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A record request programme Part 1
Verdi Overture: The Sicilian Vespers
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
7.15* Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No 3, in B minor ARTHUR GRUMIAUX
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by MANUEL ROSENTHAL
7.4S* Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
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Part 2
Weber Overture: Peter SchmollBAMBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THEODOR GUSCHLBAUER
8.16. Arensky Piano Concerto No 1, in F minor
ARNOLD KAPLAN MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by BORIS KHAIKIN
8.43* Delius Brigg Fair: an English rhapsody
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
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Haydn
Overture; Aria: Per quel che ha mal di stomaco (Lo speziale)
THEO ALTMEYER (tenor)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL FORSTER Cello Concerto in D major
PIERRE FOURNIER LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS directed by RUDOLF BAUMGARTNER gramophone records
from Belfast
ERIC HINDS (baritone)
DONALD WATSON (clarinet) MAURICE CAVANAGH (violin) HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
Finzi Song-cycle: Let us garlands bring
10.0* Benjamin Le tombeau de Ravel, for clarinet and piano
10.15* Mussorgsky The musician's peep-show
10.28* Khachaturyan Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Honegger Fugue; Chorale Martinu Vigilia
Frank Martin Passacaille recorded by John Morehen on the organ of Hampstead Parish Church.
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI Part 1
Rossini Overture: Semiramide Schubert Symphony No 4, in c minor (Tragic)
A talk by DOMINIC GILL
Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 2, in D major
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
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A weekly series of recitals by the younger generation
James Bowman (counter-tenor) Robert Spencer
(lute and cittarone)
Christopher Hogwood (virginals and organ)
A programme of 17th-century festive music: songs and dances by Byrd, Lawes, Morley, Purcell and Bassani Introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets from Ticket Unit. Next concert: 10 January)
Peter Grimes
PETER PEARS discusses this role from Benjamin Britten 's opera - the role which he created - and introduces excerpts on gramophone records.
conducted by STEUART BEDFORD Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella
3.25* Faurf Pavane
3.32* Schubert Symphony No 5
from Winchester Cathedral
Introit: How shall I fitly meet thee (Bach)
Responses (Bvrd)
Psalm 104 (Parratt. Walmisley) Lessons: 2 Samuel 15, vv 17-21; John 11, vv 1-16 (NEB) Canticles (Leighton)
Anthem: Vinea mea electa (Poulenc)
Organist and Master of the MuSiC MARTIN NEARY
Sub-Organist CLEMENT MCWILLIAM
A Few Anniversaries we Almost Missed
The first English Public Concert (1672); Dr Burney's Musical Tour (1772) - Quantz, C. P. E. Bach and Cannabicli; a well-known tune from 1872; and a well-worn theme from 1972
Records chosen by the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Trends in pop music introduced by Derek Jewell gramophone records
6.0 Stock Market Report
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6.30 Music Questions
Is Monteverdi really a bore? Why do we hear only a few modern British composers? What does ' classical ' mean?
JEREMY NOBLE. THEA MUSGRAVI and BARRY GUY answer these and other points raised in listeners' letters
On Looking Back
Sir Kalpn reads troin ms unfinished autobiography.
(' Bound to Get On ' - a birthday tribute to Sir Ralph: Friday, 9.15 pm, R4)
(sung in French)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS choral director JOHN MCCARTHY
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA associate leaders
KENNETH SILLITO and JOSE-LUIS GARCIA conducted by ANDREW DAVIS direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Part 1 8.30* David Cairns talks about
Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ.
8.50* L'Enfance du Christ Parts 2 and 3 (A performance in English on Christmas Day, BBC2)
Jeni Couzyn , author of Flying and Monkey's Wedding, introduces and reads a new sequence of five autobiographical and religious poems based on childhood experiences with her family at their coast cottage in South Africa. Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Concerto Grosso In E minor. Op 3 No 3: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER gramophone record
RITA SHANE (soprano)
VIENNA CHORUS OF AUSTRIAN RADIO AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL GIELEN
Nono Composizione per orchestra No 2 (first broadcast in this country) Schoenberg Erwartung, for voice and orchestra
Bartok Ballet: The Miraculous Mandarin
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
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