Part 1
The Greek Connection
Monteverdi Toccata (Orfeo)
MUSICA RESERVATA conducted by JOHN BECKETT
7.7* Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orphge et Euridicet
CLAUDE MONTEl'X (flute)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX
7.17" Ravel Five Popular Greek Melodies
GÉRARD SOUZAY (baritone) DALTON BALDWIN (piano)
7.23* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Orpheus
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
7.31* Elgar Five Part Songs from the Greek Anthology. Op 45
BACCHOLIAN SINGERS OF LONDON
7.42" Beethoven Overture: The Ruins of Athens, Op 113
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN : records
Part 2 Mozart Chorus and Entr'actes: Thamos, King of Egypt (K 345)
HEILBRONN VOCAL ENSEMBLE WÜRTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by JORG FAERCER
8.30* C. P. E. Bach Three Marches: NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE directed by EDO DE WAART
8.34* Haydn Sinfonia Coneertante in B flat COLLEGIUM AUREUM directed bv
FRANZ JOSEF MAIER : records
Copland
The Composer Interprets Ballet Suite: Billy the Kid
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Four Piano Blues (mono) Suite: The Tender Land
BOSTON SYMPIIONYORCHESTRA gramophone records
Franz Krummcr Nonet in E flat. Op 69
Mozart Serenade in c minor (K 388,
Eric Roseberry talks about The Listener as Interpreter.
Part 2 Dvorak Serenade in D minor. Op 44
(Given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 3 Jan)
DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Alan Bush Dialectic
Haydn String Quartet in c major, Op 74 No 1 (Rpti
conducts the RADIO SYM-PONY ORCHESTRA, STUTTGART Part 1 Schumann
Symphony No 2, in c
Part 2 Ravel Le tombeau de
Couperin Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1919) (South German Radio recording)
An opera for children in seven scenes
Libretto by ANNE RIDLER after a story by John RITSKIN , music hy Elizabeth Maconchy
Children of the Village: from HEADINGTON SCHOOL and NE COLLEGE SCHOOL Orchestra conducted by DAVID WHITTINGTON
'It is the hardest task that can be. to pen the manner of artificial gracing an upper part,' wrote Roger North in the 1720s. Peter Holmnn introduces some surviving examples of the 18th-century art of ' gracing ' or ornamentation, applied to sonatas by Corelli and his pupil Geminiani.
The performers, on instruments of the period or modern copies, are members of ARS NOVA
SUSAN DANIEL (meZZO-Sop) DAVID HARPER (piano)
Guridl Six Castilian Songs Granados A selection of Tonadillas
Sonata No 6. in A. Op 82 JOHN BINGHAM (piano) BBC Birmingham
Part 1
Part 2
Presented by Jack Brymer BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FURST Haydn Symphony No 99, in E flat
Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The Peacock
In this episode Holmes finds himself in Munich. He encounters a one-legged Desdemona in Rossini's Otello, comments on public taste, hears Haydn's Little Organ Mass, and discusses German eating habits.
Read by Richard Briers
Adapted and produced bv GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
Records of the celebrated Russian tenor, introduced by Desmond Shawe-Taylor .
direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London London Symphony Orchestra leader HUGH MAGUIRE Part 1
Symphony No 3, in F
A short story by the late ALUN LEWIS , which tells of the excitement and understanding that comes to a young Welsh teacher when he boards the paddle boat at Cardiff and crosses the channel to Weston-super-Marc. Read by Slôn Probert
Directed by GERRY JONES
Part 2
Symphony No 1, in c minor
by ROBERT SMITH
Please listen to me. All those things I said, the bad things ... they weren't me. Most of the time I can't control what goes on in my mind. I just feel myself drifting away ... I have a guest in my soul and he's outstayed his welcome - no, he was never welcome.'
Directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
Sonata for four hands Sonata for two pianos PETER WALLFISCH and MICHAEL FREYHAN
No 173: Erhohtes Fleisch und Blut
No 184: ErwiinsehtesFreudenlicht
ANDREW WICKS (treble) ROGER GESSEN (alto) JOHN ELWES (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (bass)
LONDON BACH SOCIETY LONDON BACH SOCIETY
BAROQUE ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE conductor PAUL STEINITZ