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Bernstein Overture: Candide LONDONSYMPHONYORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRÉ PREVIN
7.10* Barber Violin Concerto ISAAC STERN , NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
7.33* Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaac Stern
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein

Telemann Suite in A minor DAVID MUNROW (recorder), ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS Conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
8.43* Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 9: SALVATORE ACCARDO , i music: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Salvatore Accardo

English (1623) and Flemish (cl750)
In the second programme Michael Thomas suggests that perhaps the large English double manual harpsichords were in advance of the Flemish Ruckers instruments in the early 17th century.
Works played include a suite by Matthew Locke and Partita No 6, in E minor by Bach^

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Thomas
Unknown:
Matthew Locke

A programme of Canadian music given by the NEW MUSIC CONCERTS OF CANADA under their director ROBERT AITKEN (flute)
Norma Beecroft Collage 76, for flute solo, tape, flute, oboe, horn, bass, cello, harp, piano and percussion
Bruce Mather Madrigal III, for contralto, harp and piano
Gilles Tremblay Champs I, for piano and percussion
Donald Steven The Transient; for soprano, flute, cello, mandolin, harp, two pianos and percussion

Contributors

Flute:
Robert Aitken
Flute:
Norma Beecroft
Unknown:
Bruce Mather Madrigal
Piano:
Gilles Tremblay
Unknown:
Donald Steven

An all-Mozart programme PRUDENCE LLOYD (soprano)
VIRGINIA LLOYD OWEN (contralto) GARETH ROBERTS (tenor) JEREMY WHITE (baSS) BBC SINGERS
STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ) HAMILTON ORCHESTRA led by JOHN WILLISON conducted by JOHN poole
Three Motets: Veni, sancte spiritus (K 47): Regina Coeli (K 276); Alma Dei creatorus (K 277); Missa longa (K 262)

Contributors

Soprano:
Prudence Lloyd
Contralto:
Virginia Lloyd Owen
Tenor:
Gareth Roberts
Bass:
Jeremy White
Singers:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
John Willison
Conducted By:
John Poole
Unknown:
Regina Coeli
Unknown:
Alma Dei

The Digestive Muse
Music to assist eating (but definitely not background restaurant music) ranging from the Concerto in Alexander's Feast (Handel) to The Spider's Banquet (Roussel), with feasting music from Versailles and Babylon, plus an eye-witness account of the Feast of Pheasant in 1454: records

medium only until 7.0
Leisure and Recreation
6.30 In Your Own Time
Things to Do - Places to Go
New, purposeful and perhaps profitable ways of enjoying your spare time. Presented by PETER CLAYTON. Producer ANNA ASHE. Editor GRAHAM TAYAR
7.0 Music, Maestro, Please!
7: What's so Common about Chords?
DAVID BEDFORD introduces some of his own music and explores a few of the exciting new possibilities available for both composer and listener.

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Clayton.
Producer:
Anna Ashe.
Editor:
Graham Tayar

A Sacred Trilogy (sung in French) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
' The first performance of the Childhood of Christ took place. The next day I received a letter from Heine: " I hear from all sides, that you have picked a garland of the most exquisite flowers of melody and that everything in your oratorio is a masterpiece of simplicity." '
(BERLIOZ: Memoirs)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CHOIR chorus-master TERRY EDWARDS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader jose-luis GARCIA , conducted by Sir Charles Groves Part 1: Herod's Dream

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Terry Edwards
Leader:
Jose-Luis Garcia
Unknown:
Sir Charles Groves
Mary:
With Janet Baker
Joseph:
Ian Caddy
Herod and:
Donald McLntyre
the Ishmaelite:
Father, And
the Narrator:
Peter Pears

A study of Charles Hamilton Sorley who was killed, aged 20, on 13 October 1915 in the Battle of Loos
When you see millions of the mouihless dead
Across your dreams in pate battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said....
Compiled by TERENCE COOPER with NIGEL LAMBERT as Sorley Narrator GARARD GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Hamilton
Unknown:
Terence Cooper
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Sorley Narrator Garard

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