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ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
MELOS ENSEMBLE gramophone records

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MELOS ENSEMBLE
English CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM gramophone records

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Christopher Hyde-Smith (flute) Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
English String Quartet: Nona Liddell (violin), Marilyn Taylor (violin), Marjorie Lempfert (viola), Helen Just (cello)
Malcolm Binns (piano)

(The Rossler was broadcast on May 8, 1968; the Dussek on July 1)

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April Cantelo (soprano)
In her third programme
APRIL CANTELO with VIOLA TUNNARD (piano) sings

MAURICE COLE (piano)
MACGIBBON STRING QUARTET Margot Macgibbon (violin) Lorraine du Val (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)
Schubert's Sonata in B /tat major (D.M0), also Played by Maurice Cole : January 25, 1968

MlCHELE. BOEGNER (piano)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Gerald Jarvis
Conductor, CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI
Parti

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Christmas Music
CHRISTOPHER GRIER talks about miscellaneous choral works

Part 2

4: Wales
Introduced by Louis HALSEY
A BBC World Service production

RUGGIERO RICCI (violin)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, Joan CAREWE
Parti

Trio Sonata No. 3, in D minor played by HERRICK BUNNEY (organ) From St. Giles' Cathedral. Edinburgh
Broadcast on August 2

Part 2
Broadcast on March 2 followed by an interlude -

An opera in four scenes after CHARLES DICKENS 'S A Christmas Carol
Libretto and music by Jan Cikker sung in Czech.
First broadcast tn this country
Cast in order of Singing:
CHORUS OP THE SLOVAK
NATIONAL THEATRE, BRATISLAVA Chorus-Master, Ondrej Lenard
Symphony ORCHESTRA OF
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO, BRATISLAVA
Conducted by LADISLAV HOLOUBEK
The story is set in mid-nineteenth-century London.
Scene 1 Scrooge's office
Scene 2 A street
Scene 3 The sitting-room in Scrooge's house
Scene 4 Scrooge's bedroom
Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio

Four programmes about spoken English in town and country; illustrated with recordings, many of them from the University of Leeds' Survey at English dialects.
2: Modern dialects - the work of the Survey by Stanley Ellis, Lecturer in English, University of Leeds
Produced by Rosemary Jellis

A series about the effect of the dance on the history of music
12: The music of modem ballet illustrated talk by John PERCIVAL
Produced by Peter Dodd

Seven talks on the political history of the period from the Russian Revolution to Locarno
5: U.S.A. Policy in the Post-War Years by PROFESSOR ERNEST R. MAY of Harvard University
These talks, under the general editorship of Elizabeth Wiskernann , follow two earlier series which dealt with the outbreak of war in 1914, and with the various attempts to reach a compromise peace.
The Middle East in the After-math of War by Professor Elie Kedourie of the London School of Economics: December 28

by Jean Vilar
Introduced by Carl Wildman
A personal choice of poetry by the French actor, producer, and theatre director who founded the Festival d'Avignon and the Theatre National Populaire
Jean Vilar interprets the work of eight poets, beginning with Francois Villon, that habitue of Paris taverns and prison cells, and ending with Paul Valery, represented by 'Le Cimetiere marin ' on the subject of the little Mediterranean port of Sete, where the reader as well as the poet was born.
Recorded in the BBC's Paris studio
Second broadcast

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JULIAN BREAM (guitar) gramophone record

Three short plays by James Broom Lynne
The Applicant with FRANK DUNCAN , PATRICIA ENGLAND and ALEXA Romanes
The Golden Marathon
The High Place
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Patricia England is a member of tho Welsh Theatre Company

by JEFFREY SIEGEL followed by an interlude at 10.55

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