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Purcell Suite: Abdelazer: HART-FORD SYMPHONY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by FRITZ MAHLER
7.18* Locke Music for His Majesty's sackbutts and cornetts
LONDON GABRIELI BRASS ENSEMBLE
7.30* Handel Overture and Ballet Music (Ariodante): ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.48* Warlock Capriol Suite
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Fritz Mahler
Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

Beethoven Fantasia in c minor ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) STUTTGART LEHRERGESANGVEREIN
STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER
8.26* Schumann Symphony No 4, in D minor: BERLIN PHILHAR MONIC orchestra, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Beethoven Fantasia
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Conducted By:
Wilfried Boettcher
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Cantata: The'tis
GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD
Les tendres plaintes; Les niais de Sologne
ALBERT FULLER (harpsichord) Cantata: Orphe"e
ELISABETH VERLOOY (soprano) ULRICH GREHLING (violin)
JOHANNES KOCH (viola da gamba) RUDOLF EWERHART (harpsichord) gramophone records

Contributors

Baritone:
Jean-Francois Paillard
Violin:
Ulrich Grehling
Viola:
Johannes Koch

PAUL CROSSLEY (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, led by WILLIAM BENHAM conductor BRYDEN THOMSON Part 1
Brahms Tragic Overture
11.17* Richard Rodney Bennett Piano Concerto
11.45* Beethoven In an Age of Revolution
At the time of the storming of the Bastille in 1789 Beethoven was 18. DR ALAN TYSON considers what effects the changes of a revolutionary age had on Beethoven and his music.
12.0* Concert: part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Eroica)

Contributors

Piano:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Dr Alan Tyson

BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE PETER MOUNTAIN (violin) ANGELA DALE (piano) Martinu Three sacred songs on Czech popular rhymes
2.20. Suk Three songs, Op 19
2.30* Dvorak Sonatina in G, Op 100. for violin and piano
2.49* Martinu Five Czech madrigals

Contributors

Conductor:
Philip Moore
Piano:
Angela Dale

Music from the repertory of the Royal Ballet
Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY Siesta
Choreography by ASHTON Music by Walton LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted bv THE COMPOSER Les Sylphides
Choreography by FOKINE
Music by Chopin, orch Douglas PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by PETER MAAG gramophone records

Contributors

Introduced By:
Cormac Rigby
Conducted By:
Peter Maag

played by DAVID SANGER
Mozart Adagio and Allegro (K 594)
4.31* Widor Variations; Toccata (Symphony No 5)
(Part of a public recital recorded in Doncaster Parish Church on 13 July 1972)

Contributors

Played By:
David Sanger
Played By:
Mozart Adagio

CITY OF LONDON BAND conductor GEOFFREY BRAND
Bryan Kelly March: Washington DC
Vilem Tausky Concert Overture for Brass Band
Vilem Tausky Cakes and Ale (first broadcast performance)
Meindert Boekel Scherzo for Band

Contributors

Conductor:
Geoffrey Brand

Sir Alec Cairncross, former Head of the Government Economic Service, in a Budget-eve repeat of his conversation with: E. H. PHELPS BROWN, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Labour, London
ERIK DAHMEN, Professor of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Commerce
BRIAN REDDAWAY, Professor Of Political Economy, Cambridge ALAN WALTERS, Professor of Economics, London about the causes of inflation Producer ROLAND CHALLIS

Contributors

Producer:
Roland Challis

conductor PETER MAXWELL DAVIES with MARY. THOMAS (soprano) Part 1
Bach, arr Duncan Druce Cantata No S4: Ich bin vergniigt mit meinem
Gliicke Zsolt Durko Fire Music (first performance)
Buxtehude and Maxwell Davies Cantata: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet

Contributors

Conductor:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Duncan Druce
Unknown:
Gliicke Zsolt Durko

1893-1972
Richard Church was perhaps most widely known for his auobiography, and his best poems often reflected the public and private circumstances of his life.
In tonight's programme, first broadcast 15 years ago, he introduces a selection of verse which reflects the quiet integrity and delicate irony of his work.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Church

Part 2
Maxwell Davies Concert Suite: The Devils (first performance) Sandy Wilson and Maxwell Davies Concert Suite: The Boyfriend (first performance) (A public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in 1971)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Wilson
Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall

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