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The fourth of seven programmes to include Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues, played on the harpsichord by RALPH KIRK -PATRICK, and Corelli's 12 Violin Sonatas, Op 5. wi'th EDUARD MELKUS as soloist.
Bach The Well-tempered Clavier. Book 2: Preludes and Fugues. Nos 1-4
Corelli Sonata in B flat, Op 5 No 2
Bach Preludes and Fugues, Nos 5-8: gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Kirk
Unknown:
Eduard Melkus
Unknown:
Corelli Sonata

Mendelssohn Symphony No 8, in D version for full orchestra) LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by KURT MASUR
9.40* Debussy Danse sacrée et danse profane
ALICE CHALIFONX (harp), STRINGS OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
9.52* Messlaen Jardin du sommeil d'amour (Tuiangalila Symphony)
YVONNE LORIOD (piano)
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
10.5* Wagner Wesendonk Songs MARILYN HORNE (soprano), ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by HENRY LEWIS : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Kurt Masur
Harp:
Alice Chalifonx
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Conducted By:
Messlaen Jardin
Piano:
Yvonne Loriod
Piano:
Toronto Symphony
Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa
Conducted By:
Wagner Wesendonk Songs
Soprano:
Marilyn Horne
Unknown:
Henry Lewis

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Josquin des Pres: JEREMY NOBLE talks about the 15th-century Burgundian composer's music. Medieval and Renaissance Instruments: ROBERT DONINGTON reviews a new book by DAVID MUNBOW.
A Singer's Centenary: CARRIE TUBB , 100 years old this month, recalls moments in her career, in conversation with ALAN BLYTH. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Book By:
David Munbow.
Unknown:
Carrie Tubb
Unknown:
Alan Blyth.
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF
GREAT BRITAIN leader PAUL MAYES conducted by CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Part
Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The Peacock Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G major

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Leader:
Paul Mayes
Conducted By:
Christopher Seaman

The first of nine programmes to select six choirs to represent the United Kingdom in the annual International Radio Choral Competition. Equal Voice Choirs
PORTADOWN MALE VOICE CHOIR conductor JACK BRAID
RAINHAM LADIES' CHOIR conductor JOAN BIGWOOD School Choirs
CHOIR OF BISHOP FOX'S SCHOOL, TAUNTON
Conductor
ROBERT TULLETT PONTYPOOL GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHOIR. Conductor JEAN ADAMS Adjudicators RUSSEI.L BURGESS PETER DODD , STEPHEN WILKINSON
BERNARD KEEFFE introduces the programme, summarises the adjudicators' remarks, and announces the results.
Producer MICHAEL MOORES

Contributors

Conductor:
Jack Braid
Conductor:
Joan Bigwood
Conductor:
Robert Tullett Pontypool
Unknown:
Burgess Peter Dodd
Unknown:
Stephen Wilkinson
Introduces:
Bernard Keeffe
Producer:
Michael Moores

Don Juan
Extracts from the ballet Orfeo ed Euridice
Opera in three scenes
Libretto by RANIERO DE' CALZABIGI (original 1762 version: sung in Italian)
Mourners, Furies, blessed spirits MONTEVERDI CHOIR
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader JOHN HOLLOWAY conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER 'Recorded on 5 May in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Juan
Leader:
John Holloway
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner

leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
YVONNE MINTON (mezzo-soprano) Elgar Concert Overture: In the south (Alassio)
5.55* Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
6.15* Interval Reading
6.20* Concert Part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conductor:
Raymond Leppard
Mezzo-Soprano:
Yvonne Minton

Philip Mason , widely known as an authority on British India, recently completed a new study of the work of Rudyard Kipling. In these two illustrated talks he discusses some crucial themes in his interpretation.
2: Pain, Revenge and Forgiveness
Readers MARTIN JARVIS
ANN JAMESON and CAROLE BOYD Producer MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Mason
Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling.
Readers:
Martin Jarvis
Readers:
Ann Jameson
Readers:
Carole Boyd
Producer:
Michael Mason

by George Dures
With John Hollis as Danny and Sarah Golding as Fay

'It's s'posed to be a good omen when the sun wassaname, harmonises with the moon in your sign. Like I'm a Moonchild. That means the moon's me ruling planet, that's why I'm up and down all the time like a watchamacallit - I get ever so depressed and that - you can't help the way you're made though, can you?'
The setting is a Soho nightclub: the speaker is Fay, a young cockney hostess. Her ' client' is a lonely Smithfield porter.

Contributors

Writer:
George Dukes
Producer/Director:
Richard Wortley
Danny:
John Hollis
Fay:
Sarah Golding
First copper:
David Graham
Second copper:
Sean Arnold
Skipper:
Henry Stamper
Mave:
Anne Jameson
Ambulance man:
Allan McClelland

leader BELA DEKANY conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) Ligeti Melodien
Britten Nocturne , for tenor. seven obbligato instruments and string orchestra
9.40* Interval Reading
9.45* Concert Part 2 Weill Symphony No 2

Contributors

Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Elgar Howarth
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Tenor:
Ligeti Melodien
Tenor:
Britten Nocturne

Tradition and Transition
T. Carmi. the poet and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Post. graduate Hebrew Studies at Oxford University, who is editing the Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, believes that the writing of his contemporaries can only be seen in focus against the shifting perspectives of their long tradition. followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
T. Carmi.

This week Derek Jewell plays the work of two European bands - WIGWAM of FinLand and PFM of Italy, and returns to the Brazilian singer, FLORA PURIM : plus Donv PREVIN and GROVER WASHINGTON junior: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jewell
Singer:
Flora Purim
Unknown:
Donv Previn
Unknown:
Grover Washington

BBC Radio 3

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