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Saint-Saens Symphonic Poem: La jeunesse d'Hercule PHILHARMONIA/DUTOIT
7.22* Sibelius Kyllikka
ERIK TAWASTSTJERNA (piano)
7.33* Wagner Traume (Wesendonk Lieder)
KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD (soprano)
VIENNA PO/HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
7.37* Blacher Variations on a theme of Paganini
SOUTH GERMAN RSO/LOTHAR ZAGROSEK
8.0 News
8.5 Maconchy Overture: Proud Thames: LPO/HANDLEY
8.10* William Baines Twilight Pieces: ERIC PARKIN (piano)
8.18 Elgar Nursery Suite LPO/BOULT: Mono
8.39* Britten Scottish ballad
PETER DONOHOE
PHILIP FOWKE
(pianos)/cBSO/RATTLE: records

Contributors

Soprano:
Kirsten Flagstad
Unknown:
William Baines
Piano:
Eric Parkin
Unknown:
Peter Donohoe

Janacek
Patriotic Motifs
'I wanted here to depict faith in the certainty of the nation, not on a religious basis, but on one of moral strength, that takes God as witness.' Ballad of Blanik
BRNO STATE PO/FRANTISEK JILEK Glagolitic Mass
GABRIELA BENACKOVA (soprano) EVA RANDOVA (mezzo-sop) VILEM PRIBYL (tenor) SERGEJ KOPCAK (bass) JAN HORA (organ)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
BRNO STATE PO/FRANTISEK JILEK records

Contributors

Bass:
Sergej Kopcak

The fifth of eight concerts, direct from Studio Seven, Manchester Richard Markham and David Nettle (piano duet) George Onslow Sonata in F minor, Op 22 Constant Lambert Trois pieces negres Walton, transc Lambert Facade, Suite No 1 BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Markham
Piano:
David Nettle
Unknown:
Lambert Trois

Opera in two acts Libretto by FELICE ROMANI Music by Donizetti (sung in Italian) CHORUS OF GENEVA CHAMBER OPERA COLLEGIUM ACADEMICUM ORCHESTRA, conducted by ROBERT DUNAND Continuo: USE SETTIMO (Swiss Radio recording) Act 1
3.10* Interval Reading
3.15* L'Elisir D'Amore Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Felice Romani
Conducted By:
Robert Dunand

DAVID OWEN NORRIS and ERIK LEVI (piano duet)
YORKSHIRE IMPERIAL BAND conductor JOHN PRYCE-JONES
Wilfrid Mellers Glorificamus Gordon Jacob Rhapsody for piano duet and band BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
David Owen Norris
Piano:
Erik Levi
Conductor:
John Pryce-Jones
Conductor:
Wilfrid Mellers Glorificamus
Conductor:
Gordon Jacob Rhapsody

direct from the Town Hall City of London Sinfonia leader ANDREW WATKINSON conductor Richard Hickox Quentin Poole (oboe)
Roger Fallowes (clarinet) Robert Jordan (bassoon) Frank Lloyd (horn) Peter Frankl (piano) Part 1
Mozart Masonic Funeral Music (K 477) attrib Mozart Sinfonia
Concertante in E flat (K 297b) John Tavener Towards the Son (first performance)

Contributors

Leader:
Andrew Watkinson
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Oboe:
Quentin Poole
Clarinet:
Roger Fallowes
Bassoon:
Robert Jordan
Horn:
Frank Lloyd
Piano:
Peter Frankl
Unknown:
John Tavener

translated by ELIZABETH ABBOTT abridged in three parts by CAROLE ROSEN
Read by David Suchet 1: Vienna
During his ten years as court poet to the Austrian Emperor Joseph II da Ponte wrote the librettos for three Mozart operas, which brought him lasting fame but no fortune. Caught up in court and romantic intrigue he learned to compromise in order to survive. Producer JOHN CARDY
(Part 2 next Saturday)

Contributors

Translated By:
Elizabeth Abbott
Unknown:
Carole Rosen
Read By:
David Suchet
Producer:
John Cardy

Harrison Birtwistle (born 15 July 1934)
Monody for Corpus Christi (1959)
PENELOPE WALMSLEY-CLARK (sop) Duets for Storab (1984) (first broadcast performance)
Down by the Greenwood Side: a dramatic pastoral (text by Michael Nyman ) (1969)
ENDYMION ENSEMBLE conductor JOHN WHITFIELD
Introduced by Hugh Wood

Contributors

Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
Michael Nyman
Conductor:
John Whitfield
Introduced By:
Hugh Wood
Mrs Green:
Penelope Walmsley-Clark
Father Christmas:
John Rath
St George:
David Acton
Bold Slasher:
John Altman
Dr Blood/Jack Finney:
David Meyer

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