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Scheidt Galliard
HIS MAJESTIES SAGBUTTS
ANDCORNETTS
ALISTAIR ROSS (organ)
7.08* Liszt Legend: St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
7.18* Beethoven Symphony No 4 in b flat
PHILH ARMONIA/OTTO KLEMPERER
8.00 News
8.05 Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/
VERNON HANDLEY
8.12* Handel Concerto Grosso in D minor Op 6, No 10 ECO/RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.29* Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 4 in c minor
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano) RPO/ANDRÈ PREVIN Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Ross
Unknown:
St Francis
Piano:
Alfred Brendel

Carl Maria von Weber
That splendid fellow, the Weber who plays the piano like the devil himself
JOHANN LIEBICH , 1811
The Four Temperaments Op 46 (1816)
MARTYN HILL (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (fortepiano)
Concertino for horn and orchestra (1815)
HERMANN BAUMANN (horn)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA/
KURTMASUR
Piano Sonata No 2 (1816)
CAROLINE PALMER (piano) Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Maria von Weber
Unknown:
Johann Liebich
Tenor:
Christopher Hogwood
Horn:
Hermann Baumann
Horn:
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Piano:
Caroline Palmer

IAN MITCHELL (bass clarinet) PHILIP MEAD (piano)
FAIRFIELD STRING QUARTET
Janet Graham Three Pieces for bass clarinet and piano (first broadcast)
Edmund Rubbra Lyric movement for two violins, viola, cello and piano, Op 24
York Bowen Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet and strings, Op 93

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Graham
Unknown:
Edmund Rubbra Lyric
Unknown:
York Bowen

direct from the Wigmore Hall, London
The Scholars in a programme of Spanish songs and madrigals, ancient and modem Pedro Ruimonte En las Riberas
Anjel Barja Poemas del Mar Pedro Ruimonte Esperanza Tardia
Anjel Barja 3 Romances; Eres Alta Y Delgada

Contributors

Musicians:
The Scholars

direct from Norwich Cathedral Introit: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Bairstow)
Versicles and Responses:
Leighton Psalm 35 (Stonex, Goss) Lessons: Amos 4 (NEB); Mark 10, vv 35-45 (RSV)
Office hymn: 0 gladsome light (NEH247)
Canticles: Norwich Service (Patterson)
Anthem: Factum est silentium (Dering)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata in B minor (Jackson)
Organist and Master of the Choristers MICHAEL NICHOLAS
Assistant Organist ADRIAN LUCAS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Leighton Psalm

Presented by Donald Macleod Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)
PITTSBURGH SO/WILLIAM STEINBERG Mono record
Sterndale Bennett Piano Concerto in F minor (unpublished) MALCOLM BINNS
ULSTER ORCHESTRA/HILARY WETTON (R)
Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky
LSO/JOHN B ARBIROLU
Bazzini La ronde des lutins (Mono)
JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin)
EMANUEL BAY (piano) Records

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod

direct from the London Coliseum
English National Opera's new production of Stephen Sondheim's musical to a book by John Weidman
Additional material by Hugh Wheeler
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

With EDWARD BYLES, GORDON CHRISTIE. TERRY JENKINS. HARRY NICOLL. MICHAEL SADLER. PAUL STRATHEARN. ALAN WOODROW (tenors)
LEON BERGER. JOHN CASHMORE ERIC ROBERTS (baritones) IANCOMBOY
SIMON MASTERTON-SMITH (basses) On-stage musicians:
YOSHIKAZU IWAMOTO (shakuhachi) joji MROTA (percussion) ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
ORCHESTRA led by RAYMOND OVENS conducted by JAMES HOLMES Act

Summer 1853: when four American warships off the coast of Japan brought the country from its self-imposed isolation into contact with world trade.

8.55* During the interval Stephen Sondheim in conversation with Rodney Milnes

9.10* Act 2
From then on - the price of progress as Japan developed to rival the West's economic and cultural might.
(In association with BhS)
Hear This! page 25

Contributors

Composer:
Stephen Sondheim
Book:
John Weidman
Additional Material:
Hugh Wheeler
Orchestrations:
Jonathan Tunick
Unknown:
Gordon Christie.
Unknown:
Terry Jenkins.
Unknown:
Harry Nicoll.
Unknown:
Michael Sadler.
Tenors:
Alan Woodrow
Tenors:
Leon Berger.
Tenors:
John Cashmore
Baritones:
Eric Roberts
Unknown:
Yoshikazu Iwamoto
Conducted By:
James Holmes
Unknown:
Stephen Sondheim
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes

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