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Handel Concerto Grosso No 29, in F,
English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Karl Richter
7.20* Boyce Symphony No 5. in A:
Menuhin Festival Orchestra, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin
7.27* Arne Concerto No 4, in B flat
Jean Guillou (organ)
Berlin Brandenburg Orchestra, conducted by Rene
Klopfenstein
7.43* Samuel Wesley Symphony in D
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Montgomery

(gramophone records)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Musicians:
English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor:
Karl Richter
Musicians:
Menuhin Festival Orchestra
Conductor:
Yehudi Menuhin
Organist:
Jean Guillou
Musicians:
Berlin Brandenburg Orchestra
Conductor:
Rene Klopfenstein
Musicians:
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Kenneth Montgomery

The Four Elements: Fire
Falla Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
8.9* Haydn Symphony No 59, in A (Feuersymphonie)
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI
8.27* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Prometheus
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD haitink
8.40* Tippett Ritual Dance: Fire in Summer (The Midsummer Marriage) SOLOISTS
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENTGARDEN conducted by COLIN DAVIS
8.48* Wagner Brunnhilde 's Immolation (Gotterdammerung) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Conducted By:
Colin Davis
Conducted By:
Wagner Brunnhilde
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy

leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON Auber Overture: Le Macon
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Poulenc Deux Marches et un
Intermede Satie , orch Debussy Gymnop6dies 1 and 2 Dohnanyi Wedding Cake Waltz (The Veil of Pierrette) BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Havelock Nelson
Unknown:
Intermede Satie

(piano) Part
Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (bwv 903)
Schumann Carnaval , Op 9
11.15* Interval Reading
11.20* Recital Part 2
Beethoven Sonata in A flat major, Op 110
Chopin Ballade No 1, in c. minor. Op 23; Nocturne in c sharp minor, Op posth: Berceuse in D flat, Op 57; Polonaise in A flat major, Op 53
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Schumann Carnaval
Unknown:
Chopin Ballade

JANE MANNING (soprano)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) ALAN OPIE (baritone),
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by VERNON HANOLEY Part 1
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne
12.37* Tavener Cain and Abel

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Sarah Walker
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Baritone:
Alan Opie
Chorus-Master:
Stephen Wilkinson
Conducted By:
Vernon Hanoley
Unknown:
Tavener Cain

First of a series of seven programmes which include all the major works for solo piano and for violin and piano.
Three Masques, Op 34 VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Four Songs, Op 41, to words from The Garden by R. Tagore CAROLE ROSEN (mezzo-soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Twelve Etudes, Op 33 VALERIE TRYON (piano)

Contributors

Piano:
Valerie Tryon
Garden By:
R. Tagore
Mezzo-Soprano:
Carole Rosen
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons

Edmund Rubbra
A series in which British composers talk about themselves and their music
Indian Music played by Ali Akbar Khan (mono)
Piano Concerto: first movement (mono): Denis Matthews BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent: record
Pezzo Ostinato, for harp - Ann Griffiths: record
Psalm No 23: The Lord is my Shepherd; Psalm No 150: Praise ye the Lord (mono)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) Ernest Lush (piano): record
Credo from Canterbury Mass; Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from St Dominic Mass - St Margaret's Westminster Singers, conductor Richard Hickox: record
Piano Preludes (Nos 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8): The Composer; followed by an interlude

Contributors

Speaker/composer/pianist:
Edmund Rubbra

Diabolus in Mtisica
Music to make your flesh creep. Ghosts and necromancy from Vivaldi (' La notte '), Weber (The Wolf's Glen scene from Der Freischutz), Liszt (Mephisto Waltz No 2), and Berlioz's Witches' Sabbath (from Symphonie fantastique): other diabolical motives from Britten, Purcell and Malcolm Arnold , darkly introduced by Christopher Hogwood from forebodings of the under-20s. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Arnold
Introduced By:
Christopher Hogwood

Leisure and Recreation
6.30 In Your Own Time
The Leisure Programme (20)
Presented by PETER CLAYTON ideas on things to do, places to visit and interesting ways of spending your spare time. Producer RICHARD ELSE Editor GRAHAM TAYAR
7.0 pm Music, Maestro, Please
Ten programmes on how the listener can get more enjoyment from music.
4: Putting On the Style
PAUL ROBERTS discusses the role of the performer and the complex problems that face him.

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Clayton
Editor:
Graham Tayar
Unknown:
Paul Roberts

Single-bedded hospital rooms are generally regarded as a luxury only enjoyed by the rich and privileged.
E. J. R. Burrough , a Consultant in Hospital and Community Service Affairs, draws on 40 years' experience as a hospital administrator and argues that National Health Service patients could have single rooms because ' open wards are administratively extravagant and wholly uneconomic

Contributors

Unknown:
E. J. R. Burrough

Henry Newbolt is now known only as the author of ' Drake's Drum' and other popular ballads. But he was a discerning and sympathetic critic of contemporary literature and encouraged writers such as T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell. It is this Newbolft who is the subject of this feature by Patric Dickinson. Readers:
WALTER HALL and HAYDN JONES
(Extended version of last July's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
Edith Sitwell.
Readers:
Patric Dickinson.
Unknown:
Walter Hall
Newbolt:
Carleton Hobbs

Song-cycle for tenor, piano and string quartet by Vaughan Williams , on poetry from A. E. HOUSMAN 'S A Shropshire Lad With IAN PARTRIDGE
JENNIFER PARTRIDGE
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
A. E. Housman
Unknown:
Ian Partridge
Unknown:
Jennifer Partridge

A weekly survey of the world of music with the artists and personalities who create it. Including: the American composer STEVE REICH in conversation with DOMINIC GILL.
And some thoughts from the current Gulbenkian Foundation enquiry into the training of musicians.
Introduced by John Amis Producer NATALIE WHEEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Reich
Introduced By:
John Amis
Producer:
Natalie Wheen

BBC Radio 3

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