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Corelli Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 5 LA PETITE BANDE directed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN
7.16* Zelenka Sinfonia Concertante in A minor CAMERATA BERN directed by ALEXANDER VAN WIJNKOOP
7.401 Haydn Notturno No 1, in c (H II 25) THE MUSIC PARTY directed by ALAN HACKER gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Sigiswald Kuijken
Unknown:
Camerata Bern
Directed By:
Alexander van Wijnkoop
Directed By:
Alan Hacker

Arne Overture No 3, in G ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
8.10* Alwyn Lyra angelica: Concerto for harp and orchestra
OSIAN ELLIS, LONDON
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
8.42* Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten

Dvorak: The Early Years Hymnus: The Heirs of the White Mountain, Op 30 (1872, revised 1880, 1884) CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK KOSLER
Symphony No 3, in E flat, Op 10 (1873)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ , records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Zdenek Kosler
Conducted By:
Istvan Kertesz

The Dream
Ashton's ballet, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Music: Mendelssohn, arr John Lanchbery
PATRICIA CLARK (soprano) URSULA CONNORS (soprano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Introduced by Cormac Rigby

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lanchbery
Soprano:
Patricia Clark
Soprano:
Ursula Connors
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Introduced By:
Cormac Rigby

The last of this series of programmes of performances conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM , marking next Sunday's centenary of his birth.
Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA Schubert Symphony No 5, in flat (stereo) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Sibelius M61isande (Pelléas et Mélisande)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA Strauss Closing Scene (Ariadne auf Naxos)
MARIA CEBOTARI (soprano) CARL FRIEDRICHS (tenor)
MARGARET FIELD-HYDE (SOp) EDITH FURMEDGE (soprano) GWLADYS GARSIDE (COn) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC orchestra

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham

In today's programme of record requests from the under-20s, Christopher Hogwood contrasts the use of the natural horn with the modern valve horn in Beethoven's Sonata in F, and compares Sir Michael Tip pett's use of a quartet of horns in his Sonata with Schumann's Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Sir Michael Tip

Presented by Jack Brymer Vlado Perlemuter plays Chopin
Sonata in B flat minor
Plus Brahms String Quartet in A minor, played by the BORODIN QUARTET
Series producer IAN CARSOR BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer
Presented By:
Vlado Perlemuter

direct from the Free Trade Hall
Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor
Raymond Leppard Part 1
Bere Three Orchestral Pieces
7.55* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

Contributors

Piano:
Gerhard Oppitz
Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conductor:
Raymond Leppard

A short story by DON LOWE Read by Nicholas Ball
'James led us into a garden of Eden that day, I'm sure. But hidden in that garden was a snake. And, for want of a better word, let's call that snake creature by its name: Devil.'
Producer PIERS PLOWRlGHT

Contributors

Story By:
Don Lowe
Read By:
Nicholas Ball

* You may melt your metals and cast them into beautiful moulds; they will never excite me like the forms this molten earth flows out into.'
A seasonal reading by Peter Marinker from HENRY DAVID THOREAU 'S tale of his life in the woods, Walden.

Contributors

Reading By:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Henry David Thoreau

Fifth in a series of six concerts, recorded before invited audiences by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta in the London schools of music. Introduced by Arnold Whitall
JANE MANNING (soprano) PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
LONDON SINFONIETTA CHORUS director CLIVE WEARING LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by RONALD ZOLLMAN and OLIVER KNUSSEN Part 1
Oliver Knussen Océan de terre conducted by THE COMPOSER Birtwistle Silberry Air
10.24* Interval Reading
10.30* College Concert Part 2 Stravinsky
Cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus and small instrumental ensemble

Contributors

Introduced By:
Arnold Whitall
Soprano:
Jane Manning
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Conducted By:
Ronald Zollman
Conducted By:
Oliver Knussen

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