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Rimsky Korsakov Suite: The legend of the Invisible city pf Kitezh (excerpts) : PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
7.17* Stravinsky Concerto:
Dumbarton Oats: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR COLIN DAVIS
7.31* Glinka Two songs (Farewell to St Petersburg) :
CALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (piano)
7.37* RachmanlnoT Preludes. Op 32 Nos 1 and 2 SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
7.43* Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in D (Classical)
MOSCOW RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Vaclav Smetacek
Unknown:
Sir Colin Davis
Soprano:
Calina Vishnevskaya
Piano:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Susato Six Dances (The Banseryei) EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON - directed by DAVlD MUNROW

8.18* Bach Brandehburg Concerto No 6. in B flat ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN

8.27* Handel Meine Seele hort im Sehen (Nine German Arias) CATARINA LIGENDZA (sop) With chamber ensemble

8.33* Haydn Symphony No 30. in C Alleluja) PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI

(records)

Camille Salnt-Saënl (1835-1921)
The descriptive element is seldom far away in Saint-Saens' music - as befits the first French composer to follow the model of Liszt's Symphonic Poems. This week's programmes include all four poems and explore his partiality for geographical. mythological or even zoological themes. Symphonic Poem: Le Rouet d'Omphale
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN MARTINON
Fantaisie: Africa
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT (piano) TOULOUSE CAPITOL ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHEL .PLASSON
Caprice Andalou
ULP HOELSCHER (violin)
NEW PRILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE DERVAUX
Suite Algérienne: FRANK-ENLAND STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. conducted by GEORGE BARATI : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Jean Martinon
Conducted By:
Michel Plasson
Violin:
Ulp Hoelscher
Conducted By:
Pierre Dervaux
Conducted By:
George Barati

RUDOLF BUCRBINDER (piano) RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, FRANKFURT conduct.or ELIAHU INBAL. ..
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5. in E flat (The Emperor)
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15- Concert Part 2'Bartok
Concerto for orchestra (Hess Radio recording)

Contributors

Piano:
Rudolf Bucrbinder
Unknown:
Eliahu Inbal.

direct from St John's, Smith Square. London
Margaret Price (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Mozart Cantata: Die ihr des unermesslichen- Welfalls (K 619)
Schubert Auf der Riesenkoppe; La Pastorella Der blinde Knabe; Die Allmacht
Debussy Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme: Sou; pir; Placet futile; Even-tail,
Dup'arc Chanson triste: Soupir; Phidyle.

(Repeated on Wed 9.5 pm)

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Price
Pianist:
Geoffrey Parsons

played by John Wells in St John's College Chapel, Cambridge
Leo Sowerby Air with Variations 1935 Suite for organ) (first UK broadcast)
John Wells Fantasia (1974) (first broadcast performance)
Enrico Bossi Etude Symphonique, Op 78
BBC Birmingham
(Stereo)

Contributors

Organist:
John Wells

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by PROINNSIAS O'DUINN
Jean Rivier Overture for an imaginary operetta Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia
Patrlc Standford Suite for small orchestra
Delius A song before sunrise
Shostakovich Suite: The Gadfly
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Proinnsias O'Duinn
Conducted By:
Jean Rivier

William Hurlstone Piano Concerto in D
ERIC PARKIN LONDONPHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE
Wilhelm Stenhammar Symphony No 2, in G minor
STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by STIG WESTERBERG

Contributors

Piano:
William Hurlstone
Unknown:
Eric Parkin
Conducted By:
Nicholas Braithwaite
Conducted By:
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Conducted By:
Stig Westerberg

by WILLIAM LANGLAND
Abridged for radio in 13 parts, in a new verse translation by TERENCE TILLER
Incidental music composed and conducted by MICHAEL BERKELEY
And there came to me then the most marvellous dream:
I was floated far away by the goddess Fortune
Into the Land of Longing. There the brought me alone
To a mirror called Middle
Earth, and made me look into it ...
8: Fortune, Loyalty, Reason, Imagination
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Translation By:
Terence Tiller
Conducted By:
Michael Berkeley
Directed By:
Piers Plowright
Langland:
Hugh Burden
Fortune:
,sonia Fraser
Loyalty:
John Church
Reasom/Recklessemess:
Martin Friend
Imagination:
Patr!ck Barr
Old Age:
Godfrey Kenton
Trajan:
Peter Baldwin
Lust of the Eyes/Lust of of the Flesh:
Rowena Roberts

A portrait of J. G. Farrell (1935-1979) Compiled and presented by Derek Mahon with views from MALCOLM DEAN, MARGARET DRABBLE , FRANCIS KING , OLIVIA MAN-NING, TIMOTHY MO, ROBERT PARRISH , JOHN SPURLING , HILARY SPURLING , and readings by HUGH BURDEN
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
J. G. Farrell
Presented By:
Derek Mahon
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Francis King
Unknown:
Robert Parrish
Unknown:
John Spurling
Unknown:
Hilary Spurling
Producer:
Piers Plowright

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