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Master and Pupil
Glinka Overture: A Life for the Tsar
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.16* Balakirev Reminiscences of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar
EARL WILD (piano)
7.28* Mussorgsky A night on the Bare Mountain LONDONPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES
7.42* Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Unknown:
Bare Mountain
Conducted By:
David Lloyd-Jones
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

Master and Pupil
Salnt-Saens Cello Concerto No 1, in A minor
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Faure Incidental Music: Caligula
MICHEL SENECHAL (tenor)
PARIS OPERA CHORUS
ORTF CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA
Pavanes by Faure and Ravel gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Tenor:
Michel Senechal
Conducted By:
Antonio de Almeida

A concert relayed direct from the Freemasons' Hall Edinburgh
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SOLOISTS
Karlheinz Zoeller (flute) Lothar Koch (oboe)
Michel Schwalbe (violin)
Siegbert Ueberschaer (viola) Wolfgang Boettcher (cello) Part 1
Britten Phantasy Quartet, Op 2, for oboe and string trio
11.15* Bernd Alois Zimmer mann Tempus loquendi, for flute (first performance in this country)
11.28* Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major (K 370)
11.45* The Oboe and Chamber Music
In view of this concert's first part JANET CRAXTON , the distinguished oboist, examines the nature and history of the genre.
12.0* EIF Concert: part 2
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Mozart Flute Quartet in D major (K 285)

Contributors

Flute:
Karlheinz Zoeller
Oboe:
Lothar Koch
Violin:
Michel Schwalbe
Viola:
Siegbert Ueberschaer
Cello:
Wolfgang Boettcher
Unknown:
Bernd Alois Zimmer
Unknown:
Janet Craxton

Overture: Carnival
Violin Concerto in A minor Symphony No 6, in D
WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (violin) CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN
(Recording from the Prague International Spring Festival made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio)

Contributors

Violin:
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Conducted By:
Vaclav Neumann

An opera in one act with a prologue
Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL (sung in German)
(gramophone records)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINDORF The Prologue: A hall in the mansion of a Viennese nobleman
3.50* Sensuality on Naxos ALAN JEFFERSON talks about its implications in the Strauss Hofmannsthal opera.
4.10* Ariadne auf Naxos
The Opera: A stage set erected in the hall, representing the outside of a cave on Naxos

Contributors

Music By:
Richard Strauss
Unknown:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Conducted By:
Erich Leindorf
Talks:
Naxos Alan Jefferson

6.30 Games and Simulations 9: Role Play and Drama
An analysis of DOROTHY HEATH-COTE'S work in educational drama
(Book 45p: see page 70)
7.0 The Asian Phoenix
Presented by GEOFFREY BOWNAS 7: Domestic Politics
Japanese democracy is very different from ours. What are the main political parties? What are the big political issues?
(Publication £1.60: see page 70)

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Bownas

direct from the Royal Albert Hall London
Part 1
James Bowman (counter-tenor) Martyn Hill (tenor)
Geoffrey Shaw (baritone)
Early Music Consort of London, director David Munrow

Music for Maximilian 1, Holy Roman Emperor

8.10* The Emperor Maximilian and Durer
John Rowlands, assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, talks about the years Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) spent as court painter to the Emperor Maximilian, and the prints and drawings he produced under the Emperor's patronage.

8.25* Proms 72: part 2
Elizabeth Lane (soprano) Prudence Lloyd (soprano) John Elwes (tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor) John Noble (baritone) Roger Stalman (bass)
Martindale Sidwell Choir
John Morehen (organ continuo) Barbara Hill (organ continuo) London Bach Orchestra
leader Jurgen Hess, conductor Martindale Sidwell

Tallis O Lord, give thy holy spirit; O sacrum convivium
Schutz Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt; Saul, was verfolgst du mich?; Psalm 150: Lobet den Herren
Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor (BWV 544)
Jane Parker-Smith (Organ)

Contributors

Counter-tenor:
James Bowman
Tenor:
Martyn Hill
Bariton:
Geoffrey Shaw
Musicians:
Early Music Consort of London
Music Director:
David Munrow
Presenter (The Emperor Maximilian and Durer):
John Rowlands
Soprano:
Elizabeth Lane
Soprano:
Prudence Lloyd
Tenor:
John Elwes
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Baritone:
John Noble
Bass:
Roger Stalman
Singers:
Martindale Sidwell Choir
Organist:
John Morehen
Organist:
Barbara Hill
Musicians:
London Bach Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Jurgen Hess
Conductor:
Martindale Sidwell

A discussion and five talks.
A discussion about the vast Council of Europe Exhibition that has just opened at the Royal Academy and other places in and around London. Speakers include Anita Brookner, art historian, who has made a special study of the work of the French painter Jacques Louis David; Keith Roberts, critic and Assistant Editor of the Burlington Magazine and Mark Girouard, architectural historian.
(9 September: Diderot, Witness and Agent of Neo-Classicism, by Jean Seznec )
(15 Sept: the series The True Style begins again, Study on 3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacques Louis David
Unknown:
Keith Roberts
Unknown:
Burlington Maga
Unknown:
Mark Girouard
Unknown:
Jean Seznec

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall London
BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Eli Coren, conducted by Gilbert Amy, Michel Tabachnik, Richard Dufallo, Lukas Vis

Stockhausen Carre to be performed twice (First performance in this country)

Contributors

Singers:
BBC Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Eli Coren
Conductor:
Gilbert Amy
Conductor:
Michel Tabachnik
Conductor:
Richard Dufallo
Conductor:
Lukas Vis

Today is the anniversary of the battle which Napoleon considered his fiercest.
CHRISTOPHER DUFFY , who lectures in military history at Sandhurst. helped to re-stage it for the BBCtv War ond Peace. He reflects on the battle and Tolstoy's view of it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Duffy

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