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Strauss Two orchestral songs: Morgen;
Cacilie JESSYE NORMAN (soprano)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/ KURTMASUR
Handel Concerto a due cori No 3, in F
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/ JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Schumann Andante and Variations
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano) MALCOLM FRAGER (piano) AMARYLLIS FLEMING (cello) TERENCE WEIL (cello)
BARRY TUCKWELL (horn)
Haydn Horn Concerto No 1, in D BARRY TUCKWELL
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS/ SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Brahms Three vocal quartets, Op 64
EDITH MATHIS (soprano)
BRIGITTE FASSBAENDER (meZZO-SOp) PETER SCHREIER (tenor)
DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU (bar) KARL ENGEL (piano)
Shostakovich The Assault on Beautiful Gorky (The
Unforgettable Year 1919) DMITRI ALEXEEV (piano) ECO/JERZY MAKSYMIUK
Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No 1, in E minor
USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV records

Contributors

Soprano:
Cacilie Jessye Norman
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soloists:
Schumann Andante
Piano:
Malcolm Frager
Cello:
Terence Weil
Horn:
Barry Tuckwell
Unknown:
Barry Tuckwell
Unknown:
Sir Neville Marriner
Soprano:
Edith Mathis
Soprano:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Tenor:
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Piano:
Karl Engel
Piano:
Dmitri Alexeev

Haydn Sonata in D (H xvi 37) JULIA CLOAD (piano)
Weber Concertino in E flat, Op 26
SABINE MEYER (clarinet)
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA/
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT
Stravinsky Sonata (1924) MARIA YUDINA (piano)
Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA WIND ENSEMBLE directed by CHRISTOPHER WARREN-GREEN Beethoven Sonata in c, Op 53 (Waldstein)
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano): records

Contributors

Unknown:
Haydn Sonata
Piano:
Julia Cload
Clarinet:
Sabine Meyer
Unknown:
Herbert Blomstedt
Piano:
Maria Yudina
Directed By:
Christopher Warren-Green
Piano:
Claudio Arrau

A programme of Italian instrumental music including works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Buonamente, Marini and Fontana
LA FONTEGARA. AMSTERDAM Peter Holtslag (recorder) Saskia Coolen (recorder) Han Tol (recorder)
With RICHARD BOOTHBY (viola da gamba) and TIMOTHY ROBERTS (chamber organ) (R)

Contributors

Viola:
Richard Boothby
Viola:
Timothy Roberts

conducted by Klaus Tennstedt Elmar Oliveira (violin) Third of eight concerts
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1, in G minor, Op 26
11.45* Interval Reading
11.50* Bruckner
Symphony No 7, in E
(WFMTrecording.overseasbroadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Cigna Worldwide Inc)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Klaus Tennstedt

Levon Chilingirian (violin) Mark Butler (violin) Csaba Erdelyi (viola)
Philip De Groote (cello)
Mozart Quartet in D (K 499)
Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor Qp44No2
(Given on 29 April at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, in association with the Rodewald Concert Society) . BBC Manchester

Contributors

Violin:
Levon Chilingirian
Violin:
Mark Butler
Viola:
Csaba Erdelyi

Opera in three acts by Janacek after the drama by GABRIELA PREISSOVA (sung in Czech) mono records (1952)
Jaroslav Vogel conducts.... a performance which wonderfully blends and contrasts the mixed elements of the score - its lyricism, drama, melodrama and rhythmical impetus.
Stepanka Jelinkova 'Jenufa' remains the loveliest I have heard. In that memorable artist Beno Blachut the part ofLaca finds its ideal interpreter.
(MICHAEL KENNEDY.
Opera on Record 2)
PRAGUE NATIONAL THEATRE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA/JAROSLAV VOGEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jaroslav Vogel
Unknown:
Stepanka Jelinkova
Artist:
Beno Blachut
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy.

Last of three programmes in which Colin Tudge explores recent changes in how human evolution is viewed. Time and Chance
Far from being predestined for greatness, human beings seem to have been shaped piecemeal, not least by a change in the weather.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Alison Richards

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Andras Schiff (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, leaders Marieke Blankestijn and Mathias Ungenfelder, conducted by Claudio Abbado

Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Mozart Piano Concerto No 9, in E flat (K 271)

Contributors

Pianist:
Andras Schiff
Musicians:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Orchestra leader:
Marieke Blankestijn
Orchestra leader:
Matthias Ungenfelder
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

Last of five programmes
Foreign visitors' impressions of the English in the earlier years of the 20th century
Compiled by BARRY CARMAN with Gwen Cherrell
Hugh Dickson ,David March Stephen Thome and John Westbrook
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Gwen Cherrell
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Stephen Thome
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Alan Haydock

Working the Fields
First of four programmes in which John Franklyn-Robbins reads VIRGIL'S poem about the arts of agriculture and the arts of peace in the translation by ROBERT WELLS
Music by MICHAEL BALL Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Translation By:
Robert Wells
Music By:
Michael Ball
Producer:
Fraser Steel

BORIS CARMEU (bass)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)
Tchaikovsky I met you at the ball, Op 38 No 3; The night, Op 60 No 9; Don Giovanni's serenade, Op 38 No 1
Grechaninov Death, Op 15 No 2; My fatherland, Op 1 No 4; Lullaby, Op 1 No 5 GUnka The doubt
Glazunov Oriental romance, Op 27 No 2
Mussorgsky Song of the old man; Serenade and Trepak
(Songs and Dances of Death) Bogaslavsky In the obscurity of the night
Russian gypsy song Dark eyes
BBCBirmingham

Contributors

Bass:
Boris Carmeu
Piano:
John Constable

Charles Fox introduces the fourth of 11 recordings from the 1985 International Piano Event at Pendley Manor, Tring, Herts. Jaki Byard
The American musician plays his own 'Family suite' and 'Hollis stomp', as well as 'Take five' by Paul Desmond and several pieces by Duke Ellington.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Desmond

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