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Gluck Dance of the furies; Dance of the blessed spirits (Orphee et Eurydice)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.16* Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE/
SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS
7.20* Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 ADAM HARASIEWICZ (piano)
7.30* Balakirev Symphonic poem:
Tamara USSR SO/EVGENY SVETLANOV
8.0 News
8.5 Franck Symphonic poem: Le chasseur maudit
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA/
RICCARDO MUTI
8.20* Popper Papillon, Op 3 No 4 JASCHA BERNSTEIN (Cello) ARTUR BALSAM (piano)
8.21* Debussy Trois ballades de Francois Villon, No 2 (mono) CHARLES PANZÉRA (baritone)
GRAMOPHONE ORCHESTRA/
PIERO COPPOLA
8.24* Mussorgsky Pictures at an exhibition
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (piano) records

Contributors

Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Sir David Willcocks
Unknown:
Tamara Ussr

Lully
If Armide had been French, she would not have needed magic in order to make herself loved, because the French are charming by themselves
(SIAMESE MANDARIN AMBASSADOR)
Armide (excerpts) (soprano) (tenor) (bass)
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
OF LA CHAPELLE ROYALE/ PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE

Contributors

Unknown:
La Chapelle
Unknown:
Philippe Herreweghe
Armide:
Rachel Yakar
Renaud:
Zeger Vandersteene
Hidraot:
Ulrlk Cold

direct from the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham Nash Ensemble
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Brian Wightman (bassoon) John Pigneguy (hom) Ian Brown (piano)
Marcia Crayford (violin) David Ogden (violin) Roger Chase (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello) Suk Elegy, Op 23
Janacek Concertino
Martinu Piano Quartet BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Clarinet:
Michael Collins
Bassoon:
Brian Wightman
Bassoon:
John Pigneguy
Piano:
Ian Brown
Violin:
Marcia Crayford
Violin:
David Ogden
Viola:
Roger Chase
Cello:
Christopher van Kampen

attribC.P.E.Bach
A recently-discovered complete musical setting of the Passion according to St Mark , possibly intended as a musical monument to J.S. Bach , whose stylistic influence haunts the work. This may well be its very first performance.
(sung in German) (first UK broadcast)
KRISZTINA LAKI (soprano)
URSULA KUNZ (mezzo-soprano) PETER SCHREIER (tenor) ANDREAS SCHMIDT (baSS)
GACHINGER KANTOREI , STUTTGART
STUTTGART BACH COLLEGIUM directed by HELMUTH RILLING

Contributors

Unknown:
St Mark
Unknown:
J.S. Bach
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ursula Kunz
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Bass:
Andreas Schmidt
Bass:
Gachinger Kantorei
Directed By:
Helmuth Rilling

(born 19 March 1907)
Three settings of John Donne : Hymn to God the Father;
Hymn to Christ; The sun rising PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor) MARK ELDER (piano) (R) String Quartet No 10 GABRIEU QUARTET
Kenneth Sillito (violin)
Brendan O'Reilly (violin) Ian Jewel (viola)
Keith Harvey (cello) (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Donne
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Violin:
Brendan O'Reilly
Cello:
Keith Harvey

Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano) Stephen Roberts (baritone) Royal Choral Society
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Laszlo Heltay direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1 Faure
Requiem, Op 48

Contributors

Soprano:
Eiddwen Harrhy
Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Conductor:
Laszlo Heltay

A sequence of poetry inspired by the title of one of Rudyard Kipling 's collections of short stories, compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON
Read by Elaine Claxton Denys Hawthorne and Martin Jarvis
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Read By:
Elaine Claxton
Read By:
Denys Hawthorne
Read By:
Martin Jarvis
Producer:
Piers Plowright

by JEREMY PAXMAN
Read by Allan McElvey
'I thought maybe they'd got a nickname for me, like "False Alarm Frank". It stopped me phoning for a while.
Then I phoned in with a warning there was a bomb in the centre of town.'
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Paxman
Read By:
Allan McElvey
Producer:
Jeremy Mortimer

The two oldest and most universal musical instruments, which form the perfect complement to one another.
James Wood introduces two of his works for voice and percussion:
Choroi kai Thalai : T'ien chung Yao
(first UK broadcasts) SARA STOWE (soprano)
THE COMPOSER (percussion)
ROBYN SCHULKOWSKY (percussion) JOHN WHITING (sound projection)

Contributors

Introduces:
James Wood
Unknown:
Choroi Kai Thalai
Soprano:
Sara Stowe
Unknown:
Robyn Schulkowsky
Unknown:
John Whiting

BERNARD ROBERTS (piano)
Ferdinand Ries Rondo elegant jn A flat major, Op 122; Trifles:
No 8 (The Melancholy); No 9 (12 Trifles for piano, Op 58); Allegro oi Bravura No 1, in c major. Op 99 Georges Onslow Sonata in c minor, Op 2 (R)

Contributors

Piano:
Bernard Roberts
Piano:
Ferdinand Ries Rondo

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