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Fifth of nine programmes Stanley Organ Concerto in c minor:
GERALD GIFFORD (organ), NORTHERN SINFONIA ORCHESTRA
Arne Three Shakespeare Songs: HONOR SHEPPARD
(soprano), ROBERT ELLIOTT (harpsichord) with instrumental ensemble J C. Bach Symphony in D, for double orchestra. Op 18 NO 3: NETHERLANDS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DAVID ZINMAN Boyce The Song of Momus to Mars
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Paradies Sonata No 6, in A major: TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Arne Overture No 4, in F
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by EMANUEL HURWITZ gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Gifford
Soprano:
Robert Elliott
Conducted By:
David Zinman
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Conducted By:
Emanuel Hurwitz

Doppler Concerto in D minor for two flutes and orchestra: JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL , ANDRAS ADORJAN MONTE CARLO OPERA
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
Hovhaness Prelude and Quadruple Fugue: EASTMAN-ROCHESTER
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HOWARD HANSON
Paganini Violin Concerto No 4, in D minor: HENRYK SZERYNG, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Laszlo Lajtha Symphony No 4 (Spring)
HUNGARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by JANOS FERENCSIK : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Unknown:
Andras Adorjan
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Conducted By:
Claudio Scimone
Conducted By:
Howard Hanson
Conducted By:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Conducted By:
Janos Ferencsik

FELICITY PALMER (mezzo-soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Schubert Die junge
Nonne; Die Sterne (Du staunest); Die Sterne
(Wie blitzen); Romanze
(Rosamunde); Der Zwerg Faur6 Chansons de Venise Tchaikovsky Why are the roses so pale?; Sleep of sorrow; I'll tell thee nothing; Do not ask;
None but the lonely heart
A BBC digital recording

Contributors

Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons

Das Rheingold
Text and music by Richard Wagner
(Sung in German)
ANDREW PORTER introduces the first of the four parts of the new ' English '
Ring Cycle, and describes some of the features about which critical opinion divided.
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
(Given on 25 July at the Bayreuth
Festspielhaus) /, (Bavarian Radio recording) 4

Contributors

Music By:
Richard Wagner
Introduces:
Andrew Porter
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

Government and the Governed
Six talks by Sir Douglas Wass , gcb
3: The Privileged Adviser
By tradition, the British civil servant is politically neutral. In the real world, ministers and civil servants are inextricably mixed up with each other and the partnership can only work if there is mutual trust. Now that that trust is in question, which Civil Service reforms would strengthen it and which weaken it?

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Douglas Wass

direct from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge
Advent Prose (Rorate Caeli - Mode 1)
Hymn: Lo! he comes (Helmsley)
First Lesson: Jeremiah
23. vv 1-6: HEAD CHORISTER When came in flesh the incarnate Word (arr Andrew Lumsden );
Balulalow (Peter Warlock ) Second Lesson: Romans
13, VV 8-14: UNDERGRADUATE Greawdwr nef a daear lawr; Pan fo'r stormydd garwa'n (Raymond Williams )
Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (Praetorius, arr Guest)
Third Lesson: Romans
15, VV 4-13: CHORAL STUDENT Psalm 119, vv 105-112 (Cooper); A Boy was born (Britten)
Fourth Lesson; Luke 4
VV 14-21: RESEARCH STUDENT Hymn: 0 come, 0 come
Emmanuel (translated by T. A. Lacey )
I sing of a maiden (Patrick Hadley)
Fifth Lesson: Isaiah 42, VV 1-9: A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE STAFF
The hollv and the ivy (arr Waiford Davies)
Sixth Lesson: Isaiah 40, VV 1-9: A FELLOW
Hymn: Hail to the Lord's anointed (Criiger)
Adam lay ybounden
(Boris Ord); Ding dong! merrily on high (arr Charles Wood)
Seventh Lesson: John 3, VV 1-8: PRESIDENT OF THE
COLLEGE
Magnificat: Watson in E Eighth Lesson:
Philippians 4, vv 4-8, 19, 20: THE MASTER
Chorale: Break forth, 0 beauteous, heavenly light (harmonised Bach) Hymn: 0 little town of Bethlehem
Organist and Director of Music DR GEORGE GUEST Organ Student ANDREW LUMSDEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lumsden
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Raymond Williams
Translated By:
T. A. Lacey

A re-enactment of the trial of Fray Luis de Le6n, compiled from tne
Inquisitional Archives and presented by Ferdinand Woodward , Professor of Spanish at the University of St Andrews, with Director PIERS plowright Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Contributors

Presented By:
Ferdinand Woodward
Producer:
Judith Bumpus
Fray Luis:
Jeremy Irons
the Inquisitor:
Peter Vaughan
Andres de Alava/Alonso de Fonseca:
Anthony Newlands
Bartolome de Medina Inquisitor General, GasparLeon de Castro:
Godfrey Kenton
Gaspar de Uceda:
James Kerry
Inquisitor General/Gaspar de Quiroga:
Ronald Baddiley

conducted by LOTHAR ZAGROSEK , With
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bar) Schoenberg Five
Orchestral Pieces, Op 16 (version for 12 players by the composer and Felix Greissle ) Mahler, arr Schoenberg Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Reger, arr Schoenberg Eine romantische Suite,
(Siven on 11 June at the QEH, London)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lothar Zagrosek
Unknown:
John Shirley-Quirk
Unknown:
Felix Greissle

The first of seven programmes with an invitation to consider, or re-consider, the work of some well-known poets, Vernon
Scanned looks in detail at three poems by W. H. AUDEN
Reader NICHOLAS GECKS Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Reader:
W. H. Auden
Reader:
Nicholas Gecks
Producer:
Fraser Steel

BBC Radio 3

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