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Leone Sinigaglia Overture: Le baruffe chiozzotte (mono)
LSO/ROY ALTON KISCH
7.11* Liszt and others
Variations on a theme from Bellini's 'I Puritani' (Hexameron)
EVELYNE DUBOURG (piano)
7.36* Sinding Suite in A minor JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin)
LOS ANGELES PO/
ALFRED WALLENSTEIN 7.47* Delius Dance Rhapsody
No 2: RPO/SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.0 News
8.5 Dvorak Bagatelles for harmonium and string trio PETER PLANYAVSKY
MEMBERS OF THE VIENNA
PHlLHARMONIA QUINTET
8.22* Kodaly Dances of Kallo HUNGARIAN STATE CHORUS
MEMBERS OF THE HUNGARIAN STATE
ORCHESTRA/ZOLTAN VASARHELYI
8.29* Kenneth Leighton Suite: Veris gratia
RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (cello) GEORGE CAIRD (oboe) RLPO/VERNON HANDLEY records

Contributors

Piano:
Evelyne Dubourg
Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Cello:
Raphael Wallfisch
Oboe:
George Caird

Stravinsky:
Towards Serialism (1951-9)
The greatest crisis of my life as a composer was the loss of Russia, and its language not only of music but of words. The second great crisis followed 'The Rake's Progress’, though I was not aware of it as such at the time. Cantata on Old English Texts ADRIENNE ALBERT (soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
GREGG SMITH SINGERS
COLUMBIA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE/
THE COMPOSER
Septet; Three Shakespeare Songs
CATHY BERBERIAN (soprano) COLUMBIA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE/
THE COMPOSER
Epitaphium 'fiir den Grabstein des Prinzen Max Egon zu Furstenberg'
ARTHUR GLEGHORN (flute) KALMAN BLOCH (clarinet) DOROTHY REMSEN (harp) records

Contributors

Soprano:
Adrienne Albert
Singers:
Gregg Smith
Soprano:
Cathy Berberian
Flute:
Arthur Gleghorn
Clarinet:
Kalman Bloch
Harp:
Dorothy Remsen

Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue
GROUPEVOCALDEFRANCE directed by JOHN ALLDIS
Stabat Mater, for soprano, choir and orchestra
MICHELE LAGRANGE (soprano) LYONS NATIONAL CHOIR AND
ORCHESTRA/SERGE BAUDO
Quatre petites prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise
UPPSALA ACADEMIC CHAMBER CHOIR
KFUM CHAMBER CHOIR directed by DAN OLAF STENLUND records

Contributors

Directed By:
John Alldis
Soprano:
Michele Lagrange
Directed By:
Dan Olaf Stenlund

Trio-sonata in B flat, Op 2 No 3 Chaconne in G
Trio-sonata in G, Op 5 No 4 Violin Sonata in A major, OplNo3
Trio-sonata in B minor, Op 2 No 1 USA BEZNOSIUK (flute)
SIMON STANDAGE (violin)
MICAELA COMBERTI (violin) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord) (R)

Contributors

Violin:
Micaela Comberti
Directed By:
Trevor Pinnock

Opera in three acts
Music by Adolphe Adam Libretto by ADOLPHE DE LEUVEN and LEON LEVY BRUNSWICK
(sung in French): records
JEAN LAFORGE CHORUS
MONTE L CARLO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA/THOMAS FULTON Act
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Acts 2 and 3

Contributors

Music By:
Adolphe Adam
Unknown:
Adolphe de Leuven
Unknown:
Leon Levy Brunswick
Unknown:
Jean Laforge

The Real Long John Silver Third of eight trios by PETER BARNES with Ian Carmichael Paul Eddington and Anna Massey
Just how many real Long John Silvers can there be, Jim lad?
Song composed and sung by STEPHEN DEUTSCH
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Barnes
Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Paul Eddington
Unknown:
Anna Massey
Sung By:
Stephen Deutsch
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell

Cantus in memoriam
Benjamin Britten (1977) Te Deum (1984/86)
(first UK performance)
8.0* Interval Reading
8.5* De profundis (1980) (first UK performance) Tabula rasa (1977)
MARK LUBOTSKY (violin) ELISABETH PERRY (Violin) BBC SINGERS
MUSIC PROJECTS/LONDON leader LORNA OSBON conducted by RICHARD BERNAS (Given on 10 June in the Union Chapel, Islington, as part of the 1986 Almeida Festival)

Contributors

Violin:
Mark Lubotsky
Violin:
Elisabeth Perry
Leader:
Lorna Osbon
Conducted By:
Richard Bernas

The Suez crisis of 1956 both hastened and symbolised
Britain's loss of great power status. What do the recently released official papers reveal about the events that led to Britain's humiliation?
Peter Hennessy talks to many of the senior surviving figures, who speak freely for the first time about the operation.
They include a former Prime Minister, Lord Home, as well as Sir Guy Millard , Sir Anthony Eden 's private secretary, and Marshal of the RAF, Sir Dermot Boyle. Producer MARK LAITY (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Hennessy
Unknown:
Sir Guy Millard
Unknown:
Sir Anthony Eden
Unknown:
Sir Dermot Boyle.
Producer:
Mark Laity

BBC Radio 3

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