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Nine programmes to include the complete sets published around 1770 as Op 9 and Op 17 and some of the piano music he wrote at the same time.
String Quartet in c minor, Op 17 No 4: TATRAI QUARTET
Sonata in b flat (H xvi 18) RUDOLF BUCHBINDER (piano)
String Quartet in E flat, Op 17 No 3: TATRAI QUARTET: records

Contributors

Piano:
Rudolf Buchbinder

Listeners' record requests Britten Simple Symphony ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER
9.23* Balakirev Reminiscences of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar: EARL WILD (piano)
9.36* Glinka Piano Trio in minor (Pathétique) IGOR ZHUKOV (piano)
GRIGORY FEIGIN (violin) VALENTIN FEIGIN (cello)
9.52* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6, in E minor
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN

Contributors

Piano:
Igor Zhukov
Violin:
Grigory Feigin
Cello:
Valentin Feigin
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André Previn

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it. Introduced by John Amis including:
Henze's New Arts Workshop
NATALIE WHEEN reports from Italy on the trials and triumphs of Montepulciano
Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

International Choral Competition. 9: Semi-finals
Contemporary Class: Match 1 Norway: SCHOLA CANTORUM Bulgaria: FEMALE STUDENTS'
CHAMBER CHOIR
Mixed Voice Class
Sweden: CANTUS-KÖREN
Bernard Keeffe introduces the choirs, summarises the adjudicators' comments and announces the results.
Producer MICHAEL MOORES
(Let the Peoples Sing is organised by the BBC under the auspices of the EBU)

Contributors

Producer:
Michael Moores

Gilbert and Sullivan: Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride
given by the English National Opera Company direct from the Royal Albert Hall

Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Officers of the Dragoon Guards
English National Opera Chorus, chorus-master Kenneth Cleveland
English National Opera Orchestra, leader Barry Collins, conductor Charles Mackerras

Act 1 Exterior of Castle Bunthorne.

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Kenneth Cleveland
Musicians:
English National Opera Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Barry Collins
Conductor:
Charles Mackerras
Officers of the Dragoon Guards - Colonel Calverley:
Eric Shilling (bass-baritone)
Officers of the Dragoon Guards - Major Murgatroyd:
Ashton Smith (tenor)
Officers of the Dragoon Guards - Lieut the Duke of Dunstable:
Terry Jenkins (tenor)
Reginald Bunthorne, a Fleshly Poet:
Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone)
Archibald Grosvenor, an Idyllic Poet:
Tom McDonnell (baritone)
Rapturous Maidens - The Lady Angela:
Ann Hood (soprano)
Rapturous Maidens - The Lady Saphir:
Shelagh Squires (mezzo-soprano)
Rapturous Maidens - The Lady Ella:
Margaret Haggart (soprano)
Rapturous Maidens - The Lady Jane:
Anne Collins (contralto)
Patience, a Dairy Maid:
Nandra Dugdale (soprano)
Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Officers of the Dragoon Guards:
English National Opera Chorus

A conversation between
Dr Tom Paine , President, Northrop Corporation and formerly head of NASA, and John Maddox
' Orbital space: this continent transcends all others. It's several hundred miles above them. It has no political boundaries. It has no air, it has no hurricanes, it has no corrosion. It's a very benign sort of place.'
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Tom Paine
Unknown:
John Maddox
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

Introduced by the director Carl Dolmetsch
William Lawes Three pieces from The Royal Consort, for recorders, lute, oboes and viols Purcell I attempt from love's sickness to fly, for tenor, harpsichord and viola da gamba
Thomas Morley Three fantasies: La Sirena, for two treble viols; II Doloroso, for treble and tenor viol; Fantasy for three viols
Antony Holborne Two pieces for five recorders: Paradiso; The Sighes
Henry Lawes Two songs from Milton's Comus, for tenor, lute and viol: Sweet Echo; Sabrina Daquin Allemande ; Musette; Tambourin (Suite in G major, for harpsichord)
Haydn Cassation, for treble recorder, lute and viola da gamba
Senaille Sonata No 6, in G minor, for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord
Couperin Le Rossignol en Amour, for sopranino recorder and harpsichord
Couperin Plainte, for three viols
Locatelll Duo Sonata, for recorder and violin
Sterndale Bennett Two Impromptus for piano: Op 12 Nos 1 and 3 Pepusch Concerto in F major, for two recorders, two oboes, viola da gamba and harpsichord

Contributors

Director:
Carl Dolmetsch
Unknown:
William Lawes
Unknown:
Thomas Morley
Unknown:
Sabrina Daquin Allemande
Violin:
Sterndale Bennett

Buffo bv PETER EVERETT with Sylvia Coleridge as Maud Lockwood West as Tim and Geoffrey Beevers as Sam
A young man, Sam, visits the house where his mother has just died. He has not been there before. An elderly pair of recluses, brother and sister, live in the same house, and Sam persuades them to sell up and go to Italy. His motives are not pure.
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Everett
Unknown:
Sylvia Coleridge
Unknown:
Maud Lockwood West
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Kidd:
David Graham
Cilla:
Anne Rosenfeld

Music from the fascinating British band, ROXY MUSIC, is the feature in Derek Jewell 's survey of the popular music scene this week. It comes from their latest album. Viva Roxy Music! MARLENA SHAW is also featured together with the modern sounds Of AUTOMATIC MAN, the new band in which drummer MICHAEL SHRIEVE plays.

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jewell
Music:
Marlena Shaw
Unknown:
Michael Shrieve

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