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Wagner Overture: Tannhauser VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
7.20* Strauss Horn Concerto No 2
NORBERT HAUPTMANN (horn)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.40* Kodaly Dances from Galanta
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti
Horn:
Norbert Hauptmann
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz

J. C. Bach Concerto in E flat, Op 7 No 5
INGRID HAEBLER (fortepiano) VIENNA CAPELLA ACADEMICA conducted by EDUARD MELKUS
8.22* Arne Overture No 8, in G minor
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord)
8.31* Purcell Song for Queen Mary's Birthday 1692: Love's goddess sure
NORMA BURROWES (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN. CHARLES BRETT JOHN YORK SKINNER (counter-tenors)
MARTYN HILL (tenor)
GEOFFREY SHAW (baritone) ROBERT LLOYD (bass)
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON conducted by DAVID MUNROW gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eduard Melkus
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood
Soprano:
Norma Burrowes
Soprano:
James Bowman.
Soprano:
Charles Brett
Soprano:
John York Skinner
Conducted By:
David Munrow

leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
A light music programme emphasising work by living British composers.
Borodin Overture: Prince Igor Maurice Johnstone Welsh Rhapsodv
William Alwyn Elizabethan Dances
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela Norman Fulton Symphonic Dances

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence

Last of six concerts from the series presented last year in the Raphael Cartoon Court of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
RAFAEL PUYANA (harpsichord) JILL SEVERS (harpsichord) THE ENGLISH CONCERT Stephen Preston (flauto traverso)
Simon Standage (violin) Eleanor Sloan (violin) Rusen Giines (viola)
Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Keith Marjoram (double-bass) director TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) Part 1 Bach
Suite No 2, in B minor, for flute and strings (BWV 1067): Concerto in c, for two harpsichords and strings (awv 1061)
2.55* The Spirit of the Flute: STEPHEN PRESTON describes the flute collection at the v. and A.

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Mus
Unknown:
Stephen Preston
Violin:
Simon Standage
Violin:
Eleanor Sloan
Viola:
Rusen Giines
Cello:
Anthony Pleeth
Double-Bass:
Keith Marjoram
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Flute:
Stephen Preston

1911-1968
The third of four programmes Five Sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning for tenor and piano. Op 36
JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor) DAVID WILDE (piano)
Sonata for viola, Op 45 (first performance in this country) ANDRAS VON TOSZEGHI (viola)
Quintet in D, for piano and string quartet, Op 23 DAVID WILDE (piano)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Piano:
David Wilde
Viola:
Andras von Toszeghi
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson

Leisure and Recreation
6.30 It's Catching
NICK ruches digs a collection of fair relics interred in the Mendips, examines the grave matter of a woman twice buried alive and now revived, and discovers that what's passed on can still have life.
7.0 Where It's At
5: Is There Rock On The Moont JOHN PEEL considers the worldwide spread of rock music and the imprint it has left on established musical styles such as country and western, folk and jazz.

The last in the present series LINDSAY STRING QUARTET Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) With MICHAEL EVANS (cello) Part 1
Haydn Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (The Rider) Berg Quartet, Op 3

Contributors

Violin:
Peter Cropper
Violin:
Ronald Birks
Viola:
Roger Bigley
Cello:
Bernard Gregor-Smith
Cello:
Michael Evans

' In my youth, poetry came flooding in like a healing tide in the desert of my personality.'
John Wain , Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, gives the first in a series of three talks in which poets reflect on their approach to their work. (31 May: P. J. Kavanagh )

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wain
Unknown:
J. Kavanagh

by Anthony Smith
For more than 300 years newspaper journalists have seen themselves as purveyors of truth Not everyone has always accepted this elevated claim, and journalists have had to adjust their doctrine to the changing realities of their trade. Extracts read by SION PROBERT and ALAN ROWE
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN followed by an Interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Read By:
Sion Probert
Read By:
Alan Rowe
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

BEHLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Part 1
Metamorphosen: study for 23 solo strings
16.50* Interval Reading
10.55* Strauss: part 2
Also sprach Zarathustra: symphonic poem Op 30
(Recording from the 1975 Berlin Festival made available by courtesy of bias, Berlin)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert Von

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