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Boston Symphony Orchestra with ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin) Beethoven Overture: Fidelio conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
8.13* Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
8.47* Ravel Poeme chorgographique: La valse conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Conducted By:
Charles Munch
Conducted By:
Erich Leinsdorf
Conducted By:
Charles Munch

Four baroque works, all with notable chaeonnes
Purcell Sonata No 6, in G minor (Set of 10) GOLBSBROUGH ENSEMBLE-
8.16* Carissimi Oratorio:
Jephtha ELISABETH SPEISER (soprano) BARBARA LANGE (soprano)
DEREK MCCULLOCH (counter-tenor) KURT HUBER (tenor)
HELMUTH GEIGER (bass) SPANDAUER KANTOREI
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by HELMUTH RILLING (gramophone record)
9.44* Bach Partita No 2, in D minor: HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) (gramophone record)
10.13* Purcell Dido and Aeneas
HAMBURG MONTEVERDI CHOIR
NORTH GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS (gramophone record)

Contributors

Soprano:
Jephtha Elisabeth Speiser
Soprano:
Barbara Lange
Soprano:
Derek McCulloch
Tenor:
Kurt Huber
Bass:
Helmuth Geiger
Conducted By:
Helmuth Rilling
Violin:
Henryk Szeryng
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Dido:
Tatiana Troyanos
Belinda:
Sheila Armstrong
Aeneas:
Barry McDaniel (bar)
The Sorceress:
Patricia Johnson

A personal choice of records presented by Barrie Iliffe including at 2.10. Schumann's Manfred Overture; at 2.23* GEZA ANDA playing the Piano Concerto No 18, in B flat (k 456) by Mozart: at 2.59* Strauss's Oboe Concerto with HANS-WERNER WATZIG as soloist; at
3.28* part songs by Elgar; and at 3.35* ANTONY COLLINS conducting Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini

Contributors

Presented By:
Barrie Iliffe
Unknown:
Werner Watzig

JOHN AMIS presents an introduction to
Owen Winarave by BENJAMIN BRITTEN which includes interviews with and co-directors, as well as character sketches of the cast by the cast.
Produced by IAN COTTERELL
(The gramophone recording of Owen Wingrave can be heard on Radio 3 tomorrow at 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Owen Winarave
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Produced By:
Ian Cotterell
Unknown:
Owen Wingrave

JANE MANNING (soprano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by ERNST KRENEK
From Three make Seven (first performance in this country) Three Fragments from Karl v Perspectives, for orchestra
(first performance in this country)
(Given before an invited audience in Maida Vale, Studio 1, London, in October 1970)

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conducted By:
Ernst Krenek

An opera in three acts by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAt Music by RICHARD STRAUSS (sung in English)
A Scottish Opera production from the King's Theatre, Glasgow
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ARTHUR OLDHAM SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader SAM BOR conductor ALEXANDER GIBSON Produced by ANTHONY BESCH
The action takes place In Vienna in the 18th century during the reign of Maria Theresa. Act 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthat
Music By:
Richard Strauss
Chorus-Master:
Arthur Oldham
Leader:
Sam Bor
Conductor:
Alexander Gibson
Produced By:
Anthony Besch
Octavian, a young nobleman:
Janet Baker (mezzo-Soprano)
Feldmarschallin Furstin Werdenberg:
Helga Dernesch (sop)
Majordomd to the Feldmarschallin:
John Robertson (tenor)
Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau:
Noel Mangin (bass)
Three noble orphans:
Patricia Hay (soprano)
Three noble orphans:
Moyra Paterson (mezzo-Sop)
Three noble orphans:
Claire Livingstone (mezzo-Sop)
A milliner:
Ann Baird (soprano)
An animal dealer:
Alexander Morrison (tenor)
Valzacchi, an intriguer:
Nigel Douglas (tenor)
An Italian singer:
Derek Blackwell (tenor)
A notary:
John Graham (bas.S-Baritone)
Annina, partner to Valzacchi:
Joan Davies (contralto)
Four footmen to the Feldmarschallin:
Ian Adam (tenor)
Four footmen to the Feldmarschallin:
Anton Elder (tenor)
Four footmen to the Feldmarschallin:
Ken Thomson (bass)
Four footmen to the Feldmarschallin:
Jack Leishman (bass)
Herr von Faninal, a rich merchant, newly ennobled:
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Mistress Marianne Leitmetzer in. duenna.:
Judith Pierce (sop)
Sophie, Faninal's daughter:
Elizabeth Harwood (soprano)
Majordomo to Faninal:
Clifford Hughes (tenor)
A landlord:
Alexander Morrison
Four waiters:
Michael Lanchbery (tenor)
Four waiters:
David Ellis (bass)
Four waiters:
John Austin (bass)
Four waiters:
Iwan Guy (bass)
A Police Inspector:
William McCue (bass)

by MICHAEL GRANT
Herod the Great, King of Judea in the time of Jesus Christ, is associated in most people's minds with the massacre of the Innocents. Michael Grant, author of several books on the Romans and now engaged in a study of Herod, suggests that his true record as a Near Eastern ruler under Roman overiordship needs to be reassessed,

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Grant

by RICHARD HARRIS of The Times
Was the Taiping Rebellion of 1850-64 Righteous or Unrighteous? The Confucian tradition allows for Righteous Rebellion in certain circumstances.
Mr Harris considers The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers by S. Y. Teng , and makes some comparisons with the Communist victory of 1949.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Harris
Unknown:
Mr Harris
Unknown:
S. Y. Teng

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