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This year Vladimir Horowitz celebrates the 50th anniversary of his first concerts in America, where he had gone from his native Kiev. He made his first record that same year; his most recent recordings were issued this month. For the next ten Sundays there is a chance to hear a selection of them, drawn from all stages of his career.
Chopin Mazurka in c sharp minor. Op 30 No 4 (Horowitz's first record)
Dohnanyi Capriccio in F minor, Op 28 No 6
Liszt Grande Etude de Paganini No 2, in E flat
Haydn Sonata in e flat (h XVI 52)
Brahms Intermezzo in B flat minor. Op 117 No 2
Brahms Waltz in A flat, Op 39 No 15
Mendelssohn Variations serieuses. Op 54 gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Horowitz
Unknown:
Chopin Mazurka
Unknown:
Dohnanyi Capriccio
Unknown:
Brahms Intermezzo

Listeners' record requests Copland El Salon Mexico
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER
9.17* Strauss Four Last Songs
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONYORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
9.41* Berlioz Symphony: Harold in Italy. Op 16 YEHUDI MENUHIN (viola) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by COLIN DAVIS

Contributors

Conducted By:
George Szell
Viola:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Music of Alan Rawsthorne : by DAVID cox.
A conversation with FRANK MERRICK.
A Rossinian Cat's Cradle: disentangled by JULIAN BUDDEN
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Alan Rawsthorne
Unknown:
Frank Merrick.
Unknown:
Julian Budden
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

GRAHAM TITUS (baritone) ERIK LEVI. (piano) ALAN BUSH ipiano)
Alan Bush/Alan Rawsthorne Prison Cycle (accompanied by Alan Bush : first broadcast performance)
Bernard Stevens Song-cycle: The True Dark (accompanied by Erik Levi : first performance)

Contributors

Piano:
Erik Levi.
Piano:
Alan Bush
Accompanied By:
Alan Bush
Unknown:
Bernard Stevens
Accompanied By:
Erik Levi

Opera in four acts Music by Massenet
Libretto by D'ENNERY. GALLET and BLAU after CORNEILLE
(sung in French: records)
BYRNE CAMP CHORALE
OPERA ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK conducted by EVE QUELER : Act 1
3:2t* Interval Reading
3.25* Le Cid. Act 2
4.25* Interval Reading
4.30* Le Cid. Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eve Queler

The Dauntless Girl A play for radio by PENELOPE SHUTTLE
Music composed by NICHOLAS MARSHALL with and ' I feared what was inside me. You give it form and substance. Knowing it, knowing you, I am not afraid... I A young girl overcomes fear and learns the way to triumph over the domination of men.
Setting: the West Country in the last century
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Radio By:
Penelope Shuttle
Composed By:
Nicholas Marshall
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Polly:
Allison Hancock
the Thorn Man:
William Russell
Squire Blaekstone:
Malcolm Gerard
Tom Field:
Gavin Campbell
John Green:
Stephen Sylvester
Sexton Wood:
Ray Handy
Will:
Peter Wickham
Harry the Youngster:
Kit Thacker
George Matthews/Parson Beck-worth:
Eric Allan
Michael:
Michael Goldie
Mr Leigh/Gaffer:
David Ashford
Mary/Ghost:
June Barrie

1878-1930
Emmy Destinn. who was born exactly 100 years ago in Prague. was perhaps the greatest dramatic soprano the world has ever seen. For more than a decade she was the darling of London, Berlin, and New York, with a personality as great as her voice; among the many who came under her spell were Toscanini, Puccini, and Caruso.
Dr Bedrich Belohlavek, writer and musicologist, and former well-known Prague music critic, tells her story with illustrations from some of her historic recordings.

This week the first of an occasional series of programmes, to be broadcast during the coming months, which will include music by Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies.
LONTANO ENSEMBLE directed by DOMINIC MULDOWNEY
Ockeghem, arr Birtwistle Ut heremita solus
Harrison Birtwistle Cantata
Odaline Martinez Song-cycle: After
Sylvia Dominic Muldowney Entr'acte
Sweelinck. arr Muldowney Variations on Mein Junges Leben hat ein End'
(first broadcast performances of the works by Muldowney and Martinez)

Contributors

Music By:
Harrison Birtwistle
Music By:
Peter Maxwell
Directed By:
Dominic Muldowney
Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle Cantata
Unknown:
Odaline Martinez
Unknown:
Sylvia Dominic Muldowney

The Sleeping Beauty
Fairy ballet in a prologue and three acts
Music by Tchaikovsky LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductedbyandreprevin (gramophone records)
Cormac Rigby sets the music in the context of Dame Ninette de Valois' new production. with choreography by Petipa, Lopukov, Ashton and Mac-Millan.
(The rest of the series will be broadcast on Friday afternoons: this week at 2.5 pm)

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