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Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, in G (K 216): PINCHAS ZUKERMAN ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
10.42* Howells Concerto for string orchestra: DENNIS SIMONS ROBERT GROWCOTT (Violins) JOHN CHAMBERS (viola)
ALEXANDER CAMERON (Cello)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Pinchas Zukerman
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Dennis Simons
Violins:
Robert Growcott
Cello:
Alexander Cameron
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Accompanied by ... Medieval drones. Renaissance viols, the Romantic piano, four horns; dining to the accompaniment of Tafelmusik, the influence of Alberti's invention and the art of continuo accompaniment.
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD introduces record requests,

Contributors

Introduces:
Christopher Hogwood

Dame Edith Evans , with her personal choice of records, declares her love of melody, whether it be John Heddle Nash singing songs by Arne, Julian Bream playing music by Rodrigo, or Kathleen Ferrier singing the Alto Rhapsody of Brahms. Dame Edith finds music in the voice of John Gielgud as he reads Sonnets by Shakespeare, and in the voice of Bernard Shaw as he talks about the theatre.
Her inclusion of the first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto also stirs memories of her friendship with the composer,

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Edith Evans
Unknown:
John Heddle Nash
Unknown:
Julian Bream
Unknown:
Kathleen Ferrier
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Bizet L'Arlésienne: Suite No 1
Mahler Adagietto (Symphony No 5)
Arthur Hutchings Suite: The Shocking Affair
Grieg Air (Holberg Suite)
Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Alan Langford Three Amusements

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Hutchings
Unknown:
Saint-Saens Danse MacAbre
Unknown:
Alan Langford

1605-1674
Second of two programmes BBC NORTHERN SINGERS conductor STEPHEN WILKINSON
GRAHAM BARBER (organ and harpsichord eontinuo)
Hodie Simon Petrus : Parce, heu parce; Ahi, non torna; Incendio ne tempesta; Oratorio: Jephte

Contributors

Conductor:
Stephen Wilkinson
Conductor:
Graham Barber
Unknown:
Hodie Simon Petrus

For the next seven days, following Sir Michael Tippett 's 70th birthday last week, there will be a programme containing his music and sometimes music by other composers, chosen or agreed by him. Piano Sonata No 1
PAUL CROSSLEY (piano) String Quartet No 1
CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Michael Tippett

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Georges Bernanos after the novel "Die Letzte am Schafott" by Gertrud von Le Fort.
Music by Poulenc
(sung in French)

Blanche, a nervous aristocratic girl, chooses the seclusion of a convent, only to find that it leads to glorious martyrdom.

(Netherlands Radio recording)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Libretto:
Georges Bernanos
After the novel "Die Letzte am Schafott" by:
Gertrud von Le Fort
Music:
Francis Poulenc
Singers/Musicians:
Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Jean Fournet
Chevalier de la Force:
Remy Corazza (tenor)
Marquis de le Force, his father:
Bernard Kruysen (baritone)
Blanche, his daughter, later Sister Blanche of the Agony of Christ:
Suzanna Rosander (soprano)
Thierry, a servant:
John Vierkens (baritone)
Madame de Croissy, Prioress of the Carmelite Convent (Mother Henrietta of Jesus):
Cora Canne Meyer (contralto)
Sister Constance of St Denis, a very young nun:
Christiane Chateau (soprano)
Mother Marie of the Incarnation, the Assistant Prioress:
Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano)
Dr Javelinot:
John Vierkens
Mme Lidoine, the new Prioress (Mother Marie of St Augustine):
Lou Ann Wyckoff (soprano)
Chaplain of the Convent:
Marius van Altena (tenor)
Sister Mathilde:
Marianne Dieleman (mezzo-soprano)
First Commissary:
Lode Devos (tenor)
Second Commissary:
John Vierkens
Mother Jeanne of the Child Jesus, Dean of the Community:
Sylvia Schluter (contralto)
Officer:
Hans Zomer (baritone)
Jailer:
Meinard Kraak (baritone)

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