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MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT
7.13* Krommer Octet in E flat,
Op 69: NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE
7.31* Edward Lear Home they brought her warrior dead; As through the sad land at eve we went
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
GARETH MORELL (piano)
7.36* Massenet Scenes dramatiques: MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
8.0 News
8.5 Sibelius Six Humoresques, Op 87 Nos 1 and 2; Op 89 Nos 1-4 RALPH HOLMES (violin)
BERLIN RSO/VERNON HANDLEY
8.26* William Alwyn Four Fantasy-Waltzes
JOHN OGDON (piano)
8.35* Strauss Symphonic Fantasy (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
DETROIT SO/ANTAL DORATI: records

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Lear
Piano:
Gareth Morell
Unknown:
Monte Carlo
Unknown:
Eliot Gardiner
Violin:
Ralph Holmes

RALPH HOLMES (violin)
RICHARD BURNETT (fortepiano) Introduction, Theme and Variations, Op 102
JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA/
VOLKER WANGENHEIM
Halleluja (mono) rosette ANDAY (mezzo-soprano) HERBERT DAWSON (Organ) Mandolin Concerto in G
ANDRE SAINT CUVIER
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: records

Contributors

Violin:
Ralph Holmes
Unknown:
Volker Wangenheim
Mezzo-Soprano:
Herbert Dawson

A weekly series of recitals given by artists of the younger generation direct from the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
Timothy Wilson (counter-tenor) Christopher Kite (harpsichord) Pelham Humfrey A Hymne to God the Father
Paul Andrew Parkinson Three Donne songs
Purcell Fairest isle; From rosy bow'rs
Robert Johnson Full fathom five; Where the bee sucks Tippett Songs for Ariel
(Given before a studio audience. Tickets from: Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW)

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Christopher Kite
Harpsichord:
Pelham Humfrey
Unknown:
Paul Andrew Parkinson
Unknown:
Robert Johnson Full

At the end of the 60s this
American tenor saxophonist took a second long break from performing and recording, during which he travelled and studied. In the sixth of seven programmes Richard Cook introduces records that he made when he returned to the studio in 1972, including
'The everywhere calypso', 'To a wild rose' and 'My one and only love'.

Contributors

Introduces:
Richard Cook

ULSTER ORCHESTRA conducted by HILARY DA VAN WETTON EWAN EASTON (tuba)
MICHAEL MCGUFFIN (piano)
Sterndale Bennett Overture: The Naiads
George Butterworth Two English Idylls
Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto in F minor
Britten Soirees musicales

Contributors

Conducted By:
Hilary Da van Wetton
Conducted By:
Ewan Easton
Piano:
Sterndale Bennett
Unknown:
George Butterworth

direct from the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford Preces (Victoria)
Office hymn: Tristes erant Apostoli (Victoria)
Psalms: 110 (Tone I) (Victoria); 111 (Tone VII) (Rore); 112 (Tone VTO(Rore)
First lesson: I Samuel 16, w l-13a (Rsv)
Antiphon: Sancti etjusti (ModeVOT)
Magnificat (Tone VOT) (Lassus) Second lesson: Acts 1, w 15-17, 20-26 (Rsv)
Antiphon: Salva nos (Mode VIII) Nunc Dimittis (Tone VuT) (Victoria)
Responses (Plainsong)
Anthem: Cantate Domino
(Schutz); Antiphon: Regina coeli (Solemn tone)
Informator Choristarum
DR JOHN HARPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Informator Choristarum
Unknown:
Dr John Harper

Introduced by Jon Curie
Delius Sleigh Ride RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Onslow Grand Septet in B flat STALDER SEPTET records
Blacher Music for Cleveland COLOGNE RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE szell (R)
Weber Leise, leise (Der Freischiitz) (mono) LJUBA WELITSCH (soprano)
PHILHARMONIA/WALTER SUSSKIND
George Lloyd Symphony No 5 PHILHARMONIA/EDWARD DOWNES
records

Artists give their first recital on Radio 3.
SYDNA WrrmNGTON (mezzo-soprano)
MARGARET BROWNBRIDGE (piano) Tchaikovsky Six Songs, Op 6: Do not believe, my friend; Not a word, my friend; Both painful and sweet; A tear trembles;
Why?; None but the lonely heart Two Songs, Op 47: 0 sleep, my suffering friend (No 4); Was I not a blade of grass? (No 7) (sung in Russian) BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Margaret Brownbridge

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by Louis Fremaux Michel Dalberto (piano) Peter Hurford (organ) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Parti
Bizet Overture, Patrie Satie , orch Debussy
Gymnopedies: No 1 in D; No 3 in A minor d'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Song, Op 25

Contributors

Leader:
Brendan O'Brien
Conducted By:
Louis Fremaux
Piano:
Michel Dalberto
Piano:
Peter Hurford
Unknown:
Patrie Satie

by CHRISTINA REID
Read by Kate Binchy
'He was a head-the-ball, a daftie, a not-quite-right-in-the-head-God-help-him. He stood on the edge of the wasteground staring up at our kites with his lustreless blue eyes and whispered "Pretty....kite.... pretty....kite....'"
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christina Reid
Read By:
Kate Binchy
Producer:
Alfred Bradley

BBC Radio 3

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