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Cantata No. 194: Hochsterwiinschtes Freudenfest
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) HELEN Watts (contralto) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
GERAINT JONES SINGERS
Obbligati:
Richard COLE (recorder)
EDWARD SELWYN, NEIL BLACK (oboe and cor anglais)
Continuo:
ALAN HARVERSON
(organ and harpsichord)
MICHAEL WHEWELL (bassoon) AMBROSE GAUNTLETT (cello)
GERAINT JONES ORCHESTRA Leader, Winifred Roberts Conductor, GERAINT JONES
Broadcast on June 27. 1966
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Sir Robert Mayer : a ninetieth birthday greeting by TREVOR HARVEY
Mozart's String Quintets by ROBERT ANDERSON
The Mirror of Music by HENRY RAYNOR
Britten's and Puccini's Operas: book review by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Acts 1 and 2 See panel below
by STEFAN ASKENASE
Chopin
Prelude in C sharp minor
Impromptus: A flat major;
F sharp major; G flat major
Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor
ACT 3
PHILIP LEDGER, MILLICENT SILVER BARBARA HILL (harpsichords)
TESS MILLER (oboe)
PETER MAUNDER (clarinet) IFOR James (horn)
MARTIN GATT (bassoon)
ALAN LOVEDAY (violin)
LONDON BACH ORCHESTRA Leaders.
Alan Loveday and Jiirgen Hess
Conductor, MARTINDALE SIDWELL
PART 1
ACT 4
PART 2
A public concert given In the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London, on March 8
In conversation with DAVID SYLVESTER
9: Larry Poons
Larry Poons makes highly coloured paintings related to Op Art in which a multitude of small discs or ellipses are dotted over a field.
Second broadcast followed by AMERICAN ART NOW
by E. C. GOOSSEN
New York art critic, organiser of the current exhibition of American art.'The Art of the Real.' at the Tate Gallery, London.
John Cage : June 8
ϮDOROTHY DOROW (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Walter Levin ( violin) Henry Meyer ( violin)
Peter Kamnitzer (viola) Jack Kirsten (cello) gramophone records
The American novelist, poet, and short-story writer discusses ten years of his fiction, from The Poorhouse Fair to Couples, with ERIC RHODE
A comedy of humorous and contemporary characters in the manner of Ben Jonson by Bernard Shaw with Mary Wimbush as Epifania, the millionairess
Scenes set by PETER TUDDENHAM
The action takes place in a London solicitor's office, the East End of London. and in a riverside inn -later a smart hotel. The time: the Shavian Thirties
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS and JOHN TYDEMAN
Second broadcast
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by Geoffrey Chaucer
Written between 1382 and 1387 The seventh of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Martus Goring as Chaucer ALEXANDER JOHN as Troilus ELIZABETH MORGAN as Criseyde GABRIELWOOLF as Pandarus HOWIESON CULFF as Calkas John BENTLEY as Hector
Produced by Raymond Raikes ⓢ
Eighth reading: June 8
Max ROSTAL (viola)
COLIN HORSLEY (piano)