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THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Music by Schubert, Smetana. Liszt, Johann Strauss , Bizet and Falla gramophone records
(The Philadelphians: Thursday.
8.0 pm, Radio 4)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Unknown:
Johann Strauss

Beethoven Quartet in G major, Op 18 No 2
GABRIEL1 STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)
9.28* Mahler Symphony No 3 NORMA PROCTER (contralto) WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR conductor
JOHN ALLDIS WANDSWORTH SCHOOL BOYS' CHOIR director of music RUSSELL BURGESS LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK
(A public concert given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 21 November 1971)

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Violin:
Brendan O'Reilly
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Conductor:
John Alldis Wandsworth
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

Margaret Kitchin (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Hugh Bradley conductor Christopher Seaman
Part 1
Weber: Overture - Der Freischutz
12.26* Britten: Piano Concerto

Contributors

Piano:
Margaret Kitchin
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Leader:
Hugh Bradley
Conductor:
Christopher Seaman

A personal choice of records presented by Philip Jones including at 1.57* Holst's Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool; at
2.8* a sequence of music by Tippett including the Sonata for four horns, and the song The Weeping Babe; at 2.38* LEO BLECH conducting Schubert's Symphony No 5 (1930 mono recording); at 3.21* MAURICE ANDRÉ playing Jolivet's Trumpet Concerto No 2; at 3.39* ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI playing a group of Debussy pieces; and at 3.50* Berlioz's Overture: Le carnaval romain, conducted by VICTOR DE SABATA

Contributors

Presented By:
Philip Jones
Unknown:
Leo Blech

Malcolm Williamson Variations for cello and piano
Dorothy Cow Piece for violin and horn (first performance)
Elisabeth Lutyens Horai , for violin, horn and piano
Messiaen Louange a l'immortalité de Jésus (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello) Alan Civil (horn)
David Parkhouse (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Williamson
Unknown:
Elisabeth Lutyens Horai
Piano:
Messiaen Louange
Piano:
David Parkhouse

Music-drama in one act from the play by OSCAR WILDE Libretto by HEDWIG LACHMANN Music by Richard Strauss (sung in German)
Cast in order of singing:
BAVARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by FERDINAND LEITNER The action takes place on a terrace of Herod's palace.
(Recording from the 1971 Munich Opera Festival made available by Bavarian Radio)

Contributors

Play By:
Oscar Wilde
Unknown:
Hedwig Lachmann
Music By:
Richard Strauss
Conducted By:
Ferdinand Leitner

Music. Opera and Ballet
Introduced by JEREMY NOBLE
ANDREW PORTER. CLEMENT CRISP and ROY JESSON discuss the search for new audiences and new artists, with particular reference to the touring companies ' Ballet For All' and ' Opera For All ' and to the series of concerts put on from 10 - 14 January at the Purcell Room in London by the Park Lane Group, featuring young artists and 20th-century music Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy Noble
Introduced By:
Andrew Porter.
Producer:
Patricia Brent

Second in a weekly series of late-night musical entertainments
This week music by Prokofiev, Kurt Weill , Stravinsky, Poulenc and Ravel
DAVID WILDE (piano)
LOTTE LENYA with orchestra conducted by WILHELM BRUCKNER-RUGGEBERG DAVID OISTRAKB (violin) FRIDA BAUER (piano)
BENNY GOODMAN (clarinet) COLUMBIA JAZZ COMBO conducted by IGOR STRAVINSKY PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by ROGER DÉSORMIÈRE (gramophone records)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Piano:
Lotte Lenya
Conducted By:
Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg
Violin:
David Oistrakb
Piano:
Frida Bauer
Clarinet:
Benny Goodman
Conducted By:
Igor Stravinsky
Conducted By:
Roger Désormière

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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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