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Listeners' record requests Fayrfax Somewhat musing helen watts (contralto) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass)
7.9* Handel Concerto
Grosso in B minor, Op 6 No 12 (mono)
COLLEGIUM aureum, directed
13:1 FRANZ JOSEF MAIER
7.22*
Frescobaldi Capriccio fatto sopra il CUCChU: JEAN-JACQUES GRÛNENWALD (organ)
7.27* Bach Cantata No 211 (Coffee Cantata) SOLOISTS
COLLEGIUM AUREUM, GUSTAV LEONHARDT (harpsichord)
8.0 News
8.5 Milhaud Ballet: Le train bleu: MONTE CARLO NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH
8.27* Ives General
William Booth enters into Heaven: MARNI NIXON
(sop), JOHN MCCABE (piano)
8.33* Haydn Symphony No 79, in F
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA conducted by ANTAL DORATI

Contributors

Bass:
Christopher Keyte
Unknown:
Franz Josef Maier
Unknown:
Frescobaldi Capriccio
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch
Unknown:
Marni Nixon
Piano:
John McCabe
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Delius
A Song before Sunrise (mono): ROYAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.10* The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS directed by LOUIS HALSEY
9.13* Violin Sonata No 2 RALPH HOLMES (violin) ERIC FENBY (piano)
9.25* A Late Lark JOHN AMIS (tenor)
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN
9.32* Caprice and Elegy (mono)
BEATRICE HARRISON (cello) ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERIC FENBY : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Singers:
Louis Halsey
Directed By:
Louis Halsey
Violin:
Ralph Holmes
Tenor:
John Amis
Conducted By:
Bernard Herrmann
Cello:
Beatrice Harrison
Conducted By:
Eric Fenby

RICHARD COULSON plays the 1818 organ of Ashridge College, Berkhamsted
Boyce Voluntary No 1, in » William Walond Voluntary in G, Op 1 No 2
John Stanley Voluntary in D, Op 6 No 6
Samuel Wesley Fugue in B minor; A loud voluntary (Introduction and Fugue in D, from Op 6 No 1)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Coulson
Unknown:
William Walond Voluntary
Unknown:
Samuel Wesley Fugue

Finzi Song-cycle: To a Poet
Michael Diack Sing a song of sixpence; Jack and Jill; Little Polly Flinders Herbert Murrill Humpty-Dumpty
Michael Diaek Little Jack Horner
Hely-Hutchinson Old
Mother Hubbard : Three Nonsense Songs ian caddy (baritone)
JENNIFER COULTAS (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Diack
Unknown:
Mother Hubbard
Piano:
Jennifer Coultas

direct from Broadcasting House. London
Robin Rubenstein and Victoria Hartung (piano duo)
Martinu Three Czech Dances
Mendelssohn Andante and Variations, Op 83a Percy Grainger A Lincolnshire Posy
(Given before a studio audience : tickets available from the Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Contributors

Piano:
Victoria Hartung
Unknown:
Mendelssohn Andante
Unknown:
Percy Grainger

Martin Best follows the paths of Minstrelsy to re-create part of its traditions in the celebration of death. Performers
ALASTAIR MCLACHLAN
JEREMY BARLOW
DAVID corkhill. VHF only

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair McLachlan
Unknown:
Jeremy Barlow
Unknown:
David Corkhill.

A concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 50th Anniversary Season, direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Sarah Walker (mezzo-sop), Robert Tear (tenor), Jules Bastin (bass)
BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Brian Wright
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Dramatic Symphony:
Romeo and Juliet (sung in French), Parts 1 and 2

Contributors

Mezzo-soprano:
Sarah Walker
Tenor:
Robert Tear
Bass:
Jules Bastin
Singers:
BBC Singers
Director, BBC Singers:
John Poole
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Conductor, BBC Symphony Chorus:
Brian Wright
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, BBC Symphony Orchestra:
Rodney Friend
Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Contemporary Australian music, introduced by Anthony Gilbert, who recently spent a year teaching at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music.
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN HOPKINS
Richard Meale Very High Kings
Ross Edwards Mountain
Village in a Clearing Mist Barry Conyngham Water... Footsteps... Time
(ABC recordings)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anthony Gilbert

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