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Mehul Overture: La chasse du jeune Henri
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.17* Ravenscroft Tomorrow the fox will come to town
PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES
ELIZABETHAN CON SORT OF VIOLS conducted by GRAYSTON BURGESS Bennet The hunt is up
PURCELL CONSORT OF VOICES conducted by GRAYSTON BURGESS
7.21' Chabran Chasse
CATHERINE CURTOIS (violin)
BLANDINE VERI.ET (harpsichord)
7.28* Prokofiev -Peter and the Wolf: a musical fairytale for children
PETER USTINOV (narrator) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Grayston Burgess
Conducted By:
Grayston Burgess
Violin:
Catherine Curtois
Narrator:
Peter Ustinov
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Quilter A Children's Overture LIGHT MUSIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN
8.17' Debussy Suite: Children's Corner
ARTURO MICHELANGELI (piano)
8.34' Elgar Nursery Suite
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES GROVES gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Vivian Dunn
Piano:
Arturo Michelangeli
Conducted By:
Charles Groves

EDITH MATHIS (soprano)
JOANNA SIMON (contralto) HORST LAUBENTHAL (tenor) JOSE VAN DAM (bass) OSKAR PETER (organ)
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA STATE
OPERA CHORUS. VIENNA PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
Mozart Mass in c major (The Coronation) (K 317) Bruckner Te Deum
(Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Soprano:
Edith Mathis
Contralto:
Joanna Simon
Tenor:
Horst Laubenthal
Bass:
Oskar Peter
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Mozart Mass
Unknown:
Bruckner Te Deum

NORBERT BRAININ (violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conducted by ERICH SCHMID Part 1
Symphony No 44 (Trauer) Violin Concerto in c major

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Erich Schmid

(The Bat)
Operetta in three acts
Music by Johann Strauss
Libretto by CARL HAFFNER and RICHARD GENÉE (sung in German) (gramophone records)
Die Fledermaus was Strauss's third stage work. and one whose ideal fusion of libretto and music has created the most famous and best loved of all operettas.
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY Act 1
3.45* The Bat's Rise to Fame A talk by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
4.0* Die Fledermaus Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Music By:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Carl Haffner
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Talk By:
Philip Hope-Wallace

by Thornton Wilder
Two of seven new short plays
Lack of communication between adults and children forms the theme of these two plays, one comic, one wistful. The first is about babies' resentment of the way adults talk to them, while the second deals with the privacy of children's games.

Contributors

Writer:
Thornton Wilder
Producer:
Guy Vaesen
Narrator:
Cormac Rigby
Avonzino:
Leonard Fenton
Millie:
Toby Robins
Tommy:
Peter Marinker
Mrs Baker:
Carole Allen
Moe:
Rick Le Parmentier
Caroline:
Bridget Brice
Dodie:
Emily Richards
Billee:
Jean England
Mother:
Elizabeth Lynne
Father:
Paul Maxwell

With RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
(piano) and THE NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by MARCUS DODS Part 1
Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier's Tale
Weill Overture; Mack the Knife; Barbara Song (The Threepenny Opera); Bilbao Song; Matrosen Tango ; Surabaya Jonny; Hard Nut (Happy End)
11.15* Eartha Kitt talks to JOHN amis about her work. and the way she feels about some of the music she sings in this concert.
11.25* Eartha Kitt : part 2
Martinu La revue de cuisine
Cole Porter Anything goes; My heart belongs to
Daddy Gershwin My man's gone now Cole Porter Love for sale
Harold Arlen I wonder what became of me
Rodgers and Hart Ten cents a dance
Cole Porter Let's misbehave
(A public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall: 6 Feb)

Contributors

Piano:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Song:
Matrosen Tango
Talks:
Eartha Kitt
Unknown:
Eartha Kitt
Unknown:
Daddy Gershwin
Unknown:
Harold Arlen

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