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The Symphony

BBC Radio 3
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A series of 13 concerts, with co-ord'inated talks.
12: The Symphonic Crisis Part 1
Webern Symphony for small orchestra. Op 21 (mono) DOMAIN MUSICAL ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
Britten Quartet No 2, in c, Op 36: AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
8.15* Humphrey Searle discusses the three symphonic structures in this programme against the background of our century's symphonic crisis.
8.35* The Symphony: part 2
Mahler The Song of the Earth (mono)
KATHLEEN FERRIER (contralto) JULIUS PATZAK (tenor)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER gramophone records Editor HANS KELLER
(7 January: The Symphony of the Future)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Humphrey Searle
Contralto:
Kathleen Ferrier
Tenor:
Julius Patzak
Tenor:
Vienna Philharmonic
Conducted By:
Bruno Walter
Editor:
Hans Keller
Source: Radio Times

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