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(piano)
Chopin Ballade No 3, in A flat, Op 47
8.11* Ravel Jeux d'eau
8.15* Albeniz Danse espagnole (Cantos de Espana. Op 232)
8.18* Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 11, in A minor
8.23* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR LANDON RONALD : records

Contributors

Piano:
Chopin Ballade
Conducted By:
Sir Landon Ronald

Listeners' record requests
Berlioz Overture: Les francsjuges: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
9.17* Mozart String Quartet in D minor (K 421): HEUTLING QUARTET
9.42* Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS
9.59* d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Song
NICOLE HENRIOT-SCHWEITZER
(piano), BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MUNCH

Contributors

Soprano:
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers
Piano:
Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer
Conducted By:
Charles Munch

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Historical Liszt: ALAN WALKER discusses Liszt's innovations as virtuoso, composer and teacher.
Two new operas introduced by their composers: THEA MUS-GRAVE'S Mary Queen of Scots and DAVID BLAKE 'S Toussaint. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Alan Walker
Unknown:
David Blake
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

International Amateur Choral Competition
BBC Silver Rose Bowl Award
In the last programme of the series Bernard Keeffe introduces the six prize-winning choirs and Charles Beardsall , Chairman of the International Jury,announcesthewinner of the BBC Silver Rose Bowl for 1977. the award for the most outstanding choir.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Keeffe
Unknown:
Charles Beardsall

IONA BROWN (violin)
BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by MAURICE BRETT conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Part 1
Tippett Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
David Blake Violin Concerto (BBC Commission)

Contributors

Violin:
Iona Brown
Director:
John Poole
Unknown:
Maurice Brett
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Violin:
David Blake

Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Peter Pears (tenor) Alan Civil (horn)
Graham Johnson (piano) direct from the Benson and Hedges Music Festival at The Maltings. Snape Part 1 Schubert
Die junge Nonne (D 828); Das Rosenband (D 280); Auf dem Sea (D 543); Blumenlied (D 431); Gondelfaiirer (d 808); Der Ungliickliche (D 713); Amalia (D 195); Sehnsucht (D 636); Der Jüngling am Bache (D 30); Die Cotter Griechenlands (o 677); Der Fliichtling (D 402)

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Unknown:
Cotter Griechenlands

Edward Upward has recently completed his trilogy The Spiral Ascent, with the publication of No Home but the Struggle.
David Phillips believes that Upwards work will have the durability of a classic and gives his reasons for holding this view.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Upward
Unknown:
David Phillips

Austin Woolrych, Professor of History at Lancaster University, considers Christopher Hill 's important new book Milton and the English Revolution, published tomorrow, and discusses its portrayal of Milton as a revolutionary, intellectually orientated towards the most radical thinkers of the Commonwealth.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hill

Translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell
[Starring] Harold Pinter as Ferdinand Vanek in "Audience"
with Peter Vaughan as the Head Maltster
and "Private View"
with Michael Bryant as Michael and Anna Massey as Vera

Place: Czechoslovakia. Time: the present. Ferdinand Vanek is a writer - but he works in a brewery. Audience takes place in the office of the Head Maltster of the brewery. In Private View Vanek accepts an invitation to visit Vera and Michael in their new apartment.

(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)

"These plays are written with clarity and wit ... In agreeing to play the part of Vanek, Harold Pinter is making a statement of his own, of support for Havel and of admiration for his work..." (Val Arnold-Foster, Guardian)

Contributors

Author:
Vaclav Havel
Translated and adapted by:
Vera Blackwkll
Director (Audience):
Bernard Krichefski
Director (Private View):
Liane Aukin
Ferdinand Vanek:
Harold Pinter
The Head Maltster (Audience):
Peter Vaughan
Michael (Private View):
Michael Bryant
Vera (Private View):
Anna Massey

The American Involvement in Vietnam
A series of programmes presenlteid by Michael Charlton
I don't want to see any nation go under Communist domination, but I don't care much for colonial regimes either.
(GENERAL ED LANSDALE )
3: Creating a State - South Vietnam
Vietnam is divided at the 17th parallel and, in the aftermath of French withdrawal and the Geneva Conference the primary western influence is again American.
Contributions from Robert Bowie , William Colby , General Tran Van Don. John Fairbank , Senator Fullbright, General Ed Lansdale. Senator Mansfield, Ho Thong Minn. Dean Rusk and Sir Robert Thompson
Producer ANTHONY MONGRIEFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Ed Lansdale
Unknown:
Robert Bowie
Unknown:
William Colby
Unknown:
Tran van Don.
Unknown:
John Fairbank
Unknown:
General Ed Lansdale.
Unknown:
Dean Rusk
Unknown:
Sir Robert Thompson
Producer:
Anthony Mongrieff

JENNIFER SMITH (soprano)
CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) WYNFORD EVANS (tenor)
STEPHEN ROBERTS (baritone)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, leader NONA LIDDELL STEPHEN CLEOBURY
(organ and harpsichord) conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Cantata No 112: Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt
Cantata No 145; Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergotzen
Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in F
Cantata No 67: Halt im Gedachtniis Jesum Christ

Contributors

Soprano:
Jennifer Smith
Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Leader:
Nona Liddell
Leader:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Jesum Christ

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