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Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 6: ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
7.21* Chopin Ballade No 3, in A flat:
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
7.28*Danzi Cello Concerto in E minor: THOMAS BLEES BERLIN SO/C. A. BUNTE
8.0 News
8.5 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2
MELOS QUARTET OF STUTTGART
8.28* Bartok Story (Mikrokosmos)
THE COMPOSER (piano)
8.29* Haydn Symphony No 92, in G (Oxford)
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA/DORATI records. Producer JANE BEVAN

Contributors

Directed By:
Trevor Pinnock
Directed By:
Chopin Ballade
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Thomas Blees Berlin
Producer:
Jane Bevan

Constant Lambert and Friends To have had a row with Diaghilev - and stood up to the great impresario - is not the experience of every young composer at the age of 20. (ANTHONY POWELL)
Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point: LSO/ANDRE PREVIN
Lambert Ballet in two tableaux: Romeo and Juliet ECO/NORMAN DEL MAR
Berners Ballet suite: The triumph of Neptune (excerpts) RLPO/BARRY WORDSWORTH
(records)
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Powell
Unknown:
Andre Previn
Unknown:
Lambert Ballet
Unknown:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Barry Wordsworth
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

In 1670 Lully collaborated with Moliere, writing music for his play Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Two hundred and fifty years later, Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal returned to the play, condensing it as a prologue to the opera Ariadne auf Naxos. Extracts from both suites played by LA PETITE BANDE, directed by GUSTAV LEONHARDT and the ECO/DANIEL BARENBOIM records

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Strauss
Unknown:
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Played By:
La Petite Bande,
Directed By:
Gustav Leonhardt
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim

Ravel Pa vane pour une Infante defunte: LSO/CLAUDIO ABBADO Saint-Saens Guitares et mandolines
ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
Scarlatti Sonata in D minor (Kk 141):
MAGGIE COLE (harpsichord)
Granados Tonadillas : El majo discreto; El mirar de la maja ANN MURRAY (mezzo-soprano) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez EDUARDO FERNANDEZ (guitar) ECO/MIGUEL GOMEZ MARTINEZ
Schumann Weh ' wie zomig ist das Madchen, Op 138 No 7 (Spanisches Liebeslieder)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano)
Strauss Symphonic poem: Don Quixote : ROBERT VERNON (viola) LYNN HARRELL (cello), CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY

Contributors

Unknown:
Abbado Saint-Saens Guitares
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ann Murray
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Harpsichord:
Maggie Cole
Harpsichord:
Granados Tonadillas
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ann Murray
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Guitar:
Eduardo Fernandez
Unknown:
Miguel Gomez Martinez
Unknown:
Schumann Weh
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Unknown:
Don Quixote
Viola:
Robert Vernon
Cello:
Lynn Harrell
Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy

A cantata for children
Text and music by Alison Bauld (BBC commission: first broadcast performance)
On a visit to Jerusalem with his parents, the boy Jesus goes missing....
CHOIR OF COLET COURT SCHOOL choirmaster IAN HUNTER
NICHOLAS THOMPSON (trumpet) ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN 'S.
SMITH SQUARE , leader ROSEMARY FURNISS conducted by JOHN LUBBOCK
Technical presentation MARTIN PAGE Producer CHRIS DE SOUZA

Contributors

Music By:
Alison Bauld
Choirmaster:
Ian Hunter
Choirmaster:
Nicholas Thompson
Unknown:
St John
Leader:
Smith Square
Leader:
Rosemary Furniss
Conducted By:
John Lubbock
Unknown:
Martin Page
Producer:
Chris De Souza
Cantor:
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Mary:
Jane Manning (soprano)
Joseph:
Michael Pearce (baritone)
Hannah:
Tracey Chadwell (sop)
Chief Rabbi/Simeon:
Edward de Souza (spoken Role)
Cantor/Dissenting Rabbi:
Alan Thompson (spoken Role)

Dances and ballad tunes from the publications of John Playford (1623 86) from the original Elizabethan settings to versions in The Beggar's Opera JOHN POTTER (tenor)
THE BROADSIDE BAND directed by JEREMY BARLOW

Contributors

Unknown:
John Playford
Tenor:
John Potter
Directed By:
Jeremy Barlow

In the second of four conversations with Christopher Cook , John Houseman looks back on the so-called Golden
Age of American radio when he produced Mercury Theatre of the Air with Orson Welles and later, during World War n, was head of broadcasting for the Office of War Information.
('Houseman on Hollywood' on New Year's Eve at 8. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
John Houseman
Unknown:
Orson Welles

The Christmas Story EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (baSS) TAVERNER PLAYERS
TAVERNER CONSORT directed by ANDREW PARROTT (R)

Contributors

Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Bass:
David Thomas
Bass:
Taverner Players
Bass:
Taverner Consort
Directed By:
Andrew Parrott

Ricardo was bending over his cup of coffee, the cigar still behind his hairy ear. I heard him whisper: 'Senor, I saw Federico's ghost after.... On the same spot where they had.... you know ... Yes, Federico Garcia Lorca showed himself to me as a woman, a bare-footed woman.
Beautiful. No shoes. Ghosts don't wear shoes, do they Senor?' A monologue by JERZY PETERKIEWICZ
Performed by Kenneth Haigh Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Federico Garcia Lorca
Unknown:
Jerzy Peterkiewicz
Unknown:
Kenneth Haigh
Directed By:
John Theocharis

Presented by Charles Fox featuring First House
Ken Stubbs (alto saxophone) Django Bates (keyboards) Paul Rogers (double-bass) Martin France (drums)

Contributors

Presented By:
Charles Fox
Unknown:
Ken Stubbs
Unknown:
Django Bates
Double-Bass:
Paul Rogers
Double-Bass:
Martin France

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