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Rossini Overture:
L'ltaliana in Algeri Capella Coloniensis/ Gabriele Ferro
7.10 Schumann
Quintet in E flat, Op 44 Artur Rubinstein (piano) Guarneri Quartet
7.42 De Lalande
Caprice No 1
Jean-Francois Paillard
CO/Jean-Francois Paillard

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriele Ferro
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Unknown:
Jean-Francois Paillard

8.05 Dowland
It was a time when silly bees could speak
Handford Now each creature
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rooley (lute)
8.10 Haydn Symphony 83 in G minor (The Hen) Hanover Band/ Roy Goodman
8.35 Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No 2 in F
Cristina Ortiz (piano) Royal PO/
Vladimir Ashkenazy. Records Producer Svend Brown

Contributors

Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Soprano:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Roy Goodman
Piano:
Cristina Ortiz
Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Producer:
Svend Brown

with Richard Osborne.
Rossini String Sonata No linG
Members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
9.14 Sir John Betjeman recites his poems with accompaniment devised and conducted by Jim Parker.
9.21 Arnold
Comedy Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt
LPO/The Composer
9.39 Haydn
Oratorio: The Seven Last
Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (excerpts) Soloists; Arnold
Schoenberg Choir
Vienna Concentus Musicus/ Nikolaus Hamoncourt
10.00 Weber
Piano Sonata No 1 in C
Hamish Milne (piano)
10.29 Bruckner
Symphony No 7 in E Cleveland Orchestra/
Christoph von Dohnanyi Records
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Osborne.
Unknown:
Sir John Betjeman
Conducted By:
Jim Parker.
Musicus:
Nikolaus Hamoncourt
Piano:
Hamish Milne
Piano:
Clive Portbury

Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant.
An early clash between women's lib and male chauvinism. (bar) (tenor) (tenor) (bar) (bar) (bass) (tenor) (bass) (sop) (contralto) (mezzo) (mezzo) (sop) (sop)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Charles Mackerras
(First broadcast on Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles MacKerras
King Hildebrand:
Raimund Herincx
Marion:
Philip Langridge
Cyril:
Neil Jenkins
Fhrian:
Michael Wakeham
King Gama:
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Arac:
Forbes Robinson
Guron:
Leslie Fyson
Scynthius:
Paul Hudson
Princess Ida:
Valerie Masterson
Lady Blanche:
Anne Collins
Lady Psyche:
Della Jones
Melissa:
Janet Coster
Sachrissa:
Jennifer Adams
Chloe:
Joyce Mandre

The weekly arts and discussion programme returns with an edition from the Edinburgh International
Festival. Christopher Cook is joined by Joe Farrell , Joy Hendry and Roger Savage to review Opera North's production of Tchaikovsky's Yolanta and The
Nutcracker, the Mark Morris Dance Group, plays by C P Taylor and Harley Granville Barker, and an exhibition of paintings by Allan Ramsay , court painter to George III. Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Joe Farrell
Unknown:
Joy Hendry
Unknown:
Roger Savage
Unknown:
Harley Granville
Unknown:
Allan Ramsay
Unknown:
George Iii.
Producer:
Tim Dee

(mezzo-soprano)
(died 11 March 1992) with Roger Vignoles
(piano), who pays tribute to her outstanding talents. Schubert Aufdem See; Memnon; Die Sterne; Suleikas erste Gesang; Dem Unendlichen
(Geistliche Lieder)
Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques
John Maxwell Geddes
Lassies, Love and Life (first broadcast)

Contributors

Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Unknown:
John Maxwell Geddes

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet)
BBC Welsh SO conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Stravinsky Fireworks

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor

8.20 The Romance of the Road
Alan Booth, famous for a 2,000-mile walk through Japan, talks about a new walk he took with a reluctant companion.

8.40 Takemitsu Fantasma/Cantos

Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version)

Contributors

Pianist:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Clarinettist:
Richard Stoltzman
Musicians:
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Presenter (The Romance of the Road):
Alan Booth

by James Joyce.
Part 13 of a 16-part adaptation by John Scotney.
Reader Norman Rodway. Producer Peter Kavanagh
(First broadcast on Radio 4)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Joyce.
Reader:
John Scotney.
Reader:
Norman Rodway.
Producer:
Peter Kavanagh

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More