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Ballet Music
Meyerbeer. arr Lambert Suite: Les Patineurs PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
8.19*Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS conducted by LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
8.37* Dmitri Shostakovich Dances from The Bolt
BOLSHOI THEATRE ORCHESTRA 7.HUKOVSKY MILITARY AIR
ACADEMY BAND, conducted by MAjtIM SHOSTAKOVICH

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Ravel Daphnis
Conducted By:
Leopold Stokowski
Conducted By:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Conducted By:
Majtim Shostakovich

A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer
SHIRLEY VERRETT (mezzo-soprano) LOREN DRISCOLL (tenor) JOHN HORTON (speaker)
TORONTO FESTIVAL SINGERS CBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
11.18*Octet
JAMES PELLF. RITE (flute)
DAVID OPPENHEIM (clarinet) LOREN GLl'CKMAN (bassoon) ARTHUR WEISBURG (bassoon) ROBERT HAGEL (trumpet) THEODORE WEIS 'trumptt) KEITH BROWN (trombane)
RICHARDHIXON (trombone)
11.34* Cantata on old English texts
ADRIENNE ALBERTmezzo-soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) GREGG SMITH SINGERS
COLUMBIA CHAMBER f.NSEMBLr gramophone records

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Shirley Verrett
Tenor:
Loren Driscoll
Tenor:
John Horton
Unknown:
James Pellf.
Unknown:
Keith Brown
Singers:
Gregg Smith

A study of the music composed in the 12 years following the First World War with particular reference to neo-classicism and the music of commitment. Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE Sutie Parade
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS AURIACOMBE Ernst Krenek Jonny spielt auf Opera in two parts (abridged version)
Words and music by ERNST KRENEK
(sung in German)
VIENNA ACADEMY CHAMBER CHOIR VIENNA VOLKSOPER ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINRICH HOLLREISER
Milhaud La création du monde BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH gramophone records

Contributors

Introduced By:
Elaine Padmore
Conducted By:
Louis Auriacombe
Music By:
Ernst Krenek
Conducted By:
Heinrich Hollreiser
Conducted By:
Charles Munch

by GEORG BUCHNER newly translated from the German by VICTOR PRICE and
Georg Buchner 's unfinished play Woyzeck was one of the first attempts to write a tragedy about a man who is not a hero but a victim of society.
Other parts played by OLWEN GRIFFITHS , PATRICK TULL Music composed and conducted by MICHAEL DRESS Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
(John Gabriel is in ' Abelard and Heloise ' at Wyndham's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Georg Buchner
Unknown:
Georg Buchner
Played By:
Olwen Griffiths
Played By:
Patrick Tull
Conducted By:
Michael Dress
Producer:
Martin Esslin
Unknown:
John Gabriel
with Woyzeck:
John Hurt
Marie:
Sheila Allen
Narrator:
John Rye
Captain:
William Fox
Andres:
David Valla
Margret:
Sheila Grant
Old Man:
Martin Friend
Fairground Barker:
Lewis Stringer
Drum Major:
Michael Kilgarriff
Doctor:
John Gabriel
First Apprentice:
Nigel Anthony
Second Apprentice:
Antony Higginson
Idiot:
Brian Hewlett
Grandmother:
Betty Hardy
Kate:
Jane Knowles

MICHAEL MARSTON , planner from San Francisco, in conversation with SHEAN MCCONNELL from the Polytechnic of the South Bank. Mr Marston describes some of the changes in the political, economic and planning scene that have affected urban America since his last visit to Britain three years ago.
(This Island Now: Tuesday, R4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Marston
Unknown:
Shean McConnell
Unknown:
Mr Marston

MORAG NOBLE (soprano)
GLORIA JENNINGS (mezzo-soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
GWYNN HOWELL (bass-baritone) DAVID THOMAS (bass) SCUOLA DI CHIESA Continuo:
RALPH DOWNES (organ)
.TANE RYAN (viola da gamba) FRANCIS BAINES (double-bass) LONDON BACH ORCHESTRA leader ANDREW MCGEE conducted by JOHN HOBAN Part 1
Rigatti Magnificat
Carissimi Historia Divitis

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Gloria Jennings
Tenor:
John Elwes
Bass-Baritone:
Gwynn Howell
Bass:
Scuola Di Chiesa
Unknown:
Ralph Downes
Double-Bass:
Francis Baines
Leader:
Andrew McGee
Conducted By:
John Hoban

ANDREW MARTINDALE Of the University of East Anglia talks about the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) and his work for the Gonzaga family at Mantua. He speaks of Mantegna's career as a courtier, his other paintings, and his interest in archaeology.

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Martindale
Unknown:
Andrea Mantegna

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