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J. S. Bach Concerto in c miner, for two harpsichords and string orchestra
GUSTAV LEONHARDT, EDUARD MULLER LEONHARDT CONSORT directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
7.20* J. C. F. Bach Sextet in c
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
7.35* J. S. Bach Suite No 1, in C: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD gramophone records

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BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No 2
8.21* Concerto in c
DAVID OISTRAKH (VIOlin)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Cello) SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) gramophone recbrds

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leaders ELI GOREN and BELA DEKANY conductor PIERRE BOULEZ with FELICITY PALMER (soprano) Messiaen Poemes pour Mi Mahler Symphony No 4

UTO UGHI, MICHAEL 1SADOR
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
Brahms Sonata in G, Op 78

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Part 1
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde)
Da vid Ellis Symphony No 1

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Part 2
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

Thomas Hemsley (baritone) and PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Part 1: songs by Liszt and Rachmaninov

Reflections by Paul Bailey

Recital: part 2
Schumann Dichterliebe
(From the Cathedral Refectory, Chester. Recorded during the 1973 Chester Festival)

Marenzio A Florentine Festival of 1589: excerpts from the second Intermezzo - Musica Reservata conducted by John Beckett

Corelli Concerto Grosso No 9, in F: Naples - Scarlatti Orchestra conducted by Ettore Gracis

Tartini Sonata in G minor (Devil's trill) - Eduard Melkus (violin) Lionel Salter (harpsichord) Walter Schulz (cello)

3.55* Gentlemen and Players
Denis Arnold outlines the background to the emerging public concert - musical life at court and church, the Italian academy and conservatory.

4.10* The Public Concert Part 2
Galuppi Overture: Il filosofo di Campagna (mono) - Collegium Musicum Italicum conducted by Renato Fasano

Neapolitan songs
Settings of O Domine Jesu Christe by Willaert and Giovanni Gabrieli
Vivaldi Excerpts: Juditha Triumphans
- Soloists Budapest Madrigal Chorus, Hungarian State Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Szekeres

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(Early concert life in England: 13 May)
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Violin Concerto in D major ARTHUR GRUMIAUX AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA conducted by EDUARD VAN BEJNUM gramophone record

Written and presented by David Munrow
Songs of a great city: some first impressions of Paris from Gershwin, Offenbach, Delius and Svendsen. ‡
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

The finals of the BBC's contest to find the BBC Band of the Year 1974 Ever Ready Co (G.B.) Band conductor ERIC CUNNINGHAM versus
William Davis Construction Group Band conductor IAN BARTRAM
Adjudicators: GEOFFREY BRAND, ERIC BRAVINGTON, KENNETH WRIGHT Introduced by PETER BARKER Producer ANTONY ASKEW
(An edited version of the contest held at the Royal Festival Hall last Saturday)

Ives Sonata No 1
Richard Rodney Bennett Five Studies (first broadcast performance)
(Stereo)

live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Opera in three acts music by Verdi libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE from La Dame aux Cameiias by ALEXANDRE DUMAS (fils) (sung in Italian)
La Traviata tells of Violetta's love for Alfredo. She gives up her life of luxury for true love, but is forced to sacrifice that love for the cause of family, honour and dignity.
Violetta Valéry, a courtesan
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Flora Bervoix, Violetta's friend
GILLIAN KNIGHT (mezzo-soprano) The Marquis of Obigny
WILLIAM ELVIN (baritone) Baron Douphol GEORGE MACPHERSON (bass)
Dr Grenvil
RICHARD VAN ALLAN (bass)
Gastone, a young man of fashion RICHARD GREAGER (tenor)
Alfredo Germont jose CARRERAS (tenor)
Annina, Violetta's maid
ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE
(mezzo-soprano)
Giuseppe, Violetta's servant
HANDEL OWEN (tenor)
Giorgio Germont, Alfredo's father.VICTOR BRAUN (baritone)
Messenger.KEITII RAGGETT (bass) Flora's servant
WILLIAM CLOTHIER (baSS)
Friends of Violetta and Flora ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master DOUGLAS ROBINSON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, led by MEYER STOLOW conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD Time: the mid-19th century
Act 1: A reception room in Violetta's house in Paris
8.10* The Role of the Courtesan A talk by LOUIS ALLEN
8.30* La Traviata: Act 2, Sc 1 The garden room of a country house outside Paris
9.15" The Claque Chef gets an Ovation
DAVID MARCH reads Joseph Wechsberg 's account of working under the great claqueur Schostal, at the Vienna Staatsoper in the 1920s.
9.35* La Traviata: Act 2, Sc 2
A gallery in the palace of Flora Bervoix in Paris
10.5* Love and Good Company CATHLEEN NESBiTT reads from her forthcoming autobiography her memories of seeing Sarah Bernhardt as ' La Dame aux Camelias.' and of life in a French boarding school 70 years ago.
10.25" La Traviata: Act 3 Violetta's bedroom
(Prima donna seamstress: p 4)

Ages: radiophonic invention for voices, chorus and orchestra, on a text from As You Like It by Bruno Maderna and Giorgio Pressburger MILAN RADIO CHORUS
ITALIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO MADERNA
(Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio) followed by an interlude

Kingsley Amis made a broadcast last year that had some surprising results.
Tonight he considers fact, fiction and logic, and asks 'What Green Man?' $

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