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Opera in four acts Music By Puccini
Libretto based on the novel by ABBÉ PREVOST (sung in Italian)
(gramophone records)
' How I love her! My passion is so strong that I feel I am the most unhappy creature alive ... And I will follow her! Wherever she may go! ... Even to the ends of the earth!
(DES GRlEUX)
Cast in order of singing:
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
NEW PHII.HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO BARTOLETTI
Act 1 Outside an inn at Amiens Act 2 Geronte's house in Paris
3.20* Edward Greenfield on the formation of Puccini's style.
3.351 Manon Lescaut
Act 3 A square near the harbour of Le Havre
Act 4 A desert plain on the borders of New Orleans

Contributors

Conducted By:
Bruno Bartoletti
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield

MUSICA DA CAMERA
Harold Clarke (flute) Roger Lord (oboe)
Vera Kantrovitch (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Denis Vigay (cello) Hubert Dawkes
(piano and harpsichord) Patricia Clark (soprano) perform music by Gordon Jacob , George Haydon. Bliss, Moeran, and Madeleine Dring

Contributors

Flute:
Harold Clarke
Oboe:
Roger Lord
Violin:
Vera Kantrovitch
Viola:
Keith Cummings
Cello:
Denis Vigay
Piano:
Hubert Dawkes
Soprano:
Patricia Clark
Music By:
Gordon Jacob
Music By:
George Haydon.
Music By:
Madeleine Dring

An oratorio by George Dyson ELIZABETH SIMON (soprano) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone)
HALIFAX CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by DONALD HUNT Part 1
8.30* Dyson and The Canterbury Pilgrims
A personal reflection by JAMES ROBERTSON
8.50* The Canterbury Pilgrims Part 2
(A public concert presented in the Civic Theatre, Halifax, on 19 November by the BBC in association with the Halifax Choral Society)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Dyson
Soprano:
Elizabeth Simon
Tenor:
Kenneth Bowen
Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Donald Hunt
Unknown:
James Robertson

A. J TAYLOR , ROBERT KEE and LIAM DE PAOR discuss in what ways Irish nationalism differs from national movements in other countries and debate whether Irish nationalism need necessarily have implied separatism, an argument put forward in Robert Kee 's book The Green Flag
Producer ROBERT FOX followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J Taylor
Unknown:
Robert Kee
Producer:
Robert Fox

The ninth in a series of programmes in which Peter Frankl and Andre Tchaikowsky play all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
Sonata in F major, Op 10 No 2 (Peter Frankl )
Sonata in E flat major, Op 81a (Les adieux)
(Andre Tehaikowsky )
Sonata in E minor, Op 90 (Andre Tehaikowsky )
(8 December: Op 27 No 1 and Op 78)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Frankl
Unknown:
Andre Tchaikowsky
Unknown:
Peter Frankl
Unknown:
Andre Tehaikowsky
Unknown:
Andre Tehaikowsky

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