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A record request progamme Dvorak Overture: Carnival
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
9.15* Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ. CLUYTENS
9.22. Moszkowski Piano Concerto in E major MICHAEL PONTI
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by HANS RICHARD STRACKE

Contributors

Conducted By:
Witold Rowicki
Conducted By:
Hans Richard Stracke

Janacek's Katya Kabanova , by WILLIAM MANN
The Music of Charles Ives : by PETER DICKINSON
William Baines (1899-1922): by ERIC PARKIN
A Social History of Music: book review by ROBERT HENDERSON
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Katya Kabanova
Unknown:
William Mann
Unknown:
Charles Ives
Unknown:
Peter Dickinson
Unknown:
William Baines
Unknown:
Eric Parkin
Review By:
Robert Henderson
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage

Four Glorious Decades
The fifth in a series of programmes tracing the history of the orchestra from its beginnings to the present day
Conducted by Bruno Walter
Part 1 Mozart
Symphony No 39, in I flat major (K 543)
11.25* Alex Nifosl recalls his impressions of Bruno Walter
11.40* BBC SO: part 2
Brahms Symphony No 4, in E minor
(gramophone records)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Bruno Walter
Unknown:
Alex Nifosl
Unknown:
Bruno Walter

JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano)
Schubert Meeresstille: Auf dem See; Suleika I (Gliickliches Geheimnis)
Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Alte Liebe; Der Tod, das ist die kiihle Nacht; Von ewiger Liebe
Mahler Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen: Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn); Ich atmet' einen linden Duft; Liebst du um Schonheit; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Riickert Lieder)
(Czechoslovak Radio recording from the International Prague Spring Festival)

The Pilerim's Progress
Morality in a prologue and four acts Music by Vaughan Williams Libretto by the composer after JOHN BUNYAN
(gramophone records)
Vaughan Williams once said of The Pilgrim's Progress ' They don'like it, they won'like it and perhaps they never will like it, but it's the sort of opera I wanted to write, and there it is.'
Madam By-Ends
GLORIA JENNINGS
Three Shepherds:
TERENCE SHARPE, WYNFORD EVANS
ROBERT LLOYD
Voice of a Bird
SHEILA ARMSTRONG
Celestial Messenger JOHN ELWES Voices from Heaven:
DOREEN PRICE (soprano)
JEAN TEMPERLEY (mezzo-sop)
KENNETH WOOLAM (tenor)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Prologue; Acts 1 and 2 3.25* '... never a professing Christian '
HUGH OTTAWAY discusses some of the tensions and conflicts in Vaughan Williams's music.
3.40* The Pilgrim's Progress Acts 3 and 4: Epilogue

Contributors

Music By:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
John Bunyan
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

A trilogy of programmes devised by MICHAEL HALL , tracing and retracing the course of German music from its roots, not only in Bach but also in Scarlatti, to one of its most recent achievements. Part 1
Bach Partita No 4, in D major
5.58* Beethoven Sonata in s flat major, Op 31 No 3
STEPHEN BISHOP (piano) (mono)
(Part of a public concert from Neville's Cross College during the 1971 Durham Music Festival)
6.22* Brahms Quartet in A minor. Op 51 No 2
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
6.53* Webern Im Sommerwind
7.8* Schoenberg Die gluckliche Hand
REID BUNGER (baritone). AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by FRIEDRICH CERHA (Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hall
Baritone:
Reid Bunger
Conducted By:
Friedrich Cerha

by GUNTER GRASS
A play for radio from RALPH MANHEIM 'S English version of the novel and from the German of Grass's play, Davor
Adapted and produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Manheim
Produced By:
Christopher Holme
DocThe Dentist, known:
Nigel Anthony
Eberhard Starusch, known Old Hardy..:
Frank Duncan
Irmgard Seifert, known as The Archangel.:
Joan Matheson
Sixth Formers: Philipp Scherbaum, known as Flip.:
Anthony Smee
Veronica Lewand, known Ronnie.:
Elizabeth Dear

Dr Francis Crick. MRC Unit for Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and Dr James Watson , Harvard University, USA, Nobel Prizewinners in 1962, were reunited recently in Cambridge, ten years after they jointly unravelled the molecular structure of DNA.
PAUL VAUGHAN spoke to them about the directions they have taken since their discovery. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Francis Crick.
Unknown:
Dr James Watson
Unknown:
Paul Vaughan

Part 3
Webern Quartet, Op 28 ITALIAN STRING QUARTET (gramophone record)
10.14* Wolf Geistliche Lieder (Spanisches Liederbuch)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) DIETRICH FlSCHER-DIESKAU (bar) GERALD MOORE (piano) (gramophone record)
10.40* Mozart Quartet in c major (Dissonance) (k 465) AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
11.15* Scarlatti Sonatas: G (Kk 424); c (Kk 425): A (Kk 452); A (Kk 453): D (Kk 443): D (Kk 444); F (Kk 445): F (Kk 446); B flat (Kk 360); B flat (Kk 361)
KENNETH GILBERT (harpsichord)

Contributors

Piano:
Gerald Moore
Harpsichord:
Kenneth Gilbert

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