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with a Scandinavian bias
Nielsen Rhapsodic Overture PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Stravinsky Four Norwegian Moods: CBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER Glazunov Finnish Fantasy MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by EVGENY SVETLANOV
Grieg Norwegian Dances
Halle ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Evgeny Svetlanov
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

A series of programmes on alternate Tuesday mornings, each devoted to music composed in the same year
Smetana Overture: The Secret BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Liszt Extrema unctio (Septem Sacramenta): BBC CHORUS ALAN HARVERSON (organ) conducted by JOHN POOLE
Dvorak Sextet in a. Op 48 MEMBERS OF THE
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTET (gramophone record)
Debussy Beau soir; Fleur des bigs: ALAN JONES (baritone) WINIFRED DAVEY (piano)
Borodin Polka: Funeral March; Requiem; Mazurka (Chop-sticks
LIZA FUCHSOVA and PAUL HAMBURGER
(three hands, one piano) Bruckner Abendzauber JOHN BARROW (baritone) IFOR JAMES HORN QUARTET BBC CHORUS conducted by JOHN POOLE
Mussorgsky The Wanderer ALAN JONES. WINIFRED DAVEY Franck Pièce héroïque
ALBERT DE KLERK at the organ of St Salvator Cathedral, Belgium (gramophone record)
Gounod Jgsus a la creche; La chanson du Pâtre
ALAN JONES. WINIFRED DAVEY
Rimsky-Korsakov Variations on BACH
Saint-Saens Minuet and Waltz LIZA FUCHSOVA (piano)
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
RALPH HOLMES
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE

Contributors

Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Conductor:
Liszt Extrema
Unknown:
Alan Harverson
Conducted By:
John Poole
Baritone:
Alan Jones
Piano:
Winifred Davey
Piano:
Bruckner Abendzauber
Baritone:
John Barrow
Conducted By:
John Poole
Unknown:
Alan Jones.
Unknown:
Alan Jones.
Unknown:
Winifred Davey
Unknown:
Ralph Holmes
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence

The second of three tercentenary programmes in which the composer's first published work. the 19 Italian madrigals (1611), is sung in a context of other secular music by his contemporaries in Italy, Germany and England.
BBC NORTHERN MADRIGAL SINGERS Delia Fletcher (soprano) Delyth Jones (soprano)
Rachel Payne (contralto)
David Burrowes (counter-tenor) Peter Bingham (tenor) Gordon Pullin (tenor)
Jolyon Dodgson (bass-baritone) Henry Herford (bass-baritone) director STEPHEN WILKINSON THOMAS WESS (harpsichord)

Contributors

Soprano:
Delia Fletcher
Soprano:
Delyth Jones
Contralto:
Rachel Payne
Contralto:
David Burrowes
Tenor:
Peter Bingham
Tenor:
Gordon Pullin
Bass-Baritone:
Jolyon Dodgson
Bass-Baritone:
Henry Herford
Director:
Stephen Wilkinson
Harpsichord:
Thomas Wess

Michael Davis (from Britain) CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
Stravinsky Duo Concertant
Berkeley Introduction and Allegro for violin
Paganini Moses-Fantasie
ProkoBev Sonata in D, for violin Nathan Milstein Paganiniana, for violin (first broadcast performance)
Paganini Sonata in E minor, Op 3 No 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Davis
Piano:
Clifford Benson

ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON (piano)
NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA leader BARRY WILDE conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
Presented by ANTHONY GILBERT Anthony Gilbert Sinfonia
4.22* Robert Sherlaw Johnson Trika (first broadcast performance)
4.41* Peter Maxwell Davies Sinfonia

Contributors

Piano:
Sherlaw Johnson
Leader:
Barry Wilde
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis
Presented By:
Anthony Gilbert
Presented By:
Anthony Gilbert Sinfonia
Presented By:
Robert Sherlaw Johnson
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies

6.30 Incontri in Italia
Fifteen lessons in spoken Italian for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language, by GIOVANNI CARSANIGA and ANNA VENEZIANI
5: Una cura dimagrante
With SANDRA CIPRIANI , PAOLA EVANGELISTI and MARISA DILLON -WESTON
(Book 37ip: see page 70)
7.0 This Was Their World
Ten programmes on the study of local history
5: Trams and Railways by R. L. GREENALL
(Book £2.40: see page 70)

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Carsaniga
Unknown:
Sandra Cipriani
Unknown:
Paola Evangelisti
Unknown:
Marisa Dillon
Unknown:
R. L. Greenall

Bromsiav Gimpel (violin) EIDDWEN HARRHY (soprano)
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR chorus-master EDMUND WALTERS ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader CLIFFORD KNOWLES conductor CHARLES GROVES direct from the Philharmonic Hall Part 1
Boyce Overture (Ode for His Majesty's Birthday, 1765)
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major

Contributors

Soprano:
Eiddwen Harrhy
Leader:
Clifford Knowles
Conductor:
Charles Groves

A play for radio by DAVID HALLIWELL
A series of interviews by the Manager of a Pleasureground take place for the job of Assistant Manager. When the applicant has himself been a previous manager the situation becomes more difficult. There is a vast difference between what the three men involved in these interviews are and the way they see each other. with and Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Halliwell
Producer:
John Tydeman
Arnold Rawlinson:
Colin Douglas
William Dean:
Bryan Pringle
Roy Sunderland:
Leslie Sands

One of our century's great singers gave a recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall last Sunday evening accompanied by GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Tonight we hear songs from his programme, recorded in our studios three days before
Schubert Der Musensohn; Die Stadt; Der Doppelganger
Brahms Sonntag; Komm bald!; Mit vierzig Jahren; Ruhe, Stissliebchen
Wolf Michelangelo-Lieder

Contributors

Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons

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