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anon Thomas gemma Cantuariae; Laetare Cantuaria
ACCADEMIA MONTEVERDIANA directed by DENIS STEVENS S.12* Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No 1 (La Stravaganza)
FRANCO FANTIN1, I SOLISTI DI MILANO , conducted by ANGELO EPHRIKIAN
9.22* Bach Bist du bel mir (mono)
AAFJE HEYNIS (contralto) PIERRE PALLA (organ)
9.25* Schubert Incidental Music: Rosamunde (extracts): ILEANA COTRUBAS
(Sop), LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
10.5* Chopin Barcarolle , Op 60: FOU TS'ONG (piano)
10.15* Sibelius Cantata: The Origin of Fire. Op 32 SULO SAARITS (baritone)
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CHORUS CINCINNATI SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by MARTTI TURUNEN : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Denis Stevens
Unknown:
Solisti Di Milano
Conducted By:
Angelo Ephrikian
Conducted By:
Bach Bist
Unknown:
Ileana Cotrubas
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Conducted By:
Chopin Barcarolle
Conducted By:
Martti Turunen

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Indian Summer in Monte Carlo: Massenet's last phase, by James Harding.
Twenty-five years of the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship.
A conversation with Roy Henderson.
(Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Oliver
Speaker:
James Harding
Interviewee:
Roy Henderson
Producer:
Christine Hardwick

Jessye Norman (soprano) Patricia Payne (contralto) Kenneth Riegel (tenor) John Shirley Quirk (bar) John Tomlinson (bass)
BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Brian Wright
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany, conducted by David Atherton, Witold Lutoslawski and Sir Michael Tippett

Elliott Carter A Symphony of Three Orchestras (conducted by David Atherton)

Lutoslawski Les espaces du sommeil (conducted by the composer)

11.50* Interval Reading

11.55* From the Proms 79

Part 2 Tippett A Child of Our Time (conducted by the composer)

Contributors

Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Contralto:
Patricia Payne
Tenor:
Kenneth Riegel
Baritone:
John Shirley
Bass:
John Tomlinson
Singers:
BBC Singers
Director:
John Poole
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Conductor:
Brian Wright
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conductor:
David Atherton
Conductor/Composer:
Witold Lutoslawski
Conductor/Composer:
Sir Michael Tippett

First of 13 programmes in which 29 choirs compete to represent the United Kingdom in this annual International Choral Competition.
1: Chamber Choirs (1)
GERALD BROWN SINGERS; TUDOR SINGERS OF LONDON; EXON SINGERS; ALDWYN CONSORT OF VOICES, GLOUCES-TER; STRANMILLIS SINGERS, BELFAST
Adjudicators NOEL cox, GEOFFREY MITCHELL , GARETH WALTERS. Introduced by Bernard Keeffe

Contributors

Singers:
Gerald Brown
Unknown:
Geoffrey Mitchell
Unknown:
Gareth Walters.
Introduced By:
Bernard Keeffe

Opera in five acts
Music by Jules Massenet
Libretto by HENRI CAIN , after LE LORRAIN'S play based on the novel by Cervantes
(sung in French: records) Admirer of Dulcinée:
SUISSE ROMANDE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by KAZIMIERZ KORB Acts 1-3

Contributors

Music By:
Jules Massenet
Unknown:
Henri Cain
Conducted By:
Kazimierz Korb

'You might say it s all bravado, but it satisfies the need which men have to test themselves. Not for money, not for medals, just for truth.'
In the last of this series Derek Robinson describes the Running of the Bulls at Vila Franca de Xira, near Lisbon...

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Robinson

An assessment of the poetry of Edwin Morgan on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
' I was exploring language in these poems as well as trying to explore experience: poetry must also be an Art of Imagination.'
With DOUGLAS DUNN. SEAMUS HEANEY, JAMES MCGONI -GAL, TOM MCGRATH. MICHAEL SCHMIDT , T. C. SMOUT and EDWIN MORGAN himself
Compiled and presented by Carl MacDougall
Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwin Morgan
Unknown:
James McGoni
Unknown:
Tom McGrath.
Unknown:
Michael Schmidt
Unknown:
T. C. Smout
Presented By:
Carl MacDougall
Producer:
Stewart Conn

by Stewart Parker

"Wonderfully acute and funny dialogue" (The Guardian)
(Repeat)
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre player)

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Writer:
Stewart Parker
Director:
Robert Cooper
Makoto:
John Le Mesirier
Tokkotai:
Ronald Baddiley
Co-pilot:
John Shedden
Shushin:
Graham Crowden
Miss Tomishita:
Maureen Beattie
Shimpil:
Ronald Herdman
Kamiwashi:
Harry Towb

' The impossibility of reading should not be taken too lightly,' suggests PROFESSOR PAUL DE MAN in his contribution to the recent collection of American and French critical essays Deconstruction and Criticism.
Dr Roger Scruton , Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkheck College, London, considers the collection and evaluates its claims.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Paul De Man
Unknown:
Dr Roger Scruton

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