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Boyce Overture: His Majesty's Birthday Ode (1775) LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS
7.15* Handel Organ Concerto No 13, in F
DANIEL CHORZEMPA
CONCERTO AMSTERDAM conducted by JAAP SCHR ÖDER
7.31* Bach Suite No 1, in c
BATH FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Anthony Lewis
Unknown:
Daniel Chorzempa
Conducted By:
Jaap Schr
Conducted By:
Yehudi Menuhin

Stravinsky Fireworks
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
8.9* Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Golden Cockerel
LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
8.35* Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2: LEONARD BERNSTEIN who also directs the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch
Unknown:
Leonard Bernstein

led by COLIN SAUER conductor NORMAN DEL MAR with HUGH BEAN (violin) and FREDERICK RIDDLE (viola)
Skalkottas Ten Sketches for strings
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, for violin, viola and orchestra (K 364) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Conductor:
Colin Sauer
Conductor:
Norman Del Mar

Second of two programmes
Canticle III: Still falls the rain PETER PEARS (tenor)
BARRY TUCKWELL (horn) THE COMPOSER (piano)
4.31* Canticle IV: The journey of the Magi
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) THE COMPOSER (piano)
4.42* Canticle V: The death of St Narcissus
PETER PEARS (tenor)
OSIAN ELLIS (harp): records

Contributors

Horn:
Barry Tuckwell
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk

Work and Training
6.30 Nation at Work
This week, amid speculation about the Budget and the future of the ' social contract ', JOHN TUSA looks at the effectiveness of an incomes policy as a regulator of the British economy.
Series producer
GORDON HUTCHINGS
7.0 The Welfare Network
John Hanson , Director of Social Services in Devon, introduces the last in a series about the co-ordination and integration of our health, education and social services.
Series producer CHRIS LONGLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Gordon Hutchings
Unknown:
John Hanson
Producer:
Chris Longley

or Maxims for Locomotion by WILLIAM KITCHINER , MD (died 1827)
Adapted for broadcasting in three parts and narrated by David Lloyd James Part 1 with Victor Lucas as the Doctor and PETER HALL (tenor) ALAN JONES (baritone) RICHARD NUNN (piano)
Producer TERENCE TILLER (Part 2: 29 March)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Kitchiner
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Producer:
Terence Tiller

A celebration of Walt Whitman , 1819-1892 Written and compiled by ANNE STEVENSON , with David Buck as Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sin. myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.
Leaves of Grass, Whitman's passionate testament, has had a profound effect on writers and writing since it was first published in 1855. He was America's first authentic poet; the first great living voice that spoke poetry in American. Narrated by Anthony Jacobs With the voices of: EDDIE MATTHEWS , WALTER HALL
PETER CRAZE, PETER WOODTHORPE PETER MARINKER and MARGARET ROBERTSON
Producer MAURICE LEITCH followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Walt Whitman
Unknown:
Anne Stevenson
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Walt Whitman
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Unknown:
Eddie Matthews
Unknown:
Walter Hall
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

A tribute to Elizabeth Maconchy who celebrates her 70th birthday on 19 March. In this programme she introduces two of her own works and a 20th-century classic she greatly admires.
NOELLE BARKER (soprano)
CHRISTOPHER VAN KAMPEN (cello)
ORCHESTRA OF
ST JOHN 'S, SMITH SQUARE leader RICHARD DEAKIN conductor JOHN LUBBOCK
Maconchy Epyllion , for cello and strings
Berg Three pieces (Lyric Suite), for string orchestra
Maconchy Three settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, for soprano and chamber orchestra
(Maconchy 70th birthday concert: next Saturday morning)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth MacOnchy
Soprano:
Noelle Barker
Cello:
Christopher van Kampen
Unknown:
St John
Leader:
Richard Deakin
Conductor:
John Lubbock
Conductor:
MacOnchy Epyllion
Unknown:
Gerard Manley

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