Programme Index

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Delius A Song of Summer
RPO/ERIC FENBY
7.15* Dowland I saw my Lady weep
PETER PEARS (tenor) JULIAN BREAM (lute)
7.19* Purcell Sonata a 4 No 10, in D major
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH (violin) MONICA HUGGETT (violin)
CHRISTOPHE COIN (bass viol) CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord) 7.24* Walton Violin Concerto
IDAHAENDEL
BOURNEMOUTH SO/PAAVO BERGLUND
8.0 News
8.5 Copland Our Town LSO/THE COMPOSER
8.16* Gershwin Three Preludes for piano (1926)
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS (piano)
8.23* Debussy Danse sacree et danse profane
VERA BADINGS (harp)
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA/BERNARD HAITINK
8.33* Khachaturian Spartacus VIENNA PO/THE COMPOSER records

Contributors

Violin:
Catherine MacKintosh
Harpsichord:
Christopher Hogwood

Mendelssohn
The Last Year: I always have but one thought: how short life is.
(Letter of July 1847)
Magnificat, Op 69 No 3 WESTPHALIAN KANTOREI/ WILHELM EHMANN
String Quartet in F minor, Op 80 MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
Auf der Wanderschaft, Op 71 No 5; Nachtlied, Op 71 No 6 DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH (piano) Andante and Scherzo, Op 81 MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART records

Contributors

Piano:
Wolfgang Sawallisch

IAN CADDY (baritone)
MELVYN TAN (1983 fortepiano copied from 1814 Nannette Streicher )
Schubert Geistes-Gruss (D 142) Der Wanderer (D 493) Der Alpenjager (D 524)
(all transposed for Count Esterhazy in 1818) Das Abendrot (D 627)
(written for Count Esterhazy in 1818); Sehnsucht (D 636) (1819); Prometheus (D 674) (1819) BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Nannette Streicher

direct from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Peter Lawson (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by Libor Pesek Parti
Smetana Symphonic poem: Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Martinu Piano Concerto No 2

Contributors

Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Libor Pesek

PAUL GALBRAITH (guitar)
John Dowland , arr Duarte/ Galbraith
Sir John Smith , his Almaine; Sir John Langton , his Pavan; Fantasie; Farewell Fancy Britten Nocturnal , Op 70 BBC Wales
(Given in October 1985 at University College, Bangor)

Contributors

Guitar:
John Dowland
Unknown:
Sir John Smith
Unknown:
Sir John Langton
Unknown:
Britten Nocturnal

A free translation into modern English verse by TERENCE TILLER Of GEOFFREY CHAUCER 'S The Book of the Duchess and the House of Fame with 4: The Stroke of Twelve
Incidental music composed and conducted by MICHAEL BERKELEY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Tiller
Unknown:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Conducted By:
Michael Berkeley
Chaucer:
Martin Jarvis
Knight:
Jon Strickland

recorded in Canterbury Cathedral sung by a choir of boys and men drawn from churches, colleges and schools affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music Responses (How)
Psalms 145, 146 (Norris, South) First lesson (rsv): Proverbs 4, vv 1-9
Canticles (Blair in B minor) Second lesson (rsv): Revelation 3, w 14-22
Anthem: Jesus Christ the apple tree (Piccolo)
Hymn (A&M NS 161): Christ is our corner-stone
Organ voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue (Ashfield)
Choir directed by MARTIN how Organist SIMON LAWFORD

Contributors

Directed By:
Martin How
Organist:
Simon Lawford

A satirical farce by John Gay, Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot adapted by Vincent McInerny
with and
London 1717. The elderly Dr Fossile marries the young Susanna Townley in order to beget an heir. And so his problems begin.
(Patricia Routledge is in 'When We Are Married' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
HEAR THIS! page 23

Contributors

Author:
John Gay
Author:
Alexander Pope
Author:
John Arbuthnot
Adapted by:
Vincent McInerney
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Dr Fossile:
Maurice Denham
Phoebe Clinkett:
Patricia Routledge
Plotwell:
Nickolas Grace
Underplot:
Mike Gwilym
Sir Tremendous:
Charles Gray
Harcourt:
John Moffatt
Dr Possum:
Bernard Hepton
Dr Nautilus:
Robert Eddison
Susanna Townley:
Jenny Funnell
Thomas:
David Learner
Seaman:
Gordon Reid
Prue:
Elaine Claxton
Ptisan:
Ronald Herdman
Other parts played by:
Francis Middleditch
Other parts played by:
Stephen Rashbrook

Lontano Tenth Anniversary Season
JANE MANNING (soprano) PETER HALL (tenor)
LONTANO conductor
ODAUNE DE LA MARTINEZ
Joan Tower Petrushskates (first UK performance)
Mark Anthony Turnage On all fours (first UK broadcast)
Ronald Perera Crossing the Meridian (first UK performance) Stephen Albert TreeStone (first UK performance) (Given yesterday in SI John Smith Square, London)

Contributors

Conductor:
Odaune De La Martinez
Unknown:
Mark Anthony Turnage
Unknown:
Ronald Perera
Unknown:
Stephen Albert Treestone

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