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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Chopin's Fantasy in F minor, by ROBERT PHILIP.
A Beethoven anniversary edition, by EDWARD GREENFIELD.
Recent orchestral records: reviewed by NOËL GOODWIN .

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
Robert Philip.
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield.
Unknown:
Noël Goodwin

Last of this season's concerts for children, given last Saturday at the Royal Festival Hall
Marius May (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, leader Neville Taweel
Introduced and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hindemith: Turandot Scherzo (Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber)
Faure: Elégie for cello and orchestra
Berlioz: March to the Scaffold and Dream of a Witches' Sabbath (Symphonie fantastique)

Contributors

Cello:
Marius May
Orchestra leader:
Neville Taweel
Introduced and conducted by:
Antony Hopkins

Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 as composer, conductor, pianist arr Britten Come you not from Newcastle? :MARGARET PRICE ( sop) JAMES LOCKHART (piano) (mono)
Mozart Symphony No 38, in D major (Prague) (K 504): ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN : record
Schubert Der blinde Knabe : Das Lied im Griinen PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) (mono) (Recording from a live BBC Studio recital in 1964) Britten Symphony for cello and orchestra, Op 68
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, Conducted by THE COMPOSER: record

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Price
Piano:
James Lockhart
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Schubert Der Blinde Knabe
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Piano:
Benjamin Britten

A reconstruction, introduced by Martin Cooper
6.43* Overture: The Consecration of the House, Op 124: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT
7.2* Kyrie, Credo and Agnus Dei (Missa solemnis, Op 123)
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) WIESLAW OCHMAN (tenor) MARTTI TALVELA (bass)
8.0* Symphony No 9, in D minor, Op 125 (Choral)
GWYNETH JONES (soprano)
TATIANA TROYANOS (Contralto) jess THOMAS (tenor)
KARL RIDDERBUSCH (bass). VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS, VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conductedbykarlbohm:records

Contributors

Introduced By:
Martin Cooper
Soprano:
Margaret Price
Mezzo-Soprano:
Christa Ludwig
Tenor:
Wieslaw Ochman
Bass:
Martti Talvela
Soprano:
Gwyneth Jones
Contralto:
Tatiana Troyanos
Tenor:
Jess Thomas

An opera for radio.
Libretto by Patric Dickinson.
Music by Alan Ridout (first performance)

The story of Phaeton, son of Apollo and Klymene, who threatens the ecology of the earth by driving the chariot of the sun.

With voices from the BBC Repertory Company
Memebers of the Philomusica of London, leader John Willison
Levine Andrade (viola)
Repetiteur Richard Nunn
Conducted by Elgar Howarth

(Stereo)

Contributors

Libretto:
Patric Dickinson
Music:
Alan Ridout
Musicians:
Members of the Philomusica of London
Leader:
John Willison
Violaist:
Levine Andrade
Repetiteur:
Richard Nunn
Conductor:
Elgar Howarth
Stereo sound:
Margaret Steven
Special sound:
Malcolm Clark of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced and directed by:
Hallam Tennyson
Produced and directed by:
Elaine Padmore
Klymene, a water-nymph:
Maureen Lehane (mezzo-sop)
Apollo, God of the Sun:
Neil Howlett (baritone)
Phaeton:
James Bowman (counter-tenor)
Epaphos, son of Zeus:
Tom McDonnell (baritone)
Akanthos, doorkeeper of the Palace:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Tethys:
Jean Allister (contralto)
Four stable-lads, four willow trees:
Members of BBC Singers
Voices from:
The BBC Repertory Company

The shuffling of star names into new alliances is a characteristic of modern popular music. Derek Jewell looks at two bands recently emerged from this process: one led by ex-Cream member JACK bruck, with the album How's Trickst; the other by ex-Deep Purple keyboards player JON LORD, with Malice in Wonderland. Music tOO from WEATHER REPORT.

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