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Hertel Concerto for trumpet, two oboes and two bassoons
HEINZ ZICKLER , MEMBERS OF THE MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GUNTER KEHR
7.20* Boccherini Guitar Quintet No 4, in D: NARCISO YEPES
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART with LUCERO TENA (castanets)
7.37* Tippett Suite in D (for the birthday of Prince Charles) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS

Contributors

Bassoons:
Heinz Zickler
Conducted By:
Gunter Kehr
Unknown:
Narciso Yepes
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

Part 2 Wir6n Serenade for Strings, Op 11
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA, COnducted by KENNETH MONTGOMERY
8.21* Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.29* Berwald Septet in B flat, for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double-bass: MELOS ENSEMBLE
8.53* Alfven Elegy (Music for King Gustav II)
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Montgomery
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund

Dvorak Echoes of Songs BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Overture: My homeland, Op 62 (prefaced by Skroup's song: Kde domov muj?)
9.18* Symphonic Variations on an original theme. Op 78
9.39* Slavonic Dances, Op 46 Nos 3 and 7: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

ROY MASSEY plays and introduces the Samuel Green Organ of 1788 at Attingham Park, Shropshire.
Stanley Voluntary in A minor
Handel Pieces for a Musical Clock: Flight of Angels: In a thousand sweet manners;
- Flute Solo and Gigue
Sweelinck Variations on Onder een linde groen
Distler Four Pieces for small organ: Introduction; Concertino; Chaconne; Canon
Greene Voluntary in c minor
(By kind permission of the National Trust)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Massey

Second of four programmes Quilter and Shakespeare IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass-bar) JENNIFER PARTRIDGE (piano)
Parry Willow Song; 0 mistress mine
Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs, Op 6: Come away, death; 0 mistress mine; Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Warlock Sweet and twenty; Mockery (When daisies pied); Pretty ring time
Quilter It was a lover and his lass; Who is Silvia?; How should I your true love know?; Under the greenwood tree
Finzi Come away, death; It
- was a lover and his lass (Let us garlands bring) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Tenor:
Shakespeare Ian Partridge
Bass-Bar:
Christopher Keyte
Piano:
Jennifer Partridge

The first of six programmes exploring music inspired by the legend of Ariadne deserted on the island of Naxos Handel Overture: Arianna ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
11.11* Haydn Cantata: Arianna a N.axos
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) RAYMOND LEPPARD (fortepiano) gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker

direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Anne Shasby and Richard McMahon play works for piano duet andawo pianos
Schubert Allegro in A minor (Lebenssturme) (D 947)
John Rushby-Smith Aspects of Night (first broadcast performance)
Debussy En blanc et noir
Lutoslawski Variations on a theme of Paganini
(Before an invited audience)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard McMahon
Pianos:
Schubert Allegro
Unknown:
John Rushby-Smith

Malcolm Williamson , Master of the Queen's Music, introduces the fourth of six programmes, with PHILIP CHALLIS (piano) BBC SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN POOLE
In today's programme music by Walford Davies and Bax

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Williamson
Piano:
Philip Challis
Conducted By:
John Poole
Music By:
Walford Davies

Introit: Requiem aeternam; Kyrie; Gradual: Requiem aeternam; Tract: Absolve Domine; Sequence: Dies irae; Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe ; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei ; Communion: Lux aeterna; Libera me Domine; In paradisum: WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR, conductor COLIN MAWBY

Contributors

Unknown:
Domine Jesu Christe
Unknown:
Agnus Dei
Conductor:
Colin Mawby

Third of four programmes
Time stands still with gazing on her face; Daphne was not so chaste; Behold a wonder here
My Lord Chamberlaine his Galliard, for two lutes
Me, me, and none but me; Farewell unkind farewell; When Phoebus first did Daphne love
Lord Willoughby, for two lutes Flow not so fast yee fountaines; What if I never speede; Weep you no more sad fountaines ALAN JONES (baritone) ROBERT SPENCER (lute)
NIGEL NORTH (lute and gamba)

Language and Communication
6.30 Kontakte
5: Vielen Dank !
Introduced by LUTZ LIEBELT and LIANE RUDOLPH. Script by IRIS SPRANKLING and EDITH BAER (Television programmes: Sun
10.50 am; Wed 12.5 pm BBC1)
7.0 Allez France!
5: Les Français et le francais (Part 1). Présenté par GILLES DATTAS et ANNE-MARIE PELLETIER Script par JOHN ROSS

Contributors

Unknown:
Vielen Dank
Introduced By:
Lutz Liebelt
Unknown:
Liane Rudolph.
Unknown:
Edith Baer
Unknown:
Gilles Dattas
Unknown:
John Ross

by EDMUND SPENSER Reader Gary Bond
6: The Legend of Britomartis, or of Chastity (Part; 2)
Britomartis, the Virgin Warrior, rides out to rescue Sir Scudamour's beloved Amoret who is being tortured in the castle of the magician Busyrane. Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK
Other voices NICOLETTE MCKENZIE and ANNE ROSENFELD
Producer DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Reader:
Edmund Spenser
Reader:
Gary Bond
Narrator:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Nicolette McKenzie
Unknown:
Anne Rosenfeld
Producer:
David Spenser

leader GERHARDT BOSSE conductor Kurt Masur
Siegfried Lorenz (baritone) Hannes Kastner (organ)
A Royal Philharmonic Society concert direct from the Royal Festival Hall
Johann Cilensek Concerto for organ and string orchestra (first broadcast in this country) Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Contributors

Leader:
Gerhardt Bosse
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Baritone:
Siegfried Lorenz
Baritone:
Hannes Kastner
Unknown:
Johann Cilensek
Unknown:
Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden

Drosophila Breed Like Flies Presented by John Maddox
Drosophila, the fast-breeder fruit-fly, with its highly photogenic chromosomes, has been the main research animal of geneticists for over 70 years, Dr Peter Lawrence of the MRC'S Laboratory of Molecular Biology has been following the fate of cells during various stages of the insect's development. He describes how this work may reveal the way genes regulate the organisms' development. Editor MICHAEL BRIGHT

Contributors

Presented By:
John Maddox
Unknown:
Dr Peter Lawrence

This week a large-scale oratorio by one of Hungary's leading composers, Zsolt Durko
Halotti beszéd (Burial Prayer)
ATTILA FÜLÖP (tenor), ENDRE UTO (bar), HUNGARIAN RADIO CHOIR BUDAPEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GYÖRGY LEHEL
(Hungarian Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Zsolt Durko

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