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Suk Fantastic Scherzo
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK MACAL
8.18* Dvorak Dumka. Op 35 RADOSLAV KVAPIL (piano)
8.27* Dvorak The Cypresses' Nos 2, 8 and 1, for string quartet: DVORAK QUARTET
8.37* Dvorak Scottish Dances, Op 41: RADOSLAV KVAPIL (piano)
8.43* Novak Movements from Czech Suite: BRNO STATE
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL SEJNA gramophone records
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Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Sibelius's Symphony No 4. in A minor, by EDWARD GREENFIELD
The care of 78s: DONALD ALDOUS Recent records of songs and choral music: RICHARD OSBORNE
trad, arr Beethoven Folk Songs: Music, love and wine; Behold, my love; The pulse of an Irishman
EDITH MATHIS (soprano) ALEXANDER YOl'NG (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-OIESKAU (bar) ANDREAS RÖHN (violin) GEORG DONDERER ( cello) KARL ENGEL (piano)
19.22* Mussorgsky Song-cycle: Sunless
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)
10.41* Wolf Songs from the Italienisches Liederbuch ELLY AMELING (Soprano) GERARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
10.48' Walton Belshazzar 's Feast
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN gramophone records
The last of the present series featuring live music-making
Haydn Piano Trios:E flat major (H xv 30); E major (H xv 28); E flat minor ih xv 31) Perry Hart (violin)
Joan Dicksnn (cello)
William Glock (piano) direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
SYLVIA ROSENBERG (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Part 1
Mozart Symphony No 27, In 0 major (K 199)
12.34* Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor
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Part 2
Franck Symphony in D minor
Alastair Hethcrington , Editor of The Guardian, presents a personal choice of records which reflect the life and travels of a working journalist. He includes music by Copland,
. Monteverdi. Poulenc and Sibelius. Among the artists he selects is one of his own correspondents, ALISTAIR COOKI - at the piano.
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE plays music by Vaughan Wil liams, Alan Langford , Geoffrey Bush and Walton
BBC TRAINING ORCHESTRA conductor MEREDITH DAVIES
Handel, orch Mozart Overture (Ode for St Cecilia's Day) Searle Zodiac Variations
Haydn Symphony No 104, In D major iThe London)
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
(Special BBC Anniversary record release: British Jazz, in 2 volumes, REC 143 and 144M, available from record shops, price £1.49 each)
A weekly survey of the world of music by the artists and personalities who create it. Among .JOHN AMIS'S guests:
Ivor Newton, who celebrates his SOth birthday on 15 December
Production assistant NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
C.P.E. Bach Sonata In G minor Grigny Cromorne en taille a deux parties
Couperin Offertoire sur les grands jeux (Messe pour lea paroisses) played by GUSTAV LEONHARDT on the organ of the Waalse Kerk. Amsterdam gramophone record
PENRY Williams. Fellow of New College, Oxford, examines an Important new study by Professor G. R. Elton on how Thomas Cromwell enforced the Reformation in Henry vm'a England.
play dances from Thomas Morley 's First Booke of Consort Lessons gramophone records
In which a speaker Is given the opportunity to reflect on some aspect of current affairs that has caught his attention Richard Clutterbuck gives his second talk
followed by an interlude
An Oratorio, or Sacred Drama in three acts
Music by Handel in a new performing edition by Basil Lam
Libretto after RACINE
'Esther,' wrote Winton Dean , ' has come down to history as the first English oratorio.' Between 1720 and the end of his life Handel made numerous revisions. This is a new attempt at combining the best things to be found in them.
Continuo:
SCALA KANGA (harp)
ROBERT SPENCER (theorbo)
DEREK STEVENS (harpsichord)
MARGARET PHILLIPS (harpsichord) SIMON LINDLEY (organ)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA leader TREVOR WILLIAMS conductor DENYS DARLOW
(Given before an invited audience in St George's, Hanover Square, London. Tickets from [address removed]) Act 1
8.25* Esther and the Birth of English Oratorio
A talk by WINTON DEAN
8.45* Esther Acts 2 and 3
The poetry of John Donne Written and presented by ROBERT NYE
Reader HUGH DICKSON
To our bodies turn we then, that so Weake men on love reveal'd may looke;
Loves mysteries in soules doe growe.
But yet the body is his booke Producer STEWART conn
Symphony No ' 0,' In o minor AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HAITINE gramophone record
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