(cello)
The first in a series of seven programmes
Beethoven Cello Sonata in A, Op 69 with DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano)
Haydn Cello Concerto in c ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM records

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Caldara Christmas Cantata
GERTRAUT STOKLASSA
MARLEE SABO (sopranos)
INGEBORG RUSS (contralto) GEORG JELOEN (tenor)
WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RUDOLF EWERHART records

direct from the Main Hall of the Musikverein, Vienna
The traditional annual concert of Viennese music given by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel
including at 10.50* Interval Readings

(piano)
Bach Partita No 2 in c minor (bwv 826)
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 570)
1.40* Interval Reading
1.50* Szymanowski Four Mazurkas from Op 50: Nos 13-16
Chopin Two Nocturnes Op 27: No 1 in c sharp minor; No 2 in d flat; Bolero in a minor
(A recital given in June 1983 at the Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival) BBCBirmingham

leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by GUNTHER HERBIG
DAVID WILSON. JOHNSON ..(baritone) Part 1
Tchaikovsky Overture: Romeo and Juliet Mussorgsky , orch
Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death

A short story by Anton Chekhov translated by Ronald Wilks
Read by Jill Balcon

Part 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
(Given on 23 October 1983 in the Assembly Rooms. Derby; presented by Abbotsholme Arts Society in association with Grants of St James's Ltd and Derbyshire County Council)

Divertimento in E flat (K 563) Played on authentic instruments.
APOUXTS BANQUET (Repeal)

by Bertolt Brecht, with Bill Wallis as Arturo Ui

Brecht's tragicomic political polemic warning the world of 1938 against the criminality of Hitler by portraying him as, literally, a cheap hoodlum from Brooklyn who exploits the cauliflower trade's depression by setting up protection rackets which ultimately gain him total power in Chicago and Cicero.

BBC Bristol

Suite No 3. Op 26 (excerpts)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HEINZ ROGNER records

Part 2

An oratorio with music by Handel.
Libretto selected by CHARLES JENNENS Edited by HAROLD WATKINS SHAW
LYNDA RUSSELL (soprano) ANNE COLLINS (contralto) PAUL ELIOTT (tenor) PETER SAVIDGE (baritone)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA associate leader
PAUL WILLEY
ROY MASSEY (organ)
NORMAN DYSON (harpsichord) conducted by CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON

'Remember, Mr Gandhi, I won't have any attacks on my Empire.'

Kenneth Morgan, historian and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, argues that King George V's image as a fireside-loving King concealed a political shrewdness that ensured the survival of the monarchy into a more democratic, post-imperial age.

Part 2
10.30* Interval Reading
10.35* Messiah Part 3

(Stereo)