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Elgar The Wand of Youth:
Suite No 1
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.26* Strauss Horn Concerto No in E flat
DENNIS BRAIN
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
7.42* Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in D (Classical)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FROHBECK DE BURGOS gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Conducted By:
Rafael Frohbeck de Burgos

trad, arr Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.11* Berkeley Divertimento in B flat
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR BUKETOFF
8.32* Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Conducted By:
Igor Buketoff

The 30s: Years of Disappointment
Hungarian Peasant Songs
BUDAPEST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS SANDOR Piano Concerto No 2 GEZA ANDA
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FERENC FRICSAY gramophone records
New BBC Music Guide: Bartok Orchestral Music. 55p from bookshops

Contributors

Conducted By:
Janos Sandor
Conducted By:
Ferenc Fricsay

Antony Pay (clarinet)
Bruno Giuranna (viola) Tamas Vasary (piano)
Schumann Marchenerzahlungen Op 132
Britten Lachrymae: Reflections on a song of Dowland, Op 48. for viola and piano Mozart Trio in E flat (K 498)
(A series of public concerts from St John 's, Smith Square, London. SW1. Tickets 60p, obtainable at the door) (Rptd: Friday 9.50 pm)

Contributors

Viola:
Bruno Giuranna
Piano:
Tamas Vasary
Piano:
Schumann Marchenerzahlungen
Unknown:
St John

Suk Serenade for Strings, Op 6 LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
2.25* Mozart Finale: Act 1 (Cosi fan tutte)
MONTSERRAT CABALLE (SOpranO) ILEANA COTRUBAS (soprano)
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) NICOLAI GEDDA (tenor)
WLADIMIRO GANZAROLLI (bar) RICHARD VAN ALLAN (bass)
2.47* Webern Passacaglia, Op 1 BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Soprano:
Montserrat Caballe
Soprano:
Ileana Cotrubas
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Tenor:
Nicolai Gedda
Tenor:
Wladimiro Ganzarolli
Bass:
Richard van Allan
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

The last of three recitals in which Bach's Chorale Preludes of 1747-49 are played by JAMES DALTON at the organ of The Queen's College, Oxford
Three Preludes on Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' (bwv 662-4)
Two Preludes on Jesus Christus. unser Heiland (bwv 665-6) Komm, Gott Schopfer , Heiliger Geist (BWV 667)
Vor deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit (bwv 668)

Contributors

Played By:
James Dalton
Unknown:
Allein Gott
Unknown:
Gott Schopfer
Unknown:
Heiliger Geist

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by GLYNN BRAGG
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by MARCUS dods with artists on records

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Glynn Bragg
Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods

6.30 The Child in Special Need Introduced by NORMAN EVANS
8: The Transition to Adult Life What are the problems faced by handicapped children when they leave school? And what can be done to help them?
7.0 Tal como es
Second-year Spanish, based on interviews recorded in, Spain
20: Maria Victoria Alvarez , who once studied in Britain, discovered that we have some strange ideas about Spain and the Spaniards
Series producer ALAN WILDING
(Repeated: Friday 6.30 pm and next Monday)
Two books 35p each; two LPs 97p each; from bookshops

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norman Evans
Unknown:
Maria Victoria Alvarez
Producer:
Alan Wilding

by Benjamin Britten
Words from the Missa pro Defunctis and the poems of WILFRED OWEN
My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.
All a poet can do is to warn.
Benjamin Britten intersperses the Latin texts from the Mass of the Dead. and the ritual following it. with nine of Wilfred Owen's war poems. The result is the War Requiem.
GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (SOpranO) PETER PEARS (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER. DIESKAU (baritone)
BACH CHOIR and LONDON
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS
HIGHGATE SCHOOL CHOIR
MELOS ENSEMBLE
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Wilfred Owen
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Tenor:
Dietrich Fischer.

Sir Isaiah Berlin, formerly Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in the University of Oxford and now President of the British Academy, examines the intellectual developments in 19th century Russia which culminated in the Revolution. In particular he considers the influence on Russian thinkers of the idea that history is subject to some kind of inevitable pattern through which all human groups, nations and cultures must necessarily go.

by ALFRED LORD TENNYSON (1847) with Rosalind Shanks and Marius Goring
Adapted for radio in 13 parts 11: The Reckoning
Producer TERENCE TILLER (Part 12: 24 March)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Marius Goring
Producer:
Terence Tiller
Narrator:
Marius Goring
Lilia/Princess Ida:
Rosalind Shanks
King:
Victor Lucas
Cyril:
Sam Dastor
Gama:
Haydn Jones
Psyche:
Carole Boyd
Blanche:
Kate Coleridge
AraC:
Alan Dudley

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