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Wagner Overture: Die
Meistersinger von Niirnberg Mendelssohn , transc Liszt
Wedding March; Dream of the Elves (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Dvorak Mazurka in E minor, Op 49
Satie Gnossienne No 1
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2, Op 40
Tchaikovsky Entr'acte (The Sleeping Beauty) Rachmaninov Prelude in g minor, Op 23 No 5
Sibelius Lemminkamen's Return
Tchaikovsky Tatiana's Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin )
Herold, arr Lanchbery La fille mal gardee: Act 2: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Niirnberg Mendelssohn
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Stravinsky's Symphony in c by Stephen Walsh ; new records of chamber music reviewed by Roger Nichols ; and Gordon Reynolds on recent organ records.
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Stephen Walsh
Reviewed By:
Roger Nichols
Reviewed By:
Gordon Reynolds
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Brahms Cello Sonata No 1, in E minor, Op 38
STEVEN ISSERLIS (Cello) PETER EVANS (piano)
Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm
SIMON PRESTON (organ of Westminster Abbey): records

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Evans
Piano:
Reubke Sonata
Unknown:
Simon Preston

ALISON PEARCE (soprano) ALISON HARGAN (soprano)
VANESSA WILLIAMSON (mezzo-sop) LAURENCE DALE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER UNDERWOOD (baritone)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by SYLVAIN CAMBRELING Debussy Scene lyrique: L'enfant prodigue
11.50* Interval Reading
11.55* Ravel
Cantata: Alcyone
(first UK performance) Cantata: Alyssa
(first UK broadcast)
(Given during the 1985 Cheltenham InternationalFestivalofMusicin association with Gulf Oil (Great Britain) Limited) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Soprano:
Alison Pearce
Soprano:
Alison Hargan
Tenor:
Laurence Dale
Baritone:
Christopher Underwood
Conducted By:
Sylvain Cambreling

A celebration of Czech music in nine programmes, featuring the nine symphonies of Dvorak Karel Komzak (junior) Waltz: Mein Baden
Dvorak Symphony No 1, in c minor (The Bells of Zlonice) CZECH PO/VACLAV NEUMANN Karel Bendi Boabdil's
Recitative and Arioso (Lejla, Act 3) ivan KUSNJER (baritone)
PRAGUE RADIO SO/LIBOR PESEK
Frantisek Skroup Trio in E flat, Op 27
FELIX SLOVACEK (clarinet) VACLAV JIROVEC (cello) ALES BILEK (piano)
Smetana Crowd Scene in Prague (The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, Act 1)
BOHUMIR VICH (tenor)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF PRAGUE
NATIONAL THEATRE/JAN HUS TICHY
Giovanni Punto Horn Concerto No 5, in F: BARRY TUCKWELL
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/ SIR NEVILLE MARRINER : records
Janacek Wind Sextet: Mladi (Youth)
NASH ENSEMBLE (R)
Martinu Symphony No 5 (mono) CZECH PO/KAREL ANCERL: record Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dvorak Karel Komzak
Unknown:
Mein Baden
Cello:
Vaclav Jirovec
Unknown:
Barry Tuckwell
Unknown:
Sir Neville Marriner
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

John Elsom (in the Chair) talks with John Carey , Marina Vaizey and Margaret Walters. This week's subjects:
Susan Seidelman 's film
Desperately Seeking Susan; Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn at the Royal Court Theatre, London; the Radio 4 Monday Play Johnson over Jordan by J. B. Priestley ; Pound's Artists at the Tate Gallery, London; Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
John Elsom
Unknown:
John Carey
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey
Unknown:
Margaret Walters.
Unknown:
Susan Seidelman
Unknown:
Wallace Shawn
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Mark Girouard.

Newly-discovered Chorale
Preludes by J. S. Bach , found in Yale Manuscript LM4708 by Christoph Wolff and played in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, by GILLIAN WEIR.
NICHOLAS DANBY and JOHN SCOTT (first UK performances)

Contributors

Unknown:
J. S. Bach
Unknown:
Christoph Wolff
Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
Gillian Weir.
Unknown:
Nicholas Danby
Unknown:
John Scott

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) Ameral Gunson (mezzo-sop) Adrian Martin (tenor)
Henry Herford (baritone) Shura Cherkassky (piano) BBC Singers chorus-master SIMON JOLY BBC Symphony Chorus director GARETH MORRELL
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Vernon Handley Parti
Hoist A Fugal Overture
Gershwin Piano Concerto Walton Gloria
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 See also page 24
0 HEAR THIS! page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ameral Gunson
Tenor:
Adrian Martin
Baritone:
Henry Herford
Piano:
Shura Cherkassky
Chorus-Master:
Simon Joly
Director:
Gareth Morrell
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conducted By:
Vernon Handley
Unknown:
Walton Gloria

What we had in common was a feeling shared by all ambitious Young provincials, that of living virtually in disguise in their own homeland.
A memoir by DAN JACOBSON , the South African-born novelist, of a chance meeting in his native Kimberley which was decisively, if unwittingly, to affect his life.
Reader Nigel Hawthorne Producer LOUISE PURSLOW (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dan Jacobson
Reader:
Nigel Hawthorne
Producer:
Louise Purslow

Part 2 Sousa March:
The Stars and Stripes Forever Bliss Five Dances from
Checkmate: Dance of the four Knights; Entry of the Black
Queen; Red Knight's mazurka; Ceremony of the Red Bishops; Finale: Checkmate
Arne Rule Britannia!
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, in 0 major
Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC1 See also page 24

The fourth of six programmes BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE
THOMAS TROTTER (organ)
Harris Faire is the heaven Hoist This have I done for my true love
Howells Sequence for St Michael
Wood Hail, gladdening light Finzi Welcome sweet and sacred feast
Harris Bring us. 0 Lord God BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Conductor:
John Poole
Conductor:
Thomas Trotter

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