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with Joy Worth and Christopher Pemberton
Handel Concerto Grosso No 1, in B flat (Op 3 No 1)
MUNICH BACH ORCHESTRA conducted bV KARL RICHTER
7.16* Purcell Birthday Song for Queen Mary: Come ye sons. of art away
MARGARET RITCHIE (soprano)
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor)
JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) BRUCE BOYCE (baritone) ST ANTHONY SINGERS
L'OISEAU-LYRE ENSEMBLE
ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTHONY LEWIS
7.41* Michael Haydn Horn Concerto in D: BARRY TUCKWELL ACADEMY OF
ST- MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILL.E MARRINER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Pemberton
Unknown:
Karl Richter
Soprano:
Margaret Ritchie
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Unknown:
John Whitworth
Baritone:
Bruce Boyce
Singers:
St Anthony
Conducted By:
Anthony Lewis
Conducted By:
Michael Haydn Horn
Unknown:
Barry Tuckwell

with Pat Butler and Peter Fettes
Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.26* Mahler Symphony No 3 (Fourth movement)
MARJORIE THOMAS (contralto) BAVARIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
8.37* Wagner Siegfried Idyll PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Butler
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Contralto:
Marjorie Thomas
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

A programme of music that was written in the year of the BBC's earliest broadcasts
Introduced by John Webster Holst A Fugal Overture
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT (gramophone record)
9.52* Stravinsky Mavra : comic opera in one act
Parasha.jOAN CARLYLE (soprano)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET (gramophone record)
10.20* Hindemith String Quartet NO 3: GABRIELI QUARTET
10.44* Busont Nine Variations on a Chopin Prelude JOHN OGDON (piano)
(gramophone record) (mono)
10.54* Strauss Three Symphonic Interludes (Intermezzo) BAVARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by JOSEPH KEILBERTH (gramophone record)
11.8* Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor: CHOIR OF
KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS (gramophone record)
11.33* Nielsen Symphony No 5 (1922)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN (gramophone record)

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Webster
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Stravinsky Mavra
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Piano:
John Ogdon
Conducted By:
Joseph Keilberth
Conducted By:
David Willcocks
Conducted By:
Jascha Horenstein
The Mother:
Helen Watts (contralto)
The Nephew:
Monica Sinclair (contralto)
The Hussar:
Kenneth MacDonald (tenor)

The second of four programmes to celebrate his 80th birthday HERBERT DOWNES (viola)
TREVOR WILLIAMS (violin) DESMOND HEATH (violin) HAROLD HARRIOTT (viola) KEITH HARVEY (cello)
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT (organ)
THAMES CHAMBER CHOIR conductor LOUIS HALSEY
HAYDN ORCHESTRA leader TREVOR WILLIAMS conductor HARRY NEWSTONE
Elegy (or viola, string quartet. and string orchestra Organ Sonata
A Maid Peerless, for women's voices and orchestra
Concerto for string orchestra

Contributors

Viola:
Herbert Downes
Violin:
Trevor Williams
Viola:
Harold Harriott
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Conductor:
Louis Halsey
Leader:
Trevor Williams
Conductor:
Harry Newstone

Igor Ozim (from Yugoslavia) ERNEST LUSH (piano)
Vitali, arr Ferdinand David Chaconne in G minor
Janez Maticic Three Pieces: Prelude; Air; Nocturne (first broadcast performance in this country)
Szymanowski La fontaine d'Arethuse
Prokofiev, arr Heifetz March (The Love of Three Oranges)
Lyadev Tabatiere (first broadcast performance in this country)
Paganini Caprices In I flat, Op 1 Nos 19 and 14, for violin Bruno Maderna Piece pour Ivrv, for violin (first broadcast performance in this country)

Contributors

Unknown:
Igor Ozim
Unknown:
Ferdinand David
Unknown:
Janez Maticic
Unknown:
Lyadev Tabatiere
Violin:
Bruno Maderna

Anthony Payne Two songs without words (first broadcast performance in this country) Duncan Druce A red king's crown, for piano
Martin Dalby Cantigas del cancionero (first broadcast performance in this country) BACCHOLIAN SINGERS
SUSAN BRADSHAW (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Payne
Unknown:
Duncan Druce
Piano:
Martin Dalby Cantigas
Piano:
Susan Bradshaw

Given before an invited audience in the Royal Albert Hall.
London in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses
The Duke and Duchess of Kent HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
SYBIL MICHELOW (mezzo-soprano) JOHN ELWES (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) PAUL TORTELlER (CellO) BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leaders BELA DEKANY and ELI GOREN Part 1 conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Elgar Cello Concerto In minor
8.20* The Earl of Harewood traces the role music has played in the last 50 years of broadcasting.
8.40* Anniversary Concert Part 2 conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Ravel Shéhérazade
Berlioz Love Scene; Queen Mab Scherzo ; Romeo's Reverie and Feast of the Capulets (Romeo and Juliet) (Also on BBC2)
(Heather Harper 's Choice: p 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall.
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Mezzo-Soprano:
Sybil Michelow
Tenor:
John Elwes
Bass-Baritone:
Michael Rippon
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Vaughan Williams Serenade
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Mab Scherzo
Unknown:
Heather Harper

Artist Descending a Staircase
A new play, specially commissioned for radio, by TOM STOPPARD
Three very old artists, who have been friends since early manhood, share an attic. Now one of them is dead. The circumstances are mysterious. Evidence concerning the manner of his death exists on a tape-recording. But what is Truth? with Producer
JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Producer:
John Tydeman
Martello:
Stephen Murray
Donner:
Carleton Hobbs
Beauchamp:
Rolf Lefebvre
the young Martello (Banjo):
Michael Spice
the young Donner (Mouse):
Dinsdale Landenthe
the young Beauchamp IBiscuit):
Peter Eganthe
Sophie:
Fiona Walker

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