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Faurg Suite: Masques et bergamasques: THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by SERGE BAUDO
7.22* Salnt-Saens Symphony No 3: ANITA PRIEST (organ) LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Serge Baudo
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano), SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
Karol Kurpinskl , arr Fltelberg Overture: Kalmora, Op 14 (1820) (first broadcast performance in this country)
Bartok Piano Concerto No 1
Stravinsky Ballet: Petrushka (1947 version)
(Recording made available by South-West German Radio)

Contributors

Piano:
Maurizio Pollini
Conducted By:
Witold Rowicki
Conducted By:
Karol Kurpinskl

A recital relayed direct from the Freemasons' Hall Edinburgh
Karl and Helen Schnabel (piano duet) Part 1
Mozart Andante and Variations in G major (K 501)
11.10* Schubert Sonata In 1 flat major (D 617)
11.29* Artur Schnabel Piece In seven movements
(played by Helen Schnabel )
11.45* Talk: Denis Matthews on piano duets
12.0* EIF Recital: part 2
Weber Tema varlata; Marcla; Rondo scherzando
12.16* Mendelssohn Andante tranquillo

Contributors

Unknown:
Hall Edinburgh
Piano:
Helen Schnabel
Unknown:
Artur Schnabel
Played By:
Helen Schnabel
Unknown:
Denis Matthews

Music by Purcell
A version for concert performance devised by PETER PEARS , with music edited by BENJAMIN BRITTEN and IMOGEN HOLST (gramophone records)
JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) MARY WELLS (soprano)
NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
ALFREDA HODGSON (mezzo-sop) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) PETER PEARS (tenor)
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bass) AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Part 1: Oberon's Birthday Part 2: Night and Silence Part 3: The Sweet Passion Part 4: Epithalamium

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Pears
Edited By:
Benjamin Britten
Edited By:
Imogen Holst
Soprano:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Soprano:
Norma Burrowes
Soprano:
Alfreda Hodgson
Bass:
Owen Brannigan
Bass:
John Shirley-Quirk
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten

GEORGES PLUDERMACHER (piano) ENGLISH BACH FESTIVAL CHORUS MUSIQUE VIVANTE conducted by MICHEL TABACHNIX Iannis Xenakis
Eonta Linaia (first performance)
Oresteia Suite (first performance in this country)
Introduced by THE COMPOSER
(A concert given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 26 April as part of the English Bach Festival)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michel Tabachnix
Conducted By:
Iannis Xenakis
Conducted By:
Eonta Linaia
Unknown:
Elizabeth Hall

6.30 English In Action
5: Language and Situation
ANDREW WILKINSON , Reader In Education in English, University of Birmingham, explains that we all have at our disposal a variety of Englishes and the variety we choose on any occasion depends on the company and place we are In and what we are talking about,
7.0 The True Style
4: Neo-Classicism in France
The paintings, the furniture s and the music of this mid-18ths century revolution in taste and L ideas are discussed by ROBERT ROSENBLUM , Professor of Art i History at New York: FRANCIS WATSON , Director of the Wallace . Collection; and JOHN WARRACK , music critic and writer.

Contributors

Reader:
Andrew Wilkinson
Unknown:
Robert Rosenblum
Unknown:
Francis Watson
Unknown:
John Warrack

direct from the Royal Albert Hall London
Christopher Hirons (violin) Barry Wilde (violin) David Haslam (flute) Graham Mayger (flute) Helen Powell (oboe)
John Wilbraham (trumpet) Northern Sinfonia, leader Barry Wilde, directed from the harpsichord by George Malcolm

No 1, In F major; No 3, In G major
No 5, In D major, for Flute, violin, harpsichord and strings

(This Week's Proms: page 12)

Contributors

Violinist:
Christopher Hirons
Violinist/Orchestra Leader:
Barry Wilde
Flautist:
David Haslam
Flautist:
Graham Mayger
Oboist:
Helen Powell
Trumpeter:
John Wilbraham
Musicians:
Northern Sinfonia
Harpsichordist/Music Director:
George Malcolm

by Bill Morrison
with Siân Phillips, Nigel Stock, and Malcolm Terris
'My week? What week? Which week would you like? I have always a tale to tell, of this committee, or that accident ... the breaking of a cup ... or the succumbing to a stranger ... no word of that in my week ... until now ...'

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Morrison
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Lady Margaret Lane:
Siân Phillips
Sir Tom Lane:
Nigel Stock
Malcolm Jones:
Malcolm Terris
Deirdre Wells:
Helen Worth
Charity Dunne:
Sandra Clark

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