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Mozart Oboe Concerto in c major (K 3141: HEINZ HOLLlGER MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted bv HANS STADLMAIR
C. P. E. Bach Quartet No 3, in G major
IRMGARD LECHNER (harpsichord) KARL-IIEINZ ZOLLER (flute)
SIEGBERT UEBERSCHAER (viola) WOLFGANG BOETTCHER (CellO)
Haydn Symphony No 40, in c major: PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Irmgard Lechner
Cello:
Wolfgang Boettcher
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Antony Hopkins presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them the musical reasons behind their choice.
This week's guest caller is John Lill , who at 10.0* will introduce his choice - Beethoven's Grosse Fuge. Op 133, played by the SMETANA QUARTET. Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
John Lill
Unknown:
Grosse Fuge.

Presented by Alan Blyth
Deodat de Sevérac: PETER AND MERIEL DICKINSON look at the music of this little-known Mediterranean composer.
HUGH MACDONALD takes a historical look at the Promenade Concert, and Music Weekly talks to conductors involved in this year's Prom season. Editor KEITH HORNER

Contributors

Presented By:
Alan Blyth
Unknown:
Meriel Dickinson
Unknown:
Hugh MacDonald
Editor:
Keith Horner

JOSEPH KALICHSTEIN (piano) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD Part I
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans in Carthage)
11.57' Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat (Emperor)

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Maurice Handford

International radio competition for amateur choirs
Great Britain Rounds: Programme 3 Youth Class:
THE CANTAMUS ENSEMBLE NEWTON PARK COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION, BATH
Mixed Voice Class:
ST r.ARTHOLOMEW'S PARISH CHURCH CHOIR. BELFAST THE LONDON CHORALE
Adjudicators JOHN ALLDIS
DAVID LUMSDEN , ALLEN PERCIVAL Introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Alldis
Unknown:
David Lumsden
Unknown:
Allen Percival
Introduced By:
David Willcocks
Producer:
Anthony Philpott

La Périchole
Opfra-bouSe in three acts (1874 version)
Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC HALÉVY Music by Offenbach (sung in French)
The story of a street singer who captivates the Viceroy of Peru, but contrives to remain faithful to her sweetheart and to marry him in the end.
OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF FRENCH RADIO chorus-master JEAN-PAUL KRÉDER conducted by MARCEL CARIVEN (Recording by French Radio) Act 1
4.15* Mark Lubbock talks about the sources and originals of La Perichole.
4.36 The French Opera: La Perichole Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Meilhac
Conducted By:
Marcel Cariven
Talks:
Mark Lubbock

The Shoemaker's Wife Lady Rich her Galliard Un-named piece
Sir John Smith 's Almaine The Melancholy Galliard
Sir Henry Gifford 's Almaine played by JULIAN BREAM (lute) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Smith
Unknown:
Sir Henry Gifford
Played By:
Julian Bream

by William Shakespeare
with Leo McKern, Peter Jeffrey, John Rowe, Elizabeth Spriggs, Clifford Rose, Patricia Routledge, Allan Cuthbertson

The action of the play takes place in England.

"Superb production" (The Guardian)
"Leo McKern had a brooding, fallen grandeur, perfectly credible" (The Times)

During the Interval (7.25*-7.30*) A setting of a Marian hymn, followed by a setting of the Agnus Dei, written specially by David Cain and sung by Martin

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Music specially composed by:
David Cain
Music played by:
Michael Laird
Music played by:
Malcolm Smith
Music played by:
Roger Brenner
Music played by:
Martin Nicholls
Music played by:
Christopher Ball
Music played by:
Terry Emery
Music played by:
Frances Kelly
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Rumour:
Hugh Dickson
King Henry:
Peter Jeffrey
Prince Henry:
John Rowe
Prince John of Lancaster:
Sam Dastor
Prince Humphrey of Gloucester:
Nigel Anthony
Prince Thomas of Clarence:
Crispin Gillbard
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland:
Lewis Stringer
Scroop, Archbishop of York:
Hugh Dickson
Mowbray:
Fraser Kerr
Hastings:
Clifford Norgate
Lord Bardolph:
Jeffrey Segal
Travers:
Brian Haines
Morton:
Terry Scully
Colevile:
John Corvin
Warwick:
Brian Haines
Westmoreland:
Terry Scully
Gower:
Andrew Rivers
Harcourt:
Fraser Kerr
Lord Chief Justice:
Allan Cuthbertson
His servant:
Nigel Anthony
PoinS:
Nigel Lambert
Sir John Falstaff:
Leo McKern
Bardolph:
Geoffrey Matthews
Pistol:
Haydn Jones
Peto:
Fraser Kerr
Falstaff's page:
Crispin Gillbard
Justice Shallow:
Cllfford Rose
Justice Silence:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Davy, servant to Shallow:
Jeffrey Segal
Fang:
Ronald Herdman
Snare:
Robin Browne
Ralph Mouldy:
Ronald Herdman
Simon Shadow:
Robin Browne
Thomas Wart:
Lewis Stringer
Francis Feeble:
Nigel Anthony
Peter Bullcalf:
Clifford Norgate
Lady Northumberland:
Katherine Parr
Lady Percy:
Kate Binchy
Mistress Quickly:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Doll Tearsheet:
Patricia Routledge
Beadle, Porter:
John Corvin
Groom, Messenger:
Andrew Rivers
Groom, Drawer:
Robin Browne

KARL i.EYSER. of Magdalen College, Oxford, looks at a new biography of the mysterious half Norman, half German, Emperor Frederick II, whose claim to empire ran from the Baltic to Sicily in 13th-century Europe In modern times he has been a cultural and political hero to Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Kantorowicz. But if we look at the real life of Frederick, what kind of hero does he make?

ELISE ROSS (soprano)
MARY THOMAS (soprano) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by LUCIANO BERlO
Melodrama, for tenor and instruments
E Vo', for soprano and instruments
(sung by Mary Thomas )
Agnus, for two sopranos and three clarinets
(Part of a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in October 1972)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Luciano Berlo
Sung By:
Mary Thomas

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