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Boccherini Symphony in C minor, Op 41: I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone

7.23* Sammartini Recorder Concerto in F: Frans Bruggen
Vienna Concentus Musicus, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

7.37* Donizetti String Quartet in D, arr string orchestra
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Neville Marriner
(records)

Mozart Symphony No 12, in G (KllO): BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL BÖHM
8.21* Hummel Septet in c (Militaire): COLLEGIUM CON BASSO
8.45* Brahms Academic Festival Overture: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
A programme emphasising the work of living British composers.
Bryan Kelly Overture: San Francisco Purcell, arr Bliss Act tunes and dances
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
David Morgan Partita
Joseph Horowitz Adagio Cantabile
James Langley Overture: The Bally Raggers

Contributors

Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Bryan Kelly
Unknown:
James Langley

Part 2 Tippett A Birthday Suite for Prince Charles
1.38* Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
1.45* Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London town)
(Presented in Leeds Town Hall on 24 Sept by Leeds Leisure Services) BBC Manchester

Last of four programmes in which Jennifer Bate plays the six Sonatas, Op 65, and the three Preludes and Fugues. Op 37. JENNIFER BATE (organ) BBC SINGERS conducted by GORDON KEMBER
Three Songs (Op 59): Die Naehtigall; Ruhetal; Jagdilied Sonata No 5, in d major
Three Songs (Op 59): Im Griinen; Friihzeitiger Friihiing ; Abschied vom Wald
Sonata No 6, in D minor
(Organ music recorded in St James 's Church, Muswell Hill , London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jennifer Bate
Conducted By:
Gordon Kember
Unknown:
Friihzeitiger Friihiing
Unknown:
St James
Unknown:
Muswell Hill

Business as Usual
To start the new series Christopher Hogwood explores some of the more business-like aspects of musical composition, and reveals a monetary strain underlying some well-known masterpieces. Jesus and the Traders (Kodaly), La boutique fantasque, and Rocco's Gold Aria from Fidelio compete with Bach's representation of the 30 pieces of silver in the St Matthew Passion and Debussy's Danse sacree et danse profane. Bonuses include an example of Mozart overstepping the mark and an index sat to music. gramophone records

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Leisure and Recreation
6.30 In Your Own Time
Things to Do - Places to Go
New, purposeful and perhaps profitable ways of enjoying yoursparetimeanddeveloping your skills and abilities. Presented by PETER CLAYTON
7.0 The Deceptive Ear 1: Sound Barriers
While the ear remains completely unaware of them, very low or high vibrations can cause severe nausea, or be used in surgery for the selective destruction of tissue. In the first of four programmes, CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD discusses with PROFESSOR JAMES BEAMENT the sensitivity of the body to audible and inaudible sounds. Series producer DAVID EPPS

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Clayton
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Professor James Beament
Producer:
David Epps

The first of a new fortnightly series direct from the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham Songs of the South Spain and Italy seen through Northern eyes: German Lieder, French melodies and English poetry.
Devised by Graham Johnson
Presented by Members of the Songmakers' Almanac
Felicity Lott (soprano) Richard Jackson (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano)

Part 1
'Oh, lovely Spain! renown'd romantic land!' (BYRON)
Settings of the Spanish poems of Emmanuel Geibel by Robert SeJfumann and Adolf Jensen, and songs from the Geibel-Heyse Spanisches Liederbuch set by Hugo Wolf, with a postscript by Roussel and Saint-Saens

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Johnson
Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Baritone:
Richard Jackson
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Unknown:
Emmanuel Geibel
Unknown:
Robert Sejfumann
Unknown:
Adolf Jensen
Unknown:
Heyse Spanisches Liederbuch
Unknown:
Hugo Wolf

Roderick Kedward , Reader in History at Sussex University, looks at the new historical approach of Theodore Zeldin 's France 1848-1945, in particular the conclusions of the recently published second volume, Intellect, Taste and Anxiety.

Contributors

Reader:
Roderick Kedward
Unknown:
Theodore Zeldin

Part 2
Italy: ' Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bliih'n ...?'- Settings of Goethe's famous Mignon lyric by Schubert, Schumann, Gounod and Wolf; Venetian songs by Gounod and Hahn, and songs from the Heyse-Geibel Italienisches Liederbuch by Marx and Wolf
(Given before an invited audience. Details of these concerts are available from: Room 305, Broadcasting Centre, PO Box 168, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham B5 7QQ) BBC Birmingham

(violin) plays unaccompanied Bach Second of two programmes
Partita No 3, in E (bwv 1006) Sonata No 2, in A minor (Bwv 1003)
10.10* Interval Reading
10.15* Concert Part 2
Bach Partita No 2, in D minor (BWV 1004)
(Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in February 1976)

Contributors

Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall

Mary Queen of Scots has been an inspiration to artists from her own time down to the present day. This programme, devised and introduced by GORDON STEWART , is a sequence of words by Sir Walter Scott , Schiller, Swinburne and Robert Bolt, with music by Schumann, Donizetti and Mendelssohn.
Elizabeth Bell as Mary with Kathleen Michael and Fraser Kerr
Producers CHRISTOPHER VENNING and CORDON STEWART
(Thea Musgrave 's opera Mary Queen of Scots from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow: tomorrow)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Stewart
Unknown:
Sir Walter Scott
Unknown:
Kathleen Michael
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Producers:
Christopher Venning
Unknown:
Thea Musgrave

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