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Delius On hearing the lirsl cuckoo in spring
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.11* Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor ( Scottish
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CLAUDIO ARBABO
7.47* Glazunov Wedding March MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by Alexander GAUK
Part 2
Sibelius Overture: Karelia
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.12* Vaughan Williams Song-cycle: On Wenlock Edge IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON
8.33* Virgil Thomson Suite: Louisiana Story WESTPHALIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by Siegfried landau
Honegger Prologue and Les voix du ciel (Jeanne d'Arc au bucher)
CHRISTIAN*! CHATEAU (soprano) PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by serge BAUDO
9.17* Symphony No 3 (Liturgique): CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SERGE BAUDO : records
played by ALAN spending in Beverley Minster
Pachelbel Toccata and Fugue in D minor
C. P. E. Bach Sonata in A minor (Wq 70 No 4) Alain Aria
Vierne Scherzetto ; Pastorale (24 pieces en style libre)
Reger Praeludium in D minor, Op 65 No 7
BBC Manchester
with Kenneth Essex (viola)
Haydn Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (The Rider)
Mozart Quartet in » (K 499>
Peter Gellhorn. conductor and pianist, asks Does the corn-poser have the last word'!
Part 2 Beethoven
Quintet in c major. Op 29
Symphony No ' 0 ', in D minor AUSTRIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERNST MARZENDORFER
(Austrian Radio recotxtiing-*
direct from the Concert Hall, i Broadcasting House, London
Lynda Russell (soprano)
Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano Andrew Ball (piano)
Purcell. real Tippett and Bergmann Duet: Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary Schubert Nachtviolen ; Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen; Die Gotter Griechenlands: Liebhaber in alien Gestalten
Mendelssohn Duets: Ich wollt' mcine Lieb': Herbstlied; Abschicdslied der Zugvbgel; Maiglockchen
Fauré Les berceaux; Automne; Le voyageur; Clair de lune
Rossini Duets: La pesca: La regata veneziana
(Given before an invited audience)
Mozart's affection for the viola (which, as a player; he preferred to the violin) can be heard not only in his great string quintets with two violas and his Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, but also in his two duos for violin and viola - the only existing masterpieces of their kind. ITALIAN STRING TRIO
Mozart Duo in G (K 423)
Beethoven Trio in D, Op 9 No 2 Mozart Duo in B flat (K 4241
Introduced by MISHA don at
Part 1 Schumann Noveletten , Op 21
4.10* Interval Reading
4.15* Piano Recital Part 2
Fauré Nocturne No 7, in c sharp minor, Op 74; Barcarolle No 9, in A "minor, Op 101: Nocturne No 13, in B minor, Op 119
Scriabin Etudes, Op 42
(A Young Musician's concert recorded dn the Old Swan Hotel, Karrogate, as part of the 1976 Festival) BBC Manchester
from Gloucester Cathedral
Introit: 0 sing joyfully (Adrian Batten )
Versicles and Responses (John Sanders )
Psalms 136, 137. 138 (Middle-ton; Hylton-Stewart; Martin)
Lessons: Genesis 28, vv 10-17; John 1, vv 47-51
Canticles: The Gloucester Service (Herbert Howells '
Anthem: Factum est silentium (Richard Dering)
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN SANDERS Assistant organist ANDREW MILLINGTON BBC Birmingham
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6.30 Introduction to Arabic Programme 15
Series producers ELSIE FERGUSON and GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
7.0 Der arme Millionar 20: Ende gut, alles (jut
Script und Regie EDITH BAER (Rptd: Sun 3.0 pm R4 VHF)
Peter Pratt introduces excerpts from vintage recordings (made in 1933 and 1931 respectively* of Gilbert and Sullivan's two supernatural operas. They include such celebrated Savoyards as DARRELL FANCOURT , SYH-NEY GRANVILLE, MURIEL DICKSON , NELLIE BRIERCL'IFFE, LESLIE RANDS and DEREKOLD-JAM.
Clifford Curzon (piano) Amadeus String Quartet
-Rodney Slatford (double-bass) direct from the Benson and Hedges Music Festival at The Maltings,
Snape Schubert Quartet-movement in c minor (d 7031
Britten String Quartet No 2, in c, Op 36
Part 2 Schubert
Piano Quintet in A (D 667,0 (The Trout). RBC Birmingham
by EDMUND SPENSER abridged for radio in 13 episodes by Terence TILLER Reader Gary Bond
1: The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse, or of Holinesse (Part 1)
In a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh. Spenser described
The Faerie Queene as ' a continued Allegory, or darke conceit ... The general end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.'
Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, the work begins with the adventures of the Red Crosse Knight. sent by Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, to slay the dragon.
Narrator John Westbrook
Other voices PENELOPE Reynolds
KENNETH SHANLEY , JONATHAN SCOTT Producer DAVID SPENSER
Some of the madrigals from the collection by various composers published in 1601 in honour of Queen Elizabeth I. PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA, LONDON directed by IAN partridge (tenor): records
