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Stanley Organ Concerto in a minor, Op 2 No 2
LESLIE JONES directing the LITTLE ORCHESTRA OF LONDON
J.17* Linley 0 bid your faithful Ariel fly: APRIL CANTELO (sop) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord) S.22* Elgar Cello Concerto in I minor (mono): PAUL TORTELIER
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.50* Verdi Sleepwalking Scene (Macbeth)
ORCHESTRA OF THE ACCADEMIA DI
SANTA CECILIA, ROME conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
10.2* Strauss Symphonic Poem: Macbeth: DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA, conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE

Contributors

Directed By:
Raymond Leppard
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers
Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe
Gentlewoman DORA:
Carral (sop)
Doctor:
Giuseppe Morresi (bass)

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Music's Mowgli: RONALD STEVEN SON talks about Percy Grainger in the light of a new biography by John Bird.
Dett and Griffes: two almost-forgotten composers remembered by CLIVE LYTHGOE.
Liszt's Choral Music: by COLIN MAWBY ,

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Ronald Steven
Unknown:
Percy Grainger
Unknown:
John Bird.
Unknown:
Clive Lythgoe.
Music By:
Colin Mawby

A tribute in words and music on his 84th birthday, introduced by DAVID WILLCOCKS CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE conductor DAVID WILLCOCKS with IAN RARE (organ)
Howells Te Deum and Jubilate (Collegium Regale)
Rhapsody, Op 18 No 3, for organ
Anthems: Here is the little door: A spotless rose; Sing lullaby
Paean, for organ
Take him, earth, for cherishing (Motet on the death of President Kennedy)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale)

Contributors

Duced By:
David Willcocks
Conductor:
David Willcocks
Unknown:
Howells Te Deum

Opera in three acts. Libretto by GIAMBATTISTA VARESCO. Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS chorus-master
WALTER HAGEN-GROLL
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Salzburg Festival)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Bohm

An Account of What Happened When King Harold The Longlived Wintered his Sixth Summer In England, Assembled the People and Wanted to Abdicate
A play for radio by PAAVO HAAVIKKO translated from the Finnish by DIANE TULLBERG
Paavo Haavikko is one of Finland's leading poets and playwrights. This is another play in his series of ironic recreations of Scandinavian sagas. It deals with a Danish king, Harold the Seafarer, who also ruled over parts of England.
Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Paavo Haavikko
Unknown:
Diane Tullberg
Unknown:
Paavo Haavikko
Directed By:
Martin Esslin
King Harold the Seafarer, called the Longlived:
Haydn Jones
Erik, a nobleman:
Neville Jason
Jarl, a nobleman:
William Eedle
Shipowner:
Patrick Barr
Merchant:
Paul Meier
Fisherman:
Peter Craze
Woodcutter:
Clifford Norgate
Narrator:
Leslie Heritage

The great German bass gave his first British master classes in London earlier this year, Four of the nine young singers who took part were selected to perform in a final concert at the Wigmore Hall. These programmes trace the progress of the four through their various encounters with Hotter to the final concert. This week:
MARGARET MARSHALL (soprano) accompanied by JOHN FRASER Wolf Die ihr scnwebet
Schumann Auftrage ; Mondnacht
Strauss Du meines Herzens Kronelein ; Freundliche Vision; Ich wollt' ein Strausslein bin-den; Schlagende Herzen Producer ELAINE PADMORE

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Marshall
Accompanied By:
John Fraser
Accompanied By:
Wolf Die
Unknown:
Schumann Auftrage
Unknown:
Herzens Kronelein
Unknown:
Schlagende Herzen
Producer:
Elaine Padmore

In this week's look at the popular music scene Derek Jewell plays songs from Whole Oats, a brilliant early album by the American duo, DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES , only recently available in this country. There are also songs from the new album by BRIAN PROTHEROE , who this year has won a wider reputation in the stage musical Leave Him to Heaven, and the electronic sounds of LA DUSSEL-DORF, a new German band formed by KLAUS DINGER , once of Kraftwerk: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jewell
Unknown:
Daryl Hall
Unknown:
John Oates
Unknown:
Brian Protheroe
Unknown:
Klaus Dinger

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