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Listeners' record requests Walton Overture: \Portsmouth Point
LONDON PIIiLil ..Hn.ONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by the COMPOSER t.18' Chopin Piano Sonata In B flat minor. Op 35
(mono): EMIL GILELS g
9.41* Handel w-judihg | Anthem: Sing unto God -8 WENDY EATHORNE (Soprano) PAUL ESSWOOD ^ (counter-tenor) is NEIL JENKINS (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baSS)
LONDON BACH SOCIETY CHORUS STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS conducted by PAUL STEINITZ

Contributors

Unknown:
Emil Gilels
Soprano:
Wendy Eathorne
Soprano:
Paul Esswood
Tenor:
Neil Jenkins
Bass:
John Noble
Conducted By:
Paul Steinitz

On behalf of the European Broadcasting Union, the Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the seventh concert in the Union's International Concert Season direct from the Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House
Michael Dudman (organ) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Frémaux Nigel Butterley
Symphony (Commissioned for the occasion: first performance)
Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor (Bwv 582)
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3, in c minor
The Grand Organ in the Sydney Opera House, designed and built by Ronald Sharp , has been in use for just under two years. For specification, please send large stamped addressed envelope to: Sydney Organ
Specification,[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Dudman
Unknown:
Bach Passacaglia
Unknown:
Ronald Sharp

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Only let the source be clean.
A centenary portrait of Bela Bartok in words and music. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
(Repeated: Wed 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Bela Bartok
Unknown:
Christine Hardwick

15481715
Last of five programmes in which Peter Holman traces the history of orchestral playing at the English Court through ten reigns from Henry VIII to George I.
Les gouts-riunis
The activities of the band during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I Godfrey Finger Sonata in c
William Corbitt Concerto In D, Op 8 No 10 (All'irelandese)
Handel Suite in D (Water Music): THE PARLEY OF
INSTRUMENTS, directors ROY goodman and PETER HOLMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Holman
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Unknown:
William Corbitt
Directors:
Roy Goodman
Directors:
Peter Holman

Three works from the 1920s which demonstrate the conflicts faced by creative artists
PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON (SOp) NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by JAMES JUDD Hanns Eisler Palmstrom Kurt Weill Frauentanz
Max Brand Five Biblical Ballads

Contributors

Artists:
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Conducted By:
James Judd
Conducted By:
Hanns Eisler Palmstrom
Conducted By:
Kurt Weill Frauentanz

George Orwell and Henry Green were the pseudonyms of Old
Etonians born early this century who both found fame as novelists. The political scientist Bernard Crick has recently published an authorised biography of Orwell and the novelist Paul Bailey is writing the authorised biography of Green. They discuss the problems of writing biographies of authors and compare notes on their subjects.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
Henry Green
Unknown:
Bernard Crick
Unknown:
Paul Bailey

Edward Greenfield talks about the heroines of Puccini's Turandot as interpreted by Montserrat Caballe, Maria Callas , "jrgit Nilsson ,
Magda O lvero , Lotte Schone ,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ,
Joan Sutherland , Eva Turner and others.

Contributors

Talks:
Edward Greenfield
Unknown:
Maria Callas
Unknown:
Jrgit Nilsson
Unknown:
Magda O Lvero
Unknown:
Lotte Schone
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Unknown:
Joan Sutherland
Unknown:
Eva Turner

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dramatised for radio by Michelene Wandor
with Sara Kestelman as Aurora and John Shrapnel as Romney Leigh

This verse novel, written in 1857, is the romantic story of a woman of great wit and charm who has to resolve the conflict between her love for her cousin and her passion for her work, yet at the same time it reveals the author's lifelong preoccupations with social and political issues.
Feature p.15

followed by an interlude

Contributors

Author:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dramatised by:
Michelene Wandor
Music:
Jenny Sprince
Music:
played by Anne Hooley
Music:
played by Alison Townley
Director:
Liane Aukin
Aurora:
Sara Kestelman
Romney Leigh:
John Shrapnel
Aurora's aunt:
Joan Matheson
Lady Waldemar:
Elizabeth Bell
Marian Erie:
Elizabeth Proud

An opera in one act
Music by Bartok Libretto by BELA BALAZS
(sung in English) Duke Bluebeard kolos kovacs (bass)
Judith SYLVIA SASS (SOP) LONDON
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. For details see page 31.

Contributors

Music By:
Bartok Libretto
Bass:
Judith Sylvia Sass
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

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