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Manfredini Concerto in G minor, Op 3 No 10: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.17* Gluck Chaconne
STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MÜNCHINGER
7.27* Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in d minor, Op 8 No 9: SIDNEY SUTCLIFFE ; VIRTUOSI OF ENGLAND conducted by ARTHUR DAVISON
7.37 Gretry Ballet Suite
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord): records

Contributors

Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Sidney Sutcliffe
Conducted By:
Arthur Davison
Directed By:
Raymond Leppard

Chabrier Rhapsody: Espafla CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FRÉMAUX
8.13* Paganini, arr Kreisler The Witches
RUGGIERO RICCI (violin)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERO BELLUGI
8.23* Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KYRIL KONDRASHIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Louis Frémaux
Violin:
Ruggiero Ricci
Conducted By:
Piero Bellugi
Conducted By:
Kyril Kondrashin

by HALINA CZERNY-STEFANSKA
Two Nocturnes: c minor. Op 48 No 1; c sharp minor, Op 27 No 1
Ballade in G minor, Op 23
Four Mazurkas: A minor, Op 68 No 2; A minor, Op 67 No 4; c minor, Op 24 No 1; B flat major, Op 7 No 1
Two Waltzes: A flat major, Op 34 No 1; A minor, Op 34 No 2
Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44

from Manchester
KEITH swallow (piano) WISSEMA STRING QUARTET Nella Wissema (violin) Fay Campey (violin)
Ludmila Navratil (viola) Paul Ward (cello)
Mozart Quartet in G major (K 387)
2.17* Schubert Valses sentimen tales (D 779); Ecossaises (d 145; 783; 734); Hommage aux belles Viennoises (D 734)
2.42' Haydn Quartet in E major, Op 54 No 3

Contributors

Violin:
Nella Wissema
Viola:
Ludmila Navratil
Cello:
Paul Ward

A light opera in three acts Libretto by A. P. HERBERT Music by Thomas DunhiU
The plot of the opera, set in the late 1920s, tells of the unusual romance between protagonists of Art and County. Hugh Heather, a singer
JOHN BRECKNOCK (tenor)
Jenny Jay , a would-be painter
SALLY LE SAGE (soprano)
The Earl of Tantivy DONALD ADAMS (bass-baritone)
The Countess of Tantivy HELEN LANDIS (contralto)
Lady Ann Gallop , their daughter .PATRICIA REAKES (soprano)
Charles Viscount Harkaway, their son.ALAN JONES (baritone)
Capt Lord Bareback, Master of Fox Hounds.LESLIE FYSON (bar)
BBC SINGERS: BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA, leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT Act 1
3.55* David Dunhill talks about the work of his father. Thomas Dunhill, and recalls the first performance of Tantivy Towers.
4.5* Tantivy Towers Acts 2 and 3 (John Brecknock broadcasts by permission of the English National Opera Company)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. P. Herbert
Music By:
Thomas Dunhiu
Tenor:
Jenny Jay
Soprano:
Sally Le Sage
Bass-Baritone:
Tantivy Donald Adams
Contralto:
Tantivy Helen Landis
Contralto:
Lady Ann Gallop

6.30 Getting It Together
1: Choosing Instruments
In the first of six programmes on how to start and run a pop group, GARY TAYLOR discusses how to find suitable instruments with CHRIS wood (Traffic), cozy POWELL (Hammer), HENRY MARSH and PHILIP PICKETT (Sailor) and BRIAN MAY (Queen).

Contributors

Unknown:
Gary Taylor
Unknown:
Henry Marsh
Unknown:
Philip Pickett

London Philharmonic Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK
John Amis talks to BERNARD HAITINK , to members of the orchestra, and to their Managing Director. ERIC BRAVINGTON. They describe the history of the orchestra, its personality and its musical life, and the portrait includes music specially recorded for the programme.
Berlioz Overture: Le carnaval romain
Liszt Symphonic Poem: Hamlet Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Stravinsky Ballet: The Rite of Spring

Contributors

Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Talks:
John Amis
Unknown:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis

Texts for Nothing IV-VI read by Patrick Magee
The second of four programmes in which PATRICK MAGEE Will read the whole of Beckett's 13 Texts for Nothing.
These prose poems are meditations on the nature of the self and the burden of being. The voice we hear has reached a state detached from a world which has become unreal. It is from this vantage point that the speaker looks back at existence.
Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
(Texts VII-X: next Thursday) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Read By:
Patrick Magee
Unknown:
Patrick Magee
Producer:
Martin Esslin

MUSICA RESERVATA director MICHAEL MORROW
JANTINA NOORMAN (mezzo-sop) MARGARET PHILPOT (Contralto) EDGAR FLEET (tenor) JOHN DUDLEY (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH (treble rebec and viol) DESMOND DUPRE
(tenor rebec and viol) DAPHNE WEBB
(tenor rebec and viol) ADAM SKEAPING
(violone and bass rebec) JULIAN CREME (lute)
ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute) conductor JOHN BECKETT (organ)
Vive le roy ; Mille regretz (various settings); Fault d'argent (two settings); Frottola: El Grillo; La Bernardina (two settings); Scaramella; Pleine de dueil; La déploration de Johan Ockeghem

Contributors

Director:
Michael Morrow
Unknown:
Jantina Noorman
Contralto:
Margaret Philpot
Tenor:
John Dudley
Bass:
Catherine MacKintosh
Tenor:
Desmond Dupre
Tenor:
Daphne Webb
Unknown:
Adam Skeaping
Unknown:
Anthony Rooley
Conductor:
John Beckett
Unknown:
Vive Le Roy
Unknown:
Johan Ockeghem

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