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A record request programme Part 1
Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba: ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-F1ELDS
Conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.10* Haydn Mass in B flat (Creation),: APRIL CANTELO (sop) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
FORBES ROBINSON (bass)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-TRE-FIELDS conducted by GEORGE GUEST

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Contralto:
Helen Watts
Unknown:
St John
Conducted By:
George Guest

Part 2
Vivaldi Autumn (The Seasons) ALAN LOVEDAY (violin). ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILI.E MARRINER
8.18* Debussy Trois gymnopedies: ALDO CICCOLINI (piano)
8.27* Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K 364) IGOR OISTRAKH (Violin) DAVID OISTRAKH (viola) who also directs the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Contributors

Violin:
Alan Loveday
Piano:
Aldo Ciccolini
Viola:
David Oistrakh

Balakirev and Borodin
Balakirev Sonata in a flat minor (1905): ALBERT FERBER (piano)
9.32* Songs:
Balakirev They always call me Fool: Seventh November BORIS CHRISTOFF (baSS)
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN (piano)
Borodin For the shores of thy fair native land
BORIS CHRISTOFF , LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA. conducted by GEORGES TZIPINE : records

Contributors

Piano:
Albert Ferber
Bass:
Boris Christoff
Unknown:
Boris Christoff
Conducted By:
Georges Tzipine

Recorded by ROBERT JOYCE in Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
Hoddinott Toccata alla Giga, Op 37 No 1
Sweelinck Variations on Christe qui lux es et dies
9.54* Franck Pastorale , Op 19
10.5* Messiacn Combat de la mort et de la vie (Les corps glorieux)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Joyce
Unknown:
Franck Pastorale

A programme of music composed in the same year
Brahms Trio in A minor. Op 114. for clarinet, cello and piano: MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
Debussy Dans le jardin; Romance: Les cloches; Les angélus: La mer est plus belle; Le son du cor s'afflige; L'échelonnement des haies RICHARD ANGAS (bass)
PETER PETTINGER (piano)
Tchaikovsky Suite: Nutcracker PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH : record Strauss Two Songs, Op 26
RICHARD ANGAS , PETER PETTINGER Sibelius Introduction; Kullervo and his sister (first and third movements from Kullervo) RAILI KOSTIA (soprano)
USKO VIITANEN (bass-baritone)
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY MALE VOICE
CHOIR, BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND : record
Brahms Quintet in B minor. Op 115, for clarinet and strings: MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Unknown:
Richard Angas
Unknown:
Peter Pettinger
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund
Unknown:
Brahms Quintet

A weekly series of recitals by the younger generation.
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) David Willison (piano) Dezso Ranki (piano)
Schubert Liebesbotschaft ;Dass sie hier gewesen ; Wandrers Nachtlied (Uber alien Gipfein ist Run'); Der Musensohn Chopin Studies. Op 10
Britten The choirmaster's burial; Before life and after (Winter Words)
Bartok Three Burlesques, Op 8c Liszt Concert Study: Un sospiro (Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London)

Contributors

Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson
Piano:
David Willison
Piano:
Dezso Ranki
Piano:
Schubert Liebesbotschaft
Piano:
Dass Sie Hier Gewesen
Piano:
Wandrers Nachtlied

Scenes from Mozart's last opera. The cast includes EVELYN LEAR as Pamina, FRITZ WUNDER -LICH as Tamino, and DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU as Papageno and is conducted by KARL BOHM gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Lear
Unknown:
Fritz Wunder
Conducted By:
Karl Bohm

from Magdalen College, Oxford Introit: Ecce concipies (Handi) Responses (Tomkins)
Psalms 27 and 32 (Jones. Boycel Lessons: Isaiah 45. vv 18-25: 1 Thessalonians 4, v 13 to 5, v 28
Canticles (Sheppard, Second Service)
Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David (Weelkes)
Organist and Informator Choristarum BERNARD ROSE
Organ scholar IAN CRABBE

Records requested by the under-20s. introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Respighi The Adoration of the Magi (Three Botticelli Pictures) (monft)
Schuller Seven Studies on themes of Paul Klee
Martinu The Frescoes of Riero della Francesca

Contributors

Introduced By:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Paul Klee

6.30 Ochen' priyatno
Russian beginners' course 10: At the Opera
Series producer DAVID DOUGHAN (Rptd: Sunday. R4 VHF)
Book, 80p; two LP records, £1.22 each; Pronunciation record, 99p: see page 90
7.0 Rendez-vous a Chaviray A second-year French course Programme 10
(Rpt: Sunday. R4 VHF)
Book, 55p; three LP records, £1.21 each: see page 90

Contributors

Producer:
David Doughan

from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Geza Anda (piano)
BBC SINGERS (WOMEN'S VOICES) director JOHN POOLE
BBJ8 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1
Suite: The Wooden Prince Piano Concerto No 2

Contributors

Piano:
Geza Anda
Director:
John Poole
Leader:
Eli Goren
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

J. C. Hall 's new book A House of Voices marks a departure in his work: the main theme is his father's death, together with an exploration of childhood memories and the art of poetry.
Tonight MR HALL introduces and reads a selection of these poems with HARVEY hall
Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
J. C. Hall
Producer:
George MacBeth

Audun and the Polar Bear A new play for radio by PAAVO HAAVIKKO translated from the Finnish by DYMPNA CONNOLLY
Music by LIONEL SALTER
A folk tale from the world of Icelandic sagas about the ups and downs of human fortune and the strange ways of human destiny.
Audun. a young man said to be lucky............. NIGEL ANTHONY
Egill. a man who married his future wife's sister, so that his future wife became his wife's sister FRASER KERR
Jofridur. his wife...JAN EDWARDS Helga. Jofridur's sister, who was to have been Egill's wife, and who was older than Jofridur ... PATRICIA GALLIMORE
Thor. the father of these girls who have got the order of their marriage wrong
HAYDN JONES
Heraldur, King of Norway, who had a quarrel with the King of Denmark
PETER WILLIAMS
Sveinn. King of Denmark, who had a quarrel with the King of Norway .... TIMOTHY BATESON
Aki. a courtier of King Sveinn, who came off badly
TERRY SCULLY
Irish harp played by GRAINNE YEATS
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Paavo Haavikko
Music By:
Lionel Salter
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Terry Scully
Played By:
Grainne Yeats
Producer:
Martin Esslin

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