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W. F. Bach Sinfonia in d minor SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL RISTENPART Telemann Paris Quartet No 1, in D: FRANS BRÜGGEN (flute) JAAP SCHRODER (violin) ANNER BYLSMA (Cello)
GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord) Haydn Symphony No 43 (Mercury): PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Ristenpart
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Bernard Keeffe presents listeners' record requests and discusses with them the musical reasons behind their choice.
This weeks guest caller is Daniel Jones , who at 10.0* will introduce his choice - Janacek's Sinfonietta, played by the CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL.
Telephone [number removed]with Hour request between 8.0 am and 10.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Keeffe
Unknown:
Daniel Jones

Presented by Alan BIyth Summer music number
CHARLES CUDWORTH describes the London pleasure gardens and their music.
WILLIAM MANN looks at music written for open-air performance.
Music Weekly investigates the history and development of the festival.
Editor KEITH HORNER

Contributors

Presented By:
Alan Biyth
Unknown:
Charles Cudworth
Unknown:
William Mann
Editor:
Keith Horner

Great Britain Rounds: Programme 4
Equal Voice Class:
CREGAGH LADIES CHOIR, BELFAST THURROCK MALE VOICE CHOIR Mixed Voice Class:
CANTORION ARDWYN
CHAPTER HOUSE CHOIR, YORK 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
Introduced By:
Anthony Philpott

Le Mariage aux Lanternes Operetta in one act Libretto by M. CARRÉ and L. BATTU
Music by Offenbach (sung in French)
English narration by ELIZABETH JOHNSON spoken by HUGUES CUENOD
The story of a rich farmer's nephew who eludes the advances of two predatory widows and marries the girl he loves.
Cast in order of singing:
SERENATA OF LONDON leader NONA LIDDELL conducted by RAYMOND LFPPARD Producers ELEANOR WARREN and ELIZABETH JOHNSON
(A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John's. Smith Square, London, on 25 June)

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Carré
Unknown:
L. Battu
Unknown:
Elizabeth Johnson
Spoken By:
Hugues Cuenod
Conducted By:
Raymond Lfppard
Producers:
Eleanor Warren
Producers:
Elizabeth Johnson

with the music of BENJAMIN BRITTEN
A melodrama for radio by EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST arranged for stereo by RAYMOND RAIKES based on HOMER'S Odyssey with Stephen Murray
Rachel Gurney , Marius Goring Jill Balcon , Leslie French with the SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by RAE JENKINS Producer RAYMOND RAIKES

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Rachel Gurney
Unknown:
Marius Goring
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
Producer:
Raymond Raikes
The Goddess Athene:
Jill Balcon
Mentor, a watchman:
George Hagan
Phemius, a poet:
Marius Goring
Eurymachus, a suitor:
Vernon Joyner
Halitherses, a fisherman:
Haydn Jones
His wife:
Katherine Parr
Callidice, their daughter:
Bonnie Hurren
Irus, a Spy:
Leslie French
Leodes, a priest:
David Timson
Penelope, wife of Odysseus:
Rachel Gurney
Eurynome, her servant:
Diana Bishop
Telemachus, her son:
Hugh Dickson
Euryclea, nurse to Odysseus:
Wynne Clark
A coxswain:
Robin Browne
Two Sailors:
Haydn Jones
Two Sailors:
Fraser Kerr
Odysseus, lord of Ithaca:
Stephen Murray
Eumaeus, a swineherd:
Will Leighton
Suitors for the hand of Penelope: Antinous:
Clive Swift
Suitors for the hand of Penelope: Peisander:
Fraser Kerr
Suitors for the hand of Penelope: Agelaus:
Peter Williams
Suitors for the hand of Penelope: Amphinomus:
John Forrest
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Marion Dodd
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Yvonne Newman
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Veronica Lucas
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Leonie Henshilwood

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke (sung in German)

Florestan, unjustly imprisoned, is saved from death by his wife who contrives to enter the dungeon disguised as a boy.

Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, leader Charles Taylor

7.30 Act 1

Contributors

Librettist:
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Singers:
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Musicians:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Orchestra leader:
Charles Taylor

Byrd and Gibbons IAN HARE (organ)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL SINGERS conductor MARTINDALE SIDWELL direct from St Margaret's Church. King's Lynn
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis: Justorum animae
Gibbons Fantasia in A minor; Fantasia for double organ Byrd Mass for four voices
(Given in association with R3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gibbons Ian Hare

BBC Radio 3

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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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