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Tchaikovsky Méditation Itzhak Perlman (violin) Israel PO/Zubin Mehta
7.10 Luening Lyric Scene Per Oien (flute)
Oslo PO/Jose Serebrier
7.16 Borodin Polovtsian
Dances (Prince Igor)
Royal Philharmonic and Welsh National Opera
Choruses; RPO/Stokowski
7.30am News
7.35 Larsson The Winter's
Tale: Stockholm Sinfonietta/ Jan-Olav Wedin
7.46 Somervell Clarinet
Quintet: Thea King (clar) Aeolian Quartet
8.12 Grainger Green Bushes: Passacaglia on an English Folksong Philip Martin, Martin
Jones, Richard McMahon (pianos)
8.21 Chabrier Menuet pompeux: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra/
Michel Plasson. Records

Contributors

Violin:
Itzhak Perlman

Beethoven
Serenade, Op 25
James Galway (flute)
Joseph Swensen (violin) Paul Neubauer (viola) Rondo in G (WoO 41)
Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Wilhelm Kempff (piano) String Trio in D,
Op 9 No 2. Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Bruno Giuranna (viola) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello). Records

Contributors

Violin:
Joseph Swensen
Viola:
Paul Neubauer
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Piano:
Wilhelm Kempff
Viola:
Bruno Giuranna
Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich

Beethoven The
Creatures of Prometheus: overture and excerpts New Philharmonia/ Otto Klemperer
10.00 Schubert
Prometheus (D 674)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(bar); Gerald Moore (piano)
10.06 Liszt Prometheus
LPO/Georg Solti
10.20 Faure Air de Gaia
(Promethee, Op 82)
Danielle Galland (soprano) Monte Carlo Opera Orch/ Roger Norrington
10.26 Beethoven
Variations and Fugue in E flat, Op 35 (Eroica) Emil Gilels (piano)
10.52 Scriabin
Prometheus: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Ambrosian Singers
LPO/Lorin Maazel. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Otto Klemperer
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Piano:
Liszt Prometheus

Giuseppe Verdi 's four-act opera. Text by Antonio Ghislanzoni (sung in Italian) (soprano) (tenor) (mezzo-soprano) (baritone) (bass) (bass) (soprano) (tenor)
Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra and Chorus/ James Levine. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Verdi
Unknown:
Antonio Ghislanzoni
Unknown:
James Levine.
Aida:
Aprile Millo
Radamès:
Placido Domingo
Amneris:
Dolora Zajick
Amonarso:
James Morris
Ramphis:
Samuel Ramey
King of Egypt:
Terry Cook
High Priestess:
Hei-Kyung Hong
Messenger:
Charles Anthony

Eight poetry readings by writers beginning to establish their reputations.
1: Jamie McKendrick reads from his first collection, The Sirocco Room, to an audience in the Voice Box at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Series producer Julian May

Contributors

Unknown:
Jamie McKendrick

Northern Sinfonia leader Paul Barritt director
Heinrich Schiff (cello) live from Lichfield Cathedral.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
John Casken Cello Concerto (first UK performance)
8.10 Robert Saxton, this year's composer in residence at Lichfield, talks with Anthony Burton.
8.30 Robert Saxton Music to Celebrate the Resurrection of Christ
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A

(In association with Salloways Jewellers, Lichfield)

Contributors

Musicians:
Northern Sinfonia
Orchestra Leader:
Paul Barritt
Cellist:
Heinrich Schiff
Interviewee/Composer:
Robert Saxton
Interviewer:
Anthony Burton

Music Projects, London conductor
Richard Bemas James Dillon
L'Ecran parfum
(first UK broadcast) Christopher Fox
Leap Like the Heart (first UK broadcast) James Dillon
East 11th Street

Contributors

Conductor:
Richard Bemas
Conductor:
James Dillon
Unknown:
Christopher Fox
Unknown:
James Dillon

The late Charles Fox presents the third of six programmes on the influential American saxophonist
Charlie Parker. Parker arrived in New York in the early 40s and became involved with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk in sessions at small Harlem clubs, resulting in the creation of the jazz style known as bebop.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Charlie Parker.
Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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