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Handel Overture and Ballet Music from Alcina ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS. directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.20* Villa-Lobos Guitar Concerto
JULIAN BREAM , LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COndUCted by ANDRE PREVIN
7.39* Haydn Symphony No 46, in B
ZAGREB RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ANTONIO JANIGRO : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Julian Bream
Unknown:
Andre Previn
Conducted By:
Antonio Janigro

Donizetti Overture: Roberto Devereux: LONDON
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
8.11* Britten A Birthday Hansel
PETER PEARS (tenor) OSIAN ELLIS (harp)
8.27* Saint-Saëns Introduction and rondo capriccioso: YEHUDI MENUHIN (Violin), PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. conducted by SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS
8.37* Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Bonynge
Harp:
Osian Ellis
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Conducted By:
Sir Eugene Goossens
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

Franz Schubert
The week's programmes feature music composed during 1828, the year of his death.
Sonata in a flat (D 960) CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
9.40* Auf dem Strom ROBERT TEAR (tenor) NEILL SANDERS (horn)
LAMAR CROWSON (piano)
9.49* Impromptu in r minor (D 935 No 1): ALFRED BRENDEL (piano): records

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Schubert
Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Unknown:
Strom Robert
Piano:
Lamar Crowson
Piano:
Alfred Brendel

conducted by PROINNSIAS O'DUINN
ELIZABETH BENNETT (flute) DAVID SANGER (organ)
J. C. Bach Symphony in b flat. Op 18 No 2
M. Corrette Concerto in D minor, for flute, organ and orchestra
Seixas Overture in D
Handel Organ Concerto in F. Op 4 No 4
(Given on 16 May at Down Cathedral, Downpatrick to mark the 10th anniversary of Music in May)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Proinnsias O'Duinn
Flute:
Elizabeth Bennett
Unknown:
M. Corrette

at York University
Christopher Rowland and Jonathan Sparey (violins) Alan George (viola) loan Davies (cello)
Beethoven Quartet in c minor, Op 18 No 4
David Matthews Quartet No 3 (BBC Commission: first performance)
11.40* Interval Reading
11.50*
Fitzwilliam Quartet Part 2 Tchaikovsky
Quartet No 3, in E flat minor, Op 30
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Violins:
Jonathan Sparey
Viola:
Alan George
Cello:
Loan Davies
Cello:
Beethoven Quartet
Unknown:
David Matthews

given last November in Orchestra Hall
JANICE HALL (soprano)
DELIA WALLIS (mezzo-sop)
DONALD GRAMM (baritone and narrator)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS (men's voices) AND ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF
Die Tageszeiten , for men's chorus and orchestra, Op 76

Contributors

Soprano:
Delia Wallis
Baritone:
Donald Gramm
Conducted By:
Erich Leinsdorf
Conducted By:
Die Tageszeiten

Zyklus (1959), for solo percussionist, composed for Christoph Caskel , Stockhausen's musical associate over many years.
This performance, by the West German percussionist JEFF BEER, was recorded at a concert given during last year's International Rostrum of Young Interpreters at Bratislava. (Czechoslovak Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christoph Caskel

ROBERT DOCKER (piano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor
ASHLEY LAWRENCE
Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro Grieg Last spring
Robert Docker Pastiche Variations on Frere Jacques (first performance) Ernest Tomlinson Suite of English folk dances
William Reed Scherzo
Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Contributors

Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Ernest Tomlinson Suite
Unknown:
William Reed

Haydn Symphony No 104, in D (London)
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA conducted by RONALD THOMAS
Debussy Cantata: La damoiselle élue
BARBARA HENDRICKS (soprano)
JOCELYNE TAILLON (mezzo-soprano)
THE PARIS ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM
Schoenberg Suite. Op 29 BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Conducted By:
Ronald Thomas
Soprano:
Barbara Hendricks
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Linda Esther Gray (sop) Martin Jones (piano)
BBC Singers (men's voices) director John Poole
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany, conducted by Norman Del Mar

Wagner Prelude: Tristan und Isolde (concert ending)

Wagner, orch Mottl Wesendonk Lieder

Contributors

Soprano:
Linda Esther Gray
Pianist:
Martin Jones
Singers:
BBC Singers (men's voices)
Musical Director:
John Poole
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Bela Dekany
Conductor:
Norman Del Mar

The autobiography of Tamara Karsavina , prima ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet in St Petersburg and of the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, who died last year.
Abridged in eight parti by DEREK PARKER Read by Svetlana Bertosova
3: First Performance - First Love
Producer IAN COTTERELL (First broadcast on R4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tamara Karsavina
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Svetlana Bertosova
Producer:
Ian Cotterell

A panorama of people. places and things, factual and fictional, in the traditionalist French-speaking culture of 1850 to 1950.
A series of 13 talks by Richard Cobb, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
7: Blood and Soil

Keith Jarrett (piano) Jan Garbarek (saxophones)
Palle Danielsson (double-bass)
Jon Christensen (drums) playing Sunshine Song and New Dance
Introduced by Charles Fox gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Keith Jarrett
Piano:
Jan Garbarek
Double-Bass:
Palle Danielsson
Double-Bass:
Jon Christensen
Introduced By:
Charles Fox

BBC Radio 3

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