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Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London town), Op 40 SNO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON Handel Trio-Sonata in F, Op2No4
MAURICE BOURGUE (oboe) HEINZ HOLLIGER (oboe)
KLAUS THUNEMANN (bassoon)
CHRISTIANE JACCOTTET (harpsichord)
Rubbra Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTAI
HANS-HUBERT SCHONZELER Farnaby, arr Howarth
Fancies, Toyes and Dreames GUY TOUVRON BRASS ENSEMBLE Bax Symphonic Poem: The Garden of Fand
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/
BRYDEN THOMSON
Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49
JANET CRAXTON (oboe)
Britten Calypso
(Four Cabaret Songs)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) ROGER VIGNOLES (piano)
Gershwin A Cuban Overture LSO/ANDRÉ PREVIN
Bernstein America (West Side Story)
ANGELINA REAUX (soprano) STELLA ZAUBOLIS (soprano) BROADWAY ORCHESTRA/ THE COMPOSER'
Copland El salon Mexico
DETROIT SO/ANTAL DORATi: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alexander Gibson
Unknown:
Handel Trio-Sonata
Oboe:
Maurice Bourgue
Bassoon:
Klaus Thunemann
Harpsichord:
Christiane Jaccottet
Mezzo-Soprano:
Sarah Walker
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Soprano:
Angelina Reaux
Soprano:
Stella Zaubolis

with Paul Vaughan
Building a Library: Faure's Requiem by John Steane. Geoffrey Norris on recent piano records.
New chamber music releases reviewed by Robert Henderson. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
John Steane.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Norris
Reviewed By:
Robert Henderson.
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Schubert Fantasia in F minor (D 940)
MURRAY PERAHIA and RADU LUPU (piano duet)
Liszt Valse oubliée No 4; La lugubre gondola (first version) (G200)
MICHELE CAMPANELLA (piano) Busoni Toccata
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate letters)
TALICH STRING QUARTET: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Murray Perahia
Piano:
Radu Lupu
Unknown:
Liszt Valse
Piano:
Michele Campanella
Piano:
Busoni Toccata
Piano:
Alfred Brendel

conducted by Leonard Slatkin Emanuel Ax (piano)
Last of three programmes Brahms Variations on the St Anthony chorale, Op 56a Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony
12.15* pm Interval Reading
12.20* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G (NPR recording) (R)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leonard Slatkin
Piano:
Emanuel Ax

Third of seven programmes Gluck Overture: Iphigenia inAulis
VIENNA PO
Beethoven Romance in F, Op 50, for violin and orchestra YEHUDI MENUHIN
PHILHARMONIA
Wolf Four songs: Im Fruhling-In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Mogen alle bose Zungen; Wiegenlied im Sommer
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano) WILHELM FURTWANGLER (piano)
Furtwangler Symphony No 2 BERLIN po mono records

Contributors

Piano:
Wilhelm Furtwangler

Benedict Nightingale
(m the Chair) talks with John McEwen. Helen McNeil and Jeremy Treglown. This week's subjects:
The Oven Glove Murders by Nick Darke at the Bush Theatre, London; Man and Music:
Composer and Court, a four-part series (Channel 4, Sunday);
Hugh Hudson 's film Revolution; a retrospective exhibition of work by Julian Trevelyan at Watennans Arts Centre,
Brentford; E.L. Doctorow's novel World's Fair.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
John McEwen.
Unknown:
Helen McNeil
Unknown:
Jeremy Treglown.
Unknown:
Nick Darke
Unknown:
Hugh Hudson
Unknown:
Julian Trevelyan

A nine-day exploration of some of the artistic responses to the social conflicts of the Weimar Republic opens with a work which popularly symbolises them
The Threepenny Opera
A play with music in a prologue and three acts, after
The Beggar's Opera by JOHN GAY Music by Kurt Weill
Words by BERTOLT BRECHT sung in the English translation by RALPH MANHEM and JOHN WILLETT with and Polly's songs sung by ELAINE PADMORE
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by MARCUS DODS Coach NEIL RHODEN
Technical presentation PETER NOVIS MARTIN PAGE and PETER SIDHOM Producers IAN COTTERELL and ELAINE PADMORE (R) Acts land 2

Contributors

Music By:
Kurt Weill
Translation By:
Ralph Manhem
Translation By:
John Willett
Sung By:
Elaine Padmore
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Unknown:
Peter Novis
Producers:
Ian Cotterell
Producers:
Elaine Padmore
Polly Peachum and Dolly:
Sarah Badel
Macheath:
Paul Bentley
Mr Peachum:
Harold Kasket
Low-dive Jenny:
Julia McKenzie
Mrs Peachum:
Johanna Peters
Tiger Brown:
Peter Pratt
Lucy Brown:
Jan Waters
Narrator:
John Hollis
Ballad singer/Jimmy/Smith:
Roderick Horn
Filch:
Andrew Branch
Matthew:
John Hollis
Jake:
Bill Monks
Bob:
Roy Spencer
Ned:
Manning Wilson
Walter:
Philip Voss
The Rev Kimball:
Peter Williams
Vixen:
Heather Bell
Betty:
Rachel Cook
Old whore:
Hilda Kriseman

Last of three programmes Soler Sonata in D minor
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) Granados Two Tonadillas
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOpranO) ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) Albeniz Cantos de Espana ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
Montsalvatge Three Canciones negras
MONTSERRAT CABALLE (soprano) ALEXIS WEISSENBERG (piano)
Mompou Cancons i dansas, Nos2and3 AUCIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
Mompou Aquesta nit un mateix vent (Combat del somni)
Obradors Del cabello mas sutil JOSE CARRERAS (tenor)
MARTIN KATZ (piano): records

Contributors

Unknown:
Soler Sonata
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha
Soprano:
Montserrat Caballe
Piano:
Alexis Weissenberg
Piano:
Mompou Aquesta
Piano:
Martin Katz

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