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Handel, arr Elgar Overture in D minor PITTSBURG SO/PREVIN
Donizetti Miserere
JULIA PASZTHY (soprano) ZSOLT BENDE (baritone)
SLOVAK PHILHARMONIC CHORUS SLOVAK PO/JOZSEF MAKLARI
Bernstein Symphony No 2 (The Age of Anxiety)
LUKAS FOSS (piano)
ISRAEL PO/THE COMPOSER records

Contributors

Baritone:
Zsolt Bende

A magazine programme about the music and musicians in this year's Promenade concerts.
Members of the percussion group NEXUS discuss their extensive repertoire and MURRAY PERAHIA talks about playing and directing Mozart piano concertos; STEPHEN WALSH introduces the music of Gyorgy Kurtag; and an interview with THOMAS WILSON.
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Talks:
Murray Perahia
Introduces:
Stephen Walsh
Unknown:
Thomas Wilson.
Presented By:
Nicholas Kenyon
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

(baritone)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
Faure Automne , Op 18 No 3; Les berceaux, Op 23 No 1; L'horizon chimérique
Delius Four Verlaine Songs; Four Nietzche Songs
1.30* Interval Reading
1.35* Shostakovich Suite on poems of Michelangelo, Op 145 BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Graham Johnson
Piano:
Faure Automne
Unknown:
Shostakovich Suite

The Capital of Music?
Presented by Michael Oliver with contributions from
IRMGARD SEEFRIED , OTTO BIBA, H. K. GRUBER , H. C. ROBBINS LANDON , LORIN MAAZEL , OTTO STRASSER , HEINZ ZEDNIK and others
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD (First broadcast in 'Music Weekly')

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Irmgard Seefried
Unknown:
H. K. Gruber
Unknown:
H. C. Robbins Landon
Unknown:
Lorin Maazel
Unknown:
Otto Strasser
Unknown:
Heinz Zednik
Producer:
Graham Sheffield

by TERENCE HARDS
James Grimling lived his life sticking to the rules and feeling that there was no freedom of choice for him. But you can still make choices right up to the end - if you have the courage.
Directed by JANE MORGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Hards
Unknown:
James Grimling
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
as James Grimling with:
Harry Andrews
Dolly Grimling:
Rosalind Ayres
Lorna Wainwright:
Janet Dale
Jan Peeble:
Pauline Siddle
Mrs Clements:
Christine Hargreaves
Mrs Brown:
Maggie McCarthy
Capt Tobias:
Bruce Purchase
Quack Cargill:
Jon Strickland
Patients:
Margot Boyd,
Patients:
Mark Jones
Patients:
Michael Goldie

(died 19 August 1944)
Handel Lift up your heads (Messiah)
CHOIR and ORCHESTRA of the CRYSTAL PALACE HANDEL FESTIVAL Bach Brandenburg Concerto
No 3 in G (BWV 1048): BRITISH so Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music: ELSIE SUDDABY ,
STILES ALLEN , ISOBEL BAILLIE, EVA TURNER (sopranos), MARGARET BALFOUR ,
ASTRA DESMOND, MURIEL BRUNSKILL , MARY JARRED (contraltos), HEDDLE NASH , WALTER WIDDOP , FRANK
TITTERTON, PARRY JONES (tenors), ROY HENDERSON , ROBERT EASTON , HAROLD WILLIAMS , NORMAN ALUN (basses) BBC so Dvorak Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8
NEW QUEEN'S HALL ORCHESTRA mono: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Handel Lift
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams Serenade
Music:
Elsie Suddaby
Unknown:
Stiles Allen
Sopranos:
Margaret Balfour
Unknown:
Muriel Brunskill
Contraltos:
Heddle Nash
Contraltos:
Walter Widdop
Tenors:
Roy Henderson
Tenors:
Robert Easton
Tenors:
Harold Williams

Mikhail Kopelman (violin) Andrei Abramenkov (violin) Dmitry Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello)
Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D Prokofiev String Quartet No 2, Op 92
10.35* Interval Reading
10.40* Shostakovich String
Quartet No 8 in c minor, Op 110 (Given during the 1984 Cheltenham International Festival of Music) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Violin:
Mikhail Kopelman
Violin:
Andrei Abramenkov
Viola:
Dmitry Shebalin
Cello:
Valentin Berlinsky

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