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Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra with Arthur GRUMIAUX (violin)
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
8.11* Michael Haydn Violin Concerto in A conducted by EDO DE WAART
8.31* Mendelssohn Scherzo; Fairies' March; Nocturne (A Midsummer Night's Dream) conducted by BERNARD RAITINK
8.44* Tchaikovsky Italian Caprice conducted by BERNARD HAITINK gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Arthur Grumiaux
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Violin:
Michael Haydn
Conducted By:
Edo De Waart
Conducted By:
Bernard Raitink
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has influenced many later works, including Messiaen's masterpiece, the Turangalila Symphony. The songs which begin the programme were themselves studies for Tristan. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
9.29* Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
9.47* Chausson Chanson perpetuelle, Op 37
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) MELOS ENSEMBLE
9.57' Messiaen Turangalila Symphony
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Mezzo-Soprano:
Christa Ludwig
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer
Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa

A personal choice of records presented by Barrie Iliffe including at 2.0* BARBIROLLI conducting Elgar's Overture: Froissart; at 2.18* The weeping babe by Tippett, sung by the JOHN ALLDIS SINGERS; at
2.26* Serenades by Peter Warlock, Vaughan Williams. and Benjamin Britten ; and at 3.16* 'the first symphonies of William Boyce and William Walton

Contributors

Presented By:
Barrie Iliffe
Singers:
John Alldis
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams.
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
William Boyce
Unknown:
William Walton

Nigel Perrin (alto) Tim Brown (alto)
Robin Doveton (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) David van Asch (bass)
Sacred music and madrigals by Bateson. Byrd , Kirbye, Morley, and Tallis; folk song arrangements and spirituals, and light music in close harmony.
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in- St John 's, Smith Square. London, on 3 May)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Perrin
Unknown:
Tim Brown
Tenor:
Robin Doveton
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Bass:
David van Asch
Unknown:
Bateson. Byrd
Unknown:
St John

(piano)
Scarlatti Sonatas: D minor (L 422); B minor (L 449); G major (L 487); c sharp minor (L 256); A major (L 395)
Beethoven Sonata in E minor Op 90
Scriabin Sonata No 4, in F sharp major, Op 30
Prokofiev Sonata No 3, in A minor, Op 28; Visions fugitives (Op 22) Nos 1, 3. 5, 11, 10, 17

An investigation in seven programmes into the developing relationship between art and its publics.
5: New Publics
A critical enquiry by FRANK KERMODE. Professor of Modern English Literature at London University with contributions from
THE HON MICHAEL ASTOR
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH JOE BOYD , SUE
BRADEN JOHN CALDER , MICHAEL KUSTOW
This programme explores the role of state-supported and private entrepreneurs in promoting new forms of expression.
Produced by RICHARD KEEN (The Composer and his Public: Wednesday. 8.55 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Kermode.
Unknown:
Michael Astor
Unknown:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Joe Boyd
Unknown:
Braden John Calder
Unknown:
Michael Kustow
Produced By:
Richard Keen

Day of Peace
Opera in one act
Libretto by JOSEF GREGOR. Music by RICHARD STRAUSS (sung in German)
First performance in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Soldiers of the garrison and of the besieging army. towns-people
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
ROYAL MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHOIR chorus-master DR JOHN R. WRAY BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Repetiteur ROGER VIGNOLES Produced by ERNEST WARBURTON Time: 24 October 1648
Place: The citadel of a beleaguered town during the Thirty Years War
(Elizabeth Bainbridge, John Dobson. and Dennis Wicks broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Gwynne Howell by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co)

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Gregor.
Music By:
Richard Strauss
Chorus-Master:
Stephen Wilkinson
Chorus-Master:
Dr John R. Wray
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Repetiteur:
Roger Vignoles
Produced By:
Ernest Warburton
Unknown:
John Dobson.
Unknown:
Dennis Wicks
Unknown:
Gwynne Howell

by Steven Rose. Professor of Biology at the Open University, who has a particular interest in the political and social implications of scientific work.
(12 June: the first of four fortnightly talks by Professor Richard Wollheim )

Contributors

Unknown:
Steven Rose.
Unknown:
Richard Wollheim

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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