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Settings by Monteverdi and Handel ALEXANDRA BROWNING (soprano) SUSAN GORTON (soprano) BARBARA PLATT (soprano) DELYTH JONES (soprano) RACHEL PAYNE (contralto) PETER BINGHAM (tenor)
JOLYON DODGSON ( bass-baritone) BBC NORTHERN SINGERS Continuo:
PAUL WARD (cello)
KEITH ELCOMBE (chamber organ) MANCHESTER MOZART ORCHESTRA leader FAY CAMPEY conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON

Contributors

Soprano:
Handel Alexandra Browning
Soprano:
Susan Gorton
Soprano:
Barbara Platt
Contralto:
Rachel Payne
Tenor:
Peter Bingham
Bass-Baritone:
Jolyon Dodgson
Leader:
Fay Campey
Conducted By:
Stephen Wilkinson

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), by DOMINIC GILL
Musical Profile: Barry Mc Daniel. by ROBERT HENDERSON
Schoenberg and the Orchestra, by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Music of the People: book review by KEN SYKORA
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Praetorius
Unknown:
Barry Mc Daniel.
Unknown:
Robert Henderson
Unknown:
Humphrey Searle
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage

TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA leader TREVOR WILLIAMS conductor DENYS DARLOW
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6. in B flat major
12.19* Stephen Dodgson Concerto da camera No 3
(first broadcast performance) TREVOR WILLIAMS (violin) MARY RYAN (flute)
RONALD GILLHAM (flute)
12.34* Bernard Stevens Suite MARY RYAN (flute)
MARY MURDOCH (oboe)
TREVOR WILLIAMS I violin) OLGA HEGEDUS I Cello)
JANE RYAN (viola da gamba) DEREK STEVENS (harpsichord)
12.52* Haydn Symphony No 85, in B flat major (La reine)

Contributors

Leader:
Trevor Williams
Conductor:
Denys Darlow
Conductor:
Bach Brandenburg
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson
Flute:
Ronald Gillham
Flute:
Bernard Stevens Suite
Flute:
Mary Ryan
Oboe:
Trevor Williams
Violin:
Olga Hegedus
Viola:
Jane Ryan
Harpsichord:
Derek Stevens

Life on the moon
A comic opera in three acts Libretto by GOLDONI Music by PAISIELLO (sung in Italian)
(first broadcast in this country)
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA OF NAPLES conducted by MASSIMO PRADELLA (Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alessandro Scarlatti
Conducted By:
Massimo Pradella

HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA guest leader CARLOS VILLA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 29 (K 201) Britten Les illuminations for soprano and string orchestra
4.5* during the interval DONALD MITCHELL discusses Mahler's Fourth Symphony in relation to his orchestral songs of the same period,
4.25* Concert 0
Part 2 Mahler Symphony No 4

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Leader:
Carlos Villa
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel
Unknown:
Britten Les
Unknown:
Donald Mitchell

by SIR THOMAS MALORY completed 1469-1470 with Norman Shelley
Robert Eddison , Robert Hardy Ronald Forfar , Penelope Lee
The sixth of 13 programmes edited and selected by DEREK BREWER , Fellow of Emmanuel College. Cambridge with music by STEPHEN DODGSON
Other voices by HENRY STAMPER and ELIZABETH MORGAN
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES (Sixth reading: next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Thomas Malory
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Robert Eddison
Unknown:
Robert Hardy
Unknown:
Ronald Forfar
Unknown:
Penelope Lee
Unknown:
Derek Brewer
Music By:
Stephen Dodgson
Voices By:
Henry Stamper
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Sir Thomas Malory:
Norman Shelley
Sir Tristram de Liones, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall:
Ronald Forfar
Queen Morgan le Fay, sister to King Arthur.:
Betty Baskcomb
King Arthur:
Robert Eddison
Sir Launcelot du Lake, of Benwick in France:
Robert Hardy
A Hermit:
Felix Felton
Elaine, daughter of King Pelles:
Penelope Lee
Pelles King of a foreign country:
Trevor Martin
Dame Brisen, an Enchantress:
Gladys Spencer
A Maiden that bears the Sangrail:
Denise Bryer

Octet for wind instruments DOUGLAS WHITTAKER (flute) COLIN BRADBURY (clarinet)
GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (bassoon)
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (bassoon) IAN MACKINTOSH (trumpet) richard WALTON (trumpet)
ALFRED FLASZYNSKI (trombone) JOHN iveson (trombone) i Broadcast from the Queen Elizabeth Hallon 3 March 1967)

Contributors

Flute:
Douglas Whittaker
Bassoon:
Geoffrey Gambold
Unknown:
Alfred Flaszynski
Unknown:
Elizabeth Hallon

A play for radio by John Anthony West adapted from B. Traven's novel with Kerry Francis as Gales, Clive Swift as Stanislav
Inscription over the crew's quarters of the death ship:
He who enters here will no longer have existence;
His name and soul have vanished
And are gone for ever.
Of him there is not left a breath
In all the vast world.

Contributors

Writer:
John Anthony West
From the novel by:
B. Traven
Music played by:
Alfie Kahn
Producer:
John Tydeman
Gales:
Kerry Francis
Stanislav:
Clive Swift
The Captain of the Yorikke:
Rolf Lefebvre
Spainy:
Carlos Douglas
Mr Dils:
Sean Barrett
First Policeman:
Brian Hewlett
Second Policeman:
Clifford Norgate
Police Chief:
Nigel Lambert
Other parts:
Sean Arnold
Other parts:
Ronald Forfar
Other parts:
Leslie Heritage
Other parts:
Trevor Martin
Other parts:
John Rye
Other parts:
Patrick Tull
Other parts:
David Valla
Other parts:
Margot Boyd
Other parts:
Eva Stuart

Turgcnev and the Dilemma of the Liberal Intellectual
The Romanes Lecture for 1970, delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on 12 Nov.
Formerly Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in the University of Oxford and now President of Wolfson College, Sir Isaiah Berlin's works include The Hedgehog and the Fox, Historical Inevitability, and a translation of Turgenev's First Love,

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