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Copland Danzon Cubano
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
7.12* Dvorak American Suite in A
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
7.33* Bernstein Ballet: Fancy Free
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by the composer:
records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Michael Tilson Thomas

Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute
BERLIN PIHLHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
8.12* Hummel Sonata in c HUGO D'ALTON (mandolin) JOHNBECKETT (fortepiano)
8.29* Weber Symphony No 1. in c: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HORST STEIN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Bohm
Conducted By:
Hummel Sonata
Conducted By:
Horst Stein

Henry Purcell
Purcell and Queen Marti Birthday Song for Queen Mary: Come, ye sons of art away (z 323) (1694)
NORMA BURROWES (soprano) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor)
ROBERT LLOYD (bass)
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT Of London, conducted by DAVID MUNROW
Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695) MONTE VERDI CHOIR
EQUALE BRASS ENSEMBLE conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER gramophone records

Contributors

Soprano:
Norma Burrowes
Conducted By:
David Munrow
Unknown:
Monte Verdi
Conducted By:
John Eliot Gardiner

The first of 13 programmes exploring the repertoire of this idiosyncratic combination.
Reicha Quintet in E minor, Op 88 No 1
REICIIA WIND QUINTET
Janacek Mladi (Youth) PRAGUE WIND QUINTET With ADOLF NECHYATAL (bass clarinet)
Jan Klusak Five Inventions (Game of Chess)
PRAGUE WIND QUINTET Gramophone record*

Contributors

Bass:
Adolf Nechyatal

The last in this three-part series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first recording of a boogie woogie. Francis Smith traces the development of the form.
3: Back to the Blues
The short-lived boogie boom of the 40s was based on a jazz-blues hybrid. But mainstream boogie, still an integral part of the blues, continued to develop, and Francis Smith charts its course up to the present day.

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Smith
Unknown:
Francis Smith

Debussy. orch Caplet Children's Ballet: La boite a joujoux
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Massenet Ballet Suite: Le Cid: ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Conducted By:
Jean Martinon

Presented by Jack Brymer Michael Hardwlck introduces gramophone records of the music of Franz von Supp é, who is perhaps best known for his Light Cavalry Overture. but this programme reveals same music in a different vein.

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer
Presented By:
Michael Hardwlck
Unknown:
Franz von Supp

An appreciation of the life and work of the poet Thomas Blackburn , who died in August 1977. by Jean MacVean with readings by HUGH DICKSON
' Blackburn believed that the true poet had the double-vision of Odin, who chose to lose his right eye to gain the powers of poetry and prophecy. The poet uses his blinded eye to penetrate his inner darkness and the other to observe the outside world.' Producer
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Blackburn
Unknown:
Jean MacVean
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Michael Heffernan

Australia v England Test Match
Special, with commentary on the final two hours of the fourth day at Sydney by ChrisTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS , ALAN MCGILVRAY , ALAN MARKS and JIM MAXWELL , with expert comment from former Australian Test players LINDSAY BASSETT and DAVE RENNEBERG.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Unknown:
Alan McGilvray
Unknown:
Jim Maxwell
Unknown:
Lindsay Bassett
Unknown:
Dave Renneberg.

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