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J. C. Bach Overture: Catone in Utica
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
7.10* J. S. Bach Concerto in A minor, for four harpsichords and string orchestra: EDUARD MULLER GUSTAV LEONHARDT (directing) JANNY VAN WERING , ANNEKE
UITTENBOSCH, LEONHARDT CONSORT
7.21* J. C. Bach Lovely yet ungrateful swain: ELSIE MORISON (soprano), BOYD NEEL ORCHESTRA directed by THURSTON DART
7.25* J. S. Bach Partita In E. for violin (mono): JASCHAHEIFETZ
7.42* C. P. E. Bach Sinfonia in F (Wq 183 No 3)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND-LEPPARD

Contributors

Conducted By:
Raymond Leppard
Unknown:
Eduard Muller
Unknown:
Janny van Wering
Soprano:
Elsie Morison
Soprano:
Boyd Neel
Directed By:
Thurston Dart
Unknown:
P. E. Bach Sinfonia

Handel Overture: Agrippina ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-
IN-THE-FIELDS, directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (Violin)
9.9* Suite:
Rodrigo PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON conducted by sir ANTHONY LEWIS
9.25* Dixit Dominus
TERESA ZYLIS-GARA (soprano)
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) MARTIN LANE (counter-tenor) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS : records

Contributors

Violin:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Rodrigo Philomusica
Conducted By:
Sir Anthony Lewis
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Conducted By:
David Willcocks

7: Exeter Hall
Including music associated with concerts of the Sacred Harmonic Society ('music associated with drinking is music debased '), a ' Congres musicale by the showman-conductor Louis Jul lien, and the inaugural concert of the New Philharmonic Society, conducted by Berlioz. Bach Fugue in E flat (Bwv 552) HELMUT WALCHA (organ)
Mendelssohn Chorus: He, watching over Israel (Elijah) NEW PHILHARMONIA CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS
Meyerbeer Duet: Tu I'as dit plus d'amour (Les.Huguenots, Act 4: MARTINA ARROYO (SOp) ANASTASIOS VRENIOS (tenor) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
Mozart Symphony No 41. in c (Jupiter) (K 551): BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM records

Contributors

Unknown:
Louis Jul
Conducted By:
Rafael Fruhbeck
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Eugen Jochum

a birthday celebration with GERAINT EVANS (baritone) ANNE EVANS (Soprano) THE GWALIA MALE CHOIR chorus-master IVOR EVANS BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes
Sir Geraint Evans sings and listens to some of his favourite music and talks informally about aspects of his life and career to Owain Arwel Hughes. With extracts from The Marriage of Figaro, The Force of Pestiny and Falstaff

Contributors

Baritone:
Geraint Evans
Chorus-Master:
Ivor Evans
Conducted By:
Owain Arwel Hughes
Conducted By:
Sir Geraint Evans
Unknown:
Owain Arwel Hughes.

Melvyn Tan (harpsichord) direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Bach Partita No 2, in c minor Gordon Jacob Suite
Scarlatti Sonata in c (Kk 420); Sonata in F minor (Kk 69); Sonata in D minor (Kk 32); Sonata in G (Kk 146)
(Before an invited audience)

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Melvyn Tan
Unknown:
Gordon Jacob Suite
Unknown:
Scarlatti Sonata

'Mezzo-sopranos usually have the destiny of singing either gypsies, boys or old witches - and I've had a good share of them all," says the Swedish mezzo Kerstin Meyer. She discusses and includes excerpts from Orfeo ed Euridice, Cosi fan tutte, Tristan und Isolde and Der Rosenkavalier : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Kerstin Meyer.

conducted by ALUN FRANCIS DOUGLAS TOWNSHEND (flute) ELINOR BENNETT (harp)
Mozart Overture: Cosi fan tutte
3.0* Mozart Concerto in c, for flute, harp and orchestra (K 299)
3.31* Hoddinott Sinfonietta No 4
3.42* Delius Summer night on the river
3.49* Beethoven Symphony No 1, in c
(A public concert given in Brecon High School on 20 January in conjunction with the Welsh Arts Council) BBC Wales

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alun Francis
Flute:
Douglas Townshend

The troubadours of Provence, active in the 12th and 13th centuries, mark one of the earliest manifestations of European song as an art form. In the first of three programmes. Piers Burton-Page traces the origin of their music, and introduces some of the songs of the earliest troubadours, including Jaufr6 Rudel and Marcabru. gramophone records

from Worcester Cathedral
Introit: Alleluia psallat (Peter Aston )
Versicles and Responses (Bernard Rose)
Psalms: 82 (Parratt); 84 (Bairstow); 85 (R. Cooke )
Lessons: Daniel 9, vv 3-10; Luke 7, vv 36-50
Canticles (Stanford in A)
Anthem: Exsurge Domini (Byrd) Choir directed by donald hunt Organist PAUL TREPTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Aston
Unknown:
R. Cooke
Organist:
Paul Trepte

Language and Communication
6.36 Punti di vista
Second-stage course by JOHN INSOLE and MARIA LAURA FRANCIOSI 16: Cantine sotto la chiesa
Introduced by SILVIA STEWART and ALDO BEVACQUA
(Rptd: Sun 2.30 pm R4 VHF)
7.0 Sur Ie vif
16: Et pour vous, qu'est-ce que ca veut dire*
Présenté par ANNE-MARIE PELLET-IER et GILLES DATTAS
Script par ANNE GRUNEBERG Réalisatrice SUSAN PATON

Contributors

Unknown:
Maria Laura Franciosi
Introduced By:
Silvia Stewart
Introduced By:
Aldo Bevacqua
Unknown:
Susan Paton

In this illustrated talk Hugh Keyte discusses performance practice in the 16th century, and the art of ornamentation as applied to choral music. The examples include motets by Palestrina and Victoria performed as written and then in embellished versions, with ELAINE BARRY (soprano) MICHAEL LAIRD (COmett)
ROGEIR BRENNER (alto sackbut) DAVID PURSER (tenor sackbut) CECIL JAMES (bassoon)
ALASTAIR ROSS (chamber organ) BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN poole

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Keyte
Soprano:
Elaine Barry
Unknown:
Rogeir Brenner
Bassoon:
Alastair Ross
Conductor:
John Poole

A short story written and read by Gabriel Josipovici
A man broods over the death of his father. In his imagination he goes over their relationship. But is his father, in fact, dead? What is the real cause of the narrator's unease?

Contributors

Read By:
Gabriel Josipovici

The Life of Mary
Hindemith's second setting (1948) of this sequence of 15 poems by RAINER MARIA RILKE Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Irwin Gage (piano)
Geburt Maria ; Die Darstellung Maria im Tempel; Maria Verkundigung; Maria Heimsuchung; Argwohn Josephs; Verkiindigung iiber den Hirten; Geburt Christi; Rast auf der Flucht in Agypten; Von der Hochzeit zu Kana; Vor der Passion; Pieta; Stillung Maria mit dem Auferstandenen; Vom Tod Maria I, II, III
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1976 Carinthian Summer Festival)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rainer Maria Rilke
Soprano:
Gundula Janowitz
Piano:
Irwin Gage
Piano:
Geburt Maria

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