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7.35 Berlioz
Overture: Les francs-juges: London Symphony
Orchestra/Colin Davis
7.47 Chausson
Poème
Ginette Neveu (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra/ Issay Dobrowen (Mono)
8.03 Debussy Iberia (Images) London
Symphony Orchestra/ Andre Previn
Producer Peter Tanner
Records

Contributors

Violin:
Ginette Neveu
Unknown:
Andre Previn
Producer:
Peter Tanner

with Richard Osborne.
Record Review
Building a Library: Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 6 by Michael Kennedy.
Graham Sadler reviews new discs of French and German baroque vocal music.
10.40 Record Release
Tracks from the Kronos
Quartet's latest disc, Sounds of Africa
10.52
Mondonville Titon et L 'Aurore (excerpt) Soloists; Francoise Herr Vocal Ensemble
Les Musiciens du
Louvre/Marc Minkowski
11.28
Howard Skempton Lento: BBC SO/
Mark Wigglesworth
11.42 Michael Kennedy introduces the first box of EMI's long awaited Elgar Edition
12.03 Elgar Symphony
No 2: LSO/The Composer (1927, Mono)
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury. Records
(Record Review is repeated on Thursday at 2.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy.
Unknown:
Graham Sadler
Unknown:
Mondonville Titon
Soloists:
Francoise Herr
Unknown:
Howard Skempton
Unknown:
Mark Wigglesworth
Introduces:
Michael Kennedy
Producers:
Nick Morgan
Producers:
Clive Portbury.

Scientists and mathematicians reveal how a favourite fact about the universe has for ever changed their view of it. Professor
Sir Hans Kornberg , the biochemist, on C6 + C2 = 2 x C4 Producer Matt Thompson

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Hans Kornberg
Producer:
Matt Thompson

A 20th-century Voice My Dear Jimmy ...
In the final programme in the series, James Bowman talks to Brian Kay about singing the music of Benjamin Britten. With music by Britten,
Purcell, Alan Ridout and Geoffrey Burgon and thoughts from Dr Donald Mitchell ,
John Copley , Dame Janet Baker and Geoffrey Burgon.
Series producer Sarah Devonald

Contributors

Talks:
James Bowman
Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten.
Unknown:
Alan Ridout
Unknown:
Geoffrey Burgon
Unknown:
Dr Donald Mitchell
Unknown:
John Copley
Unknown:
Dame Janet Baker
Unknown:
Geoffrey Burgon.
Producer:
Sarah Devonald

with Christopher Cook. Reviews: Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Dusty Hughes's A Slip of the Tongue, the new German film Europa
Europa, and Patagonia, a new performance by the Welsh company Brith Gof. Opinions: Julia Pascal , Philip Brady. Features: Journalism in the new
Eastern Europe; and does
English language writing in Wales live under the shadow of Dylan Thomas ? Producers Nick Ware and Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook.
Unknown:
Julia Pascal
Unknown:
Philip Brady.
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Producers:
Nick Ware
Producers:
Tim Dee

This evening's performance of Britten's three-act opera, from Glyndebourne.
Glyndeboume Festival Chorus; London PO conductor Andrew Davis
Act
7.35 Rather Odd Poets.... The starting point of Britten's Peter Grimes was a talk on the poet George Crabbe given in 1941 by E M Forster. Valentine
Cunningham introduces and talks about that archive recording.
7.55 Act 2
8.50 Ivan Hewitt talks to
Chris de Souza about tonight's production and past interpretations.
9.05 Act 3

Contributors

Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Peter Grimes
Unknown:
George Crabbe
Talks:
Ivan Hewitt
Peter Grimes:
Stephan Drakuuch (tenor)
Mrs Sedley:
Susan Bickley (mezzo)
Auntie:
Menai Davies (alto)
Ellen Orford:
Vivian Tierney (sop)
Swallow:
Donald Adams (bass)
Rev Adams:
John Fry Att (tenor)
Bob Boks:
John Graham-Hall (tenor)
Hobson:
Geoffrey Moses (bass)
Balstrode:
Alan Opie (bar)
Ned Keene:
Robert Poulton (bar)
First Niece:
Susannah Waters (sop)
Second Niece:
Sarah Pring (mezzo)

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