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The last of another series of programmes in which JOHN LEVY introduces recordings he has made in India
In this programme on South Indian classical music John Levy introduces a recital of Karnatic music consisting of Talawadyam Kachcheri. Music for Rhythmic
Instruments, a Ragamalika played by Shankaranarayana Pannikar , Nagaswaram, the South Indian oboe, and a devotional song by Purandara Dasa (1484-1564), known as the Father of Karnatic Music. Second broadcast

Contributors

Introduces:
John Levy
Introduces:
John Levy
Played By:
Shankaranarayana Pannikar

EDWIN MULLINS discusses the retrospective Exhibition of paintings by the American artist Willem de Kooning at the Tate Gallery with THOMAS B. HESS , editor of the New York magazine Art News
ANDREW FORGE, and DAVID SYLVESTER
Produced by Philip French

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwin Mullins
Artist:
Willem de Kooning
Unknown:
Thomas B. Hess
Produced By:
Philip French

† by GEORGE RUDÉ
Professor of History, School of Social Science. Flinders University of South Australia
Between 1788 and 1868, 160,000 men and about 25,000 women were sent as convicts to the Australian colonies. What sort of people were they? How many were ordinary criminals and how many political or social protesters? We now begin to have the statistics to give us a clear idea.

Octet played by the JANACEK STRING QUARTET Jiri Travnicek (violin) Adolf Sykora (violin) Jiri Kratochvil (viola) Karel Krafka (cello) and the SMETANA STRING QUARTET Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)
Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio

Contributors

Violin:
Jiri Travnicek
Viola:
Jiri Kratochvil
Cello:
Karel Krafka
Violin:
Jiri Novak
Violin:
Lubomir Kostecky
Viola:
Milan Skampa
Cello:
Antonin Kohout

Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday, 1691: Welcome, welcome glorious morn
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) The AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD gramophone record

Contributors

Soprano:
Jeannette Sinclair
Contralto:
Helen Watts
Bass:
Christopher Keyte
Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard

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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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