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A record request programme Part 1
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN , NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.35* Prokofiev Sinfonietta MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by DZHEMAL DALGAT

Contributors

Unknown:
Pinchas Zukerman
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Dzhemal Dalgat

Part 2
Saint-Saens Symphonic Poem: Phaeton: THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
8.17* Berlioz The shepherds' farewell (The Childhood of Christ) : ST ANTHONY SINGERS GOLDSBROUGH ORCHESTRA conducted by colin DAVIS
8.23* Stravinsky Ballet: Petrushka (1947 version): NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre Dervaux
Singers:
St Anthony
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein

Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL (gramophone record)
Salnt-Saens Duos (Op 8): No 2: Cavatina; No 4: Capriccio ALAN HARVERSON (harmonium) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Brahms Serenade No 2, in A major
DRESDEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ BONGARTZ (gramophone record)
Verdi Excerpts from Un Ballo in Maschera: Di' tu se fedele il flutto m'aspetta (Act 1); Recit: Forse la soRlia attinse; Aria: Ma se me forza perderti (Act 3)
NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by GIUSEPPE PATANE (gramophone record)
Liszt Weinen , Klagen (after J. S. Bach)
DAVID WILDE (piano)
Smetana Symphonic Poem: Wallenstein's Camp
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK (gramophone record)
Berlioz Excerpts from The Trojans
Trojan March
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Royal Hunt and Storm
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD Act 5, Scenes 2 and 3 AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN MCCARTHY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON (gramophone records)
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Conducted By:
George Szell
Unknown:
Capriccio Alan Harverson
Conducted By:
Heinz Bongartz
Tenor:
Nicolai Gedda
Conducted By:
Giuseppe Patane
Unknown:
Liszt Weinen
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Royal Hunt
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson

Recitals given by artists of the younger generation. MARTINO TIRIMO (piano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Bach Toccata in D (BWV 912)
Liszt Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; In Liebeslust; Wer nie sein Brot; Ihr Glocken von Marling: Die Vatergruft; Die drei Zigeuner
Chopin Allegro de concert, Op 46
(Given in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. on 17 January)

Contributors

Piano:
Martino Tirimo
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Piano:
Paul Hamburger

Johann Strauss (son) (with counterpoint by Brahms) Overture: Waldmeister
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
Brahms, orch Schoenberg Piano Quartet No 1, in G minor
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROBERT CRAFT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Conducted By:
Robert Craft

sung by MUSICA DEO SACRA in the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin. Tewkesbury
Introit: I sat down under his shadow (Bairstow)
Preces and Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms 42 and 43 (Plainsong)
Lessons: 2 Kings 6, v 24 to 7, v 2; Luke 9, vv 1-17
Office Hymn: Now shall the praises of the Lord (Gibbons) Canticles: The Short Service (Caustun)
Anthem: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Bairstow) Organist JOHN PRYER
Musical director BRIAN COLEMAN

Contributors

Organist:
John Pryer
Director:
Brian Coleman

Today's programme of requests by the under-20s offer* a chance to compare Vivaldi's Concerto in D minor (L'estro armonico) with Bach's transcription for organ (bwv 596), extracts from The Marriage of Figaro arranged for wind band by Johann Wendt and as a piano Fantasle by Liszt, and two slow movements by Haydn. Introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Wendt
Introduced By:
Christopher Hogwood

6.30 Felice est la - 8 Livre, 45p: voir page 55
6.50 Big Band
Four programmes on orchestrated jazz, introduced by ANTONY HAYNES
2: The Development of 'Swing' The music Of FLETCHER HENDERSON , COUNT BASIE , BENNY GOODMAN , TOMMY DORSEY , ARTIE SHAW and JIMMIE LUNCEFORD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Antony Haynes
Unknown:
Fletcher Henderson
Unknown:
Count Basie
Unknown:
Benny Goodman
Unknown:
Tommy Dorsey
Unknown:
Artie Shaw
Unknown:
Jimmie Lunceford

direct from the Royal Albert Hall London
Elly Ameling (soprano) Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Alexander Young (tenor) Thomas Allen (baritone) Gwynne Howell (bass) Monteverdi Choir

Continuo:
Malcolm Hicks (organ) Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichord) Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) Barry Guy (double-bass) Monteverdi Orchestra, leader Sylvia Cleaver, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Part 1 Kyrie; Gloria
8.35* In Him Was Life
A selection from the sermons and religious writings of the great 14th-century German mystic Meister Eckhart, complied by Francis Watson
'God is infinite in his simplicity and simple in his infinity. Therefore he is everywhere, and is everywhere whole and entire.'
Reader Michael Bryant
8.50* Proms 73
Bach: Mass in B minor
Part 2 Credo
9.30* The Transit of the Soul
A selection of German religious writings by Henry Suso, John Tauler and Jacob Boehme, compiled by Francis Watson
Reader Michael Bryant
9.45* Proms 73
Bach: Mass in B minor
Part 3 Sanctus; Agnus Dei

(Stereo)

Contributors

Soprano:
Elly Ameling
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Tenor:
Alexander Young
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Bass:
Gwynne Howell
Singer:
Monteverdi Choir
Organist:
Malcolm Hicks
Harpsichordist:
Nicholas Kraemer
Cellist:
Jennifer Ward Clarke
Double-Bassist:
Barry Guy
Musicians:
Monteverdi Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Sylvia Cleaver
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Compiler (In Him Was Life):
Francis Watson
Reader:
Michael Bryant
Producer (The Transit of the Soul):
John Theocharis

1: The Two Faces read by Geraldine MeEwan
' She had a perfection resplendent, but what in the world had it done, this perfection, to her beauty? It was her beauty doubtless that looked out at him, but it was into something else that, as their eyes met. he strangely found himself looking.'
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
(17 August: The Tree of Knowledge, read by Frederick Treves )

Contributors

Read By:
Geraldine Meewan
Producer:
John Theocharis
Read By:
Frederick Treves

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