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Mozart Overture: 11 re pastore ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS directed by NEVLLE MARRINER
7.9* Beethoven Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op 121a BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Menahem Pressler (piano) Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello)
7.28* Schubert Symphony No 2, in b flat DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Nevlle Marriner
Piano:
Menahem Pressler
Violin:
Daniel Guilet
Cello:
Bernard Greenhouse
Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conductor BORIS BROTT
Mozart Symphony No 15, In G major (K 124)
8.18* Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
8.28* Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)

Contributors

Leader:
Colin Staveley
Conductor:
Boris Brott

Exultet mundus gaudio: Introduction and nine carols for the Christian year (first broadcast performance) BBC CHORUS conducted by LOUIS HALSEY with the CALDICOTT CHOIR
(conductor MICHAEL FREELAND )
On Mrs Arabella Hunt singing (first broadcast performance) JANET PRICE (soprano)
PEGGIE SAMPSON (viola da gamba) JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord)
Six Poems from Miserere (David Gascoyne ) BBC CHORUS conducted by LOUIS HALSEY
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Louis Halsey
Conductor:
Michael Freeland
Unknown:
Mrs Arabella Hunt
Viola:
Peggie Sampson
Unknown:
David Gascoyne
Conducted By:
Louis Halsey

MARILYN DUBOW
MARSHA CHERASKIN WINOKUR Ives Sonata No 2
Bloch Nigun (Baal Shem: three pictures from Chassidic life) Kabalevsky Rondo
Wieniawski Polonaise brillante No 2. in A major

Contributors

Unknown:
Marilyn Dubow
Unknown:
Marsha Cheraskin
Unknown:
Kabalevsky Rondo
Unknown:
Wieniawski Polonaise

Les Huguenots
Grand opera in five acts
Libretto by EUGÈNE SCRIBE and EMILE DESCHAMPS
Music by Meyerbeer (sung in French)
Les Huguenots, first performed in Paris in 1836, was Meyerbeer's greatest opera. The story centres on the 16th-century massacre on the night of St Bartholomew. Peace ostensibly exists between the Catholics and the Huguenots, but the Catholics, led by Saint-Bris, are determined to destroy the Calvinist Huguenots.
Courtiers, noblemen, soldiers, monks
CHORUS OF AUSTRIAN RADIO chorus-master
GOTTFRIED PREINFALK
WIENER SINGAKADEMIE chorus-master
HERMANN FURTHMOSER
VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNST MARZENDORFER
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
The action takes place in France in the year 1572
Act 1 A room in the chateau of the Comte de Nevers
Act 2 The gardens of Chenonceaux in Touraine
3.50' Meyerbeer: Another Look A talk by JULIAN BUDDEN
4.5* Les Huguenots
Act 3 The Pre-aux-Clercs on the bank of the Seine
Act 4 A room in the house of the Comte de Nevers in Paris
Act 5 Se 1: A Huguenot church-yard: Sc 2: A square in Paris
(13 May: Meyerbeer's Le Prophete)

Contributors

Unknown:
Emile Deschamps
Chorus-Master:
Gottfried Preinfalk
Chorus-Master:
Wiener Singakademie
Conducted By:
Ernst Marzendorfer
Talk By:
Julian Budden

6.30 The Person for The Job
A practical guide, in five parts, to recruitment in business and industry.
Presented by ROGER WILLIAMS 1: Establishing the Facts Series producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
Book, 50p: see page 66
6.50 Community Care: The Patient at Home
Seven case-studies for nurses in training.
1: Birth at Home
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS Book, 45p: see page 66
7.10 Focus on Education
Parents phone in their questions on pre-school and primary education to NORA BRITTON , Chairman of the Nursery Schools' Association, and HENRY PLUCKROSE. Headmaster of Prior Weston Primary School, London
Chairman DR BARRY TURNER

Contributors

Presented By:
Roger Williams
Producer:
Gordon Hutchings
Unknown:
Nora Britton
Unknown:
Henry Pluckrose.
Unknown:
Dr Barry Turner

ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano) NORMA PROCTER (contralto) LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Josef Krips Part 1 Schubert
Symphony No 8, In b minot (Unfinished)
8.30* Memories of Gustav
Mahler Natalie Bauer-Lechner was an intimate friend of Mahler's between 1893 and 1902. Her diary for these years is a fascinating source of information about the composer's life and work; but it has never been translated into English.
These excerpts from it have been translated by MARIE BURG Readers JOAN HART , DAVID MARCH Producer PATRICIA BRENT
8.50* Concert: part 2 Mahler Symphony No 2

Contributors

Soprano:
Ileana Cotrubas
Contralto:
Norma Procter
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Josef Krips
Unknown:
Mahler Natalie Bauer-Lechner
Translated By:
Marie Burg
Translated By:
Readers Joan Hart
Producer:
Patricia Brent

Petrassi Trio (1959) William Alwyn Trio
Beethoven Trio in c minor, Op 9 No 3
(A concert given before an invited audience at Lowestoft College of Further Education, in association with Lowestoft Concerts Club in February 1968)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Alwyn Trio
Unknown:
Beethoven Trio

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