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Sibelius
Suite: King Christian II
SCOTTISH National ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
9.27* Humoresques, Op. 87, for violin and orchestra
No. 1. In D minor No. 2, in D major
DAVID OISTRAKH Moscow RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
9.33* Symphonic Poem: The
Oceanides
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

MELOS ENSEMBLE
Richard Adeney (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (hom)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
Broadcast on June 15. 1968

Contributors

Flute:
Richard Adeney
Oboe:
Peter Graeme
Clarinet:
Gervase de Peyer
Bassoon:
Neill Sanders
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil

Opera in three acts
Music by Cherubini
Libretto by FRANÇOlS-BENOIT HOFFMANN
Sung in the Italian translation by CARLO ZANGARINI gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ACCADEMlA DI SANTA CECILIA, ROME Conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELLI
The action takes place at Corinth. in and near the royal palace. ACT 1
The courtyard of Creon's palace

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lamberto Gardelli

by D. G. Bridson with Howard Marion-Crawford
Inia Te Wiata and Stephen Murray
This dramatic poem is freely based upon the ancient Gilgamesh epic—the oldest surviving epic in the world. It tells the story of Man's continuing Quest for the secret of immortality. It also relates the story of the Flood-in a version which later found its way into the Book of Genesis.
The Storyteller Stephen MURRAY
Music composed and conducted by WALTER GOEHR
Produced by D. G. BRIDSON
* Second broadcast of the 1956 production of the programme originally broadcast in 1954 followed by an interlude at 9.0

Contributors

Unknown:
D. G. Bridson
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Conducted By:
Walter Goehr
Produced By:
D. G. Bridson
Enkidu:
Inia Te Wiata
Gilmesh:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Ishtar:
Margaret Rawlings
Siduri:
Mabel Constanduros
Urshanabi:
Francis de Wolff
Utnapishtim:
Frederick Allen

by DAVID DAICHES
Professor of English and American Studies at Sussex University
' To anyone brought up, as I was, in an atmosphere of Jewish tradition and Jewish history, the primary connotation of the word " Easter is is terror."

Contributors

Unknown:
David Daiches

David Lumsden (organ)
Jaye Consort of Viols: Francis Baines (treble viol), Elizabeth Baines (treble viol), Peter Vel (tenor viol), John Isaacs (tenor viol), Jane Ryan (bass viol)

Fantasia on a theme by Swelinck Fantasia on Vestiva i colli

Doric Fantasy Ut re mi fa sol la Fantasia a 3

Prelude and Carol: Laet ons met herten reijne

In nomine
Jam lucis orto sidere
Een Kindeken is ons geboren

[Stereo]

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lumsden
Unknown:
Francis Baines
Unknown:
Elizabeth Baines
Tenor:
Peter Vel
Tenor:
John Isaacs
Bass:
Jane Ryan
Unknown:
Een Kindeken

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