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Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRDHBECK DE BURGOS
7.17* Michael Haydn Concerto in c, for viola, organ and string orchestra
BRUNO GIURANNA , DANIEL CHORZEMPA GERMAN BACH SOLOISTS, conducted by HELMUT WINSCHERMANN
7.50* Saint-Saëns Symphonic Poem: Le rouet d'Omphale
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN MARTINON gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Frdhbeck de Burgos
Conducted By:
Michael Haydn
Unknown:
Bruno Giuranna
Unknown:
Daniel Chorzempa
Conducted By:
Helmut Winschermann
Conducted By:
Jean Martinon

Arne Overture No 5, in D ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
8.13* J C. Bach Symphony No 3. in E flat, for wind band LONDON WIND SOLOISTS directed by JACK BRYMER
8.23* Haydn Symphony No 100, in G (Military)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM
8.49' Wallace Overture: Maritana : LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Chistopher Hogwood
Directed By:
Jack Brymer
Conducted By:
Eugen Jochum
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge

William Alwyn born 1905
An occasional series in which British composers talk about themselves and their music.
Naiades: Fantasy-Sonata, for flute and harp
CHRISTOPHER HYDE-SMITH (flUte) MARISA ROBLES (harp)
Mirages: a song-cycle for baritone and piano
BENJAMIN LUXON (baritone) DAVID WILLISON (piano)
Symphony No 5 (Hydriotaphia) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER (record)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Alwyn
Flute:
Christopher Hyde-Smith
Harp:
Marisa Robles
Baritone:
Benjamin Luxon
Piano:
David Willison

Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) with Murray Perahia (piano) Britten Quartet in D (1931)
Mozart Piano Quartet in 9 flat (K 493)
12.15* Interval Reading
12.20* Gabrieli String Quartet Part 2 Ravel Quartet in r

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Violin:
Brendan O'Reilly
Viola:
Ian Jewel
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Piano:
Murray Perahia

SALLY LE SAGE (soprano) JOHN FRASER (piano)
Debussy Ariettes oubliées
Chabrier Villanelle; L'lle heureuse arr Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne Bernstein I hate music
(From the Library Theatre. Fifth of 12 concerts promoted by Metropolitan Bradford Libraries in assoc with the BBC)

Contributors

Piano:
John Fraser
Unknown:
Auvergne Bernstein

before 1300
Sequence: Organicus canamus modulis
Conductus a 3: Quid tu vides Jeremia
Organum a 2: Exiit sermo
Motet a 2: Manere vivere-Manere
Motet a 3: Dame de valor - Dame vostre doz regart - Manere
Motet a 4: Ce que Je tieng - Certes mout est bone - Bone compaignie - Manere
Monophonic Conductus: Alabaustrum frangitur
Conductus Motet a 3: Serena Virginum
JOHN DUDLEY , PAUL ELLIOTT (tenors) ANDREW PARROTT (tenor, bells) HOWARD WILLIAMS (baritone) PETER HOLMAN (organ) TAVERNER CHOIR director ANDREW PARROTT

Contributors

Unknown:
Serena Virginum
Unknown:
John Dudley
Tenors:
Paul Elliott
Tenor:
Andrew Parrott
Baritone:
Peter Holman
Director:
Andrew Parrott

The Wider World
6.30 African Music
2: The North African Tradition JEAN JENKINS, musicologist at the Horniman Museum, London , talks to GRAHAM TAYAR about the music and instruments found in the cities and deserts of the predominantly Islamic north.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Jenkins
Unknown:
Graham Tayar

A short story by the Sicilian writer LEONARDO SCIASCIA
Two branches of the mafia had been involved in a long and deadly feud. The young mafiosi wanted to move up, and the old ones were determined to defend their position. But at one stage the feud heated up.
Translated by ALFRED ALEXANDER Read by Robert Rietty

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonardo Sciascia
Translated By:
Alfred Alexander
Read By:
Robert Rietty

J. P. Stern , Professor of German at University College. London, asks what poetic values of Rilke's work survive 100 years after the poet's birth.
Rainer Maria Rilke was born on 4 December 1875 in Prague and died on 2 January 1927 in Switzerland.
(Tomorrow at 8.10 pm: The Rose of Contradiction)

Contributors

Unknown:
J. P. Stern

The first group of songs from Hindemith's cycle, based on poems by Rilke from the Birth of Mary to the Visitation. The theme, Hindemith wrote, is Mary'spersonalexperience which is treated in both lyrical and epic manner.
GERDA LAMMERS (Soprano)
GERHARD PUCHELT (piano): records

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