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Hoist St Paul 's Suite
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by IMOGEN HOLST
7.18* Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The peacock
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG SOLTI
7.41* Copland El Salon Mexico NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.52* Grainger My Robin is to the greenwood gone MEMBERS OF THE
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
St Paul
Conducted By:
Imogen Holst
Conducted By:
Georg Solti
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten

Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Gretel SADLER 'S WELLS ORCHESTRA conducted by MARIO BERNARDI
8.14* Strauss Oboe Concerto HEINZ HOLLIGER
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EDO DE WAART
8.41* Bernstein Ballet: Facsimile: NEW YORK
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Gretel Sadler
Conducted By:
Mario Bernardi
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein

Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano
MEMBERS OF THE MELOS ENSEMBLE (gramophone record)
Bloch Suite for viola and piano
CECIL ARONOWITZ , CELIA ARIELI
Skalkottas Variations on a Greek folk tune, for piano trio
LONDON CZECH TRIO

Contributors

Unknown:
Bloch Suite
Piano:
Cecil Aronowitz

by JOHN ROSE
Dupré In dulci jubilo
Franck Fantasia in A major
Barber Wondrous Love: Variations on a shape-note hymn
Reger Fantasia on the chorale Ein' feste Burg, Op 27
(From a public recital in Glasgow Cathedral, 22 July 1971)

Contributors

Unknown:
Franck Fantasia
Unknown:
Reger Fantasia

ALFRED BRENDEL talks about his career to JOHN AMIS
1.20 Midday Prom: part 2
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
1.32* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Death and Transfiguration
(Before an invited audience in Salford University, by courtesy of the Vice-chancellor)

Contributors

Talks:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
John Amis

Part 2
Verdi Requiem
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano)
MARILYN HORNE (mezzo-soprano) LUCIANO PAVAROTTI (tenor) MARTTI TALVELA (bass)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Marilyn Horne
Tenor:
Luciano Pavarotti
Bass:
Martti Talvela
Conducted By:
Georg Solti

6.30 Amici, buona serai
7.0 Musical Interpretation 3: The Clues
IAN BENT examines the clues to interpretation in examples of music from the 12th to the 20th centuries whose notation presents performers nowadays with problems. He stresses the ' distinction between notation which is imprecise in order to give the performer a good deal of licence in his interpretation, and notation whose enigmatic quality can be deciphered by the knowledge of rules and conventions of its time.'
Producer DAVID EPPS

Contributors

Producer:
David Epps

STEPHEN OLIVER is 21 and has already written nine operas, five of which have been staged. When his latest, The Duchess of Malfi, was produced by the Oxford University Opera Club, it was enthusiastically received by the critics of several national newspapers.
He talks about his past, present and future compositions to ANDREW PORTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Oliver
Unknown:
Andrew Porter

An overture by Malcolm Arnold on the theme of the great working-class demonstrations of 1819. It was written to celebrate the centenary of the Trades Union Congress HALLE ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold
Conducted By:
Maurice Handford

by Bertolt Brecht
Translated from the German by Richard Beckley
with Barry Foster and Mary Wimbush
[and] Kate Binchy, John Hollis, Elizabeth Proud

This is a second broadcast of Brecht's play which was given its first professional English production last year to mark the centenary of the Commune.

(Mary Wimbush is in 'Butley' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Bertolt Brecht
Translated by:
Richard Beckley
Songs by:
Hanns Eisler
Incidental music composed and conducted by:
Hans Heimler
Incidental music played by:
Judith Pearce
Incidental music played by:
Bram Gay
Incidental music played by:
Terry Emery
Incidental music played by:
Henry Krein
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Jean Cabet:
Barry Foster
Madame Cabet:
Mary Wimbush
Genevieve:
Kate Binchy
Papa:
John Hollis
Babette:
Elizabeth Proud
Philippe:
Anthony Jackson
Coco/Chairman:
Martin Friend
Francois:
Geoffrey Beevers
Narrator:
Stephen Thorne
The portly gentleman/Delescluze:
Ronald Herdman
Jules Favre/Tax Collector:
Rolf Lefebvre
Langevin:
Haydn Jones
Thiers:
David March
Varlin:
John Rye
Woman Delegate:
Sheila Grant
Waiter/Officer:
Brian Hewlett
Dying Woman:
Diana Bishop
Aristocratic Lady:
Eva Stuart
Mayor/Ranvier:
Edward Kelsey
De Ploeuc:
William Fox
Beslay:
James Thomason
Rigault:
Malcolm Terris
Guy:
Robin Browne
Women and children:
Jean England
Woman:
Stephanie Turner

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