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Ireland A London Overture
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
7.17* Glazunov Chant du Mengstrel, for cello and orchestra
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA
7.22* Glinka Trio pathé. tique, for clarinet, bassoon and fortepiano THE MUSIC PARTY
7.30* Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conducted By:
Seiji Ozawa
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
8.15* Brahms Three Intermezzi. Op 117
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
8.31* Dohnanyi Suite in sharp minor
SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILTON KATIMS gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe
Piano:
Julius Katchen
Conducted By:
Milton Katims

Tchaikovsky
The Middle Period
Cradle Song, Op 16 No 1: Oh stay, Op 16 No 2; Is it not so?. Op 16 No 5 ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
PHILIP LEDGER (piano)
9.16* Sonata in G
PAUL CROSSLEY fpiano)
9.47* Don Juan 's Serenade, Op 38 No 1
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
PHILIP LEDGER (piano)
It was in the early spring, Op 38 No 2
GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (piano)
At the ball, Op 38 No 3 ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
PHILIP LEDGER (piano) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Juan

director JOHN HOBAN , in a programme of sacred choral music from the 15th and 16th centuries
Dufay Ave regima caelorum (III); Magnificat (9 toni)
Ockeghem Intemerata Del
Mater Whyte Chrlste qui lux est et dies (I); Magnificat

Contributors

Director:
John Hoban
Unknown:
Ockeghem Intemerata Del
Unknown:
Mater Whyte Chrlste

(Die Zauberflote)
Opera in two acts Words by EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER
Music by Mozart (sung in German)
Recording from the 1973 Salzburg Festival
Cast in order of singing: SOLOISTS OF THE Tolz BOYS' CHOIR
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA chorus-master WALTER HAGEN-GROLL conducted by JAMES LEVINE
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)
Act 1
3.20* In Short
In the interval of The Magic Flute, Peter Gellhorn talks about Mozart and the Theatre.
3.30* The Magic Flute Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Emanuel Schikaneder
Unknown:
Walter Hagen-Groll
Conducted By:
James Levine
Flute:
Peter Gell
Unknown:
Elisabeth Kales
Tenor:
Karl Terkal
Tamino, a prince:
Eric Tappy
Three Ladies, attendant upon the Queen of the Night:
Rachel Yakar
Three Ladies, attendant upon the Queen of the Night:
Trudelise Schmidt
Three Ladies, attendant upon the Queen of the Night:
Ingrid Mayr
Papageno, a birdcatcher:
Christian Boesch
The Queen of the Night:
Edita Gruberova

director LEONARD FRIEDMAN ROSEMARY ELIOT (flute)
Malcolm Arnold Concerto for flute and strings. Op 45
Alexander Goehr Roman za (first performance, conducted by THE COMPOSER)
(Part of a concert recorded in the Signet Library, Edinburgh, on 21 February)
BBC Scotland

Contributors

Director:
Leonard Friedman
Flute:
Rosemary Eliot
Flute:
Malcolm Arnold
Unknown:
Alexander Goehr Roman

Presented by Jack Brymer
Guido Cantelli conducts Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony (Pathetique)
A recording, being broadcast for the first time in this country, of a concert given in Carnegie Hall on 21 February 1953 by the NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(A Voice of America recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Brymer
Unknown:
Guido Cantelli

by Ranald Summerfield
with Michael Gough, Nigel Anthony and Amanda Murray

'I knew her, knew her well, better than anyone. Perhaps you wouldn't understand how well. You might: perhaps you've felt these things yourself for a woman. I suppose emotions like mine aren't really unique. We think they are, of course, in spite of books and films.'

"An ambitious, and completely successful, way of presenting the obsessive, devouring aspect of love." (The Guardian)

Contributors

Writer:
Ranald Summerfield
Director:
Michael Heffernan
Elsie:
Amanda Murray
Arthur, in his 60s:
Michael Gough
Bystander:
Brenda Kaye
Geoff/Bert:
Manning Wilson
Jack:
Peter Wickham
Jimbo:
David Gillies
Harry/George Mick/Derek:
Nick Brimble
Arthur, in his 20s:
Nigel Anthony
Edna/Jenny:
Jennifer Piercey
Bab/Br Gold:
Gregory de Polnay
Henry:
Gavin Campbell
Milly/Sister:
Margot Boyd
Mr Redfern:
Anthony Newlands
Nurse:
Mary Clare Nash
ICU Nurse:
Heather Bell

1929-1978
At the time of his death earlier this year, John Mackintosh was Labour up for Berwick and East Lothian - and Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. In this talk, David Marquand. now Professor of Contemporary History and Politics at the University of Salford, assesses his friend's contribution to national politics at Westminster and to the teaching of Political Science.

Contributors

Unknown:
John MacKintosh
Unknown:
David Marquand.

' The trio-sonata in England was essentially the province of the amateur.' In the tenth of these 15 programmes, Christopher Hogwood introduces music written principally for the amateur market by Handel. Boyce. Arne. Geminiani and de Fesch. THE ENGLISH CONCERT
Stephen Preston (flute)
Nicholas McGegan (flute) Simon Standage (violin) Eleanor Sloan (violin) Anthony Pleeth (cello) director TREVOR PINNOCK
(harpsichord)

Contributors

Introduces:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Handel. Boyce.
Unknown:
Arne. Geminiani
Unknown:
De Fesch.
Flute:
Stephen Preston
Flute:
Nicholas McGegan
Violin:
Simon Standage
Violin:
Eleanor Sloan
Cello:
Anthony Pleeth
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock

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