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Bizet Carmen: Suite No 1
RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
7.15* Faure Piano Quartet No 1, in c minor, Op 15
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) MAURICE GENDRON (cello) ERNST WALLFISCH (viola) JEREMY MENUHIN (piano)
7.45* Lalande Concert de trompettes
JEAN FRANCOIS PAILLARD CO directed by J F. PAILLARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Cello:
Maurice Gendron
Viola:
Ernst Wallfisch
Piano:
Jeremy Menuhin
Trompettes:
Jean Francois
Trompettes:
Paillard Co
Directed By:
J F. Paillard

8.5 Delibes Prelude, Mazurka, Valse lente (Coppelia)
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA/
ERNEST ANSERMET
8.11* Granados El fandango de Candil; La maja y el ruisenor (Goyescas)
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
8.23* Debussy La boite a joujoux BASLE SOIARMIN JORDAN records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernest Ansermet
Piano:
Alicia de Larrocha

Constant Lambert and Friends A good composer of the second rank (LAMBERT ON LAMBERT) Lambert Music for Orchestra BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD (R)
Trois pieces negres pour les touches blanches PETER LAWSON and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT (piano duet) Suite: Anna Karenina
NATIONAL PO/BERNARD HERRMANN The Rio Grande
CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
JEAN TEMPERLEY (mezzo-soprano) LONDON MADRIGAL SINGERS
LSO/ANDRE PREVIN records

Contributors

Unknown:
Lambert Music
Conducted By:
Maurice Handford
Unknown:
Peter Lawson
Piano:
Christopher Scott
Unknown:
Anna Karenina
Unknown:
Bernard Herrmann
Unknown:
Rio Grande
Piano:
Cristina Ortiz
Mezzo-Soprano:
Jean Temperley
Unknown:
Andre Previn

Song settings of psalms and carols
AMERAL GUNSON (mezzo-soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano) Howells
King David Rubbra Three psalms, Op 61:
Psalm 6 (0 Lord rebuke me not) Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd)
Psalm 150 (Praise ye the Lord) Bax Five Fantasies on Polish
Christmas carols Nos 1, 4 and 5: Bog sie, rodzi (God is bom)
Lulajze Jezuniu (Lullay, dear Jesus)
Przbiezeli do Betlejem (Merrily to Bethlehem)
Howells Carol : Come, sing and dance
BBCBristol

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Ameral Gunson
Piano:
Paul Hamburger
Unknown:
King David Rubbra
Unknown:
Lulajze Jezuniu
Unknown:
Howells Carol

Nicholas Unwin (piano)
Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Blair

Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture

Bartok Piano Concerto No 2

3.15* Interval Reading

3.20* Penderecki Symphony No 2

(Given on 23 March in St John's, Smith Square, London, in association with Unilever)

Contributors

Pianist:
Nicholas Unwin
Musicians:
Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
James Blair

direct from the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury
Introit: There is no rose (Thalben-Ball)
Responses (Sumsion)
Psalms: 12, 13, 14 (Smart, Hayes, Macpherson)
Lessons (rsv): Isaiah 61; I Corinthians 1
Canticles (Howells in B minor) Anthem: A Christmas Caroll, Op21(Leighton)
Hymn (eh 258): Christ, whose glory fills the skies Organ Voluntary:
Improvisation sur Ie 'Te Deum' (Toumemire) EXON SINGERS conductor CHRISTOPHER TOLLEY Organist ANDREW LUMSDEN BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Conductor:
Christopher Tolley
Organist:
Andrew Lumsden

Liszt Pupils on Record Rare recordings of FREDERIC LAMOND. EUGEN D'ALBERT MORIZ ROSENTHAL , CONRAD ANSORGE ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM. JOSE VIANNA DAMOTTA. ARTHUR DE GREEF and EMIL SAUER (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederic Lamond.
Unknown:
Eugen D'Albert
Unknown:
Moriz Rosenthal
Unknown:
Conrad Ansorge
Unknown:
Arthur Friedheim.
Unknown:
Jose Vianna
Unknown:
Damotta. Arthur De Greef
Unknown:
Emil Sauer

When John Playford died in 1686 he had dominated London's music publishing for over 30 years. Today's selection comes from his firm's later songbooks. Giovanni Battista Draghi
Where art thou, god of dreams? Henry Hall A dialogue betwixt Oliver Cromwell and Charon John Blow Awake my lyre
Henry Purcell A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr John Playford EMILY VAN EVERA (soprano) TESSA BONNER (soprano) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
MICHAEL GEORGE (bass)
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS directed by PETER HOLMAN (chamber organ) and MARK CAUDLE (bass violin)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Playford
Songbooks:
Giovanni Battista Draghi
Unknown:
Henry Hall
Unknown:
Oliver Cromwell
Unknown:
Mr John Playford
Soprano:
Emily van Evera
Soprano:
Tessa Bonner
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Bass:
Michael George
Directed By:
Peter Holman
Directed By:
Mark Caudle

(soprano and piano) direct from Studio 1, Pebble Mill Parti
Schumann Widmung, Op 25
No 1; Roselein, Roselein, Op 89 No 6; Er ist's, Op 79 No 24;
Des Sennen Abschied, Op 79 No 23; Mignon: Kennst du das Land?, Op 79 No 29; Philine: Singet nicht in Trauertonen, Op 98a No 7 Schubert Fruhlingsglaube
(D 686); Der Schmetterling (D 633); Nacht und Ttaume (d 827);
Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen (d 239); Erster Verlust (D 159);
Gretchen am Spinnrade (D 118)

by FRANZ KAFKA adapted by GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI from the translation by WILLA AND EDWIN MUIR with and 'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armour-plated, back, and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments.'
Music composed and conducted by GORDON CROSSE. and performed by members of the BOCHMANN QUARTET and JOHN LEACH , (cimbalom).
A strong atmospheric production
(TIMEOUT)
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Kafka
Adapted By:
Gabriel Josipovici
Adapted By:
Edwin Muir
Unknown:
Gregor Samsa
Conducted By:
Gordon Crosse.
Unknown:
John Leach
Directed By:
John Theocharis
the narrator:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Gregor Samsa:
Christopher Fairbank
Father:
Stephen Thorne
Mother:
Gwen Cherrell
Sister:
Patience Tomlinson
Chief clerk:
Colln Starkey
Charwoman:
Narissa Knights
Three lodgers .:
Trevor Nichols
Three lodgers .:
Christopher Douglas
Three lodgers .:
Brian Smith

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