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Faure Suite:
Pelleas et Melisande
ACADEMY OFSTMARTIN-IN-THEFIELDS/ sm NEVILLE MARRINER
7.22* Ibert Flute Concerto
JAMES GALWAY
RPO/CHARLES DUTOIT
7.42* Berlioz Overture: King Lear
SNO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.0 News
8.5 Bohm, arr Holman Suite in D
PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directed by ROY GOODMAN and PETER HOLMAN
8.19* Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp minor (H xv 26) BEAUX ARTS TRIO
8.37* Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, Op 56a LSO/EUGEN JOCHUM records

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Marriner
Directed By:
Roy Goodman
Unknown:
Peter Holman

Beethoven: Theatre Music
Today I shall listen to the opera rehearsal at a distance - better than being close by while my music is butchered....
(Letter to the opera singer
Friedrich Mayer , April 1806) Opferlied, Op 121b
LORNA HAYWOOD (soprano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LSO/MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Overture Leonora Fidelio , original version and Act III Finale
Don Fernando
HERMANN-CHRISTIAN POLLSTER (baSS) LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN/
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT : records

Contributors

Singer:
Friedrich Mayer
Soprano:
Lorna Haywood
Unknown:
Tilson Thomas
Unknown:
Overture Leonora Fidelio
Unknown:
Don Fernando
Unknown:
Herbert Blomstedt
Leonora:
Edda Moser (sop)
Marcelline:
Helen Donath (sop)
Florestan:
Richard Cassilly (tenor)
ROCCO:
Karl Ridderbusch (bass)

MARILYN DE BLIECK (mezzo-soprano)
ROGER VIGNOLES (piano) Vaughan Williams Four Last Songs Thomas Wilson
The Willow Branches
(first broadcast performance)
Maude Valerie White So we'll go no more a-roving; The exile;
Love me sweet with all thou art; Canzone di Taormina BBCBirmingham

Contributors

Piano:
Vaughan Williams
Songs:
Thomas Wilson
Unknown:
Maude Valerie White

recorded in Southwark Cathedral
Introit: God is light (Bramma) Responses: Smith
Psalms: 65,66 and 67 (Hopkins, Atkins, Luard, Selby) First lesson (NEB): I Kings 21, vv 1-29;
Office hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (NEH 152) Canticles: Walmisley, in D minor;
Second lesson (NEB): Acts 15, w 22-35
Anthem: Thy word is a lantern (Purcell);
Hymn (NEH 247):
0 gladsome light, 0 grace
Organ voluntary: Incantation pour un jour saint (Langlais)
Organist and director of music HARRY BRAMMA
Assistant organist ANDREW LUMSDEN

Contributors

Organist:
Andrew Lumsden

from the 1986 Havana Guitar Competition played by the finalists JOAQUIN CLERCH (Cuba)
ALEXANDER FRAUCHI (USSR) timo KORHONEN (Finland) VLADIMIR TERVO (USSR) carlos TREPAT (Spain) Rodrigo Fandango
(Three Spanish pieces) Barrios La catedral
Albeniz Capriccio: Zambra
Brouwer El arpa del Guerrero Salvador Brotons Dos sugestiones
(first UK broadcast)
(Given in April at the National
Theatre, Havana, in association with Egrem, Cuba)

Contributors

Unknown:
Salvador Brotons

Many biologists fear that the majority of animal species are likely to become extinct in the next century because of man's destruction of tropical rain forests. What steps can be taken to avert such ecological disaster?
Michael Soule , Professor of Biology at the University of Michigan, is in conversation with Colin Tudge about the scientific limitations of protecting endangered species and about the political and economic difficulties that conservation biologists face. Producer JULIAN BROWN
* HEAR THIS! page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Soule
Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Julian Brown

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Felicity Lott (soprano) Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano) Martyn Hill (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Graham Johnson and Geoffrey Parsons (piano duet)

Beethoven Six Variations on 'Ich denke dein' (WoO 74)

Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzer

Contributors

Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Mezzo-soprano:
Linda Finnie
Tenor:
Martyn Hill
Baritone:
Stephen Varcoe
Pianist:
Graham Johnson
Pianist:
Geoffrey Parsons

Part2
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) Reiner Goldberg (tenor) Bans Sotin (bass) BBC Singers
London Voices chorus-master TERRY EDWARDS Chorus of Welsh National Opera chorus-master ANDREW GREENWOOD
London Philharmonic
Orchestra leader DAVID NOLAN conducted by Sir Georg Solti Beethoven Symphony No 9, In D minor (Choral)
■ Asimultaneous broadcast with BBC2
For details see page 68
0 FEATURE: page 9 and HEAR THIS! pose 15

Contributors

Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Mezzo-Soprano:
Sarah Walker
Tenor:
Reiner Goldberg
Chorus-Master:
Terry Edwards
Leader:
David Nolan
Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti

by CHRISTOPHER HOPE
"There is an old Boer joke which says: "There are three pests in South Africa, drought, locusts and Englishmen."' A poem for voices set among the facts and fictions of South African life.
Narrator Christopher Hope Producer ROSEMARY HART (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Rosemary Hart
Mrs Onbi:
Janet Suzman
Mr Silvero:
Nigel Hawthorne
William Hogge:
Timothy West
Mostyn Owen:
Hugh Dickson

Trio-Sonata in f (rv 70);
'Manchester' Sonata No 6, in A (rv 758); Trio-Sonata in B flat (Rv 77)
The Purcell Quartet
Catherine Mackintosh (violin) Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Richard Boothby (viola da gamba)
Robert Woolley (harpsichord)

Contributors

Violin:
Catherine MacKintosh
Violin:
Elizabeth Wallfisch
Viola:
Richard Boothby
Harpsichord:
Robert Woolley

Philippa Davies (flute) George Caird (oboe)
Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
Angela Malsbury (bass clarinet) Felix Warnock (bassoon) Peter Francomb (hom)
Mozart Andante in F (K 616) Francaix Wind Quintet Janacek Mladi BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Flute:
Philippa Davies
Oboe:
George Caird
Clarinet:
Andrew Marriner
Bass:
Angela Malsbury
Bassoon:
Felix Warnock
Bassoon:
Peter Francomb
Unknown:
Mozart Andante

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