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A magazine programme about the music and musicians in this year's Promenade Concerts. Sir Michael Tippett on The Mask of Time which receives its European premiere on Monday and an interview with Nicholas Maw whose 1962
Prom commission, Scenes and Arias, is revived this week.
Philip Pickett talks about his reconstructions of songs from the 13th-century Carmina Burana manuscript; and Geoffrey Norris considers the different versions of Mussorgsky's St John's Night on the Bare Mountain.
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Michael Tippett
Unknown:
Nicholas Maw
Talks:
Philip Pickett
Talks:
Geoffrey Norris
Presented By:
Nicholas Kenyon
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

leader MARTIN MILNER conducted by ARVID YANSONS with MICHEL BÉROFF (piano)
Brahms Symphony No 3 in F
11.55* Interval Reading
12.0* Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy BBC Manchester

Contributors

Leader:
Martin Milner
Conducted By:
Arvid Yansons

(violin)
CRAIG SHEPPARD (piano)
Brahms Sonata in D minor, Op 108
Brahms, arr Joachim
Hungarian Dances: No 1; No 17; No 5
Szymanowski La Fontaine d'Arethuse (Mythes)
Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op 28 A BBC digital recording

Contributors

Piano:
Brahms Sonata

THEA KING (clarinet)
MEMBERS OF THE ALLEGRI STRING
QUARTET
Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Bruno Schrecker (cello) with PATRICK IRELAND
Andreas Romberg Clarinet Quintet in E flat, Op 57 (first UK broadcast)
Heinrich Baermann Clarinet Quartet in B flat, Op 18

Contributors

Clarinet:
Thea King
Violin:
Peter Carter
Viola:
Keith Lovell
Cello:
Bruno Schrecker
Clarinet:
Andreas Romberg
Clarinet:
Heinrich Baermann

Lorca's vision of the deprivation and humiliation suffered by the black ghetto population of New York, set to music by Hans Werner Henze.
MAUREEN MCNALLEY (mezzo-sop)
ENSEMBLE HINZ UND KUNST, HAMBURG director SPIROS ARGEIRIS
(Part of a Queen Elizabeth Hall concert giving during the 1981 English Bach Festival)

Contributors

Music By:
Hans Werner Henze.
Music By:
Maureen McNalley
Director:
Spiros Argeiris
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall

An impression of the Romanian sculptor
CONSTANTIN BRANCUS1 (1876-1957) compiled by SANDA MILLER with Alfred Marks as Brancusi and KATE BESWICK , MICHAEL BILTON , MAGDALENA BUZNEA ,
GEOFFREY COLLINS , KERRY FRANCIS. MONICA GREY, JAMES KERRY. MOIR LESLIE. CLIVE PANTO and GEORGE PRAVDA as his friends and enemies.
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Sanda Miller
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Kate Beswick
Unknown:
Michael Bilton
Unknown:
Magdalena Buznea
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Unknown:
Kerry Francis.
Unknown:
James Kerry.
Unknown:
Moir Leslie.
Unknown:
Clive Panto
Unknown:
George Pravda
Directed By:
Piers Plowright

(The Drugged Wine) Opera in three acts
Music by Frank Martin , based on three chapters of JOSEPH BEDIER 'S Romance of Tristan and Iseult (sung in French)
Martin's setting calls for 12 solo singers, some singing named parts, and all forming a chorus.
FIONA DOBIE (soprano)
ALISON HARGAN (Iseult) (soprano) LAUREEN LIVINGSTONE (Brangane) (soprano)
PHYLLIS CANNAN (Iseult aux blanches mains) (mezzo-soprano) AMERAL GUNSON (Iseult's mother) (mezzo-soprano)
ALISON TRUEFITT (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP DOGHAN (tenor)
LAN CALEY (Tristan) (tenor)
MICHAEL GOLDTHORPE (Kaherdin) (tenor)
PETER SAVIDGE (King Mark) (baritone)
GEOFFREY SHAW (Hoel) (baritone) RICHARD SUART (baritone) ALAN DUDLEY (narrator) PARK LANE MUSIC PLAYERS conducted by SIMON JOLY
Technical presentation by GEOFFREY TIMS
Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA

Contributors

Music By:
Frank Martin
Unknown:
Joseph Bedier
Soprano:
Alison Hargan
Soprano:
Laureen Livingstone
Soprano:
Phyllis Cannan
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ameral Gunson
Mezzo-Soprano:
Alison Truefitt
Narrator:
Alan Dudley
Conducted By:
Simon Joly

given earlier this evening at the Town Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra leader CHRISTOPHER WARREN .GREEN conducted by Edward Downes Howard Shelley (piano)
Hoist Ballet music: The Perfect Fool
Peter Dickinson Piano Concerto
(first performance: Festival commission with funds from South West Arts)
9.45* Interval Reading
9.50* Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Leader:
Christopher Warren .Green
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Piano:
Peter Dickinson

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