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Elgar Coronation March (191H
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
7.16 Beethoven Romance No 1. in r.
RONALD THOMAS (violin) who also directs the BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA
7.24* William Shield Light as thistledown: When
William at eve meets me (Rosina)
JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano) NEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
OF LONDON conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
7.29* Schubert Symphony No 5. in B flat
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.0 News
8.5 Sibelius Tone Poem: En Saga
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA conducted by horst STEIN
8.21' Ireland Sea Fever: When lights go rolling round the sky benjamin LUXON (baritone) ALAN ROWLAND (piano)
8.27* Franck Symphonic Variations
CLIFFORD CURZON (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
8.43* Bartok Two Portraits VIENNA PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Violin:
Ronald Thomas
Unknown:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Soprano:
Joan Sutherland
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Piano:
Alan Rowland
Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi

AI.ISON TRUEFITT ( mezzo-soprano) david owen NORRIS (piano) Wolf Italian Song Book: Gesegnet sei durch den die Welt entstund:
Mein Liebster singt; Nein. jungcr Herr;
Schweig einmal still; Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen:
Wie soil ich frohlich sein: Wohl kenn ich euren Stand ; Wenn du. mein Liebster Faure Mirages. Op 113
Gurnev Five Elizabethan Songs: Under the greenwood tree; Orpheus; Tears: Spring: Sleep Falla Trois mélodies (Repeat*

Contributors

Unknown:
Mein Liebster
Unknown:
Liebster Faure Mirages.

sm;n\ ciikrkasskv 4piiino) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by CLIVE THOMAS conducted by CHRISTOPHER ADEY
Thomas Wilson Toccata
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1. in E minor
Nielsen Symphony No 2
(The Four Temperaments)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Thomas
Conducted By:
Christopher Adey
Conducted By:
Thomas Wilson

ANTON WEINBEIU ; and JULIAN FARRELL
Bernhard (rusell Duet No 3 Anton Stadler Caprice No 3 Jonathan Harvey Modes Grid; Line; Cells
(Studies for two equal clarinets)
Francis Chagrin Improvisation
Crusell Duet No 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Anton Weinbeiu
Unknown:
Julian Farrell
Unknown:
Anton Stadler

conductor JOHN POOLE
Elgar Two Part-Songs, Op 71: The shower; The fountain
Hoist Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Group 3 with JOHN MARSON (harp) Edward Cowie Madrigals, Book 1, for 12 solo voices (Petworth Festival commission: first performance)
(Part of a concert presented by the Petworth Festival in association with the BBC on 19 September 1981)

Contributors

Conductor:
John Poole
Harp:
John Marson

In the second of three programmes, Peter Hill plays piano music by Busoni and Schoenberg and by three of their British admirers.
Busoni Berccuse (Elegies) Schoenberg Two Piano Pieces, Op 33a and 33b Havergal Brian Four Miniatures
Bernard van Dieren
Allegramente, Op 4a, No 4 John Foulds Exotic:
Introversive: Prismic (Essays in the Modes)

Contributors

Unknown:
Busoni Berccuse
Unknown:
Havergal Brian
Unknown:
Bernard van Dieren
Unknown:
John Foulds

(tenor)
MARTYN PARRY (harpsichord)
Monteverdi Six Scherzi Musicali
Purcell Three songs
Jeremiah Clarke Blest be those sweet regions
William Croft A Hymn on Divine Musick
Handel Bella Gloria in campo armato (Cantata No 62)

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Martyn Parry
Unknown:
Jeremiah Clarke Blest
Unknown:
William Croft

A short story by OLIVIA MANNING
When Anne is taken to the pantomime by her father she sees him talk with a lady friend. The implications involve her in a personal drama more compelling than the happy events on stage. Reader Caroline Mortimer Producer CLARE TAYLOR

Contributors

Story By:
Olivia Manning
Reader:
Caroline Mortimer
Producer:
Clare Taylor

Disappearance of a Physicist
The enquiry by Leonardo sciascia. translated and adapted by Gabriel josipovici and SACHA RABINOVITCH
The dead get found; it is the living who can disappear.' with Peter Jeffrey as Sciascia Tim Woodward as Ettore Majorana and CYRIL SHAPS , JOHN RYE, MALCOLM HAYES. GEORGE PARSONS , JOHN LIVESEY , MARGARET ROBERTSON ,
PAULINE LETTS ,
GIANCARLO CICCONE , ENRICO VERDECCHIA and ANNA MARIA GRECAS
In 1938 the Sicillian Ettore Majorana left suicide notes, caught the steamer from Naples for Palermo and disappeared. Aged 32, he was one of the very few physicists left in Italy or Germany capable of solving the problems of nuclear fission.
Did he really commit suicide, or did he choose to disappear?
Musique concrete by ELIZABETH PARKER Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer RICHARD keek followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Sacha Rabinovitch
Unknown:
Peter Jeffrey
Unknown:
Sciascia Tim Woodward
Unknown:
Ettore Majorana
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes.
Unknown:
George Parsons
Unknown:
John Livesey
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Giancarlo Ciccone
Unknown:
Sicillian Ettore
Unknown:
Elizabeth Parker

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