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Variations on a Rococo theme, for cello and orchestra...Tchaikovsky LEONARD ROSE
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.22* Ballet: The Seasons...Glazunov
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Leonard
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet

ⓢ An opera in a prologue and one act
Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Music by Richard Strauss sung in German BAVARIAN STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH KEILBERTH
Prologue: A ball in the mansion of a Viennese nouveau-riche
Opera: A stage set erected in the hall, representing the outside of Ariadne's cave
Recording, from the Munich Festival 1967. made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music By:
Richard Strauss
Conducted By:
Joseph Keilberth

HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
PAULINE STEVENS (mezzo-soprano)
WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE John ALLDIS CHOIR
LONDON Symphony ORCHESTRA Leader, John Georgiadis
Conducted by GARY BERTINI

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Mezzo-Soprano:
Pauline Stevens
Unknown:
John Alldis
Leader:
John Georgiadis
Conducted By:
Gary Bertini

Four programmes about spoken English in town and country; illustrated with recordings, many of them from the University of Leeds' Survey of English dialects.
1: English dialects-past and present by STANLEY ELus
Lecturer in English University of Leeds
Produced by Rosemary Jellis

Contributors

Produced By:
Rosemary Jellis

A Hibernian tale taken from the manners of the Irish Squires by Maria Edgeworth adapted by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

Contributors

Unknown:
Irish Squires
Unknown:
Maria Edgeworth
Adapted By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Thady Quirk:
Harry Hutchinson
Sir Kit Rackrent:
Allan McClelland
His lady:
Janette Richer
Bridget:
Mary O'Farrell
Jason Quirk:
Denis McCarthy
Sir Condy Rackrent:
Denys Hawthorne
His lady:
Genevieve Lyons
A stranger:
Geoffrey Wincott
Judy McQuirk:
Margaret Robertson

ⓢCANTORES IN ECCLESIA
Conductor, MICHAEL HOWARD
Emendemus in melius
Libera me Domine
Diliges Dominum
Haec dies
O quam gloriosum
Ne irascaris Domine Civitas sancti tui
Tu es Petrus
The last of three programmes of choral music by Byrd

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Howard

Under the Lepidopterist's Net tby STANLEY MITCHELL
Russia's greatest poet still eludes the English reader. He is. of course, notoriously difficult to translate. Stanley Mitchell examines some of the recent translations, notably Vladimir Nabokov 's, and suggests that their relative failure is due to capturing only a part of Pushkin's greatness.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Nabokov

Alicia Schachter (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Bean
Conductor, Colin Davis
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to Ticket Unit[address removed]enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. Followed by an interlude at 10.50

Contributors

Piano:
Alicia Schachter
Conductor:
Colin Davis

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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