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Listeners' record requests
Albinoni Concerto in D minor, Op 5 No 2: HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe) I MUSICI, With MARIA TERESA GARATTI (harpsichord)
9.17* Bach Cantata No 82: Ich habe genug
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) BATH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN
9.40* Boieldieu Harp Concerto in c: MARIE-CLAIRE JAMET (harp) PARIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL KUENTZ
10.2* Fauré Pavane, Op 50
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
10.7* Korngold Suite: Much Ado About Nothing: SOUTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLY MATTES
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA. 4WW

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Maria Teresa Garatti
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Conducted By:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conducted By:
Paul Kuentz
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Willy Mattes

Introduced by Michael Oliver An Elgar Edition
JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE COnsiders the influence of Worcester and Malvern on the composer's music.
A tour of Broadheath, Elgar's birthplace.
Memories of the composer by some of those who knew him. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Introduced By:
An Elgar Edition
Introduced By:
Jerrold Northrop Moore
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

Last of six programmes following her 70th birthday last July, including today three of her orchestral works.
MALCOLM MESSITER (Oboe)
CHRISTOPHER VAN KAMPEN (cello) ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN 'S, SMITH SQUARE conductor JOHN LUBBOCK
The Winter of the World; Eos; Plenum II

Contributors

Oboe:
Malcolm Messiter
Cello:
Christopher van Kampen
Unknown:
St John
Conductor:
John Lubbock

Noye's Fludde
The Chester miracle play set to music by Benjamin Britten (gramophone record)
A CHILDREN'S CHORUS
AN EAST SUFFOLK CHILDREN'S
ORCHESTRA
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader EMANUEL HURWITZ conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR

Contributors

Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar

A Biblical allegory written for television by Igor Stravinsky
Text compiled by ROBERT CRAFT (gramophone record)
Spoken roles:
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND CHORUS conducted by THE COMPOSER and ROBERT CRAFT

Contributors

Television By:
Igor Stravinsky
Unknown:
Robert Craft
Narrator:
Laurence Harvey
Noah:
Sebastian Cabot
Noah's Wife:
Elsa Lanchester
Caller:
Paul Tripp

A series of seven programmes that examines the psychological development of the child during the first year of life. Presented by Dr Martin Bax 5: Towards Language
Crying is the first act of the infant that has an impact on the environment. Between then and the acquisition of true language, the baby produces long streams of sounds and sequences of gestures that play an important role in eliciting parental responses. Are these gestures a form of pre-speech? Contributors include: DR KEVIN MURPHY , DR PETER OSTWALD and DR COLWYN TREVARTHEN
An abridged version of this series appeared in THE LISTENER. Back numbers or off-prints as available, price £1.75 (inc postage), from: [address removed]followed by an interlude

Contributors

Presented By:
Dr Martin Bax
Unknown:
Dr Kevin Murphy
Unknown:
Dr Peter Ostwald

Hecuba
A working for radio, by DAVID RUDKIN , of the play Hecuba by EURIPIDES, first staged in Athens about the year 424 BC, with
GINNETTE CLARKE , KATE COLERIDGE
ALISON GOLLINGS , SHEILA GRANT
MARGARET ROBERTSON
NORMA RONALD
Sound score by MALCOLM CLARKE , BBC Radiophonic Workshop Technical assistants:
JOCK FARRELL , ANNE HUNT and DAVID HITCHINSON
(For this production Beatrix Lehmann was awarded The Imperial Tobacco Award for the best radio performance by an actress in 1976) Produced and" directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Rudkin
Unknown:
Ginnette Clarke
Unknown:
Kate Coleridge
Unknown:
Alison Gollings
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Malcolm Clarke
Unknown:
Jock Farrell
Unknown:
Anne Hunt
Unknown:
David Hitchinson
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Hecuba:
Beatrix Lehmann
Aga/nemnon:
Michael Aldridge
Ulysses:
Maurice Denham
Polymestor:
Tom Watson
Polyxena:
Deborah Paige
Polydorus:
Christopher Bidmead
Talthivius:
Peter Williams
Old Woman:
Gladys Spencer
Chorus:
Janet Burnell

Allegri String Quartet Hugh Maguire (violin) David Roth (violin)
Patrick Ireland (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello)
Mozart Quartet in D minor (Eulenspiegel) (K 421)
9.28* Britten Quartet No 1, in D, Op 25

Contributors

Violin:
Hugh Maguire
Violin:
David Roth
Viola:
Patrick Ireland
Cello:
Bruno Schrecker

David Martin , Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, gives four talks on religion and secularisation in the West.
1: It's Hard to Generalise ... The sociology of religion is an intractable subject. But it's worth getting the analysis right, for it might even help to solve the problems of Northern Ireland or the Lebanon.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Martin

Second of three programmes Music for voices and viols
Trust not too much; Dainty fine bird; 0 that the learned poets; Lais now old; Ah, dear heart; Now each flowery bank; Fair is the rose; What is our life? : CONSORT OF MUSICKE director ANTHONY ROOLEY

Contributors

Director:
Anthony Rooley

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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