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Byrd (The Great Service): Morning Canticles - Venite; Te Deum ; Benedictus
Evening Canticles - Magnificat: Nunc dimittis
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Choir of New College, Oxford
Conductors, Bernard Rose and David Lumsden
Broadcast on January 1. 1964

Contributors

Singers:
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Singers:
Choir of New College, Oxford
Conductor:
Bernard Rose
Conductor:
David Lumsden

DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
JOHN BARSTOW (piano)
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Piano:
James Lockhart
Piano:
James Lockhart

Opera in four acts
Music by Haydn
Libretto by CARLO FRANCESCO BADINI
English translation by Brian Trowell
Cast in order of singing:
Peasants, soldiers, courtiers, court ladies, priests, priestesses, wandering shades, furies, and bacchantes
MALCOLM HICKS
(harpsichord continuo)
BAROQUE OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, Paul Doe
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Act 1
Scene 1 The border of a desolate forest
Scene 2 A hall In Creon's palace at Thebes
3.48* Act 2
Scene 1 A garden in the palace grounds
Scene 2 hall In Creon's palace
4.15* Act 3
Scene 1 A burial place
Scene 2 A temple
4.47* Act 4
Scene 1 The shore of the River Styx
Scene 2 The gates of Hell
Scene 3 A cavern
Scene 4 A sea-shore near the Isle of Lesbos
See page 52

Contributors

Unknown:
Carlo Francesco Badini
Translation By:
Brian Trowell
Harpsichord:
Malcolm Hicks
Leader:
Paul Doe
Conducted By:
Anthony Lewis

Three lectures recorded from a series arranged by the University of Manchester ExtraMural Department
2: The Use of University Resources by Lord BOWDEN
Principal of Manchester University and the Institute of Science and Technology
Both the productivity of academic staff and the utilisation of university plant in Britain is less than in the United States. But does anyone really care? Can anything be done?
Polytechnic Possibilities: March 26

R D. SMITH introduces his own pick of short poems, mostly unpublished, by poets some well-known, but mostly new
Readers,
HUGH DICKSON
DENYS HAWTHORNE ANTHONY JACOBS DAVID LYTTON DIANA ROBSON followed by an interlude at 10.55

Contributors

Introduces:
D. Smith
Readers:
Hugh Dickson
Readers:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Unknown:
David Lytton
Unknown:
Diana Robson

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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