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featuring Benjamin Britten on the tenth anniversary of his death
Purcell, ed Britten Chacony in c minor: ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN
7.12* Purcell Fantasia No 13, in F (Upon one note) ZORIAN STRING QUARTET
With BENJAMIN BRITTEN (viola)
7.15* Bridge Sir Roger de
Coverley: ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN
7.20* Bridge Go not, happy day PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMLN BRITTEN (piano)
7.21* Schumann Five pieces in folk style, Op 102
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
7.39* Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op 47
EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) JOSE-LUIS GARCIA (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) BERNARD RICHARDS (cello) ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN
7.53* trad, arr Britten The plough boy: PETER PEARS (tenor) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
8.0 News
8.5 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4, in G 1049)
EMANUEL HURWITZ (violin) RICHARD ADENEY (flute) NORMAN KNIGHT (flute) ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN
8.21* Schubert An die Laute (D 905); GeheLT.es (d 719);
Die Taubcnpost (D 957 No 14) PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMLN BRITTEN (piano)
8.29* Britten, arr Bedford
Suite: Death in Venice, Op 88 ECO/STEUART BEDFORD records
(See also 2.0pm 11.20)

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Britten Chacony
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Jose-Luis Garcia
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Bernard Richards
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz

At the Court of Dresden
That Your Royal Majesty has most graciously deigned to confer upon me the title of Court
Composer: this I shall gratefully appreciate with the most humble thanks all my life long.
(BACH,1737)
J. S. Bach Kyrie (Mass in B minor, bwv 232): EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
EMILY VAN EVERA (soprano) ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
SOLOISTS OF THE TOLZER KNABENCHOR TAVERNER CONSORT AND PLAYERS/
ANDREW PARROTT
W. F. Bach Fugue in B flat LEO VAN DOESELAAR (Organ) Lotti Crucifixus
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE/GEORGE GUEST
Quantz Sonata in D, Op 1 No 5 HAN DE VRIES (oboe)
ALBERT DE KLERK (organ)
Heinichen Pastorale per la notte della nativitate Christi: BERLIN po/ WILHELM BRUCKNER-RUGGEBERG Zetenka Magnificat
BERNADETTE DEGEUN (soprano) DAVID JAMES (counter-tenor) WESTVLAAMS VOCAL ENSEMBLE
MUSICA POLYPHONIC A/LOUIS DEVOS records

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo van Doeselaar
Unknown:
Lotti Crucifixus
Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg
Unknown:
Zetenka Magnificat
Soprano:
Bernadette Degeun

Bax Morning song (Maytime in Sussex) (mono)
HARRIET COHEN (piano)
ORCHESTRA/SIR MALCOLM SARGENT Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country
NEW PHlLHARMONlA/SIR ADRIAN BOULT Rawsthome Symphony No 2 (A Pastoral Symphony) (mono) v IVANOVA(soprano)
USSR SO/THE COMPOSER: records

Contributors

Piano:
Harriet Cohen
Unknown:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

Last in the present season, direct from St George 's Brandon Hill , Bristol Delme String Quartet
Suk Meditation on an old
Bohemian chorale (St Wenceslas) Dvorak Quartet in G. Op 106 (Concert arranged by St George's 's
Music Trust, in association with John Player and Sons. Tickets available at the door) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
St George
Unknown:
Brandon Hill
Unknown:
John Player

Opera in a prologue and two acts Libretto by SALVATORE CAMMARANO , after VOLTAIRE'S tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian): records
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS
MUNICH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by LAMBERTO GARDELU The action takes place in Peru, towards the middle of the 16th century.
Prologue and Act 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Salvatore Cammarano
Conducted By:
Lamberto Gardelu

Humphrey Spender , architect, painter and documentary photographer for Mass
Observation, reflects on the possibilities and limitations of the camera, in conversation with Colin Ford , Keeper of the National Museum of Film,
Photography and Television. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Spender
Unknown:
Colin Ford
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by Thomas Sanderling
Alison Hargan (soprano) direct from the Colston Hall , Bristol Parti
Mahler, compl Albrecht
Gürsching Symphony Prelude (1876) (first UK performance) Webern Passacaglia, Op 1 Strauss Befreit , Op 39 No 4;
Freundliche Vision, Op 48 No 1; Winterweihe, Op 48 No 4; Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden,
Op 68 No 2: Sausle, liebe Myrthe, Op 68 No 3; Wiegenlied. Op 41 No 1

Contributors

Leader:
Brendan O'Brien
Conducted By:
Thomas Sanderling
Soprano:
Alison Hargan
Unknown:
Colston Hall
Unknown:
Strauss Befreit

I saw your mother with two guards through a glass plate for one Quarter hour on the day that you died.
'Ertra visit, special favour' I was told....
The South African poet Jeremy Cronin introduces and reads poems of prison and love from his latest collection. Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland (R)

Contributors

Introduces:
Jeremy Cronin

Second of three editions from this year's Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival
CHRISTINE WHTTTLESEY (soprano) THOMAS FICHTER (double-bass) ENSEMBLE MODERN conducted by HEINZ HOLUGER Klaus Huber Remember G
Heinz Holliger Zwei Ubungen zu Scardanelli
Isang Yun Cantata: Teile dich
Nacht Sandor Veress Orbis tonorum (all first UK performances)

Contributors

Double-Bass:
Thomas Fichter
Conducted By:
Heinz Holuger
Conducted By:
Klaus Huber
Unknown:
Heinz Holliger Zwei Ubungen
Unknown:
Nacht Sandor Veress Orbis

KATHLEEN LIVINGSTONE (Soprano) NEIL MACKIE (tenor)
JOHN BLAKELY (piano)
Purcell, ed Bntten The knotting song (first broadcast)
Britten Three early songs:
Beware; 0 that I'd ne'er been married; Epitaph (first broadcast) The birds; Fish in the unruffled lakes; Night covers up (first broadcast); To lie flat on the back Two ballads: Mother
Comfort; Underneath the abject willow
Britten, arr Pears The oxen (first broadcast) trad, arr Britten Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me? (first broadcast)

Contributors

Soprano:
Kathleen Livingstone
Piano:
John Blakely

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