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Ireland A London Overture: LONDON" SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.17 Fauré Ballade. Op 19 JOHN OGDON (piano)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by louis FRÉMAUX
7.30* Debussy Green (Ariettes oubliées) (mono)
Ravel D Anne jouant de l'espinette (Deux Epi grammes)(mono)
MAGGIE TEYIE (Soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano)
7.34* Haydn Symphonv No 44. in E minor (Trauer) ZAGREB RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTONIO IANIGRO
8.8 News
8.5 Overture (continued) Grace Williams Sea Sketches : English CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. conducted by DAVID ATHERTON
8.23* Carlos Salzedo Chan son dans la nuit
NICANOR ZABALETA (harp)
8.26' Cécile Chaminade Concertino for flute and orchestra: JAMES GALWAY ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA. conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
8.34* Tchaikovsky, arr Pletnyev Concert suite from Nutcracker
MICHAEL PLETNYEV (piano)
8.50* Sibelius Humoresque No 5, in E flat. Op 89 No 3 IDA HAENDEL (Violin) BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND : records.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Piano:
John Ogdon
Unknown:
Deux Epi
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Conducted By:
Antonio Ianigro
Conducted By:
David Atherton
Conducted By:
Carlos Salzedo Chan
Conducted By:
Charles Dutoit
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund

Handel
Trio- Sonata inF. Op 5 No6 ARS REDIVIVA OF PRAGUE
Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline: The Ways of Zion do mourn
NORMA BURROWES (soprano) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor L MARTYN HILL (tenor) MONTEVERDI CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER : records

Contributors

Soprano:
Norma Burrowes
Conducted By:
John Eliot Gardiner

ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Concerto in D, for three violins and strings (from rev 1064)
CARMEL KAINE ,
RONALD THOMAS and RICHARD STUDT Concerto in A. for oboe d'amore and strings (from BWV 1055): NEIL BLACK gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Carmel Kaine
Unknown:
Ronald Thomas
Unknown:
Richard Studt
Unknown:
Neil Black

Presented by Jack Brymer Haydn Harpsichord Concerto in D: BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA, directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord)
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F (K 370): LONDON OBOE QUARTET

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack Brymer
Directed By:
Raymond Leppard

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

An opera in two acts
Libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville

Welsh National Opera Chorale (men's voices), chorus-master Julian Smith
Welsh Philharmonia Orchestra, leader John Stein, conductor Richard Armstrong
Act 1

(See also 10.30pm)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Composer:
Benjamin Britten
Librettist:
E.M. Forster
Librettist:
Eric Crozier
Singers:
Welsh National Opera Chorale (men's voices)
Chorus-master:
Julian Smith
Musicians:
Welsh Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
John Stein
Conductor:
Richard Armstrong
Edward Fairfax Vere, Captain of HMS Indomitable:
Nigel Douglas (tenor)
First mate:
Ralph Hamer (bass)
Second mate:
Peter Massocchi (bass)
Mr Flint, Sailing Master:
Richard van Allan (bass)
Bosun:
Nicholas Folwell (baritone)
Donald, a sailor:
Henry Newman (baritone)
Maintop:
Neville Ackerman (tenor)
Novice:
Arthur Davies (tenor)
Squeak, a ship's corporal:
Charles Lewis (tenor)
Mr Redburn, First Lieutenant:
Julian Moyle (baritone)
Lieutenant Radcliffe:
Geoffrey Moses (bass)
John Claggart, Master-at-Arms:
Forbes Robinson (bass)
Red Whiskers, an impressed man:
Stuart Kale (tenor)
Arthur Jones, an impressed man:
Gordon Whyte (baritone)
Billy Budd, foretopman:
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Novice's friend:
Gareth Rhys-Davies (baritone)
Dansker, an old seaman:
Frank Olegario (bass)
Cabin boy:
David Hatter (speaking role)
Voice off:
Rhys Devlin (bass)

Italo Svevo , novelist and Playwright, died just over 50 years ago. Professor Brian Moloney , author of ltalo Svevo, a Critical Introduction, talks about Svevo's life, his place in literature and about his novel La Coscienza di Zeno

Contributors

Unknown:
Italo Svevo
Unknown:
Brian Moloney

A feature about Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Written and presented by Michael Meyer
TIM BENTINCK
JOE DUNLOP. ADRIAN EGAN
PAUL MAXWELL. BILL MONKS PENELOPE REYNOLDS ,
EVA STUART and HARRY TOWB
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(First broadcast on R4VK)

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Meyer
Unknown:
Tim Bentinck
Unknown:
Joe Dunlop.
Unknown:
Adrian Egan
Unknown:
Paul Maxwell.
Unknown:
Bill Monks
Unknown:
Penelope Reynolds
Unknown:
Eva Stuart
Unknown:
Harry Towb
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Herman Melville:
Colin Blakely

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