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Mendelssohn Capriccio brillant. Op 22 (mono)
9.15 Schubert, completed and edited Weingartner 'Symphony No 7, in E
9.50* Lekeu Adagio for strings (mono)
10.2* Montsalvatge Canci ones Negras
10.14* Strauss First waltz sequence (Dcr Rosenkavalier. Op 59): records

Contributors

Unknown:
Mendelssohn Capriccio
Unknown:
Montsalvatge Canci

Pictures in Brass: ELGAR HOWARTH talks about his work as trumpeter, conductor and arranger.
Pianist PAUL CROSSLEY introduces Friday's Prom.
A preview of GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY'S first concerts this season. with Jeremy Siepmann

Contributors

Talks:
Elgar Howarth
Pianist:
Paul Crossley
Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann

and Chorus
Bach Cantata No 50: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft conducted by James Judd
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
conducted by Lorin Maazel
11.25* Interval Reading
11.30* Cleveland Orchestra Part 2
Liszt Missa solennis (for the consecration of the Basilica of Gran)
Heather Harper (soprano)
Betty Allen (contralto)
Werner Hollweg (tenor)
Simon Estes (bass)
conducted by Lorin Maazel

(A 1975 Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast Service recording)
(The Great Orchestras on BBC2 features the Cleveland Orchestra on Tuesday 6.55 pm)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Musicians:
Cleveland Orchestra
Singers:
Cleveland Chorus
Conductor:
James Judd
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Contralto:
Betty Allen
Tenor:
Werner Hollweg
Bass:
Simon Estes

Les Deux Journces (The Water Carrier) Opera in three acts
Music by Luigi Cherubini Libretto by JEAN NICHOLAS with DONALD CAMPBELL and DAVID PERRIN (basses)
BBC THEATRE CHORUS, ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Narrations written by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
2.55* Cherubini and The Water Carrier: Michael Rose talks about Cherubini and his operas, in particular The Water Carrier
3.15* Beecham Conducts Cherubini - Les Deux Juurnees. Acts 2 and 3 (BBC Sound Archives recording, first broadcast on 19 December 1947)

Contributors

Music By:
Luigi Cherubini
Unknown:
Jean Nicholas
Unknown:
Donald Campbell
Basses:
David Perrin
Written By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Talks:
Michael Rose

Denis Quilley reads a recent story by the Argentine writer JORGE LUIS PORGES who will be 80 next Thursday. English translation by NORMAN THOMAS DI GIOVANNI Producer
PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Quilley
Unknown:
Jorge Luis Porges
Translation By:
Norman Thomas
Translation By:
Di Giovanni
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Whilst the Renaissance madrigal flourishes. the corresponding Romantic form, the part-song. is heard relatively rarely.
Trevor Harvey argues that the part-song is an important art form, and that the English contribution in this field is unduly neglected.
Illustrations sung by the BBC SINGERS, conducted by TREVOR HARVEY
(Elgar and Moeran: Tuesday 2.45 pm) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Harvey
Conducted By:
Trevor Harvey

A play for radio by David Cregan
With Peter Jeffrey as the Husband, Phyllida Law as the Wife and Cyril Shaps as the Therapist

A middle-class husband in his middle years has reached a crisis in his life. His wife and six children make demands of him that he finds it impossible to answer.

(Phyllida Law and Peter Jeffrey are National Theatre players)

Contributors

Writer:
David Cregan
Director:
John Tydeman
The Husband:
Peter Jeffrey
The wife:
Phyllida Law
The Therapist:
Cyril Shaps
The Mother:
Sylvia Coleridge
Rose, her maid:
Gladys Spencer
The children - Robert:
Andrew Bagley
The children - Philip:
Adam Rhodes
The children - Maxine:
Lisa Hayden
The children - Clare:
Emma-Kate Davies
The children - Tom:
Tara Collinson
The children - Joe:
Fred Gray
Paul, their friend:
Mark Hamilton

Opening concert direct from the Usher Hall
Diaghilev Celebration Concert
Andrew Cruickshank (narrator)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany, conductor Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky Part 1
Prokofiev Ballet: Chout
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2
8.55* Festival Comment in which performers, critics and personalities in Edinburgh this week have their say about the festival. Presented by Elaine Padmore
9.15 Edinburgh International Festival 1979 Part 2 Stravinsky
Ballet: The Rite of Spring BBC Scotland

Contributors

Narrator:
Andrew Cruickshank
Presented by:
Elaine Padmore

BBC Radio 3

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