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Walton Overture: Scapino LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
Debussy, orch Busser Petite Suite
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA/
ERNEST ANSERMET
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, Op 102: NYpo directed by LEONARD BERNSTEIN (piano)
Ravel Ballet: Ma mere l'oye MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT
Britten Four French Songs (1928) JILL GOMEZ (soprano) CBSO/SIMON RATTLE
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Lecoqd'or SNO/NEEME JARVI: records

Contributors

Piano:
Leonard Bernstein
Soprano:
Jill Gomez

with Paul Vaughan Building a Library:
Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3, in G (K 216) by Lionel Salter. John Steane reviews recent opera recordings: Handel's Atalanta; Mozart's
Don Giovanni , Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and Lucio Silla. Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Lionel Salter.
Unknown:
John Steane
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Lucio Silla.
Producer:
Anthony Cheevers

Sibelius The Swan ofTuonela
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE.
FIELDS/SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Sibelius Cantata: Oma maa (Our Native Land)
HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CHOIR
HELSINKI PO/PAAVO BERGLUND
Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 3, in c major
USSR NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/ EVGENY SVETLANOV : records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Evgeny Svetlanov

GOTHIC VOICES directed by CHRISTOPHER PAGE (harp)
Music from the time of Joan of Arc, including rondeaux by Guillaume Dufay , motets honouring the Virgin by English composers, and an acrostic complaint by Hugo de Lantins (Given on 11 February in the Turner Sims Hall , Southampton University) BBCBristol

Contributors

Directed By:
Christopher Page
Unknown:
Guillaume Dufay
Unknown:
Turner Sims Hall

Reconstructions of the concert programmes in which the nine symphonies were first performed
Queen's Hall, 26 January 1922 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6, in B flat (BWV 1051)
LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony
NEW PHILHARMONIA/SIR ADRIAN BOULT Wolf Italian Serenade (mono)
PHILHARMONIA/SIR ADRIAN BOULT records
Edgar Bainton Concerto Fantasia: (first broadcast) HAMISH MILNE (piano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE Wagner Overture:
The Flying Dutchman
LPO/SIR ADRIAN BOULT: record

Contributors

Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Edgar Bainton
Piano:
Hamish Milne
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence

JOHN MCCABE (piano) Ravel Sonatine
Richard Rodney Bennett
(born 29 March 1936) Noctuary (Variations on a theme of Scott Joplin ) (first UK performance) (Given at the 1985 Harrogate
International Festival in association with Hazleton Laboratories Europe Ltd) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Piano:
John McCabe
Piano:
Ravel Sonatine
Piano:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Scott Joplin

J. W. Lambert (in the Chair) talks with Peter Ackroyd , Michael Coveney and Marina Vaizey.
This week's subjects:
Shergar, a television play by Bill Morrison on BBC2; Peter Smith 's film No Surrender;
Alfred Gilbert : Sculptor of Eros at the Royal Academy, London; Made in Bangkok by Anthony Minghella at the Aldwych
Theatre, London; Hemingway by Jeffrey Meyers and Along With Youth: Hemingway the Early Years by Peter Griffin. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Contributors

Unknown:
W. Lambert
Unknown:
Peter Ackroyd
Unknown:
Michael Coveney
Unknown:
Marina Vaizey.
Play By:
Bill Morrison
Unknown:
Peter Smith
Unknown:
Alfred Gilbert
Unknown:
Anthony Minghella
Unknown:
Jeffrey Meyers
Unknown:
Peter Griffin.
Producer:
Philip French

Oratorio in two parts
PATRiziA KWELLA (soprano) ROGERS covey-crump (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC conducted by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
8.30* Interval Reading
8.35* Part 2
(Given in October 1985 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Elizabeth Hall.

with Sarah Walker (mezzo-sop)
Peter Maxwell Davies Seven in nomine, for wind quintet, string quartet and harp
John Buller Of Three Shakespeare Sonnets, for voice, flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp (first performance) conducted by Lionel Friend
10.0* Interval Reading
10.5* Chausson Chanson perpetuelle, for voice, string quartet and piano
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
(Given in June 1985 in the Wigmore Hall, London)

Contributors

Mezzo-soprano:
Sarah Walker
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Harp:
John Buller
Conducted By:
Lionel Friend

Last of five programmes
Rameau Acte de ballet (Pygmalion)
Libretto by BALLOT DE SOVOT
CHOIR OF THE PARIS CHAPELLE ROYALE chorus-master PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE,
LA PETITE BANDE leader Sigiswald Kuijken conducted by GUSTAV LEONHARDT
(record)

Contributors

Chorus-master:
Philippe Herreweghe
Musicians:
La Petite Bande
Conducted By:
Gustav Leonhardt
Pygmalion:
John Elwes (tenor)
Cephise:
Mieke van der Sluis (soprano)
Statue:
Francoise Vanhecke (soprano)
Amour:
Rachel Yakar (soprano)

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