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Cantata No 52: Falsche Welt, dir trau' ich nicht
NELLY VAN DER SPEEK (Soprano) MANNHEIM BACH CHOIR
HEIDELBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ MARKUS GOTTSCHE
Cantata No 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die
Stimme URSULA BUCKEL (soprano) JAKOB STAMPFLI (basS)
SAAR CONSERVATORY CHORUS SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL RISTENPART gramophone records
On the first of the month ROBIN HOLMES reads from John Clare 's poem.
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Edited and introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra by ROBERT PHILIP
Recent opera: reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE
Excerpts from some of the new opera records discussed by CHARLES OSBORNE in this morning's Record Review, including scenes from Rossini's William Tell and Mozart's La finta giardiniera.
conducted by the Prime Minister Rt Hon Edward Heath. Mp direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
RICHARD BAKER (narrator) JOHN BIRCH (organ) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE ACADEMY OF THE BBC concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola
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Handel Organ Concerto No 4, in F
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The Robert Maver concerts were initiated 50 years age in order to inspire young people with a love of music and to create the habit of concert-going In view of their age Sir Robert and Lady Mayer have agreed that. from the 1974/5 season, BBC Radio will assume the responsibility of administering the concerts given in the Royal Festival Hall. ROBERT PONSONBY , BBC's Controller. Music. says:
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Carnlli Duo in g. Op 34
12.37* Sor L'encouragement, Op 34: gramophone record
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Compiled and introduced by Donald Milner
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) STEUART BEDFORD (piano) LONDON OBOE QUARTET
Professor Sir Ernst Gembrkh , Art Historian. Director of the Warburg Institute, describes his musical taste as ' unsurprising for a Viennese of his generation and background. having had unusual opportunities over the years, and frequenUy hearing such great musicians as Adolf Busch , Toscanini and Rudolf Serkin. ' He includes works by Bach. Mozart. Beethoven. Schubert and Verdi, as well as extracts from a Haydn Mass and from Die Fledermaus. Records
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Music by Hamish MacCunn , Fauré. Butterworth. David Morgan and Liszt
A personal choice by EWAN MACCOLL and PEGGY SEEGER from the BBC Sound Archives collection of British folk music.
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
Introduced by John Amis including an investigation into the making of musical instruments today.
LIONEL SALTER (harpsichord)
An opera by Penderecki
English version adapted from JOHN WRITING'S play The Devils by DESMOND CLAYTON
Sadler's Wells Opera direct from the London Coliseum
The opera deals with the historical events that took place between the appointment of Urbain Grandier as parish priest of St Pierre in Loudun in 1617. and his execution for alleged sorcery in 1634. SAOLRR'S WELLS CHORUS chorus-master HAZEL VIVIENNE SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA leader BARRY COLLINS conducted by NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE Producer JOHN DEXTER
During the interval (8.20*-8.40*) Carleton Hobbs reads the story of Urbain Grandier by T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE from Sketches from French History, first published in 1878, adapted and produced by PATRICIA BRENT
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The philosophy of Marx is often assumed to have been largely a speculative derivation from that of Hegel. In discussing David McLellan 's new biography of Marx, however, Heinz Lubasz , Lecturer in History at the University of Essex, shows how important was the practical, empirical element in the thinking of Karl Marx.
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SCHNEIDERHAN (violin) Part 1
Divertimento for string orchestra (K 138)
Violin Concerto No 5 (K 219)
Rondo for violin and orchestra (K 373)
A reminiscence in hexameters by PATRIC DICKINSON
Spoken by Michael Redgrave Producer R. D. SMITH ‡
(How I Was Nearly Strangled by Dylan Thomas : tomorrow, 3. 45 pm)
Part 2
Adagio for violin and orchestra (K 261)
Rondo for violin and orchestra (K 269)
Serenade (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) (K 525)
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)
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