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Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal)
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRUNO WALTER
Stainer Procession to Calvary (Crucifixion)
RICHARD LEWIS (tenor)
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
Brian RUNNETT (organ) conducted by GEORGE GUEST Bach Sinfonia , Adagio, Duet and Chorus: Kommt eilet und laufet (Easter Oratorio)
WERNER KRENN (tenor) TOM KRAUSE (bass)
VIENNA ACADEMY CHOIR STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER
Rlmsky Korsakov Russian Easter Festival (Overture on liturgical themes)
SUISSE ROMANCE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Bruno Walter
Tenor:
Richard Lewis
Unknown:
St John
Conducted By:
George Guest
Conducted By:
Bach Sinfonia
Conducted By:
Karl Munchinger
Conducted By:
Rlmsky Korsakov

Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, by JOHN WARRACK
New instrumental records, reviewed by ROBERT HEN -Producer
DERSON ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Lade
Unknown:
John Warrack
Reviewed By:
Robert Hen
Unknown:
Derson Arthur Johnson

Sonatas from Op 1:
No 5, in G major, for flute and continuo
No 8, in c minor, for oboe and continuo
No 4, in A minor, for recorder and continuo
No 13, in b major, for violin and continuo
CHRISTOPHER HYDE-SMITH (flute), CELIA NICKLIN (oboe), DAVID MUNROW (recorder), NONA LIDDELL (ViOlin), BERNARD RICHARDS (cello continuo), CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord continuo)

Contributors

Flute:
Celia Nicklin
Violin:
Bernard Richards
Harpsichord:
Charles Spinks

' I've always been mad about animals-but music has run them a close second in my affections! '
So says Gerald Durrell , author, traveller, zoo-keeper par excellence, and founder of the Jersey Wildlife Trust. This afternoon, with the aid of a personal choice of records that includes some Vivaldi (which reminds him of wild strawberry tart), Mozart (which reminds him of a Pekinese rescued in Bournemouth), not to mention music from Greece, the Congo and Paraguay (which reminds him of revolutions), he talks about his work and his family - and other animals

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Durrell

The first of two recordings to be broadcast this weekend of concerts conducted by Sir John Bar birolli in Symphony Hall, Boston, in 1964 Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6, in E minor 4,1* Interval Reading
4.11* Barbirolll and the Boston SO
Part 2 Sibelius
Symphony No 2, In D
(Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Bar

Comic opera in two acts Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE Music by Mozart (sung in Italian)
A recording of the 1978 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production. Cast:
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS, chorus-master NICHOLAS CLEOBUBY MARTIN ISEPP
(harpsichord continuo) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by RICHARD LAYTON conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
The action takes place in Naples in the late 18LH century.
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. Alan Blyth writes on page 27,
Act1
8.55* Interval Reading
9.0* Cosi (an tutte Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Chorus-Master:
Nicholas Cleobuby
Harpsichord:
Martin Isepp
Unknown:
Richard Layton
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Alan Blyth
Ferrando, an officer, lover of Dorabella:
Max-Rene Cosotti
Guglielmo. an officer, lover of Fiordiligi:
Hakan Hagegard

Introduced by Derek Jewell
MANFRED MANN , a survivor from the 1960s, is still producing music which is distinctive, often innovative, yet cleverly in touch with popular taste. Derek Jewell plays extensively tonight from Angel Station, the new album from Mann's EARTHRAND. The instrumental styles of TOM SCOTT and IAN CARR 'S nucleus are compared, and there are songs too from the TOM ROBINSON BAND. gramophone records

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jewell
Introduced By:
Manfred Mann
Unknown:
Derek Jewell
Unknown:
Tom Scott
Unknown:
Ian Carr

BBC Radio 3

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