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Prokofiev Suite: Winter Bonfire PRAGUE RADIO CHILDREN'S CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by ALOIS KLiMA
7.24* Tcherepnin Piano Concerto No 2:
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN, BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
7.44* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hunnenschlacht: LOS ANGELES
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by zubin MEHTA gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alois Klima
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

Recorded in the University Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 June
DENIS MATTHEWS (piano) HELEN POWELL (oboe) BARRY WILDE (violin) ROGER BEST (viola)
CHRISTOPHER GOUGH (Cello) Part 1
Mozart Piano Sonata (K 332)
David Barlow Concertante Variations: oboe and string trio

Contributors

Piano:
Denis Matthews
Oboe:
Helen Powell
Cello:
Christopher Gough
Unknown:
David Barlow

Joanna Graham (bassoon)
BBC Concert Orchestra. conductor Ashley Lawrence

[Repeat]

Part 1

Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Blas

12.23* Weber Bassoon Concerto in F

12.42* Bax Symphonic Poem: Tintagel

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Bassoonist:
Joanna Graham

An opera in three acts and 15 scenes. Libretto based on the play by GEORG BÜCHNER Music by Berg
(sung in German)
The tragedy of an inarticulate private soldier destroyed by a corrupt society.
CHORUSOFTHE VIENNA STATE OPERA chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by KARL BÖHM
(Austrian Radio recording) Act 1
2.25* Mosco earner talks about Berg as a music dramatist,
2.40* Wozzeck, Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Walter Hagen-Groll
Conducted By:
Karl Böhm

Violin Concerto in D major VACLAV HUDECEK
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID OISTRAKH
(Part of a concert from this year's International Prague Spring Festival. Czechoslovak Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaclav Hudecek
Conducted By:
David Oistrakh

Music by HOrold, arr Lanchbery Choreography by SIR FREDERICK ASHTON
Records of excerpts of the ballet
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA
HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN conducted by JOHN LANCHBERY Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY
(BBC World Service production) (A new series of ' Royal Repertoire ' begins next Monday)

Contributors

Choreography By:
Sir Frederick Ashton
Conducted By:
John Lanchbery
Introduced By:
Cormac Rigby

The first radio performance of a new group co-operatively led and with the name Splinters Kenny Wheeler (trumpet)
Tubby Hayes (tenor and flute) Trevor Watts (tenor and alto) Stan Tracey (piano) Jeff Clyne (bass)
John Stevens (drums) Introduced by IAN CARR Producer JOHN F. MUIR

Contributors

Unknown:
Splinters Kenny Wheeler
Tenor:
Tubby Hayes
Tenor:
Trevor Watts
Piano:
Stan Tracey
Bass:
Jeff Clyne
Bass:
John Stevens
Introduced By:
Ian Carr
Producer:
John F. Muir

6.30 Getting into Focus Six programmes
4: Photography as a factual record. Record photography has a special importance in the study of medicine, wildlife, and social history. Is there a need for a National Photogra. phic Archive?
With DR ERIC HOSKING DR SYDNEY SELWYN and PROFESSOR MARGARET HARKEB Introduced by BRIAN GEAR
6.50 pm Perspective
Where is Light Comedyt
Noël Coward is enjoying a revival in London at Queen's and the Mermaid.
MICHAEL BILLINGTON , theatre critic. discusses with SIR JOHN GIELGUD and FRANK MARCUS Coward's continuing popularity. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
7.10 Focus on Education
Parents at Madeley Court Comprehensive School, Telford, Salop, put their questions to HUGH CUNNINGHAM , Headmaster. and HILDA MISSELBROOK , Organiser, Nuffield Secondary Science Project
Chairman DR ALAN LITTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Eric Hosking
Unknown:
Dr Sydney Selwyn
Unknown:
Professor Margaret Harkeb
Introduced By:
Brian Gear
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Sir John Gielgud
Unknown:
Frank Marcus
Producer:
Judith Bumpus
Unknown:
Hugh Cunningham
Unknown:
Hilda Misselbrook
Unknown:
Dr Alan Little

JOHN STEVENS , Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, surveys in these four programmes the rich and unjustly neglected heritage of medieval melodic music. The talks are illustrated with hitherto unpublished and unperformed songs from manuscripts in European libraries specially recorded by CHRISTINA CLARKE (soprano) WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
DAVID MUNROW (recorder and percussion)
ELEANOR SLOAN (rebec)
JAMES TYLER (lute and cittern) 4: The Religious Traditions

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stevens
Soprano:
Christina Clarke
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Unknown:
David Munrow
Unknown:
Eleanor Sloan
Unknown:
James Tyler

DENNIS DUERDEN talks to MAZISI KUNENE , who then introduces a selection of his own poems.
The author's English translations of them are read by LIONEL NGAKANE , the Zulu Originals by the author himself. Producer TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Talks:
Dennis Duerden
Unknown:
Mazisi Kunene
Read By:
Lionel Ngakane
Producer:
Terence Tiller

Bach Cantata No 121: Christum wir sollen loben schon
EDITH MATHIS (soprano)
ANNA REYNOLDS (contralto) PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER
Delalande Premiere Sinfonie des Noels
ORCHESTRA OF THE SOCIETE DES CONCERTS DU CONSERVATOIRE conducted by GASTON ROUSSEL
Bach Cantata No 63: Christen, atzet diesen Tag
EDITH MATHIS , ANNA REYNOLDS PETER SCHREIER
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
MUNICH BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RICHTER gramophone records

Contributors

Soprano:
Edith Mathis
Contralto:
Anna Reynolds
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Tenor:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conducted By:
Karl Richter
Conducted By:
Gaston Roussel
Unknown:
Edith Mathis
Unknown:
Anna Reynolds
Unknown:
Peter Schreier
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conducted By:
Karl Richter

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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