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Prokofiev Symphony No 1, In D (Classical): Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Neville Marriner
9.20* Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
DORIOT ANTHONY DWYER (flute) BURTON FINE (viola) ANN HOBSON (harp)

9.38* Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat (Coronation) (K 595)
DANIEL BARENBOIM directing the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

10.11* Rachmaninov Excerpts from the Vespers. Op 37
KONSTANTIN OGNEVOI (tenor) RSFSR ACADEMIC RUSSIAN CHOIR conducted by ALEXANDER SVESHNIKOV

Contributors

Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Flute:
Doriot Anthony Dwyer
Flute:
Burton Fine
Harp:
Ann Hobson
Unknown:
Daniel Barenbotm
Tenor:
Konstantin Ognevoi
Conducted By:
Alexander Sveshnikov

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Artur Schnabel's Beethoven: Sir William Glock discusses the playing of his former teacher with Peter Gould.
Eduard Hanslick (born 1825): some reflections on criticism by William Mann.

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Sir William Glock
Unknown:
Peter Gould
Unknown:
William Mann
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

The tenor. Alexander Young. introduces and compares settings of ' the giant of German poetry ' byBeethoven , Schubert ,Schumann. Brahms and Wolf. His accompanist is KEITH SWALLOW .

Contributors

Tenor:
Alexander Young.
Unknown:
Beethoven Schubert
Unknown:
Schumann. Brahms
Unknown:
Keith Swallow

A short story by o. HENRY Read by RAMSAY WILLIAMS
John Tom Little Bear ts an educated white American with Red Indian blood. Dressed in full Indian regalia, he runs a medicine show in the Mid-West. Then something happens which shows that his redskin nature Is always ready to emerge at a time of crisis.
Producer STUART GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Story By:
O. Henry
Read By:
Ramsay Williams
Producer:
Stuart Griffiths

1838-1875 Djamileh
(ou l'Esclave Amoureuse) Music by Bizet
A comic opera in one act Libretto by LOUIS GALLETT. after ALFRED DE MUSSET (sung in French)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF FRENCH RADIO conducted by ANDRE GIRARD
The scene is set in Haroun's palace at Cairo.
(French Radio recording)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Andre Girard

Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano) Unni Rugtvedt (contralto) Robert Kerns (baritone) Rudolf Scholz (organ)
Choir of the Society of the Friends of Music
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jerzy Semkow

Szymanowski Stabat Mater, Op 53

Stravinsky Ballet Suite: Jeux de Cartes

(Austrian Radio recording)

Contributors

Soprano:
Teresa Zylis-Gara
Contralto:
Unni Rugtvedt
Baritone:
Robert Kerns
Organist:
Rudolf Scholz
Conducted By:
Jerzy Semkow

Another programme in which the identity of each work is announced only after it has been heard.
Apologies by ROBERT SIMPSON
A piano sonata:IRIS LOVERIDGE A string quartet:
DARTINGTON QUARTET A violin sonata:
RALPH HOLMES (Violin)
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Unknown:
Iris Loveridge
Unknown:
Dartington Quartet
Violin:
Ralph Holmes
Piano:
Anthony Goldstone

by Giles Cooper
The new stereo production
'Can't a man take a bath, a simple bath, in peace?' All Edward wants is a peaceful bath but memories and people keep disturbing his happy ablutions.
with Cyril Shaps and Kathleen Helme
"Part of the attraction of writing for radio lies in the fact that for no other medium can one write pieces like this which are neither fact nor fiction, neither prose nor poetry, and which have no being except on the air" (Giles Cooper)
Other parts by members of the cast
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Writer:
Giles Cooper
The play realised at the Radiophonic Workshop by:
Richard Yeoman-Clark
The play realised at the Radiophonic Workshop by:
Roger Fenby
Producer:
Desmond Briscoe
Edward Thwaite:
Cyril Shaps
Muriel:
Kathleen Helme
Rory:
Judy Bennett
Traveller:
Gabriel Woolf
Judkins:
Haydn Jones
Sergeant:
Garard Green
Compère:
Edward Kelsey

The poetry of David Jones and C. H. Sisson by ROBERT NYE
A study in the problem of language, and of faith, in two poets of possibly major stature: one died last year; the others collected poems and translations have recently been published.
Dai's boast from ' In Parenthesis ', read by DYLAN THOMAS
Poems from ' Under the Trojan Ditch ', read by C. H. SISSON Producer STEWART CONN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jones
Unknown:
C. H. Sisson
Unknown:
Robert Nye
Read By:
Dylan Thomas
Read By:
C. H. Sisson
Producer:
Stewart Conn

Derek Jewell features the music of JETHRO TULL , from their album Minstrel in the Gallery, of CLIVE JAMES and PETE ATKIN - their album of parody and satire, Live Libel; of Japan's SADISTIC MIKA BAND and the interesting Finnish musician, PEKKA POHJOLA : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jewell
Unknown:
Jethro Tull
Unknown:
Clive James
Unknown:
Pete Atkin
Musician:
Pekka Pohjola

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