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7.35 Walton Facade, Suites Nos 1 and 2 RPO/Malcolm Sargent
7.54 Villa Lobos
Modinha (Bachiana Brasileira No 1)
Pleeth Cello Octet
8.04 Arnold Guitar
Concerto: Eduardo
Fernandez (guitar)
ECO/Barry Wordsworth Records
Producer Philip Tagney

Contributors

Unknown:
Villa Lobos
Producer:
Philip Tagney

with Richard Osborne.
Record Review
Building a Library: Janacek's String
Quartets by John Warrack. Robert Cowan with Toscanini's historic
Leningradand 150 years of the New York Philharmonic.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
John Warrack.
Unknown:
Robert Cowan

Rossini Overture:
L 'Italiana in Algeri
Philharmonic SO of New
York/Arturo Toscanini (Mono: 1936)
11.40 Marais Suite en trio in C
Ensemble Amalia
12.06 Dvorak Cypresses (selection)
Philip Langridge (tenor) Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
12.18ErnestSchelling A Victory Ball NYPO/
Willem Mengelberg (Mono: 1925)
12.33 Schumann Piano Sonata No2 in G minor,
Op 22
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Records. Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(Record Review is repeated on Wednesday at 2.00pm)

The second of 13 programmes features Kubelik in the role of Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, in recordings made between 1946 and 1948, when he departed after the Communist coup. Dvorak Overture:
Carnival; Piano Concerto in G minor
Rudolf Firkusny (piano) (live recording from the first Prague Spring Festival)
Novak South Bohemian
Suite
Martinu Scherzo (Symphony No 4)
Janacek Sinfonietta Mono records

Contributors

Piano:
Rudolf Firkusny
Unknown:
Janacek Sinfonietta

A week in the arts with Christopher Cook.
Reviews: The UK premiere of Tom Murphy's play The Gigli Concert, The Art of Death at the V&A; and Italo Calvino's posthumously published Under the Jaguar Sun.
Opinions: Joe Farrell, Marina Warner.
Features: Bottom-drawer novels; and writing small - are plays for few characters any less dramatic?

Contributors

Presentyer:
Christopher Cook
Guest:
Joe Farrell
Guest:
Marina Warner
Producer:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Beaty Rubens

Rossini's seriocomic drama in two acts to a libretto by Cesare Sterbini , live from Lugano, Switzerland.
(Sung in Italian)
Ormondo...... ANTONIO MARANI (bass) Italian-Swiss
Radio-Television Chorus and Italian-Swiss Orchestra conductor Massimo de
Bernart
Act
8.50 Nicholas Till on the life and times of Rossini.
9.30 Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Cesare Sterbini
Unknown:
Nicholas Till
Duca d'Ordow:
Stefano Antonucci (baritone)
Dorliska:
Barbara Frittoli (soprano)
Torvaldo:
Ernesto Palacio (tenor)
Giorgio:
Mauro Buda (bass)
Carlotta:
Nicoletta Ciliento (mezzo-Soprano)

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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