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Lully Suite: The King's Musicians
PRAGUE: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
7.19* Handel Concerto in B flat major, for lute, harp, and orchestra (reconstructed by Thurston Dart )
DESMOND DUPRE , OSIAN ELLIS PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON conducted by GRANVILLE JONES
7.34' Haydn Symphony No 60, in c major (II distratto) KSTERHAZY ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID BLUM gramophone records

Dvorak Overture: In the countryside
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ
8.18* Schumann Concertstiick in r major, for four horns and orchestra
GEORGES BARBOTEU , MICHEL BERGES DANIEL DUBAR , GILBERT COURSIER SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RISTENPART
8.38* Gounod Little Symphony for wind instruments Members of the HALLÉ orchestra, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI gramophone records

Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin Borodin String Quartet No 2. in d major
BORODIN QUARTET
9.33* Rimsky-Korsakov Musical Picture: Sadko
SUISSE KOMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

An operatic sequence for women's voices
Music by Malcolm Williamson
Libretto by Ursula Vaughan Willians

This programme is a recording of a very large-scale musical event held at the Royal Albert Hall last June - the National Federation of Women's Institutes Music Festival. The Brilliant and the Dark is an operatic sequence in the form of a pageant, depicting the lives of women through the ages. It includes themes such as abandoned lovers, impoverished women, and women under vows. admirably managing to avoid any kind of sentimentality. It was composed specially for the Festival, and the eight singers and eight pianists are drawn from Women's Institutes all over the country
Sylvia Campbell (soprano) Elizabeth Lamb (contralto) Anna Gee (soprano)
Audrey Hughes (soprano)
Barbara Justham (Contralto) Enid Lloyd Roberts (Soprano)
Patricia Viles (mezzo-soprano) Margery Would (soprano)
Massed Choirs of the National Federation of Women's Institutes
Pianists: Marjorie Blackburn, Janet Canetty-Clarke, Doris Catcheside, Hilda Evans, Shena Neame, Margaret Payne, Isabel Thompson, Felicity White
English Chamber Orchestra, leader Kenneth Sillito conducted by Marcus Dods

DAVID WILDE (piano)
Chopin Ballade in G minor
11.11* Berceuse in D flat major
11.17* Etudes (Op 10) Nos 1-6
11.35* Schumann Fantasie in c major. Op 17

BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conductor JOHN CAREWB Part 1
Smetana Overture: Dalibor
12.24* Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)

A selected item from last Sunday's programme
1.20 Cardiff Midday Prom Part 2
Sibelius Suite: Rakastava
1.33* Beethoven Symphony No 8,in f major

ORCHESTRA leader Maurice brett conductor STANLEY BLACK
Suppe Overture: Poet and Peasant
Delibes Ballet Suite: La source Arthur Duff Irish Suite for strings
German Three Dances (Nell Gwyn)
Joseph Horovitz Four Dances (Femmes .d'Alger)

Berlioz Villanelle; Au cimetiere (Les nuits d'ete); Zaide (Bolero)
Faure Chant d'automne; Fleur jetee; Clair de lune
Milhaud Catalogue de fleurs: La violette; Le bégonia; Les fritillaires; Les jacinthes; Les crocus; Le brachycome; L'eremurus
Duparc Lamento ; L'invitation au voyage
JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Broadcast on 17 April

Messiaen: Canteyodjaya
Ton de Leeuw: Men go their ways (first broadcast performance in this country)
Ronald Lumsden (piano)
Zoltan Jeney: Aritme - Ritmiche (first performance)
Henrik Prohle (flute)
Jozsef Keleman (viola) Laszlo Mezo (cello)
(Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)
Robert Sherlaw Johnson: The resurrection of Feng-Huang (first broadcast performance)
Elizabethan Singers
Conductor Herrick Bunney

Music chosen by the under-twenties, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
The programme includes:
Purcell Queen Mary 's Funeral Music (1695)
Penderecki Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima
Dvorak Serenade in D minor. Op 44

DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR looks at musical events in the North during the next seven days

An opera in five acts with words and music by BERLIOZ from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (sung in French) Part 1 The Capture of Troy
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master DOUGLAS ROBINSON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by COLIN DAVIS The opera produced by MINOS VOLONAKIS
Act 1 Scene 1 The plain of Troy Scene 2 Before the citadel
7.5* Act 2
Scene 1 The tent of Aeneas Scene 2 The temple of Vesta

Many famous composers of our time have studied with Nadia Boulanger. In this programme she talks to ROBERT LAYTON about the training of musicians and recalls her meetings with Stravinsky and others

Part 2 The Trojans at Carthage
Act 3 The grounds of Dido's palace in Carthage
8.45* Symphonic Interlude: The Royal Hunt and Storm
Act 4 The garden of Dido's palace by the sea

Earlier this year CLEMENT FREUD spent 12 davs on the West Indian island 'of Martinique during the carnival season
10.10* The Trojans 0 Part 2 The Trojans at Carthage (continued) Act 5
Scene 1 The Trojan fleet in port Scene 2 Dido's room
Scene 3 A terrace by the sea