simon Treves.
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Richard Steinitz presents the final programme from the Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival.
Ensemble Archaeus conductor
Liviu Danceanu.
New sounds from
Bucharest performed by Romania's leading new music ensemble, including works by Adrian lorgulescu , Costin Miereanu ,
Câlin loachimescu and Liviu Danceanu.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Steinitz
Conductor:
Liviu Danceanu.
Unknown:
Adrian Lorgulescu
Unknown:
Costin Miereanu
Unknown:
Liviu Danceanu.

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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