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Bach Cantata No 67: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ ELLY AMEUNG (soprano) HELEN watts (contralto) WERNER KRENN (tenor) TOM KRAUSE (baritone)
PRO ARTE CHOIR OF LAUSANNE
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA/
ERNEST ANSERMET
Debussy, orch Ansermet Six epigraphes antiques BASLE SO/ARMIN JORDAN
Schumann Papillons, Op 2 MURRAY PERAHIA (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 92, in G (Oxford)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA/SIR COLIN DAVIS
Liszt Three Petrarch sonnets MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JA MES LOCKHART (piano)
Respighi Fountains of Rome BERLIN PO/HERBERT VON KARAJAN records

Contributors

Baritone:
Tom Krause

conducted by Riccardo Muti Alfred Brendel (piano)
Verdi Overture: Luisa Miller Copland Sympony No 3
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* pm Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 5, in E flat, Op 73 (Emperor)
(WFMT recording: overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Cigna Worldwide Inc)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Riccardo Muti
Piano:
Alfred Brendel

Opera in two acts
Libretto by E M FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER after the story by HERMAN MELVILLE
Music by Britten: records (1967) Britten 's direction of the opera ensures that we are hearing everything as it should be. It is, perhaps, the first full-length opera recording of which one can say it is as near perfection as can be. (ALEC ROBERTSON ,
Gramophone) (tenor) (bass) (baSS) (baritone) (baritone) (baritone) (tenor) (baritone) (baSS) (baSS) (tenor) (baritone) (baritone) (baritone) (baSS) (spoken role) (baritone)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LSO/THE COMPOSER
Prologue and Act 1
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Act 2 and Epilogue
(Britten 'Death in Venice 'canoe

Contributors

Unknown:
E M Forster
Unknown:
Eric Crozier
Story By:
Herman Melville
Unknown:
Alec Robertson
Edward Fairfax Vere:
Peter Pears
First mate:
Eric Garrett
Mr Flint, Sailing Master:
Bryan Drake
Bosun:
Delme Bryn-Jones
Donald, a sailor:
David Bowman
Maintop:
Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Novice:
Robert Tear (tenor)
Squeak, ship's corporal:
Robert Bowman
Mr Redbum, First Lieutenant:
John Shirley-Quirk
MrRatcliffe, Second Lieutenant:
David Kelly
John Claggart, Master-at-arms:
Michael Langdon
Red Whiskers, an impressedman:
Gregory Dempsey
Arthur Jones, an impressedman:
Geoffrey Coleby
Billy Budd, able seaman:
Peter Glossop
Novice's friend:
Benjamin Luxon
Dansker, an old seaman:
Owen Brannigan
Cabin boy:
James Newby
Gunner's mate:
David Read

First of a new season of weekly discussions on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurling (in the Chair) talks with John Carey, Robert Cushman and Helen McNeil.

This week's subjects:
Arthur Penn's film Target; paintings by Rabindranath Tagore and photographs by W. Eugene Smith at the Barbican Gallery; Anita Brookner's novel A Misalliance; Barnes' People III, an eight-part series by Peter Barnes on Radio 3; and The American Clock by Arthur Miller at the National Theatre.

Contributors

Chairman:
John Spurling
Panellist:
John Carey
Panellist:
Robert Cushman
Panellist:
Helen McNeil
Producer:
Philip French

Healey Willan Missa brevis No 10
TORONTO FESTIVAL SINGERS conducted by ELMER ISELER
Harry Somers Five songs for dark voice (1956)
MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto) NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA conducted by MARIO BERNARDI
Healey WiUan An apostrophe to the heavenly hosts (1921) TORONTO FESTIVAL SINGERS conducted by ELMER ISELER (Radio Canada International recordings)

Contributors

Unknown:
Healey Willan Missa
Conducted By:
Elmer Iseler
Conducted By:
Harry Somers
Conducted By:
Mario Bernardi
Conducted By:
Elmer Iseler

direct from the Royal Albert Hall , London Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Peter Eötvös Parti
Wagner A Faust Overture Bartok Scherzo, for piano and orchestra

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Leader:
Rodney Friend

The Beasts of the Field
The third of four programmes in which John Franklyn-Robbins reads virgil's poem in the translation by ROBERT WELLS Music by MICHAEL BALL Producer FRASER STEEL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Translation By:
Robert Wells
Music By:
Michael Ball
Producer:
Fraser Steel

Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata: Correa nel seno amato
Corelli Ciacona , Op 2 No 12 Rameau Plaisirs, doux vainqueurs (Hippolyte et
Aricie); Tout languis dans nos bois (La Ghirlande); Jeux et ris qui suivez mes traces (Pygmalion); Non, le plus grand empire
(La Princesse de Navarre) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) LONDON BAROQUE
Ingrid Seifert (violin) Richard Gwilt (violin) Charles Medlam (cello) William Hunt (violone)
John Toll (harpsichord/organ)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alessandro Scarlatti
Unknown:
Corelli Ciacona
Violin:
Ingrid Seifert
Violin:
Richard Gwilt
Cello:
Charles Medlam
Cello:
William Hunt

Charles Fox introduces the sixth of 11 recordings from the International Piano Event at the 1985 Pendley Manor Jazz
Festival, Tring, Hertfordshire. The Belgian musican
Fred Van Hove performs his own 'Alphabet'.

Contributors

Introduces:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Fred van Hove

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