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Schubert Overture in c (In the Italian style)
MENUHIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
7.15* Hummel Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 85 MARTIN GALLING
STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALEXANDER PAULMULLER
7.42* Mendelssohn Symphony No 12, in G minor, for string orchestra: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER

Contributors

Conducted By:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conducted By:
Alexander Paulmuller
Directed By:
Neville Marriner

Morning Concert: part 2
8.5 Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 1
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
8.15* Borodin Symphony No 1 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALCEO GALLIERA
8.47* Dupare Symphonic Poem: Lénore: NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
George Szell
Conducted By:
Alceo Galliera
Conducted By:
Antonio de Almeida

Rossini
Excerpts from Guillaume Tell ANDRES GUIOT (soprano) NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor)
ERNEST BLANC (baritone) PARIS OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by ALAIN LOMBARD gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Guillaume Tell
Soprano:
Andres Guiot
Tenor:
Nicolai Gedda
Baritone:
Ernest Blanc
Conducted By:
Alain Lombard

Gibbons 0 clap your hands
Tomkins When David heard that Absalom was slain
Weelkes Gloria in excelsis
Dowland Lachrimae antiquae pavan: Lord Willobies welcome home; Tarletones riserrectione
Bennet All creatures now are merry-minded
Wilbye Draw on, sweet night: Flora gave me fairest flowers
Dowland The Battle Galliard; Melancholy Galliard; My Lady Rich's Galliard
Moeran Songs of Springtime EXON SINGERS conductor CHRISTOPHER TEUTEN ROBERT SPENCER (lute) from the Chapter House, Exeter Cathedral

Contributors

Unknown:
Weelkes Gloria
Conductor:
Christopher Teuten
Conductor:
Robert Spencer

by ROBERT MUNNS from St Giles, Cripplegate, London
Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor (s 582)
11.45* Bryan Kelly Prelude and Fugue (first broadcast performance)
Hindemith Sonata No 1 (1937)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Munns
Unknown:
Bach Passacaglia
Unknown:
Bryan Kelly

1.5 The Concert Interval
IVOR NEWTON talks to JOHN AMIS about Kirsten Flagstad and other artists he has worked with during his long career,
1.20 Midday Prom: part 2
John McCabe Symphony No 1 (Elegy)
1.42* Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso
(Before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Manchester)

Contributors

Talks:
Ivor Newton
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Kirsten Flagstad
Unknown:
John McCabe

Part 1 Beethoven
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II
MARTINA ARROYO (Soprano) JUSTINO DIAZ (bass) CAMERATA SINGERS
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS

Contributors

Soprano:
Martina Arroyo
Bass:
Justino Diaz
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers

for Violin and Viola
Recorded in July 1970 at the Painters' and Stainers' Hall and Guildhall, London, by permission of the Corporation of London
JOHN AMIS commentates and interviews members of the jury: TOSHIYA ETO, SIR WILLIAM GLOCK, SZYMON GOLDBERG, YFRAH NEAMAN, WILLIAM PRIMROSE, JOSEPH SZICETI.
Other voices you can hear are YEHUDI MENUHIN, CARL FLESCH JR and EDWARD DOWNES
Musical excerpts are played by the six finalists: STOIKA MILANOVA, LUIGI BIANCHI, CSABA ERDELYI, TAKAYOSHI WANAMI, ROSWITHA RANDACHER and MARIANA SIRBU

6.5-6.30 VHF
Open University

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Sir William Clock
Unknown:
Szymon Goldberg
Unknown:
Yfrah Neaman
Unknown:
William Primrose
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin
Unknown:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Luigi Bianchi
Unknown:
Csaba Erdelyi
Unknown:
Mariana Sirbu

6-30 Amici, buona seral La Befana
The last of four supplementary Holiday programmes, written and presented by HUGH SHANK-LAND and ERNESTO MUSSI , With SILVIA GAVUZZO , ALDO BEVACQUA Producer ANN CALDWELL Monday's broadcast)
(For publication and records see page 60)
7.0 New series
"Pera in the Making
Six programmes in which WILLIAM MURPHY examines the complex art of opera and the way artists collaborate to present it.
1: The Power of Opera
All manner of composers have been drawn to the medium of opera, which - despite its artificial conventions - can at its best make a more profound emotional appeal than any other single art.
Producer DAVID EPPS

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh Shank-Land
Unknown:
Ernesto Mussi
Unknown:
Silvia Gavuzzo
Unknown:
Aldo Bevacqua
Producer:
Ann Caldwell
Unknown:
William Murphy
Producer:
David Epps

all of whose symphonies will be broadcast in the next few months
Symphony No 6, in a minor BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader, ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ
'Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida vale, London)
(Symphony No 8: tomorrow morning)

Contributors

Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

The poetry ofSir Walter Ralegh , one of the ' Silver Poets' of the 16th century
Written and introduced by ROBERT NYE
Readers PAUL KERMACK
PETE MORGAN , BRYDEN MURDOCH Producer STEWART CONN

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Walter Ralegh
Introduced By:
Robert Nye
Introduced By:
Readers Paul KermacK
Introduced By:
Pete Morgan
Introduced By:
Bryden Murdoch
Producer:
Stewart Conn

First of four programmes
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) David Willison (piano) Part 1
Schubert Goethe settings
Gesange des Harfners: Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt, An die Turen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brod
An den Mond; Ganymed
Wolf Morike settings: In der Fruhe; Denk' es, o Seele!; Auf einer Wanderung; Zur warnung: Der Tambour; Storchenbotschaft

Contributors

Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon
Piano:
David Willison

by HUGH SYKES DAVIES
Popular poems of the cumulative kind such as ' The House that Jack Built,' though made up of different ingredients, exist in many societies, one was printed in Hebrew in 16thcentury Venice - but all are clearly of much more ancient origins....
Hugh Sykes Davies , writer, critic and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, thinks he has found in this poetic pattern the key to a mystery that has puzzled some prehistoric archaeologists.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Sykes Davies
Unknown:
Hugh Sykes Davies

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