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Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
The Music of Franz Berwald by ROBERT LAYTON
Musical Profile: Agnes Giebel by CHARLES OSBORNE
A Monteverdi Companion: book review by STANLEY SADIE Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Arrigo Boito
Unknown:
Franz Berwald
Unknown:
Robert Layton
Unknown:
Agnes Giebel
Unknown:
Charles Osborne
Review By:
Stanley Sadie
Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage

JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) JANET COSTER (contralto) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) DAVID READ (bass)
BBC CHORUS
PETER GRAEME (oboe and oboe d'amore obbligato) KEITH HARVEY (cello) ANITA LASKER < cello)
Continuo
Charles Spinks (organ) Martin Gatt (bassoon)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
Cantata No. 165: 0 heil'ges
Geist- und Wasserbad
Cantata No. 132: Bereitet die
Wege, bereitet die Bahn
Cantata No 163: Nur jedem das Seine
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Soprano:
Jeannette Sinclair
Contralto:
Janet Coster
Tenor:
Kenneth Bowen
Bass:
David Read
Oboe:
Peter Graeme
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Cello:
Anita Lasker
Unknown:
Charles Spinks
Bassoon:
Martin Gatt
Double-Bass:
Adrian Beers
Leader:
Kenneth Sillito
Conducted By:
James Lockhart
Unknown:
James Lockhart

0 Opera in three acts
Music by Purcell
Libretto by NAHUM TATE gramophone record
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR
EIKE FUNK and SONJA PHUNNBAUER (guitars)
Continuo:
Eike Funk , Mathias Siedel
Gerhard Stenzel , Willi Beyer NORTH GERMAN Radio CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Act 1 Dido's court at Carthage
1.48* Act 2
Scene 1 The witches' cave Scene 2 A grove
2.10* Act 3 The harbour at Carthage

Contributors

Unknown:
Nahum Tate
Unknown:
Eike Funk
Guitars:
Sonja Phunnbauer
Unknown:
Eike Funk
Unknown:
Mathias Siedel
Unknown:
Gerhard Stenzel
Unknown:
Willi Beyer
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras

B.M.C. CONCERT BAND
Conducted by Imogen Hoist who talks about her father's music for brass
Suite No. 1
2.45' Suite No. 2
Third of six programmes of some of Hoist's less frequently heard music

Contributors

Conducted By:
Imogen Hoist

Five Centuries of Occasional Music
SUSAN LONGFIELD (soprano) JANE MANNING (soprano) MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) MARTIN LANE (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
Men"s voices of THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
DAVID MUNROW, RICHARD LEE and JOHN TURNER (recorders) THEA KING , WILFRED HAMBLFTON and ANTHONY PAY (clarinets)
KEITH HARVEY (cello continuo)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Directed by PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord)
From The Maltings, Snape first performance
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Presented in association with the BBC Music Programme
During the Interval (3.48*-4.8*)
PETER PEARS talks to JAMES BURNETT about the Aldeburgh Festival

Contributors

Soprano:
Susan Longfield
Soprano:
Jane Manning
Mezzo-Soprano:
Meriel Dickinson
Mezzo-Soprano:
James Bowman
Unknown:
Martin Lane
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Bass:
Christopher Keyte
Unknown:
Richard Lee
Unknown:
John Turner
Unknown:
Thea King
Unknown:
Wilfred Hamblfton
Clarinets:
Anthony Pay
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Leader:
Kenneth Sillito
Directed By:
Philip Ledger
Unknown:
James Burnett

played bv the SWEDISH RADIO Orchestra
Overture: The Queen of Golconda (1862)
Conducted by SIXTEN EHRBLING
Sinfonie capricieuse in D major (1842)
Conducted by STIG WESTERBERG Baiadarfesten (The festival of the Indian dancers) (1842)
Conducted by SIXTEN EHRLING first broadcast in this country
The first of three programmes of Berwald's orchestral music to mark the centenary of his death
Recording made available by courtesy of Swedish Radio

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sixten Ehrbling
Conducted By:
Stig Westerberg
Conducted By:
Sixten Ehrling

by Jean-Paul Sartre translated by VERNON DOBTCHEFF
Radio adaptation by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with Produced by Archie Campbell Scene: Argos-a city tn Ancient Greece
JUDI Dench Is In ' Cabaret ' at the Patace Theatre. London
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated By:
Vernon Dobtcheff
Unknown:
Archie Campbell
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Zeus:
Michael Herdern
Electra:
Judi Oench
Orestes:
Law McKellen
Queen Clytcmnestra:
Mary Morris
Tutor:
John Wyse
Aegillim husband to the Queen:
John Pullen
High Priest:
Geoffrey Wincott
Young Woman:
Carol Mason
Old Woman:
Pauline Letts
lien in Crowd:
Alan Dudley
lien in Crowd:
Alexander John
Guards:
Christophrr Bidmead
Guards:
Nicholas Edmett
Furies:
Freda Dowie
Furies:
Jill Cary
Furies:
Betty Hardy
Furies:
Ann Murray
Narrator:
Antony Viocars

Ilse Wolf (soprano)
Sybil Michelow (contralto) Ian Partridge (tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
Tilford Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
Leader. Trevor Williams
Conductor, Denys Darlow
Part 1
A public concert, promoted by the Tilford Music Society, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on January 27

Contributors

Soprano:
Ilse Wolf
Contralto:
Sybil Michelow
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Baritone:
John Carol Case
Leader:
Trevor Williams
Conductor:
Denys Darlow

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