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Listeners' record requests Bach Suite No 1. in c
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS, directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
9.35* Scriabin Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op 20 VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
10.4*
Moeran Sinfonietta LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conducted By:
Lorin Maazel
Conducted By:
Moeran Sinfonietta
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Dvorak's programme music: by BRIAN LARGE.
Writing for the ballet: JOHN MCCABE and NOËL GOODWIN discuss their music and scenario for Mary. Queen of Scots.
The ' 48 ' since Bach: by FRITZ SPIEGL.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
John McCabe
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl.

led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by DIEGO MASSON SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp)
LESLIE PEARSON (harpsichord) HOWARD SHELLEY (piano)
Ives Three Places in New England
Martin Petite symphonie concertante, for harp, harpsichord, piano and double string orchestra
Stravinsky Ballet: Orpheus

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Brett
Conducted By:
Diego Masson
Harp:
Sidonie Goossens
Harpsichord:
Leslie Pearson
Unknown:
Martin Petite

Tenth of 13 programmes. MILLA ANDREW (soprano) accompanied by JOHN constable sings songs by Glinka, Dargomizhsky, Borodin. Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky; and the AEOLIAN quartet plays
Borodin String Quartet No 2, in D
Rlmsky-Korsakov, Lyadov, Glazunov Jour de Fete
Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE

Contributors

Soprano:
Milla Andrew
Accompanied By:
John Constable
Introduced By:
Elaine Padmore

Opera in a prologue and three acts: Libretto by GIOVANNI FAUSTINI , English translation by ANNE RIDLER
Music by Francesco Cavalll Edited by JANE GLOVER
Continuo:
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord)
JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello)
COURTNEY KENNEY (harpsichord) RICHARD WEBB (
Cellol ANTHONY BAILES (chitarrone) ANNA VON ROYEN (chitarrone) MARK CAUDLE (cello)
WEXFORD FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE led by DUNCAN DRUCE conducted by JANE GLOVER
(Radio Telefis Eireann recording from the 1975 Wexford Festival)
Prologue and Act 1
4.30* Thomas Walker talks about the role of touring opera companies in Italy in the mid-17th century
4.50* Eritrea Acts 2 and 3 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Faustini
Translation By:
Anne Ridler
Music By:
Francesco Cavalll
Edited By:
Jane Glover
Harpsichord:
Celia Harper
Cello:
Jennifer Ward Clarke
Harpsichord:
Richard Webb
Harpsichord:
Cellol Anthony Bailes
Unknown:
Duncan Druce
Conducted By:
Jane Glover
Talks:
Thomas Walker

Listening by EDWARD ALBEE
The world premiere of a new play specially commissioned for radio with Irene Worth as The Woman
Maureen Anderman as The Girl James Ray as The Man and the author as The Voice
.... you don't listen; nobody listens anymore. Why does nobody listen ...? ' directed by EDWARD ALBEE With JOHN TYDEMAN
Aco-production between the BBC and Earplay, the drama production centre for . American public radio 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Albee
Unknown:
Irene Worth
Unknown:
Maureen Anderman
Unknown:
Girl James Ray
Directed By:
Edward Albee
Unknown:
John Tydeman

Eliot's Four Quartets were perhaps the last major statement of orthodox Christianity in verse: what has happened to religious poetry since?
Brian Morris , Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University. looks at a range of modern poets, and argues that much that is deepest in contemporary poetry may properly be called religious. Readers ANN ARIS and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Morris
Unknown:
Paul Webster
Producer:
Fraser Steel

In his weekly survey of popular music, Derek Jewell plays compositions by the leading modern popular band in Hungary, OMEGA, gives a first radio hearing to music made this year by BING CROSBY , now approaching his 72nd birthday, and compares this father-figure of pop with a follower, DICK HAYMES. There are encores too from the 70-piece MARTYN FORD ORCHESTRA and the French band gong. gramophone records

Contributors

Music:
Derek Jewell
Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Dick Haymes.
Unknown:
Martyn Ford

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