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Septet in D minor, Op. M. Hummet
Members of the MELOS ENSEMBLE
Richard Adeney (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe) Neill Sanders (horn)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass) Lamar Crowson (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Hummet
Flute:
Richard Adeney
Oboe:
Peter Graeme
Horn:
Neill Sanders
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil
Piano:
Lamar Crowson
Conducted By:
Pierre Monteux

A programme of recently released records
Fidelio - BIRGIT NILSSON (soprano) JAMES McCRACKEN (tenor) KURT BOEHME (bass)
VIENNAPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL

Contributors

Soprano:
Birgit Nilsson
Soprano:
James McCracken
Tenor:
Kurt Boehme
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel

Bernadette Greevy (contralto) Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of music
In her first programme
BERNADETTE GREEVY with WILFRID PARRY (piano) sings
Brahms
Sapphische Ode
Vergebliches Ständchen Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103
He. Zigeuner
Hochgetürmte Rimaflut wisst ibr. wann mein Kindchen am allerschönsten ist?
Lieber Gott. du wetsst
Brauner Bursche fuhrt lum Time Rosletn dreie in der Reihe
Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn Rote Abendwolken

Contributors

Contralto:
Bernadette Greevy
Unknown:
Bernadette Greevy
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry
Unknown:
Lieber Gott.
Unknown:
Brauner Bursche

CLARA BONALDI (violin)
SYLVAINE BILLIER (piano)
GUARNERI QUARTET
Arnold Steinhart (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)
The Mendelssohn Quartet was broadcast on January 3

Contributors

Violin:
Arnold Steinhart
Violin:
John Dalley
Cello:
David Soyer

Tragic opera in three acts
Music by Donizetti
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
First broadcast in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Courtiers, guards. ladies-in-waiting
Turin Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Italian Radio
Chorus-Master, Ruggero Maghini
Conducted by Mario Rossi

The action takes place in London at the end of the sixteenth century

Act 1
Scene 1 A hall in the Palace of Whitehall
Scene 2 The Countess of Nottingham's apartment

Act 2
A gallery In the Palace of Whitehall

Act 3
Scene 1 A room in the Earl of Nottingham's house
Scene 2 The Tower of London
Scene 3 The Queen's cabinet

Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Composer:
Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto:
Salvatore Cammarano
Chorus-Master:
Ruggero Maghini
Conducted By:
Mario Rossi
Catherine, Countess of Nottingham:
Anna Maria Rota (mezzo-soprano)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England:
Joan Marie Moynagh (soprano)
Sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State to the Queen:
Gabriele de Juliis (tenor)
A Page:
Fernando Valentini (bass)
Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex:
Ruggero Bondino (tenor)
Charles, Baron Howard of Effingham, Earl of Nottingham:
Antonio Boyer (baritone)
Sir Walter Raleigh:
Sergio Pezzetti (bass)
A retainer of the Earl of Nottingham:
Fernando Valentini (bass)
Courtiers, guards, ladies-in-waiting:
[Turin Chorus]

1: How important is Parliament?
Political scientists ask Where does power lie? '; back bench politicians ask ' Where has power gone? ' For all students of Government and politics
JOHN MACKINTOSH , M.P. and DAVID Howell , M.P., talk to
PROFESSOR BERNARD CRICK. Sheffield University
Produced by Chris Cuthbertson

Contributors

Unknown:
John MacKintosh
Unknown:
David Howell
Unknown:
Professor Bernard Crick.
Produced By:
Chris Cuthbertson

Six Lectures by Sir Isaiah Berlin given at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation
1: In Search of a Definition
' The literature of Romanticism is larger than Romanticism itself.' Embarking on a definition, Sir Isaiah says, is like entering ' the dark cave of Polyphemus. Those who enter it never seem to emerge again.'
Second broadcast
2-The First Attack on Enlightenment: October 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaiah Berlin

by Angus Wilson
Adapted for radio by NESTA PAIN with Joan Miller
A young man meets for the first time the family of the girl he wants to marry. Joan Miller plays her American stepmother.
Produced by NESTA PAIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus Wilson
Radio By:
Nesta Pain
Unknown:
Joan Miller
Unknown:
Joan Miller
Produced By:
Nesta Pain
Jennie:
Miranda Connell
Peter:
Brian McDermott
Nan:
Joan Miller
Hamish:
Jon Rollason
Flopsy:
Betty Hardy
Mr Cockshott:
Rolf Lefebvre

o MONTEVERDI CHOIR with ANDREW DAVIS (organ)
CHRISTOPHER VAN KAMPEN (cello) SIMON CARRINGTON (double-bass)
Conductor,
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Monteverdi
Adoramus te
Christe adoramus te
Le Jeune
Helas! mon Dieu
Schütz
Weib, was weinest du
Purcell
Save me 0 God
Lord, how long wilt thou be angry
Verdi Pater noster
Recorded at a public concert given in the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield. London. on April 10

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Davis
Cello:
Christopher van Kampen
Double-Bass:
Simon Carrington
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Verdi Pater

What was the nature of his achievement tLASZLO HELTAY, who studied with Kodaly, talks about his contribution to Hungarian musical life and in particular his educational work. He tries to form some assessment of his position as a composer in relation to Bartok and other contemporary figures followed by an interlude at 10.55

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