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Mozart Ein muslkalischer Spass (K 5221: MEMBERS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTET
7.26* Mozart Sinfonia Concert-ante in E flat (K 364)
IGOR OISTRAKH (violin) DAVID OISTRAKH (viola) directing the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Mozart Ein
Violin:
Igor Oistrakh
Viola:
David Oistrakh

Jarnefelt Praeludium
BOURNEMOUTH .SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
8.8* Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op 47 Nos 2-4: EMIL GILELS (piano)
8.18* Nielsen Wind Quintet DANISH WIND QUINTET
8.43- Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 1
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund

Samuel Barber
A Hand of Bridge, Op 35 PATRICIA NEWAY (soprano) EUNICE ALBERT (contralto) WILLIAM LEWIS (tenor) PHILIP MAERO (baritone) SYMPHONY OF THE AIR conducted by VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN
9.15 Violin Concerto, Op 14 ISAAC STERN (violin)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIG
ORCHESTRA conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
9.38* Antony and Cleopatra, Op 40 (Two Scenes)
LEONTYNE PRICE (soprano)
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Barber
Contralto:
Eunice Albert
Tenor:
William Lewis
Baritone:
Philip Maero
Violin:
Vladimir Golschmann
Violin:
Isaac Stern
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers

LAUREEN LIVINGSTONE (soprano) RICHARD NUNN (piano) JOHN O'CONOR (piano)
Brahms Variations on an originat theme. Op 21 No 1
Strauss Ich schwebe: Wiegenlied: Muttertandelei; Fur fiinfzen Ptennige
Chopin Barcarolle. Op 60

Contributors

Soprano:
Laureen Livingstone
Piano:
John O'Conor
Unknown:
Strauss Ich

Thirty radio stations from 13 European countries where folk music is still a living force entered recordings for this international contest. This third of five programmes features the winning entries in the category for authentic performances by folklore groups. Villagers from remote corners of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bavaria and Bulgaria took the honours.
(Recording made available by courtesyofCzechoslovakRadio)

In this studio performance the artists are
WENDY EATHORNE (soprano) MARGARET CABLE (contralto) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (baritone) with the BBC SINGERS and the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN POOLE

Contributors

Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Conducted By:
John Poole

medium only
Presented by Jack Brymer
Maestro Toscanini in Concert at Carnegie Hall
Recordings from the early 50s with the NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Mussorgsky Prelude: Khovanschina. And a rare event ... Toscanini had. for years, an aversion to conducting Tchaikovsky, but here he makes an exception with a work that appears in concert programmes very infrequently, the ' Manfred ' Symphony. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer

New poems by CLipr ASHBY, GEORGE BUCHANAN , JEAN EARLI , W. P. GRAHAM , IAN MCMILLAN and PAUL MILLS.
Introduced by Michael Schmidt Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
George Buchanan
Unknown:
Jean Earli
Unknown:
W. P. Graham
Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Paul Mills.
Introduced By:
Michael Schmidt
Producer:
Fraser Steel

The second of two extracts from the conversation of James Northcote. RA with William Hazlitt selected and introduced by Derek Parker with Paul Rogers i as James Northcote
I should say that Vandyke's portraits are like pictures, Sir Joshua's like the reflection in a looking-glass, and Titian's like the real people ... when Alexander Day took leave of some fine portraits of Titian's that hung in a dark corner of a gallery in Naples, he said " Ah! he was a fine old mouser! ".'
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
James Northcote.
Unknown:
William Hazlitt
Duced By:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Paul Rogers
Unknown:
James Northcote
Unknown:
Alexander Day
Producer:
Piers Plowright

(baritone) with DAVID OWEN NORRIS (piano) in a programme of two recent
Britishworks:thefirsttoa prose text by NIROS KAZANTZAKIS on the subject of youth; the other to 16th and 17th century poems on the theme of mortality.
Robert Walker The Incongruous Beast (commissioned by the National Federation of Music Societies for David Wil son-Johnson: first broadcast performance)
Richard Rodney Bennett Tenebrae

Contributors

Piano:
David Owen Norris
Unknown:
Niros Kazantzakis
Unknown:
Robert Walker
Unknown:
David Wil

Since 1374, when Mussorgsky wrote his piano work. Pictures from an Exhibition, many orchestrations and arrangements have been made of it, notably by Ravel, but also by Elgar, Howarth and Stokowski. In this performance on gramophone records, to demonstrate the variety of these versions, each successive picture is exhibited in a different guise.

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