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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
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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)
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Symphony No 5 (1922) (original version)
NEW PHII.HARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN gramophone records
Quartet in E flat, Op 20 No 1
Quartet in G major. Op 77 No 1 AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
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)
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
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY orchestra, Leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor LOUIS FREMAUX Part 1
Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring
Debussy Poeme danse: Jeux
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Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 5. in c minor
Schubert Sonata in A major (D 664)
1.59* Schumann Humoreske, Op 20 played by ARTUR BALSAM (piano)
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)
Tales and Music for Younger Listeners with David Munrow
A two-part sequence of music for the early evening.
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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
(piano)
Beethoven Rondo a capriccio in g. Op 129
Schubert Sonata in c (Unfinished) (D 840) gramophone records
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
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)
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