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Presented by Anthony Burton.
New Releases Edition
150 years of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra:
Bernard Keeffe and Richard Osborne weigh up the anniversary sets. Edward Greenfield discusses discs of chamber music by Walton, Webern, Bridge and Vaughan Williams.
10.40 Record Release
Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock): VPOI Pierre Monteux
11.09 Walton
Piano Quartet
Kenneth Sillito (violin) Robert Smissen (viola) Stephen Orton (cello) Hamish Milne (piano)
11.40 Strauss Tod und
Verklarung: VPO/
Karl Bohm (Mono: 1963)
12.05 Webem
String Quartet, Op 28 Arditti Quartet

Contributors

Presented By:
Anthony Burton.
Unknown:
Bernard Keeffe
Unknown:
Richard Osborne
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams.
Unknown:
Pierre Monteux
Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Viola:
Robert Smissen
Cello:
Stephen Orton
Piano:
Hamish Milne
Piano:
Strauss Tod
Unknown:
Karl Bohm

Philippa Davies (flute) Gareth Hulse (oboe)
Michael Collins (clarinet) Robin O'Neill (bassoon) Richard Watkins (horn) with Howard Shelley (piano) Hindemith Kleine
Kammermusik, Op 24 No 2 Ligeti
Ten Pieces for wind quintet Beethoven Quintet for piano and wind, Op 16

Contributors

Flute:
Philippa Davies
Oboe:
Gareth Hulse
Clarinet:
Michael Collins
Bassoon:
Robin O'Neill
Horn:
Richard Watkins
Piano:
Howard Shelley
Piano:
Hindemith Kleine

The last of 13 programmes. "I left my country, but I didn't leave my nation. My nation was in my heart all the time."
Between today's two live recordings, made with the Czech Philharmonic in 1944 during the German occupation, and in 1990 after the 'velvet' revolution, Kubelik talks to Patrick Lambert about his return to
Czechoslovakia after 42 years in exile.
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G Smetana
Ma vlast (My Country)
Series producer Patrick Lambert

Contributors

Talks:
Kubelik
Unknown:
Patrick Lambert
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

The soprano Tracey Chadwell performs a selection of music from her multifaceted repertoire - including pieces by Hoist, Poulenc and Cole Porter and talks to Chris de Souza about the life of a singer. With Pamela Lidiard (piano) Producer Michael Emery

Contributors

Soprano:
Tracey Chadwell
Soprano:
Cole Porter
Unknown:
Chris de Souza
Piano:
Pamela Lidiard
Producer:
Michael Emery

The week in the arts with Christopher Cook.
Reviews: Rembrandt on exhibition at the National
Gallery, Gus Van Sant 's new film My Own Private Idaho, and new fiction from George Steiner :
Proofs and Three Parables. Opinions:
Marilyn Butler , Norbert Lynton.
Features: Assessing Richard Hoggart 's portrayal of himself. Soap Box: The art of teaching art.
Producers Beaty Rubens and Nick Ware

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook.
Unknown:
Gus van Sant
Unknown:
George Steiner
Unknown:
Marilyn Butler
Unknown:
Norbert Lynton.
Unknown:
Richard Hoggart
Producers:
Beaty Rubens
Producers:
Nick Ware

Opera in two acts by Richard Strauss.
Recorded last year in the Grand Theatre, Geneva.
Suisse Romande
Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Strauss.
Christine:
Inga Nielsen (sop)
Hofkapellmeister Robert Storch:
Oskar Hillebrandt (bar)
Anna:
Ulrike Steinsky (sop)
Baron Lummer:
Herbert Lippert (tenor)
The Notary:
Leonard Graus (bar)
His Wife:
Marit Sauramo (sop)
Kapellmeister Stroh:
Dietmar Grimm (tenor)
Commercial Councillor:
Hans Kraemmer (bar)
Justizrat:
Ernst Gutstein (bar)

Evening in a 16th-century Italian palace. The servants have gone to bed and Pietro, his wife Emilia and a friend, Gaspare, settle down to discuss the idea of the perfect courtier. Written by Michelene Wandor.
Music arranged by Philip Thornby ; Musica Antiqua of London.
Director Piers Plownght

Contributors

Written By:
Michelene Wandor.
Arranged By:
Philip Thornby
Arranged By:
Musica Antiqua
Director:
Piers Plownght
Emilia:
Fiona Shaw
Pietro:
John Rowe
Gaspare:
John Shrapnel
Niccolo:
Philip Sully

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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