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Rossini Overture: La cambiale di matrimonio
7.10* Haydn Symphony No 40, in p (mono)
7.24* Mozart Bassoon
Concerto in B flat (K 191) GWYDION BROOKE (bassoon)
7.43* Dellus A Song before Sunrise
7.49* Berlioz Trojan March (The Trojans) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.0 News
8.5 Bizet Carnaval (Roma) CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX
8.10* Schumann Kennst du das Land?
LUCIA POPP (soprano)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
8.15* Liszt Venezia e Napoli: LAZAR BERMAN (piano)
8.34* Elgar Concert
Overture: In the South (Alassto)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by sir Adrian BOULT : records Producer PETER tannes

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Louis Fremaux
Soprano:
Lucia Popp
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Piano:
Lazar Berman
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Producer:
Peter Tannes

Schumann: The Chamber Music
All Schumann's chamber works, except his three string quartets, contain a part Tor the piano, his first love and, with few exceptions, all were written after 1842, the year in which he was 32. Piano Quintet in c minor DAVID LEVINE COLOGNE CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE
String Quartet in F,
Op 41 NO 2: ITALIAN QUARTET gramophone records
Producer DEREK DRESCHER

Contributors

Producer:
Derek Drescher

A Song for St Cecilia's day by Henry Purcell SIMON WOOLF (treble) PAUL ESSWOOD
(counter-tenor), ROLAND TATNELL (counter-tenor) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor) MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bass) TIFFIN CHOIR, AMBROSIAN
SINGERS, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Purcell
Unknown:
Simon Woolf
Unknown:
Paul Esswood
Unknown:
Roland Tatnell
Tenor:
Alexander Young
Bass:
Michael Rippon
Bass:
John Shirley-Quirk
Conducted By:
Sir Charles MacKerras

The last of four Goldmark programmes again covers his entire career, from the early Suite In E, Op 11 for violin and piano, to his last opera A
Winter's Tale, and also contains music he admired by a younger contemporary, Franz Schmidt.
ANDREW WATKINSON (violin) IAN BROWN (piano)
Julia KUKELY (soprano) DENES GULYAS (tenor)
HUNGARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by ERVIN LUKACS (Hungarian Radio recording)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN RICHARD MAYR (bass)
With ORCHESTRA: records

Contributors

Violin:
Andrew Watkinson
Piano:
Ian Brown
Soprano:
Julia Kukely
Tenor:
Denes Gulyas
Conducted By:
Ervin Lukacs
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Bass:
Richard Mayr

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
Dvorak Overture: Carnival
Kenneth Platts Serenade for strings (first performance)
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien Nigel Brooks Dreams
(Barnstaple Fair)
Gretry, arr Beecham
Suite: Zémlr and Azor Walton Prelude for orchestra

Contributors

Conducted By:
James Lockhart

Handel Suite in D (Water Music): STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by KARL MUNCHINGER
Franck Choral No 2, in a minor: FRANCIS GRIER (organ of Christ Church CathedTal. Oxford)
Faur6 Suite: Masques et bergamasques
ACADEMY OP ST MARTIN-IN. the-fields, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Hurlstone Bassoon Sonata in F: LAURENCE PERKINS (bassoon)
MICHAEL HANCOCK (piano) Brahms Symphony No 1, in c minor: Los ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Munchinger
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Bassoon:
Laurence Perkins
Piano:
Michael Hancock
Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giulini

The liberal humanist should find the Bible instructive precisely on its own terms. His problem must always be establishing tolerance without imposing uniformity.
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks reflects on The Story of the Stories, an analysis of the Bible by Dan Jacobson. the novelist.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jonathan Sacks
Unknown:
Dan Jacobson.

The setting by William Boyce of Lockman's ode. described, after a Dublin performance In 1740, as one of the grandest that hath been heard
ANN mackay (soprano) 'PAUL ESSWOOD
(counter-tenor)
MICHAEL GOLDTHORPE (tenor)
JOHN NOBLE (bass)
LONDON BACH SOCIETY
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader SIMON STANDAGE conductor PAUL STEINITZ Ode to St Cecilia, Part 1 Interlude: Trio-Sonata In d (attrlb Boyce)
Ode to St Cecilia, Part (Given on 17 June in St Andrew's, Holborn, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Boyce
Leader:
Simon Standage
Conductor:
Paul Steinitz

An occasional series of poetry of Africa. Asia, and the Arab World.
Liu Tao Tao introduces five personal selections of Chinese poetry
1: In the East are 1,000 Horsemen
Reflections on Chinese ballads
Readers CAROLINE john , clive johnstone , and T'UNG PING-CHENG
Producer PIERS plowrigbt

Contributors

Introduces:
Liu Tao Tao
Readers:
Caroline John
Readers:
Clive Johnstone
Readers:
T'Ung Ping-Cheng
Producer:
Piers Plowrigbt

The first of four programmes featuring some of his vocal and chamber music from the years 1958-78.
String Quartet No 1 DARTINGTON QUARTET gramophone record Song-Cycle to poems of Pablo Neruda
JANE GINSBORG (soprano) and LONTANO director ODALINE DE LA MARTINEZ , who also provides an introduction to Neruda's texts.

Contributors

Soprano:
Jane Ginsborg
Director:
Odaline de La Martinez

Presented by Charles Fox
Vietnam Requiem
Music by Henry Lowther Words by MARTIN BAX JEFF DALY , ART THEMAN (saxophones)
CHRIS PYNE (trombone) JOHN TAYLOR (piano) PHIL LEE (guitar) CHRIS LAWRENCE (double-bass)
TREVOR TOMKINS (drums) FRANK RICOTTI (percussion) NORMA WINSTONE (voice) MARTIN BAX (voice)

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Fox
Music By:
Henry Lowther
Words By:
Martin Bax
Saxophone:
Jeff Daly
Saxophone:
Art Theman
Trombone:
Chris Pyne
Piano:
John Taylor
Double-Bass:
Chris Lawrence
Drums:
Trevor Tomkins
Percussion:
Frank Ricotti
Voice:
Norma Winstone
Voice:
Martin Bax

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