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Walton Partita
PHILHARMONIA/THE COMPOSER
7.20* Debussy Sonata in D minor MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)
7.33* Britten
Les Illuminations, Op 18 PETER PEARS (tenor)
ECO/THE COMPOSER
8.0 News
8.5 C.P.E. Bach Symphony inE(Wql82No6)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
8.14* Handel Ballet music (11 pastor fido)
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
8.24* J. S. Bach Concerto in A (BWV 1055)
DAVID REICHENBERG (oboe d'amore) ENGLISH CONCERT directed by TREVOR PINNOCK
8.39* Monteverdi Ballet music (L'Orfeo)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) LAURENCE DALE (tenor) ALAN WOODROW (tenor)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS/
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
8.49* Telemann Conclusion in D (Musique de table)
JEAN FRANCOIS PAILLARD CO directed by JEAN FRANCOIS PAILLARD Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Walton Partita
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood
Directed By:
Handel Ballet
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Directed By:
Trevor Pinnock
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Tenor:
Laurence Dale
Tenor:
Alan Woodrow
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Jean Francois Paillard Co
Directed By:
Jean Francois Paillard

Gustav Hoist
Seven part-songs for female voices and strings
(words by ROBERT BRIDGES) TRACEY CHADWELL (soprano) BBC SINGERS
LANGHAM CO/JOHN POOLE (R)
Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola RICHARD ADENEY
PETER GRAEME and CECIL ARONOWITZ
Double Concerto, Op 49, for two violins and orchestra
EMANUEL HURWITZ
KENNETH SHAITO
ECO/IMOGEN HOLST Records

Contributors

Soprano:
Tracey Chadwell

Two musical portraits of Cervantes' hero
Purcell The comical history of Don Quixote
JUDITH NELSON (soprano) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) MARTYN HILL (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Telemann Suite in G major: Don Quichotte BERLIN ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Quixote
Soprano:
Judith Nelson
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood

Music for clarinet and piano with its roots in Scotland and Ireland, played by NICHOLAS cox (clarinet) and VANESSA LATARCHE (piano) Stanford Three Intermezzi, Op 13
Judith Weir Sketches from a bagpiper's album (first broadcast)
Bax Clarinet Sonata BBC Manchester

Contributors

Played By:
Nicholas Cox
Piano:
Vanessa Latarche

The six interludes by Marenzio, Malvezzi and others for Girolamo Bargagli's comedy "La pellegrina", which were performed originally at the marriage festivities of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine.
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Taverner Consort
BBC Singers
Taverner Players led by John Holloway and Bruce Dickey, directed by Andrew Parrott
Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Richard Pasco (narrators)
Part 1
Intermedio 1: The harmony of the spheres
Intermedio 2: The contest between the Muses and the Pierides
Intermedio 3: Apollo slays the Python at Delphi

Contributors

Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Musicians:
Taverner Consort
Singers:
BBC Singers
Musicians:
Taverner Players
Leader:
John Holloway
Leader:
Bruce Dickey
Taverner Players directed by:
Andrew Parrott
Narrator:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Narrator:
Richard Pasco

played by MELISSA PHELPS with JOHN YORK (piano)
Shostakovich Sonata , Op 40 Gliere Ballade in B flat, Op 4
Rachmaninov Two Pieces, Op 2: Prelude; Danse orientale BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Played By:
Melissa Phelps
Piano:
John York
Piano:
Shostakovich Sonata
Unknown:
Gliere Ballade

direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London The secular music of Lhasa, Performed by an ensemble of musicians from the Tibet
Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
Gar (or'Court') pieces;
Nangma and Toshe songs
(In association with the South Bank Board. Next concert at & 40pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall

lonodrama by MICHAEL HIRST , with music by Wilhelm Grosz , after the dance-play of BELA BALAZS
A bartender from the 1920s recalls a bizarre evening in a cocktail bar when an abandoned baby was given a different kind of bottle....
BRAND NEW BAND directed by JOHN HARLE (saxophone) conducted by SIMON JOLY "oducers clive BENNETT and IAN COTTERELL (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hirst
Music By:
Wilhelm Grosz
Directed By:
John Harle
Conducted By:
Simon Joly
Unknown:
Ian Cotterell
Baxtender:
Ed Bishop
Tragic mother:
Tessa Worsley

The last programme in the current series features music from the 1986 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Massachusetts.
Oliver Knussen Fanfares for
Tanglewood (first performance) Nicholas Thome Chaconne:
Passion of the Heart: FELLOWS OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER conducted by Oliver KNUSSEN and LEON FLEISHER
Toru Takemitsu Dream Window Michael Torke Ecstatic Orange TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
ORCHESTRA conducted by Oliver KNUSSEN (first UK broadcasts)
Series producer STEPHEN PLAISTOW

Contributors

Conducted By:
Oliver Knussen
Conducted By:
Leon Fleisher
Unknown:
Toru Takemitsu
Conducted By:
Oliver Knussen

(soprano, died 16 July 1986)
Mozart Crudele ? Ah no mio bene! ... Non mi dir, bell'idol mio (Don Giovanni , Act 2) NEW
PHILHARMONIAI OTTO KLEMPERER : Record
Brahms Therese ; Die Mainacht; Komm bald; Sommerabend;
Mondenschein; Auf dem Schiffe; AufdemKirchhofe with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) (R) Britten Glitter of waves ...
(Peter Grimes , Act 2 scene 1) PETER PEARS (tenor)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN/ THE COMPOSER Record

Contributors

Unknown:
Mozart Crudele
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Philharmoniai Otto Klemperer
Unknown:
Brahms Therese
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Unknown:
Britten Glitter
Unknown:
Peter Grimes

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