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Haydn Symphony No 89, In F PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
7.27* Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor: PAUL TORTELIER
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Michel Corrette Concerto Comique No 1: Le mirliton ANTIQUA MUSICA ORCHESTRA conducted by JACQUES ROUSSEL
Handel Organ Concerto No 16, in F major: RUDOLF EWERHARDT COLLEGIUM AUREUM conducted by REINHARD PETERS Rameau Suite of dances from the operas and ballets
LAMOUREUX CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS DE FROMENT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Michel Corrette
Conducted By:
Jacques Roussel
Unknown:
Rudolf Ewerhardt
Conducted By:
Reinhard Peters
Conducted By:
Rameau Suite
Conducted By:
Louis De

ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25, in c major (K 503) (cadenza by the soloist)
Strauss Symphonia domestica (Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Piano:
Vienna Philharmonic
Conducted By:
Zubin Mehta

ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by EDUARDO MATA Part 1
Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)
12.39* Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Contributors

Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Eduardo Mata

A tribute to Lionel Tertis
The title is the comment of a Concertgebouw Orchestra player after Tertis had rehearsed with them.
Bernard Keeffe , on the eve of Tertis's 97th birthday, presents this celebration of an artist who raised the Cinderella of instruments out of obscurity, and inspired the admiration and friendship of very many other famous musicians. He talks to some of them, and also to the great violist himself.
Producer PETER DODD
(Lionel Tertis on records: tomorrow, 11.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Tertis
Unknown:
Bernard Keeffe
Producer:
Peter Dodd
Producer:
Lionel Tertis

Music and poetry Eleanor Bron with David Wilde (piano)
The programme begins with Schumann's Scenes from Childhood and ends with the story of Babar the little Elephant by Poulenc. Between them Eleanor Bron reads poems by or about children

Contributors

Unknown:
Eleanor Bron
Piano:
David Wilde
Unknown:
Eleanor Bron

Music for cello and piano
Bach Suite No 6, in D, for cello
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 69
4.35* Reading
4.40* Cello and Piano: part 2
Schumann Fantasv Pieces, Op 73
Debussy Sonata in D minor
Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante, Op 3
Rachmaninov, transc Fournier Prelude in D. Op 23 No 4
(A New Town Concert given in the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh, on 12 March)
Cyril Cusack reads from the London music criticisms of George Bernard Shaw , with music, and peppery comments on that sentimental voluptuary Brahms, Dvorak's musical mortuary decorations, a sackful of opera singers and a dead bird in the crimson Covent Garden pigeon-house; a chat with Bob Schumann , sham religious works called oratorios, and a few seasonal comments on Christmas, that atrocious institution with its round of slaughtering, gorging and drinking.
Compiled and produced by KEITH HORNER t gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
George Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Bob Schumann
Produced By:
Keith Horner

The English Novel Abroad
Six studies of overseas writers whose native language is not English
2: Chinua Achebe
ARTHUR RAVENSCROFT, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Leeds University, introduces the Nigerian author, who talks about and reads from his novel. Things Fall Apart.

by Handel
A complete performance in Watkins Shaw's edition, direct from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Teresa Cahill (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Alexander Young (tenor) John Barrow(bass)
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir chorus-master Edmund Walters Continuo: Caleb Jarvis (organ) Bridget Fry (harpsichord) Oliver Vella (cello) Raymond Hutchinson (double-bass)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Douglas Reid conductor Sir Charles Groves Part 1
The coming of the Messiah
8.0» Handel and Charles Jennens Watkins Shaw talks about the relationship between Handel and the librettist of Messiah.
8.20* Messiah Parts 2 and 3 His death and Resurrection

Contributors

Contralto:
Helen Watts
Bass:
John Barrow
Cello:
Oliver Vella
Double-Bass:
Raymond Hutchinson
Conductor:
Douglas Reid
Conductor:
Charles Jennens

died 28 December 1963 Der Schwanendreher BRUNO GIURANNA (viola)
BELGIAN RADIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONCE GRAS (Belgian Radio recording)
Symphony: Die Harmonie der Welt
FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER (gramophone record)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leonce Gras

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