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Fantasy for flute and piano...FaurG
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Harold Clarke (flute) Wilfred Smith (flute) Denis Vigay (cello)
Maria Korchinska (harp)
Hubert Dawkes (piano and harmonium) with Wilfrid Parry (piano)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
Viola TUNNARD (piano)

Contributors

Flute:
Harold Clarke
Flute:
Wilfred Smith
Cello:
Denis Vigay
Harp:
Maria Korchinska
Piano:
Hubert Dawkes
Piano:
Wilfrid Parry

Fantastic opera in five acts
Libretto after Pushkin
English translation by FRANCIS DALVIN
Music by Glinka
A giant's head, courtiers, houris
ORPINGTON JUNIOR SINGERS
BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS DODS
Répétiteur, John Bacon
Produced by Julian Budden
Recorded before an Invited audience in the Camden Theatre: first broadcast on March 3, 1968
The action takes place In Russia in legendary times
ACT 1
A banqueting hall in Svetosar's palace
2.13* ACT 2
Scene 1 Outside the cave of Finn
Scene 2 A lonely place in the Steppes
Scene 3 A deserted battlefield

Contributors

Translation By:
Francis Dalvin
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Unknown:
John Bacon
Produced By:
Julian Budden

From the Royal Albert Hall London

Margaret Price (soprano) Norma Procter (contralto)
BBC Men's Chorus, BBC Choral Society
London Philharmonic Choir, Chorus-Master, John Alldis
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by Bernard Haitink

Part 1: Mozart and Goehr

7.44* Three Pieces for wind instruments, harp, and percussion (Arden must die). Goehr

(See page 31)

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Price
Contralto:
Norma Procter
Singers:
BBC Men's Chorus
Singers:
BBC Choral Society
Singers:
London Philharmonic Choir
Chorus-Master:
John Alldis
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

DAME MARGERY PERHAM gives her impressions of Kenya at the present time, in the light of her most recent visit in the spring of this year. She considers the place of the remaining white settlers, Kenya's relations with Britain, and the state of society in Kenya since the assassination of Tom Mboya whom she knew as a personal friend.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Margery Perham
Unknown:
Tom Mboya

The celebration in slang or realistic song of the joys and miseries of life, of Paris itself, has been a tradition since the time of Villon. Who are the troubadours of today?
In the first of three weekly programmes CARL WILDMAN illustrates the variety of their song and performance with the help of gramophone records.
Some of these troubadours have not travelled to our shores. In the second and third programmes Carl Wildman introduces two of them in their Paris haunts.
Extended version of the broadcast on December 31, 1968
Conversation with Felix Leclerc , talking and singing in French: August 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Wildman
Introduces:
Carl Wildman
Unknown:
Felix Leclerc

BBC Radio 3

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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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