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The last of six programmes featuring records made by the Hungarian-bom conductor who died in March
Bach, arr Ormandy Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Brahms Alto Rhapsody (mono) MARIAN ANDERSON (contralto)
PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY CHORUS Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1, in F sharp minor (mono) THE COMPOSER (piano)
Chabrier Rhapsody: Espana PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA records

Contributors

Contralto:
Marian Anderson

Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante HALJN CZERNY STEFANSKA (piano)
WARSAW POIWITOLD ROWICKI Beethoven Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin)
HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (piano)
Haydn Clavier Concerto No 4, in G (HXVIII 4)
ILSE VON ALPENHEIM (piano) BAMBERG SOANTAL DORATI Tchaikovsky Prince Gremin's
Aria (Eugene Onegin) NIKOLAI GHlAUROV (baSS)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA/
SIR GEORG SOLTI
Borodin String Quartet No 2, in D
BORODIN STRING QUARTET records

Contributors

Unknown:
Chopin Andante Spianato
Unknown:
Haljn Czerny
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin

A conversation with Elliott Carter , whose 'Penthode' receives its first performance on Friday; Roger Wright considers the music of Roger Sessions; and interviews with two conductors, Sir John Pritchard, principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, principal conductor of the Halle Orchestra.
Presented by Nicholas Kenyon Producer RAY ABBOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
Elliott Carter
Unknown:
Roger Wright
Unknown:
Roger Sessions
Conductors:
Sir John Pritchard
Conductors:
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Presented By:
Nicholas Kenyon
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Opera in three acts, libretto by JOHANN FRIEDRICH KIND, music by Weber (sung in German)
DRESDEN STATE OPERA CHORUS DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/ WOLF-DETER HAUSCHILD
(East German Radio recording of the Production which re-opened Dresden's temper Opera last February) Act
3.20* Interval Reading
3.25* Act 2
4.10* Interval Reading
4.20* Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Friedrich

Michael Charlton in three conversations about the UN 2: An Apple for the Teacher
Conor Cruise O'Brien reflects on the use of UN troops in the Congo in September 1961. By whose authority did fighting begin? What were the consequences for the evolution of peace-keeping?
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Producer:
Louise Purslow

by TREVOR ROYLE
A dramatised impression of the thought and writing of James Kennaway , drawn from his novels, notebooks and letters.
Fiddle played by DEREK HOY Piper TOM SPEIRS
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Royle
Unknown:
James Kennaway
Played By:
Derek Hoy
Directed By:
Patrick Rayner
Kennaway:
Julian Glover
Mother:
Gwyneth Guthrie
Mary:
Isobel Gardner
Stephen/Officer:
Sandy Neilson
David/Adjutant:
David Ashton
Bun:
Mary Riggans
Belle:
Sheila Donald
Minister/Colonel/Mr Cox:
John Shedden

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists leader ELIZABETH WILCOCK conductor John Eliot Gardiner Parti Bach
Cantata No 50: Nun ist das Heil Cantata No 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden; Cantata No 55: Ich armer Mensch

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Soprano:
Michael Chance
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Leader:
Elizabeth Wilcock
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner

Music by American composers featured in this week's Proms Ives From the steeples and the mountains
AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET record
Sessions Concertino for chamber ensemble NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by Lionel FRIEND Carter In sleep, in thunder MARTYN HILL (tenor) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by Oliver KNUSSEN (Repeats)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lionel Friend
Conducted By:
Oliver Knussen

BBC Radio 3

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