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A magazine programme about the music and musicians in this year's Promenade Concerts. A conversation with HANS WERNER HENZE, whose Cinque
Piccoli Concerti will receive their first British performance on Tuesday; ANDREW CLEMENTS talks about the music of Harrison Birtwistle : some views on Monteverdi from JOHN eliot
GARDINER and ANTHONY ROOLEY.
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon Producer RAY ABBOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Werner
Unknown:
Piccoli Concerti
Talks:
Andrew Clements
Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
John Eliot
Unknown:
Anthony Rooley.
Presented By:
Nicholas Kenyon
Producer:
Ray Abbott

leader Desmond Bradley, conducted by Mariss Jansons, Mayumi Fujikawa (violin)

Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A (K 219)
12.0* Interval Reading
12.5* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Desmond Bradley
Conductor:
Mariss Jansons
Violinist:
Mayumi Fujikawa

Thomas Brandis (violin) Peter Brem (violin)
Wilfried Strehle (viola)
Wolfgang Boettcher (cello)
Schubert Quartet in G minor (D 173)
Mozart Quartet in F (K 590)
1.40* Interval Reading
1.45* Brahms Quartet in c minor, Op 51 No 1
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Violin:
Thomas Brandis
Violin:
Peter Brem
Viola:
Wilfried Strehle
Cello:
Wolfgang Boettcher

leader JAN STANIENDA conducted by JERZY MAKSYMIUK MICHAEL COLLINS (clarinet) Bartok Divertimento
Mathias Clarinet Concerto. Op 68
4.20* Interval Reading
4.25* Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings Op 47
Dvorak Serenade in E. Op 22 (Given during the 1984 Cheltenham International Festival of Music) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Leader:
Jan Stanienda
Conducted By:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Clarinet:
Michael Collins
Clarinet:
Bartok Divertimento

Opera in one act after the tragedy by HEINRICH VON KLEIST Libretto and music by Othmar Schoeck (sung in German) The Amazons:
AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GERD ALBRECHT (Produced by Austrian Radio for the EBU)

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich von Kleist
Music By:
Othmar Schoeck
Conducted By:
Gerd Albrecht

by TOM HOPKINSON
Read by Paul Scofield
A senior diplomat recalls an affair he had when he was a young man posted to the British Legation of an East European state. He became obsessed with finding the young woman with whom he spent but a single night of love.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Hopkinson
Read By:
Paul Scofield
Producer:
John Tydeman

direct from Westminster Abbey, London
Nancy Argenta (soprano) Elizabeth Lane (soprano) Michael Chance
(counter-tenor)
Mark Tucker (tenor) Nigel Robson (tenor)
Richard Jackson (baritone) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Finchley Children's Music Group director RONALD CORP Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists leader ELIZABETH WILCOCK conductor
John Eliot Gardiner
Monteverdi Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610)
(This performance has been made possible by support from IBM United Kingdom Limited)

Contributors

Soprano:
Elizabeth Lane
Tenor:
Mark Tucker
Tenor:
Nigel Robson
Baritone:
Richard Jackson
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Leader:
Elizabeth Wilcock
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Monteverdi Vespers

PARIKIAN/FLEMING/ROBERTS TRIO Manoug Parikian (violin) Amaryllis Fleming (cello) Bernard Roberts (piano)
Spohr Piano Trio No 2 in F. Op 123 (first UK broadcast) Onslow Piano Trio in E flat, Op 14/2 (first UK broadcast)

Contributors

Cello:
Amaryllis Fleming
Piano:
Bernard Roberts

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