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Offenbach Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
7.14* Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 14 No 1 ALFRED BRENDEL
7.28* Elgar Two songs, Op 41: In the dawn: Speak music
BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bar) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
7.34* Bridge Suite for string orchestra
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by Slit ADRIAN BOULT : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Unknown:
Alfred Brendel
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Conducted By:
Slit Adrian Boult

Bernstein Overture: Candide: NEW YORK
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER
8.9* Mozart Symphony No 29, in A (K 201)
NEW LONDON SOLOISTS
ENSEMBLE, directed by RONALD THOMAS
8.32* Alkan Minuetto alia tedesca
RONALD SMITH (piano)
8.37* Poulenc Suite: Les biches
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FÉMAUX : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Ronald Thomas
Directed By:
Alkan Minuetto
Piano:
Ronald Smith
Conducted By:
Louis Fémaux

Claude Debussy L'isle joyeuse
MAGDA TAGLIAFERRO (piano) Prelude a I'après-midi dun faune (mono)
FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
ORCHESTRA, conducted by DESIRE-EMILE JNGIIELBRECHT Estampes
WALTER GIESEKING (piano) Nocturnes (mono)
MARCEL BRICLOT CHORALE FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO
ORCHESTRA, conducted by DESIRE-EMILE INGIIELBRECHT gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Claude Debussy
Piano:
Magda Tagliaferro
Unknown:
Jngiielbrecht Estampes
Piano:
Walter Gieseking
Unknown:
Marcel Briclot

GILLIAN WEIR (organ)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUlS GARCIA conducted by JEAN FRANCOIS PAILLARD
Haydn Overture to an English opera: Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, Op 84
Poulenc Concerto for organ, strings and timpani

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Weir
Unknown:
Luls Garcia
Conducted By:
Jean Francois Paillard

(harpsichord)
Rameau Suite in E minor Bach Six short preludes: c major (bwv 933); c minor (bwv 999); c major (bwv 939); F major (bwv 927); D minor (awv 940); D minor (bwv 926); French Suite No 5. in G major Balbastre La Suzanne BBC Bristol

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Rameau Suite

GERALDINE O'GRADY
PAUL HAMBURGER
Bloch Nigun (Baal Shem) John Kinsella Lament for Charles MacCabe. for unaccompanied violin (first broadcast performance)
Howard Ferguson Violin Sonata No 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Geraldine O'Grady
Unknown:
Bloch Nigun
Unknown:
John Kinsella
Unknown:
Charles MacCabe.

by Graham Greene
with Alan Bennett as Benjamin Jowett (1817-93) Oxford don, Professor of Greek, Master of Balliol, Vice-Chancellor, eminent Victorian and notable eccentric.

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Writer:
Graham Greene
Directed By:
Brian Wright
Benjamin Jowett:
Alan Bennett
Dean Stanley, the narrator:
David Markham
Matthew Knight:
Brian Carroll
Algernon Swinburne:
Andrew Branch
T.H. Green/Griggs:
Leonard Fenton
Dr Peel/Paine:
Anthony Hyde
Dr Ross/Matthew Arnold:
Brian Haines
Professor Smith/Foster:
Godfrey Kenton
Vice-Chancellor/Dr Scott:
Michael Goldie
Plumber/Archbishop:
Christopher Scott
Mrs Sparks:
Lolly Cockerell
Miss Knight:
Josie Kidd

Berlioz, Schumann and Debussy were all active as music critics, but the most outspoken and vitriolic of composers was probably Hugo Wolf.
Henry Plcasants , who has recently published a study of the music criticism of Hugo Wolf , talks about Wolf's writing on opera.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo Wolf.
Unknown:
Henry Plcasants
Talks:
Hugo Wolf

(soprano), with Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
Tchaikovsky If I had only known, Op 47 No 1: The soul flew heavenward, Op 47 No 2: Evening and morning, Op 47 No 3; Always for thee, Op 47 No 6
Elizabeth Maconchy Sun, moon and stars
Warlock The distracted maid; The passionate shepherd; To the memory of a great singer; My own country: Mockery
Schoenberg Galathea : Gigerlette; Mahnung: Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arcadien (Brettl Lieder)
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Piano:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Schoenberg Galathea

BBC Radio 3

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