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Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/
LORIN MAAEEL
7.25* Gershwin Two songs:
Love walked in; Love is here to stay
JESSYE NORMAN (soprano) BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA! JOHN WILLIAMS (piano)
7.31* Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
LSO/SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
7.41* Prokofiev Suite:
The Love for Three Oranges LOS ANGELES PO;
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
8.0 News
8.5 Sibelius Incidental Music: Pelleas and Melisande, Op 46 BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN
8.37* Falla Ritual Fire Dance (ElAmorBrujo)
PITTSBURGH SO ANDRE PREVIN
8.41* Bach Concerto in D minor (BWV 1043)
JAAP SCHRODER (violin)
CHRISTOPHER HIRONS (violin)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD records

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorin Maaeel
Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Piano:
John Williams
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood

Emmanuel Chabrier
Overture: Gwendoline
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
ARMIN JORDAN
Sous-bois; Mauresque; Idylle; Danse villageoise
(Dix pieces pittoresques) RICHARD MCMAHON (piano) Credo d'amour
BRUNO LAPLANTE (tenor) JANINE LACHANCE (piano) Improvisation: Menuet pompeux; Scherzo-valse (Dix pieces pittoresques) RICHARD MCMAHON (piano) Rhapsody: Espana
PHILHARMONIA/KARAJAN records

Contributors

Unknown:
Emmanuel Chabrier
Unknown:
Armin Jordan
Tenor:
Bruno Laplante
Piano:
Janine Lachance

Respighi Three Botticelli Pictures
ACADEMY OF ST MARTININ THE-FIELDS/
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Liszt Sposalizio ; Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Annees de pelerinage, second year) WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
Martinu Frescoes of Piero della Francesca PRAGUE RADIO SO;
SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Liszt Sposalizio
Unknown:
Salvator Rosa
Piano:
Wilhelm Kempff
Piano:
Martinu Frescoes
Unknown:
Sir Charles MacKerras

The second of 13 programmes of instrumental music for the Restoration stage, including
Henry Purcell 's 13 suites in the 1697 posthumous collection anon Mustapha, Son of Solymon the Magnificent
Purcell Amphitryon or, The Two Sosias
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directed by ROY GOODMAN and PETER HOLMAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Purcell
Unknown:
Purcell Amphitryon
Directed By:
Roy Goodman
Directed By:
Peter Holman

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Scriabin Sonata No 2. in G sharp minor (Sonata-fantasia)
Chopin Nocturne in c sharp minor. Op 27 No 1
Frank Martin Eight Preludes (Tickets from: Ticket Unit BBC, Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chopin Nocturne

DAPHNE ARLOW (mezzo-soprano) PHILIP HAMMOND (piano) ULSTER ORCHESTRA leader RICHARD HOWARTH conducted by COLMAN PEARCE Charles Wood Overture: Much Ado about Nothing
Gurney, orch Finzi Four songs for voice and strings Raymond Warren Wexford Bells
Poulenc La courte paille
Biisser Suite funambulesque BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Daphne Arlow
Piano:
Philip Hammond
Leader:
Richard Howarth
Conducted By:
Colman Pearce
Conducted By:
Charles Wood
Unknown:
Biisser Suite

direct from Wells Cathedral Introit: All this time (Walton) Responses: Leighton
Psalms: 108 and 109 (Randall, Cooper, Goss, Bairstow) First Lesson: Ezekiel 13, vv I- 16 (RSV)
Office Hymn: Most holy Lord and God of heaven (EH 60) Canticles: Second Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24, vv 29-35 (RSV)
Anthem: A spotless rose (Howells)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord's anointed! (EH 45)
Organ voluntary: Finale (Symphony No 6) (Widor) Organist and Master of the choristers ANTHONY CROSSLAND Assistant organist CHRISTOPHER BRAYNE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Organist:
Christopher Brayne

Introduced by Jon Curie
Vanhal Concerto in F, for two bassoons and orchestra
ANNIKA WALLIN and ARNE NILSSON (bassoons)
UMEASINFONIETTA/
JUKKAPEKKA SARASTE record
Schubert Freiwilliges
Versenken: Aus Heliopolis; Fischerweise
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) (R)
Szymanowski String Quartet No 2
VARSOVIA STRING QUARTET Chopin 12 Studies, Op 10 MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
Spohr Clarinet Concerto No 3, in F minor
KARL LEISTER (clarinet)
STUTTGART RADIO SO/
RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS records
(Requests to: Midweek Choice BBC. Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jon Curie
Unknown:
Annika Wallin
Bassoons:
Arne Nilsson
Unknown:
Jukkapekka Saraste
Unknown:
Schubert Freiwilliges
Piano:
Benjamin Britten
Piano:
Maurizio Pollini

The third often programmes reflecting amateur choral singing
DONALD HUNT SINGERS conductor DONALD HUNT Howells Inheritance
Julius Harrison The dark forest Howells The scribe
Julius Harrison Merry miller; Song of the plough
Walton Where does the uttered music go? BBC Bristol

Contributors

Singers:
Donald Hunt
Conductor:
Donald Hunt
Conductor:
Howells Inheritance
Conductor:
Julius Harrison

by DAVID POWNALL
Music arranged by JOHN WHITE
After the Second World War music played a vital part in the regeneration of the Soviet Union.
Prokofiev and Shostakovich are summoned to a private meeting with Stalin to discuss the kind of music he wants.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
●FEATURE: page 78

Contributors

Unknown:
David Pownall
Arranged By:
John White
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Stalin:
Timothy West
Zhdanov:
Jonathan Adams
Prokofiev:
Peter Kelly
Shostakovich:
David Bamber

John McCabe (piano)
Mozart Sonata in B flat (K 570) Frank Bridge April; Heart's ease: A sea idyll; Rosemary; Capriccio No 1, in A minor Haydn Sonata in c minor (h xvi 20)
(Given earlier this evening in Studio 7. Manchester. Ticket details from BBC Concerts Promotion, PO Box 2 Manchester M60 1SJ)

Contributors

Piano:
John McCabe
Unknown:
Haydn Sonata

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