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A record request programme Part 1
Mendelssohn Overture: Fair Melusine
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.16* Barber Violin Concerto ISAAC STERN
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.39* Brahms Song of Destiny AMBROSIAN CHORUS
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Claudio Abbado

Part 2
Scriabin Piano Concerto in F sharp minor
VLADIMIR ASIIKENAZY
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by lorin maazel
8.33* Janacek Rhapsody: Taras Bulba: BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

played by MARTIN WHITE i organ of St Patricks Cathedral, Armagh)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in A major (bwv 536): Trio in c minor (bwv 585)
Scronx Echo Fantasia
Andriessen Theme and Variations (1949)
Bonnet Variations de concert, Op 1

Contributors

Played By:
Martin White
Unknown:
Bach Prelude

Second of four recordings made in November 1972, when a number of eminent Russian musicians came to London. ALEXANDER VEDERNIKOV (baSS) georgi sviridov (piano)
Glinka To Molly: Venetian night; Travelling song
Borodin Song of the dark forest Mussorgsky Gathering mushrooms; Serenade; Is spinning a man's work: Pride: Hebrew song: Song of the flea
Sviridov The forest sheds its deep red attire; Going down to Izhory: A Russian song
'A concert in the Purcell Room, on 24 Nov 1972)

maurizio pollini (piano) SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by michi inouk Part 1 Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
12.15* Reading
12.25* Concert: Part 2
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor
(Recording made available by courtesy of South German Radio)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michi Inouk

Lord Boyle of Handsworth talks about music for which he has a special affection Brahms
Sextet in G major, Op S* which is played by the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with KENNETH ESSEX (Viola) TERENCE WEIL (cello)
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets from [address removed] enclosing SAE)

Contributors

Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Viola:
Kenneth Essex
Cello:
Terence Weil

concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN CYNTHIA GLOVER (soprano)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHN SON (tenor) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conducted by Meredith DAVIES
Mozart Symphony No 35, in a (Haffner) ik 385)
Handel Chandos Anthem No 9: 0 praise the Lord with one consent

Contributors

Soprano:
Cynthia Glover
Soprano:
Anthony Rolfe John
Conducted By:
Meredith Davies

Noel Lee (piano)

Debussy Etudes. Book 2: Pour les degres chromatiques; Pour les agrements; Pour les notes repetees; Pour les sonorites opposees: Pour les arpeges composes; Pour les accords

Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin: Prelude: Fugue; Forlane; Rigaudon; Menuet; Toccata

from
St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow Minister REV DR WILLIAM MORRIS Responses (Bvrd) Psalm 119. vv 1-32
Magnificat (Buxtehude)
Nunc dimittis (Wood, Collegium Regale)
Anthem: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ (Bach)
Organist and Master of the Music JOHN R. TURNER
Associate Organist PETER NAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr William Morris
Music:
John R. Turner
Organist:
Peter Naylor

6.30 Punti di Vista
A second-year course of 20 lessons by JOHN INSOLE and MARIA LAURA FRANCIOSI, based on interviews recorded in Italy
5: L'uorrto italiuno ... e I'uomo inglese
Introduced by SILVIA STEWART and ALDO BEVACQUA.
(Book 80p, two LPs £1.22 each from bookshops)
7.0 Rendez-vous a Chaviray
A second-year French course by JOHN BOSS and MADELEINE LE CUNFF
Programme 22 With CATHERINE GRAHAM, LOUIS
BLONCOURT, ELMA SOIRON, PIERRE VALMER and MADELEINE LE CUNFF
(Rptd: Sunday 3.0 pm R4 VHF) (Book 55p; three LP records £1.21 each from bookshops)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Insole
Unknown:
Maria Laura Franciosi
Introduced By:
Silvia Stewart
Introduced By:
Aldo Bevacqua
Unknown:
John Boss
Unknown:
Madeleine Le Cunff
Unknown:
Catherine Graham
Unknown:
Louis Bloncourt
Unknown:
Elma Soiron
Unknown:
Pierre Valmer

Charles Rosen (piano)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, leader Barry Griffiths, conducted by john Pritchard

Part 1

Strauss Symphonic Poem: Don Juan

7.49* Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat major (K 595)

8.25* Reading

8.35* Concert Part 2

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4, in F minor

(A public concert presented in the Guild Hall, Preston, on 2 April by the BBC in association with the County Borough of Preston Entertainments Dept)

Contributors

Pianist:
Charles Rosen
Musicians:
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conductor:
John Pritchard

In the last of six programmes featuring this great set of string quartets. MISHA DONAT examines Haydn's use of a homogeneous key-scheme. The two works to be played each have four successive movements in the same tonality.
Quartet in G major. Op 33 No 5
10.11* Quartet in D major, Op 50 No 6 (The Frog)
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violini
Brendan O'Reilly violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Misha Donat
Violini:
Kenneth Sillito
Violin:
Brendan O'Reilly
Cello:
Keith Harvey

The second of six broadcasts of early operas
Thomas and Sally
Dramatic Pastoral in two acts Music by Arne Libretto by Isaac BICKERSTAFFE
This is a tale of love and constancy threatened by the manoeuvres of the Squire, a man of fortune. Tom returns from sea just in time, as he aptly puts it, to prevent the Squire 'boarding his prize.' and virtue at last is rewarded!
LAYTON RING
(harpsichord continuo) NORTHERN SINFONIA conducted by SIMON PRESTON gramophone records

Contributors

Music By:
Arne Libretto
Unknown:
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Conducted By:
Simon Preston

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