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Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORCE SZELL
7.19* Berwald Piano Concerto in D
MARIAN MIGDAL (piano) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ULF BJORLIN
7.40* Rubbra
Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby BOURNEMOUTH SINPONIETTA conducted by HANS-HUBERT SCDONZELER
8.0 News
8.5 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.22* Chopin Polonaise in F sharp minor
MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
8.32* Vaughan Williams The vagabond: Let beauty awake (Songs of Travel)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano)
8.37* Poulenc Ballet Suite: Les Biches CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Georce Szell
Conducted By:
Ulf Bjorlin
Conducted By:
Hans-Hubert Scdonzeler
Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Conducted By:
Chopin Polonaise
Piano:
Maurizio Pollini
Piano:
Vaughan Williams
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Piano:
Viola Tunnard
Unknown:
Les Biches
Conducted By:
Louis Fremaux

Deltas
4: France
Paris (The Song of Great City): ROYAL
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES
Two songs to poems by Verlaine (mono)
DORA LABBETTE (soprano) GERALD MOORE (piano) Idyll: FELICITY LOTT (soprano)
THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERIC FENBY : records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves
Soprano:
Dora Labbette
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Conducted By:
Eric Fenby

directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D (rv 210)
SIMON STANDAGE
Bach Concerto in C minor, for two harpsichords and string orchestra (bwv 1060) KENNETH GILBERT
TREVOR PINNOCK : records

Contributors

Directed By:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Kenneth Gilbert
Unknown:
Trevor Pinnock

The fifth of eight recitals Endelllon String Quartet Andrew Watkinson ,
Louise Williams (violins) Garfield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello) direct from
New Broadcasting House Beethoven String Quartet in c minor, Op 18 No 4 Mendelssohn String
Quartet in E minor. Op 44 No 2
(Tickets available from
Concerts Promotion, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 ISJ)
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Watkinson
Violins:
Louise Williams
Viola:
Garfield Jackson
Cello:
David Waterman

Oratorio in three acts by Handel PATRIZIA KWELLA (SOprtnO) CAROLYN WATKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
JOHN YORK SKINNER (countertenor)
JOHN ELWES (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass) TAVERNER CHOIR AND
PLAYERS, conducted by ANDREW PARROTT
(Concert arranged by the Bath Festival in association with Imperial Tobacco Ltd) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Handel Patrizia Kwella
Mezzo-Soprano:
Carolyn Watkinson
Mezzo-Soprano:
John York Skinner
Tenor:
John Elwes
Bass:
David Thomas
Conducted By:
Andrew Parrott

Piano Quintet in C, Op posth is last work, written in 1949, occupied his mind for a long time and enshrines his deepest philosophical convictions. HAMISH MILNE (piano)
GABRIELI STRING QUARTET Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello)

Contributors

Piano:
Hamish Milne
Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Violin:
Brendan O'Reilly
Cello:
Keith Harvey

THE GUS BAND bandmaster
KEITH WILKINSON
Edward Gregson Fanfare for cus
Thea Musgrave Variations for Brass Band
Philip Sparke Song and Dance
Eric Liedzen Sinfonietta BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Wilkinson
Unknown:
Edward Gregson

A short story by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by RONALD HINGLEY adapted by MICHELENE WANDOH
Read by Patience Collier
It is a sultry summer's day and a turning point in Olga's marriage.
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
(First broadcast on Radio 4)

Contributors

Story By:
Anton Chekhov
Translated By:
Ronald Hingley
Adapted By:
Michelene Wandoh
Read By:
Patience Collier
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

by MARCELLA EVARISTI Steph
It not my wedding day
- no pressure on me.
Listen, it's going to be a great day. With Peter and Rita and you - and Garry and me.'
Crackling thoughtful comedy. (tikes) Directed by TIM FYWELL and MARILYN IRELAND BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcella Evaristi
Directed By:
Tim Fywell
Unknown:
Marilyn Ireland
Steph:
Sarah Collier
Jo:
Valerie Fyfer
Rita:
Janice Laurie
Peter:
With Tony Roper

Second of four programmes
Raff and Liszt
Piano music played by MALCOLM BINNS
Raff composed numerous works for piano solo, many of them making considerable technical demands on the exponent. Liszt, with whom the composer had a close working relationship in Weimar for some years, made his transcription from Raff's first opera, King Alfred, in 1853. Raff Elegy in Sonata Form: Folksong with Variations (Suite in G minor. Op 162)
The Gladiators (Romances. Op 8)
Raff. transc Llszt
Andante-Finale and March (King Alfred)
(first broadcasts)

Contributors

Played By:
Malcolm Binns

Stephen Plalstow introduces a programme of orchestral music, dating from the late
1960s, by Gyorgy LigeU BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by IRVINE ARDITTI conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH
FLORIAN KITT (cello)
Ramifications (for string orchestra)
Concerto for cello and orchestra Lontano BBC Wales

Contributors

Introduces:
Stephen Plalstow
Unknown:
Gyorgy Ligeu
Unknown:
Irvine Arditti
Conducted By:
Elgar Howarth
Cello:
Florian Kitt

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