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Elgar Overture: Cockaigne PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.20* Tchaikovsky Pezzo capriccioso: MAURICE GENDRON (Cello) VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
7.30* Schumann Symphony No 3. in E flat (Rhenish)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Handel Dixit Dominus
TERESA ZYLIS-GARA (soprano) JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) MARTIN LANE (counter-tenor) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ANDREW DAVIS (harpsichord) JOHN LANGDON (organ)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Handel Dixit Dominus
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Harpsichord:
John Langdon
Conducted By:
David Willcocks

Haydn Overture: Armida LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON conducted by LESLIE JONES
9.51* Sibelius Suite: Belshazzar's Feast
LENINGRAD PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
10.5* Kodaly Concerto for Orchestra
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leslie Jones
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy

Tradition
Last of stx programmes including madrigalian compositions from Pearsall to the present day
BBC CHORUS conducted by ALAN G. MELVILLE Samuel Wesley 0 sing unto my roundelay
Settings of Herrick: Parry Fair daffodils; Charles Wood The bag of the bee; Henry Leslie Charm me asleep; Sidney Waddington Cherry ripe
Stanford Madrigale splrituale: Flames of pure love are we (Eden)
Holst Ballett : Now is the month of maying
Rubbra Second Set of Madrigals: Leave prolonging thy distress; So sweet Is thy discourse (first broadcast performance)
Slainer Flora's Queen (Choral Songs in honour of Queen Victoria)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alan G. Melville
Conducted By:
Samuel Wesley
Unknown:
Charles Wood
Unknown:
Henry Leslie
Unknown:
Sidney Waddington Cherry
Unknown:
Holst Ballett

Opera In four acts
Music by LEONCAVALLO
Libretto by the composer. after the comedy by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
Acts 1 and 2

Contributors

Comedy By:
Pierre Berton
Comedy By:
Charles Simon
Zazà, a music-hall artiste:
Clara Petrella (sopranpo)
Anaide, her mother:
Elinor Parker (mezzo-Soprano)
Floriana, a singer:
Adriana Buda (soprano)
Natalia, Zaza's maid:
Elena Barcis (soprano)
Milio Dusfresne, a young man-about-town:
Giuseppe Campora (tenor)
Madame Dusfresne, his wife:
Daniela Campora (mezzo-Sop)
Cascart, Zaza's partner:
Tito Turtura (baritone)
Bussy, a journalist:
Duilio Contoli (baritone)
Courtois, an impresario:
Tito Nava (baritone)
Marco, Dusfresne's servant:
Ernesto Sormani (tenor)
Augusto, a waiter:
Ernesto Sormani (tenor)
Toto, Dusfresne's child:
Daniela Campora (speaking Part)

Alberto Ginastera Duo Ulysses Kay Duo
Wallingford Riegger Duo
Elliott Schwarz Ninas , for flute, oboe, and tape
(All these works are receiving their first broadcast performances in this country) JOHN SOLUM (flute)
MELVIN KAPLAN (oboe)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alberto Ginastera Duo
Unknown:
Ulysses Kay
Unknown:
Elliott Schwarz Ninas
Flute:
John Solum
Oboe:
Melvin Kaplan

FRANK WIBAUT (piano)
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD conductor ANDREW PARROTT Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra conducted by SIR ARTHUR BLISS and SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
Music by Ives, Bliss, Gershwin, and Tippett
(A concert given in the Town Hall, Cheltenham, last July at the Cheltenham Festival)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Arthur Bliss
Conducted By:
Sir Michael Tippett

3: The Cardboard Trumpet
A discussion between RAYMOND LEPPARD, formerly Music Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, TOBY ROBERTSON , Director, Prospect Theatre Company, and GUY WOOLFENDEN, Music Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, on the function and choice of music for present-day productions of Shakespeare. Produced by DAVID EPPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Toby Robertson
Produced By:
David Epps

Introduced by JULIAN JEBB
This edition includes MICHAEL KUSTOW discussing the exhibition Aaargh!!! A Celebration of Comics, which he has arranged for the Institute of Contemporary Arts at Nash House, The Mall, London, SW1 Produced by PATRICIA BRENT and PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Jebb
Unknown:
Michael Kustow
Produced By:
Patricia Brent
Produced By:
Philip French

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More