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PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES Eileen Poulter (soprano)
Susan Longfield (soprano) Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor)
John Buttrey (tenor)
Geoffrey Shaw (baritone) Christopher Keyte (bass) GOLDSBROUGH ENSEMBLE
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Nona Liddell (violin) Terence Weil (cello)
Charles Spinks (chamber organ and harpsichord)
Sonata No 4, in F major (Set of 12) Sacred Songs: 0 all ye people, clap your hands; The earth trembled, and heav'n closed; Lord, I can suffer thy rebukes Sonata No 11, in F minor (Set of 12) Sacred Songs: In the black, dismal dungeon of despair: Awake, ye dead: Close thine eyes and sleep secure
Cantata: Hark how the wild musicians sing

Contributors

Soprano:
Eileen Poulter
Soprano:
Susan Longfield
Soprano:
Grayston Burgess
Tenor:
John Buttrey
Baritone:
Geoffrey Shaw
Bass:
Christopher Keyte
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Nona Liddell
Cello:
Terence Weil
Cello:
Charles Spinks

From the Salzburg Festival (In Memoriam George Szell ) HELEN DONATH (soprano)
ROSALIND ELIAS (contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor) WALTER BERRY ( bass)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Szell
Soprano:
Helen Donath
Contralto:
Rosalind Elias
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Bass:
Walter Berry
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

GEORGE MALCOLM (piano)
WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR director of music RUSSELL BURGESS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader HUGH BEAN conducted by EDWARD DOWNES
Mozart Symphony No 25, in G minor (K 183)
12.36* Britten Children's Crusade: ballad for children's voices and orchestra

Contributors

Piano:
George Malcolm
Leader:
Hugh Bean
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Conducted By:
Mozart Symphony

A personal choice of records presented by Antony Hopkins including at 2.10* Monteverdi's Madrigal. Chiome d'oro, and excerpts from two Mozart operas: at 2.30* JOSEF SUK and JULIUS KATCHEN playing the Violin Sonata in A by Brahms; at
3.10* Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat: at 3.50* VLADIMIR ASHKEN-AZY playing Ondine by Ravel; and at 4.0* Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings

Contributors

Presented By:
Antony Hopkins
Presented By:
Julius Katchen

A selection of extracts from interviews broadcast during the past three months in Radio 3's weekly arts magazine, including the voices of: ALVIN AILEY , ALAN BADEL ROLAND BRENER
RICHARD FLEISCHER
PATRICK GARLAND , JOHN GOLDING FRANK HAUSER , DAN JACOBSON DAVID JONES , JOSEPH LOSEY CHARLES MACKERRAS JONATHAN MILLER
SHIVA NAIPAUL , PETER PORTER C. P. SNOW, JOSEPH STRICK
MICHAEL TIPPETT , DAVID TURNER and GORE VIDAL
Edited and introduced by PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Alvin Ailey
Unknown:
Alan Badel
Unknown:
Roland Brener
Unknown:
Richard Fleischer
Unknown:
Patrick Garland
Unknown:
John Golding
Unknown:
Frank Hauser
Unknown:
Dan Jacobson
Unknown:
David Jones
Unknown:
Joseph Losey
Unknown:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Shiva Naipaul
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Joseph Strick
Unknown:
Michael Tippett
Unknown:
David Turner
Introduced By:
Philip French

The two Foscari
Lyric tragedv in three acts
Libretto bv FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE, after Byron Music by VERDI
(sung in Italian)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN MCCARTHY BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor MARCUS DODS Repetiteur JOHN BACON
Produced by BRIAN TROWELL
Act 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria
Chorus-Master:
John McCarthy
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Produced By:
Brian Trowell
Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice:
Terence Sharpe(baritone)
Jacopo, his son:
Keith Erwen(tenor)
Lucrezia, Jacopo's wife:
Pauline Tinsley(soprano)
Loredano, a member of the Council of Ten:
Michael Rippon(bass-Baritone)
Barbarigo, a Venetian senator:
Edgar Fleet(tenor)
Pisana, a lady attending Lucrezia:
Jean Temperley(mezzo-Soprano)
An officer of the Council of Ten:
Leslie Fyson(baritone)
A servant of the Doge:
John Noble(baritone)

Two talks by DR COLIN RENFREW of the Department of Ancient History at Sheffield University 2: Creative Barbarians
Lord Raglan believed ' savages never invent or discover anything.' Opposing this view, Dr Renfrew points out that the peoples of early Europe must have shown a high degree of originality. Recent research is forcing archaeologists to think in social terms and consider the processes that led to change in these pre-historic societies,

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Colin Renfrew

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