With Susan Sharpe.
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1.00 Wartime at the National Gallery
Robert Philip recalls Myra Hess 's concert series in Second World War London.
In the second programme, he describes how the series survived the Blitz and introduces performances by the Hirsch and Rose
Quartets, pianists
Cyril Smith and Kathleen Long and soprano Maggie Teyte. Rpt
2.00 Schools
Radio Showcase 2.05 In the News 2.25 Something to Think About 2.40 Music
Workshop
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3.00 Psyche
The work described at its first performance in 1675 as the English opera. With music by Matthew Locke and words by Thomas Shadwell , it is the earliest example of that particularly English genre, the semi-opera, later to be used with success by Purcell.
New London Consort, director Philip Pickett Rpt FAIREST ISLE
4.30 William Walton
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Barry Wordsworth Steven Burnard (viola) Walton Viola Concerto