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CANON MICHAEL STANCLIFFE introduces the ninth in a series of eleven weekly programmes St. Margaret's Church, Westminster
CHOIR of ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH Organist and Choirmaster, MARTIN NEARY
Assistant Organist, Richard ARMSTRONG Choir:
Next week: Leeds Parish Church

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Record Review
Contributed by JOAN CHISSELL NOËL
GOODWIN EDWARD GREENFIELD CHARLES OSBORNE

played by ANDRE TCHAlKOWSKY
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major Trois nouvelles etudes
Two Nocturnes, Op. 62 Three Mazurkas, Op. 63 Ballade in F major
Lust of a weekly series

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Opera in two acts
Music by Jan Dawid Holland
Libretto by PRINCE MACIEJ RADZIWILL sunj in Polish
First broadcast In this country
Introduced by CZESLAW HALSKI
Cast in order of singing: POLISH RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STEFAN RACHON
Produced by Rudolf Ratschka
The action takes place in a village square in Poland in the late eighteenth century
Recording made available by courtesy of Polish Radio

Max Rostal with COLIN HORSLEY (piano)
The second of four programmes
Next Sunday at 2.45: Szymon Goldberg with Paul Hamburger

Israel in Egypt
An Oratorio (1739)
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano) PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
PAMELA BOWDEN (contralto) Ian PARTRIDGE (tenor)
RAIMUND HERINCX (bass) DONALD MCINTYRE (bass)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Continuo:
Harold Lester (harpsichord) Alan Harverson (organ) Bernard Richards (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Broadcast on February 18
Eleventh of an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide ranse of Handel's music and in particular his operas and oratorios
November 9: Alcina

MARTIN ISEPP (harpsichord)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA Leader, Joseph Segal
Conducted by MYER FREDMAN
Part I

by ELIZABETH YOUNG
The United States government has now decided on deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system directed specifically against a possible Chinese attack. The Chinese interpret this as the beginning of an anti-Chinese military alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union, which has already started to deploy an A.B.M. system of its own.
Mrs. Young, author of Nations and Nuclear Weapons, discusses some of the far-reaching implications of these and other recent developments in the field of arms control.

Part 2
Symphonies for chamber orchestra, Op. 11.Gordon Crosse
6.5* Symphony No. 33, in B flat major (K.319) Mozart

A miscellany of readings and reviews, including
JOHN HORDER on Rosemary Tonks 's new collection
Iliad of Broken Sentences and new poems by D. M. BLACK
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND GILES GORDON
LAURENCE LERNER PETER REDGROVE and KEN SMITH read by the authors themselves
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

played by RAPHAEL SOMMER (cello) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Broadcast on May 25

Three talks on international relations and language revolution
3: Galilean Revolution by ANATOL RAPOPORT
Professor of Mathematical Biology Mental Health Research Institute University of Michigan
The first Galilean language revolution was the invention of a mathematical language to describe adequately the process of change. The gap between our capacities for technological and social control suggests we need to engineer a new Galilean language revolution.

Opera seria in three acts
Music by Ferdinando BertonI revised and edited by REMO GIAZOTTO
Libretto by RANIERO DA CALZABIGI sung in Italian
First broadcast in this country Cast in order of singing:
Nymphs, shepherds, spectres. furies, blessed spirits CHORUS OF THE
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI Association OF NAPLES
Chorus-Master, Gennaro D'Onofrlo
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI ORCHESTRA OF NAPLES
Conducted by CARLO FRANCI
The action takes place in legendary times
ACT 1 The tomb of Euridice
ACT 2
Scene I The banks of the River
Styx
Scene 2 The Elysian Fields
ACT 3
Scene 1 A subterranean vault
Scene 2 The temple of Imeneo
Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio
Dozens of composers have written operas on the Orpheus myth. Two of them, Monteverdi and Gluck, managed to change operatic history in the process. In 1776, the Venetian Bertoni had to provide an opera for a company which included the famous castrato Guadagni, Gluck's original Orfeo. In homage to Gluck, Bertoni decided to re-set the same libretto that the master had used in 1762. The result was a short opera whose music clothed Calzabigi's sparing text with the honeyed Italian elegance that Haydn and Mozart loved so well. Haydn, in fact, performed Bertoni's version at Esterhaz in preference to
Gluck's.

ⓢ by Peter Weiss
Translated and adapted by RAY OCKENDEN from the author's own radio version of his novel with electronic accompaniment by DAVID CAINE of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME

Fantasia in C major
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
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