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Listeners' record requests Masek Concerto for three harpsichords and wind octet
JOSEF HALA , ALES BILEK, ZDENEK KOZINA
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
PRAGENSE directed by FRANTISEK VAJNAR
9.21* Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1, in G minor, Op 25 (mono) MOURA LYMPANY
PUILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
9.40* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6, in E minor
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND
11.17* Reger Benedictus, Op 59 No 9
DAVID SANGER (organ of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Hala
Directed By:
Frantisek Vajnar
Unknown:
Moura Lympany
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Paavo Berglund
Unknown:
David Sanger

Richard Adeney (flute) Hugh Maguire (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Crusell Quartet in D, for flute and string trio, Op 7 Dohnanyi Serenade, Op 10, for violin, viola and cello
Beethoven Serenade, Op 25, for flute, violin and viola

Contributors

Violin:
Hugh Maguire
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil

The First Ten Years
TAMAS VASARY (piano) directs the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA in performances of two Mozart concertos: F major (K 413) and E flat major (K 449) (First broadcast on 30 January 1978)
(Mozart Piano Concertos, a BBC Music Guide by Philip Radcliffe , is available from bookshops, price £1.00)

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Radcliffe

Wagner's epic tetralogy performed in ANDREW PORTER's English translation by the ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA: records
The Twilight of the Gods Introduced by ANDREW PORTER
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by REGINALD GOODALL Act 1

Contributors

Introduced By:
Andrew Porter
Conducted By:
Reginald Goodall

' As we shook hands on the threshold, he said to me with the little bow that has almost disappeared, " Mr Saints -bury, sir, if ye ask anyone to dinner and tell them where ye got your wine we shall not be ashamed ". I confess that the wings of peace fluttered my soul as I walked past Marlborough House.'
Sir Ralph Richardson reads an extract from George Saintsbury 's Notes on a Cellar Book, first published in 1920, perhaps the most original book on wine ever written.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (A Glorious Wine: Fri 8.5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Saints
Unknown:
Sir Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
George Saintsbury
Producer:
Piers Plowright

Act 2
6.5* Interval Reading
6.15* The Twilight of the Gods, Act 3
Throughout the Suez Crisis, following Egyptian nationalisation of the Canal and the subsequent invasion by Israeli, British and French forces, William Clark , Public Relations Adviser 1955 and 1956 to the Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden , kept a diary which has never been published.
Following the disclosures in the posthumous memoirs of Selwyn Lloyd , Foreign Secretary throughout the Suez crisis, he now discusses some events of 1956 with Michael Charlton. Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFF followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
William Clark
Unknown:
Sir Anthony Eden
Unknown:
Selwyn Lloyd
Unknown:
Michael Charlton.
Unknown:
Anthony Moncrieff

A radio lantern lecture by ALAN PLATER
For the past 15 years or so musical documentaries have been an important Part of the repertoire of regional theatres. Not surprisingly many of them have been about working conditions in the factories, mines and fishing boats. Alan Plater introduces a selection of serious and funny songs from the shows which did not attract glamorous first-night audiences.
With GILLY BROWN , BOB EATON , ALEX GLASGOW , MEG JOHNSON , NOREEN KERSHAW , ROBERT POWELL , VICTORIA WOOD, BERNARD WRIGLEY Musical director STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Plater
Introduces:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Gilly Brown
Unknown:
Bob Eaton
Unknown:
Alex Glasgow
Unknown:
Meg Johnson
Unknown:
Noreen Kershaw
Unknown:
Robert Powell
Director:
Stephen Boxer
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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