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ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Cantata No. 76: Die Himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
BARBARA ROBOTHAM (contralto) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
JAMES ATKINS (baritone)
GERAINT JONES SINGERS
Continuo:
ALAN HARVERSON (harpsichord) EILEEN MCCARTHY (cello)
Obbligati:
EDWARD SELWYN (oboe d'amoreo WINIFITED ROBERTS (violin)
AMBROSE GAUNTLETT (gamba) BERNARD BROWN (trumpet)
GERAINT JONES ORCHESTRA Conductor. GERAINT JONES
Broadcast on July 17. 1965
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Contributed by DOMINIC Gill, ROBERT HENDERSON CHARLES OSBORNE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
An opera in a prologue and one act
Music by Strauss
Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
English translation by Tom Hammond
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SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, HAZEL VIVIENNE
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA
Conductor. BRYAN BALKWILL
Broadcast on March 28. 1968
Prologue: A hall In the mansion of a Viennese ' nouveau.riche '
12.46* Opera: A stage in the hall, representing the outside of Ariadne's cave
Instrumental and Vocal Solos
LAKSHMI SHANKAR (singer)
JlTENDRA ABHISHEKI
(singer and swarmandel) SHIVKUMAR SHARMA (santoor and tabla)
SHAMIN AHMED (sitar) SABRI Khan (sarangi)
PALGHAT RAGHU (mridangham)
SHARAD KUMAR (shahnai and flute) Fakir MOHAMMAD KHAN (shahnai and tamboura) MOHAMMAD MISKIN KHAN (nakkara and tamboura)
Shahnal, with nakkara and drone
Male voice, with sarangi. tabla, and tamboura (morning Raga)
Duet: sitar and flute, with tabla and tamboura (afternoon Raga)
Mridangham. with tamboura
Bhajan (devotional song): female voice, with sarangi and tabla
Bengali Love Sony: female voice. with sarangi and tabla
Santoor. with tabla and tamboura
HAYDN AND ELGAR
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) KENNETH BOWMAN (tenor) ANTHONY WILLIAMS (bass)
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL SINGERS ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Kenneth Sillito
Part 1: Elgar
Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Introduction and Allegro for strings For the fallen (The Spirit of England)
Beethoven
Sonata in D major. Op. 12 No. DAVID OJSTRAKH (violin) Lev OBORIN (piano) gramophone record
PART 2: Haydn
Conducted by Philip LEDGER
Mass in B flat major (Harmoniemesse)
From the Mailings, Snape
Four talks by EDWARD LOCKSPEISER
Several writers of recent times have attempted to define the new problems facing the composer in the present century.
Edward Lockspeiser discusses
Jean-Christophe. Vinteuil, and Adrian Leverkiihn , who were the creations of Rolland, Proust, and Mann. and relates these fictitious characters to the Kreat figures of twentieth-century music.
1: Jean-Christophe and Adrian Leverkiihn
Broadcast on July 13. 1965
Vinteuil and the Musical Experience: June 22
Carre
NORTH GERMAN RADIO CHOIR and SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN MAURICIO KAGEL
ANDRZEJ MARKOWSKI MICHAEL GlELEN gramophone record
or The Various Incarnations of Jacques Collin
A study in four parts of the world of Honore de Balzac by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
Anthony Jacobs as Vautrin
3: Fr. Carlos Herrera
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME and ROGER PINE
John Alldis Chorus
Chorus-Master, John Alldis
Welsh National Opera Chorale
Conductor, James Lockhart
Band of the Grenadier Guards
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Neville Taweel
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
by ANDREW HALE
A series of monthly commentaries on Italy today, recorded In Rome where Mr. Hate lives and works
Part 2
A discussion of the issues before the Trade Union
Movement, the Government, and the citizen
Chairman. ANDREW SHONFIELD
Speakers:
Roy HATTERSLEY , M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary. Department of Employment and Productivity
JACK JONES. General Secretary-elect, Transport and General Workers Union
LES CANNON. General President. Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication Union-Plumbing Trades Union
GEOFFREY HOWE. Q.C., in the last Parliament a Conservative Front Bench spokesman on labour matters
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