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Handel Concerto Crosso in F, Op 6 No 2
COLLEGIUM AUREUM, directed by FRANZJOSEF MAIER
7.18* Mozart Quintet for horn and strings, in E flat (K 407)
HERMANN BAUMANN
ESTERHAZY QUARTET
7.34* Haydn Missa brevis in B flat (Little Organ Mass): JENNIFER SMITH (sop), JOHN SCOTT (organ) CHOIR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, directed by GEORGE GUEST : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Franzjosef Maier
Unknown:
Hermann Baumann
Unknown:
Haydn Missa
Unknown:
Jennifer Smith
Unknown:
John Scott
Directed By:
George Guest

Elgar Prelude: The Kingdom. Op 51 (mono) - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by The Composer

8.13* Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

8.33* Sibelius Suite: King Christian II - Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson

(records)

Smetana
Czech Song
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ZDENEK KOSLER
Polka, Furiant and Dance of the Clowns (The Bartered Bride) (mono)
PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by JAROSLAV VOGEL
Three male choruses: The Renegade (II); The Peasant; Our Song CZECH PHILHARMONIC chorus, conducted by JOSEF VESELKA
Vltava (Ma Vlast)
PRAGUE RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAROSLAV KROMBHOLC gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Zdenek Kosler
Conducted By:
Jaroslav Vogel
Conducted By:
Josef Veselka
Conducted By:
Jaroslav Krombholc

BBC SINGERS conducted by GORDON KEMBER
HARRY BRAMMA (Organ)
PHILIP O'REILLY (baritone) Finzi Magnificat
Ian Kellam A Hymn to Jesus (first broadcast performance)
Elgar Psalm 48: Great is the Lord
Rubbra Te Deum

Contributors

Conducted By:
Gordon Kember
Conducted By:
Harry Bramma
Baritone:
Finzi Magnificat
Baritone:
Ian Kellam

Second of ten programmes in which Roger Nichols attempts a revaluation of the art of Claude De bussy , with performances old and new.
Today's programme includes: L'ombre des arbres (SUZANNE DANCO , GUIDO AGOSTI ); Printemps (ORTF ORCHESTRA, JEAN MARTINON ); C'est l'extase (JANE BATHORI. accompanying herself at the piano Receuillement (COLETTE HERZOG. JACQUES FÉVRIER ): records Voice of Debussy: LYNDON BROOK

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Unknown:
Claude De Bussy
Unknown:
Suzanne Danco
Unknown:
Guido Agosti
Unknown:
Jean Martinon
Unknown:
Jane Bathori.
Unknown:
Colette Herzog.
Unknown:
Jacques Février
Unknown:
Lyndon Brook

in trio setting by GRAHAM TITUS
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON (bar) CHARLES POLLARD (violin) ALEXANDER BAILLIE (cello)
DAVID OWEN NORRIS (piano)
Tate, arr Titus Somewhere a voice is calling
Balfe, arr Titus Come into the garden. Maud
Saint-Saens The
Swan Braga , arr Titus Serenade Stephen Adams , arr Titus Nirvana
Carl Bohm , arr Titus Still as the night
J. Blockley , arr Titus The Arab's farewell to his favourite steed

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Titus
Unknown:
David Wilson-Johnson
Violin:
Charles Pollard
Cello:
Alexander Baillie
Piano:
David Owen Norris
Unknown:
Swan Braga
Unknown:
Stephen Adams
Unknown:
Arr Titus Nirvana
Unknown:
Carl Bohm
Unknown:
Arr Titus Still
Unknown:
J. Blockley

Liszt is the most interesting and striking-looking man imaginable ... His mouth turns up at the corners, which gives him a most crafty and Mephistophelean expression when he smiles ...
Pat Starr reads the third of six extracts from Music Study in Germany, the home correspondence, 1869-1873. of Amy Fay.
(Matinees and Storms: Thursday 7.0 pm) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Starr
Unknown:
Amy Fay.

Leader Felix Kok
Conducted by Christopher Seaman
John Lill (piano)

Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3. in C
8.20* Interval Reading
8.25* Concert
Part 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 10, in E minor

(Given on 6 March in the Town Hall, Birmingham)

Contributors

Musicians:
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Leader:
Felix Kok
Conductor:
Christopher Seaman
Piano:
John Lill

by William Trevor
with Prunella Scales and Sylvia Coleridge

'That man told me a story about two children who once were happy here and then became two murderers.... What happens in the mind of anyone who wishes to destroy? Don't you think we should root our heads out of the sand and wonder just once in a while? What is the truth about people who are so far beyond the pale?'
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Writer:
William Trevor
Director:
Robert Cooper
Milly:
Prunella Scales
Mr Malseed:
Michael Spice
Mrs Malseed:
Penelope Lee
Strafe:
Maurice Denham
Dekko:
Jonathan Scott
Arthur:
J.G. Devlin
Kitty:
Sheila McGidbon
Cynthia:
Sylvia Coleridge
Red-haired man, as an adult:
Michael McKnight
Red-haired man, as a child:
Jonathan Furphy
Woman, as an adult:
Maggie Shevlin
Woman, as a child:
Jennifer Wright

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