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PHILIPP HIRSUHORN (violin) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA. leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
Part I Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2
7.21* Bax Symphonic Poem: November Woods
7.44* Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No I

Contributors

Violin:
Philipp Hirsuhorn
Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Vernon Handley

The Bologna School
All the great cities of Northern Italy prided themselves on the vitality of their cultural life, and in the 17th and 18th centuries, rivalry between them was intense. In Bologna, the Cathedral of San Petronio was the centre of musical activity that led eventually to the emergence of the concerto.
Today: its origins in the rise of the Sonata da chiesa.
Cazzati Sonata (La Bianchina) DON SMITHERS (trumpet) and ENSEMBLE
Corelli Trio-Sonata in B flat, Op 1 No 5 (mono)
MUSICORUM ARCADIA. ENSEMBLE
G. B. Vilali Sonata da chiesa in E minor, Op 2 No 3 (mono) BASIL LAM ENSEMBLE
Manfirdini Sinfonia da chiesa, Op 2 No 2 (mono)
BOLOGNA INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by TITO GOTTI Torelli Sonata a 5 No 1
DON SMITHERS (trumpet), I MUSICI Corelli Trio-Sonata in c, Op 1 No 7 (mono): MUSICORUM ARCADIA ENSEMBLE: records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Tito Gotti

played by VIRGINIA ESKIN
MacDowell Woodland Sketches: To a Wild Rose; Will o' the Wisp; At an old Trystingplace; In Autumn; From an Indian Lodge; To a Water-lily; From Uncle Remus; A Deserted Farm: By a Meadow Brook; Told at Sunset
Mrs H. H. A. Beach By the Still Waters; A Humming-Bird; Variations on Balkan Themes

Contributors

Played By:
Virginia Eskin

A piano duet, and the two Concert Pieces for clarinet and basset-horn with piano, written for the virtuoso Heinrich Barmann and his son
VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (piano) Konzertstück No 2, in D minor, Op 114; Andante and Variations in B flat, Op 83a; Konzertstiick No 1. in F minor. Op 113

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Barmann
Piano:
Rodney Bennett

direct from St John 's. Smith Square. London Heinrich Schift (cello) Michael Isador piano)
Debussy Sonata in D minor
Toshiro Mayuzumi Bunraku, for cello (first broadcast performance in this country)
Beethoven Sonata in F major, Op 5 No 1
(Tickets: 90p at the door)

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Piano:
Michael Isador

Second of three extracts from the finals of the Interpretation Competition in the Ninth International Organ Festival.
Marcus Huxley (Great Britain) (joint second prize and audience prize)
Bach Chorale Prelude on 0 Mensch. bewein' dein' Siinde gross (BWV 622)
Paul Patterson Games: Points: Mobile; Construction; Melody: Construction: Density; Points Reger Chorale Fantasia on Straf' mich nicht in deinem Zorn

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Huxley
Unknown:
Paul Patterson

Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Hardy , and each afternoon this week there is a chance to hear his poetry in the five sets of Hardy songs by Gerald Finzi.
Today, the cycle A Young Mans Exhortation (1933): ten songs for tenor and piano
NEIL JENKINS. HOWARD FERGUSON gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Songs By:
Gerald Finzi.
Piano:
Neil Jenkins.
Piano:
Howard Ferguson

WILLIAM DAVIS CONSTRUCTION
GROCP BAND conductor JOHN BERRYMAN
Edward Gregson Prelude for an Occasion
Gilbert Vinter Entertainments G. Bailey Diadem of Gold BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
William Davis
Conductor:
John Berryman
Conductor:
Edward Gregson

Home and Family
6.30 New scries
Good Neighbours
In the first of four programmes DAVID HOBMAN looks at some of the needs and opportunities for neighbourly activities in the communitv.
Series producer DENIS SIMMONS
7.0 Helping with Spelling
Four programmes mainly for tutors and others working with adults.
1: Attitudes
Does spelling matter?
CATHERINE MOORHOUSE. Director of the ILEALanguage and Literacy Unit, talks to students and tutors about the social uses of spelling and its importance in writing.
Series producer JUDITH bumpus Look Listen Learn: pp 39-42

Contributors

Producer:
Denis Simmons
Unknown:
Catherine Moorhouse.

(tenor and piano) at the Malvern Festival 1977
Schubert Four Songs from Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft: Ständchen, Am Meer; Das Fischermadchen
Bellini Vanne. o rosa fortunata; Per pieta. bell' idol mio
Donizetti Le crepuscule; Me voglio fa 'na casa
Tchaikovsky My genius, my angel. my friend: They kept saying You fool ': In the clamour of the ballroom; Don Juan 's serenade (all sung in Russian
9.40* Interval Reading
9.50* Malvern Festival Part 2
Elgar Is she not passing fair: In the dawn: Come, gentle night: Pleading; The torch: Like to the damask rose; Queen Marys song: The Song of Autumn: The poet's life; Through the long days: Rondel; The shepherd's song
Britten Folk song arrangements: The plough boy: 0 waly, waly; The foggy, foggy dew: Oliver Cromwell
(Given in Malvern Festival Theatre in association with Michael Ross) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Das Fischermadchen
Unknown:
Bellini Vanne.
Unknown:
Don Juan

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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