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In the second of this series which will include all of Mozart's piano concertos, a performance of the Concerto No 2, in B flat (K 39), by DANIEL BARENBOIM with the ENG
LISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, preceded by music of Johann Schobert , Josef Kohout and J. C. F. Bach. gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Johann Schobert
Unknown:
Josef Kohout

Listeners' record requests Telemann Concerto in G. for four violins
ALICE HARNONCOURT , WALTER PFEIFFER , PETER SCHOBER - WALTER, KURT THEINER VIENNA CONCERTUS MUSICUS directed by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
9.13* Monteverdi Madrigals: O mio bene; Zefiro torna
NIGEL ROGERS , IAN PARTRIDGE (tenorsi, CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass), INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE, directed by JORGEN JURGENS
9.23* Scarlatti Sonatas in B flat (Kk 544 and 545): VALDA AVELING (harpsichord)
9.31* Pescetti Sonata in c minor: PETER HURFORB at the organ of Eton College
9.401 Hoffmeister Viola Concerto in D: ATAR ARAD
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by REINHARD PETERS
11.1* Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music: Soloists, LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

Contributors

Violins:
Alice Harnoncourt
Violins:
Walter Pfeiffer
Violins:
Peter Schober
Unknown:
Kurt Theiner Vienna
Directed By:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Directed By:
Monteverdi Madri
Unknown:
Zefiro Torna
Unknown:
Nigel Rogers
Tenorsi:
Christopher Keyte
Directed By:
Jorgen Jurgens
Harpsichord:
Pescetti Sonata
Unknown:
Peter Hurforb
Conducted By:
Reinhard Peters
Conducted By:
Vaughan Williams
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

Fifth in a series of ten programmes based on their subscription concerts in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. The current season opened last October under Claudio Abbado with Rudolf Serkin as soloist
Schubert Ballet Music from Act 4; Entr'acte before Act 3 (Rosamunde)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20, in D minor (K 466)

Contributors

Unknown:
Claudio Abbado
Unknown:
Rudolf Serkin

(Original 1847 version) Opera in four acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE
Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian)
The first performance of Verdi's Macbeth took place in Florence in 1847. Later Verdi revised it, for performance at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris. That revised version is the one usually heard nowadays. But this performance provides a chance to hear Verdi's original conception of the opera. The edition has been prepared by GEORGE BADACSONYI. Cast in order of singing:
BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN MATHESON
Repetiteur ALEXA maxwell Coach GEORGE BADACSONYI
Italian coach GWYN MORRIS Technical presentation by MARGARET STEVEN Acts 1 and 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria Piave
Unknown:
George Badacsonyi.
Director:
John Poole
Conducted By:
John Matheson

Dr Nick Humphrey , of King's College, Cambridge, argues that self-knowledge is of such vital importance to the survival of the species that biological mechanisms have evolved to ensure that young animals, like it or not. rapidly receive the instruction necessary to turn them into 'nature's psychologists'. Producer GEOFF deehan

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Nick Humphrey

in Oedipus at Colonus hy SOPHOCLES based on the translation by ROBERT FITZGERALD with and Gabriel WooU as Messenger
In this play Oedipifs, a wandering self-blinded exile, old and destitue, accompanied only by Antigone, draws near a sacred grove, there to end his life's pilgrimage.
People of Colonus:
ERIC ALLAN , GAVIN CAMPBELL , JOHN GABRIEL , MALCOLM GERARD , HAROLD KASKET , MANNING WILSON
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS and performed by the NEW CHAMBER SOLOISTS with MARTYN HILL (tenor), and MEMBERS OF THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
If only all radio production were on this level one would hardly need to leave one's armchair and venture forth into the real theatre at all
(THE FINANCIAL TIMES)
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS followed by an interlude

Contributors

Translation By:
Robert Fitzgerald
Translation By:
Gabriel Woou
Unknown:
Eric Allan
Unknown:
Gavin Campbell
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Malcolm Gerard
Unknown:
Harold Kasket
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Christos Pittas
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Theseus:
John Westbrook
Antigone:
Maureen O'Brien
Polynelces:
John Hurt
Creon:
Joss Ackland
Stranger:
Timothy Bateson
Chorus:
Anthony Newlands
Ismene:
Elizabeth Bell

KYUNG-WIIA CHUNG (violin) MVUNG-WHA CHUNG (cello) MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG (piano) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by WALTER WELLER
Overture: Egmont
Triple Concerto in C, Op 56

Contributors

Cello:
Myung-Whun Chung
Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Walter Weller

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