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Listeners' record requests presented by Michael Oliver
Liszt Totentanz for piano and orchestra
9.24* Poulenc Song-cycle: Le travail du peintre
9.37* Martinu The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
9.57* Granados Los requiebros (Goyescas), for piano
10.9* Rachmaninov Symphonic Poem: The Isle of the Dead

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Liszt Totentanz
Unknown:
Piero Della Francesca
Unknown:
Granados Los

Introduced by CHRISTOPRER GRIER The Early Broadwood Piano, by DEREK ADLAM.
CHRISTOPHER PALMER discusses Ravel's use of the orchestra.
A new book on Maria Callas , reviewed by HAROLD ROSENTHAL.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Christoprer Grier
Unknown:
Derek Adlam.
Unknown:
Christopher Palmer
Unknown:
Maria Callas
Reviewed By:
Harold Rosenthal.

SUSAN MCGAW plays sonatas by Haydn and Mozart, and between them Beethoven's Variations on God Save the King, on this restored piano, roughly contemporary with Beethoven's own. Recorded in the Octagon of the Long Gallery at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan McGaw

The Knot Garden
Opera in three acts. Words and music by Sir Michael Tippett
' Simply the thing I am shall make me live,' is the epigraph to this opera whose subject describes encounters and delusions clarified into understanding.
ORCHESTRA OP THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, conducted by COLIN DAVIS: records

Contributors

Music By:
Sir Michael Tippett

Malcolm Binns (piano) Part 1
Beethoven Sonata in F sharp, Op 78
Schumann Etudes Symphoniques
6.25* Interval Reading
6.35 Celebrity Recital: part 2 Debussy Ballade; Images (1st Series): Reflets dans l'eau; Hommage a Rameau; Mouvement
Liszt Two Legends: St Francis of Assisi, The sermon to the birds: St Francis of Paola walking on the waters
BBC Music Guide: Debussy Piano Music, 35p from bookshops

Contributors

Piano:
Malcolm Binns
Unknown:
St Francis
Unknown:
St Francis

Housebreaker by FAY WELDON with Rose is a coper. Anything - generation gap. drugs, summer visitors, wild cats, male menopause - Rose copes. The trouble is, the stronger the camel's back, the more gets piled upon it. Housebreaker is the story of the final, silent, terrifying straw.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Rose:
Miriam Margolyes
daughter, Clare:
Colin Haydn Jones
daughter, Clare:
Jane Knowles
Bus conductor:
Fraser Kerr
Bus driver:
Anthony Hall
Doll:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Marge:
Diana Bishop
Audrey:
Kathleen Helme
Arthur:
John Hollis
Gavin:
Eric Allan

Dufay Mass: Se la face ay pale JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) MARTYN HILL (tenor)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) GEOFFREY SHAW (baSS)
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON conductor DAVID munrow
(Part of a Promenade Concert broadcast last August)
Tippett The Vision of St Augustine: JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar) LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: record

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bowman
Conductor:
David Munrow
Unknown:
John Shirley-Quirk

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