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J. C. F. Bach Sextet In c ALFRED sous (oboe)
GUSTAV NEUDECKER (horn) WALDEMAR SEEL (horn) GÜNTER KEHR (violin) REINHOLD BUHL (Cello)
MARTIN GALLING (harpsichord)
Handel Cantata: Tu fedel? Tu costante?
HELEN WATTS (contralto)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Haydn Symphony No 36. in I flat: PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI gramophone records

Contributors

Contralto:
Helen Watts
Directed By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Antony Hopkins presents listeners' record requests
This week's guest caller Is Ian Partridge , who at 10.0* introduces some of Fauré's songs, sung by GÉRARD SOUZAY
Telephone [number removed]with your request between 8.0 am and 10.30 today or send a postcard, with your name, telephone number and reason for choice

Contributors

Unknown:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
Ian Partridge

of the first version (1887) of Symphony No 8, in c minor introduced in detail by Deryck Cooke and played by the BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN , conducted by HANS-HUBERT SCBONZELER (Revised version edited by Robert Haas : 16 September)

Contributors

Unknown:
Deryck Cooke
Leader:
Brendan O'Brien
Edited By:
Robert Haas

Part 2 Rachmaninov
Oh, never sing to me again; How fair this spot: The harvest of sorrow: Loneliness; Christ is risen: The answer; To the children; The morn of life; Spring waters: The lilacs; Romance of the young gypsy (Aleko); In the silent night

RADU LUPU (piano)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHIYOSHI INOUE
Debussy Prelude a l'aprèsmidi d'un faune
Mozart Piano Concerto No 24, in c minor (K 491)
Ravel Poeme choreographique: La valse
(Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Piano:
Radu Lupu
Conducted By:
Michiyoshi Inoue

6.25
Thy Lover England
- Elizabeth and her people in their own words
by Alison Plowden with Rosalind Shanks, John Rowe, Stephen Thorn, John Bull and Peter Craze
(Rosalind Shanks is a National Theatre player) followed by an interlude

7.0 Stereo
Proms 73 direct from the Royal Albert Hall
Benjamin Britten 69th Anniversary Concert
Gloriana: opera in three acts
Libretto by William Plomer based on Lytton Strachey's "Elizabeth and Essex"
Music by Benjamin Britten
Sadler's Wells Opera production
Act 1
7.45* William Plomer, the librettist of Gloriana, reminisces about the origin of the opera
8.5* Proms 73: Gloriana. Act 2
9.0* The Rain and the Wind
A selection of Elizabethan love lyrics read by Denys Hawthorne, Rosalind Shanks and Timothy Bateson, selected and produced by John Scotney
9.20* Proms 73: Gloriana, Act 3

(How Ava became Queen: p 12)

Contributors

Writer (Thy Lover England):
Alison Plowden
[Actress]:
Rosalind Shanks
[Actor]:
John Rowe
[Actor]:
Stephen Thorn
[Actor]:
John Bull
Librettist (Gloriana):
William Plomer
Composer (Gloriana):
Benjamin Britten
Henry Cuffe, satellite of Essex:
John Kitchiner (baritone)
The Earl of Essex:
David Hillman (tenor)
Lord Mountjoy:
Terence Sharpe (baritone)
Queen Elizabeth:
Ava June (sop)
Sir Walter Raleigh:
Don Garrard (bass)
Sir Robert Cecil:
Derek Hammond-Stroud (bar)
The Recorder of Norwich:
Harry Coghill (bass)
The Spirit of the Masque:
Robert Ferguson (tenor)
Lady Penelope Rich, sister of Essex:
Jennifer Vyvyan (sop)
Lady Essex:
Maureen Morelle (soprano)
Lady-in-Waiting:
Laureen Livingstone (soprano)
Master of Ceremonies:
Neville Griffiths (bass)
A ballad singer:
Henry Coghill (bass)
A housewife:
Jean Manning (mezzo-soprano)
A city crier:
Leigh Maurice (bass)
Performers:
Children of Hendon High School
Children Trained By:
Charles Western
Children's adviser:
Peter Kay
Singers:
Sadler's Wells Chorus
Chorus-master:
Hazel Vivienne
Gittern player:
Robert Spencer
Musicians:
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Barry Collins
Conductor:
Charles Mackerras
Speaker:
William Plomer
Reader (The Rain and the Wind):
Denys Hawthorne
Reader (The Rain and the Wind):
Rosalind Shanks
Reader (The Rain and the Wind):
Timothy Bateson
Producer (The Rain and the Wind):
John Scotney

A discussion between
Thomas Balogh. Fellow of Balliol College,
Oxford William McCarthy. Fellow of Nuffield College. Oxford, and John Vaizey , Professor of Economics at Brunei University about Lord Balogh's view that ' neither in this country nor anywhere else have Trade Unions been able permanently to increase the share of wages in the National Income.' Producer KRISHAN KUMAR followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Balogh.
Unknown:
Oxford William McCarthy.
Unknown:
John Vaizey
Producer:
Krishan Kumar

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