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Part 1 Auber Overture: Le domino noir: SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA, COnducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.12* Franck Symphonic Variations: SYLVIA KERSEN-BAUM (piano), BOURNE MOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
7.28* Debussy Danse sacrée et Danse profane NICANOR ZABALETA (harp) PAUL KUENTZ CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAUL KUENTZ
7.39* Hahn Suite: Le bal de Beatrice d'Este THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN-PIERRE JACQOILLAT

Contributors

Unknown:
Paavo Berglund
Harp:
Paul Kuentz
Conducted By:
Paul Kuentz
Conducted By:
Jean-Pierre Jacqoillat

Part 2 Weber Overture: Abu Hassan
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
8.8" Schumann Five pieces in folk style. Op 102
FRIEDRICH-JÜRGEN SELLHEIM (cello)
ECKART SELLHEIM (piano)
8.26* Mascagni Duet: I Rantzau
RENATA SCOTTO (soprano) PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor) NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by KURT HERBERT ADLER
8.36' Wolf-Ferrari Serenade for strings: I SOLISTI VENETI. conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Abu Hassan
Conducted By:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Soprano:
Renata Scotto
Conducted By:
Kurt Herbert Adler
Conducted By:
Claudio Scimone

Copland
The Composer Interprets Concerto for clarinet, harp, piano and string orchestra
COLUMBIA SYMPHONY STRINGS With BENNY GOODMAN (clarinet)
Duo for flute and piano With ELAINE SHAFFER (flute) Short Symphony
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA gramophone records

Contributors

Clarinet:
Benny Goodman
Flute:
Elaine Shaffer

MARK KAPLAN (violin)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader
CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN conducted by EDGAR COSMA Part I
Careth Glyn Porthaethwy (first performance: commissioned in association with the Welsh Arts Council)
Haydn Violin Concerto in G

Contributors

Violin:
Mark Kaplan
Leader:
Christopher Warren-Green
Conducted By:
Edgar Cosma
Unknown:
Careth Glyn Porthaethwy

Part 2 Beethoven
Romance in G, for violin and orchestra
Symphony No 8. in F
(Gii'cn in the David Hughes Secondary School, Menai Bridge. as part of the Menai Music Festival, in association with the Welsh Arts Council) BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hughes

EDWARD GREGSON conducts the LONDON COLLEGIATE BRASS and introduces the programme with JOHN wiLBRAHAM (trumpet)
Edward Gregson lntrada
Joseph Horowitz The Dong with the Luminous Nose (first broadcast performance)
Buxton Orr Concerto for trumpet and brass band (first performance)
Paul Patterson Cataclysm (first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Gregson
Unknown:
John Wilbraham
Unknown:
Edward Gregson
Unknown:
Joseph Horowitz
Unknown:
Buxton Orr
Unknown:
Paul Patterson

Presented bv Jack Brymer Dinu Lipatti
A chance to hear some of the gramophone recordings made by this pianist who died in 1950. They include a movement from his own Concerto en style classique, recorded in his native Romania during World War II.
Devised by BRIAN GEAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Brymer
Unknown:
Dinu Lipatti

Further excerpts from EDWARD HOLMES Ramble among the Musicians of Germany, published in 1828. In this episode Holmes sees Euryanthe in Darmstadt, tastes a most unpleasant wine. encounters a German postilion, and travels to Munich.
Read by Richard Briers

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Holmes Ramble
Read By:
Richard Briers

WILLARD WHITE (bass)
STEPHEN BISHOP-KOVACEVICH (piano)
CBSO CHORUS chorus-master GORDON CLINTON
MIDLAND BOY SINGERS conductor PETER GRANT
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader FELIX KOK conducted by LAWRENCE FOSTER Part 1
Boito Prologue: Mefistofele
John Tavener Palintro pos, for piano and orchestra (first performance: Feeney Trust commission)
8.25* Interval Reading
8.35* Concert, part 2
Verdi Four Sacred Pieces: Ave Maria: Stabat Mater ; Laudi alla Vergine Maria ; Te Deum
(Given in the Town Hall, Birmingham, in associa-tion with the Midland Bank. in March)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Gordon Clinton
Conductor:
Peter Grant
Leader:
Felix Kok
Conducted By:
Lawrence Foster
Unknown:
John Tavener Palintro
Unknown:
Stabat Mater
Unknown:
Vergine Maria

A portrait of the writer Antonia White by Michelene Wandor

Antonia White was born in 1899 and received into the Roman Catholic Church at the age of seven and was a school-girl at the Sacred Heart Convent, Roehampton. She has worked as a teacher, an actress, an advertising copywriter, a fashion journalist and with the BBC. She has also published several novels. She has been married three times and at the age of 22 spent several months in Bethlehem Hospital - popularly known as Bedlam Lunatic Asylum.
Others taking part are John Graham, Hilda Kriseman, Phillip Manikum and the pupils and staff of Virgo Fidelis Convent, Norwood, and St Ursula's High School, Westbury-on-Trym.
Part of the interview with Antonia White was previously broadcast by Thames Television.
Technical assistance by RODNEY LEWIS, ANDREW LAWRENCE and MIKE BURGESS. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol

(Frost in May by Antonia White, is to be broadcast at 3.35 on Thursday, Radio 4UK)
(Binaural) (The full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonia White
Unknown:
Michelene Wandor
Unknown:
Antonia White
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Hilda Krise
Unknown:
Phillip Manikum
Unknown:
Antonia White
Unknown:
Rodney Lewis
Unknown:
Andrew Lawrence
Unknown:
Mike Burgess
Unknown:
Antonia White
the Woman:
Colette O'Neil
the Child:
Sarah Sutton

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