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Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT
7.12* Grieg Sonata in A minor, Op 36: PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) JEAN FONDA (piano)
7.42* Vaughan Williams Five variants of Dives and Lazarus
LPO/BRYDEN THOMSON
8.00 News
8.05 Corelli Trio-Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 2 No 9 SIMON STANDAGE (violin)
MICAELA COMBERTI (violin) ANTHONY PLEETH (Cello)
TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
8.13* Purcell 0 sing unto the Lord: CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH
CATHEDRAL,OXFORD
ENGLISH CONCERT directed by SIMON PRESTON
8.25* Hummel Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 85 STEPHEN HOUGH
ECO/BRYDEN THOMSON. Records

Contributors

Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Piano:
Jean Fonda
Piano:
Vaughan Williams
Directed By:
Simon Preston

Liszt: The Arranger Transcriptions
Fantasia and Fugue on the theme
BACH ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) Die drei Zigeuner
SANDOR SOLYOM-NAGY (baritone) ZOLTAN DORY (violin)
HUNGARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA/
ANDRAS KORODI
Etude d'execution transcendante d'apres
Paganini: No 5 (La Chasse) ANDRE WATTS (piano)
Polonaise brillante (Weber) MISHA DICHTER (piano)
PHILHARMONIA/NEVILLE MARRINER
Marche au supplice (Symphonie fantastique) (Berlioz)
FRANCOIS DUCHABLE (piano)
Symphonic poem: Mazeppa BERLIN PO/KARAJAN. Records

Contributors

Piano:
Bach Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Andras Korodi
Piano:
Misha Dichter
Piano:
Francois Duchable

Concertos from two of the most important collections of early 18th-century instrumental music.
Corelli Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 NO 7: LA PETITE BANDE directed by Sigiswald KUIJKEN Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor. Op 6 No 4 COLLEGIUM AREUM directed by FRANZJOSEF maier Records

Contributors

Directed By:
Sigiswald Kuijken
Directed By:
Franzjosef Maier

conducted by SIMON JOLY arr Hugh Roberton The Dashing White Sergeant
Walford Davies Eight nursery rhymes with JOHN ALLEY (piano) arr Stanford Robinson The British Grenadiers (R)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Simon Joly
Unknown:
Hugh Roberton
Unknown:
Walford Davies

ROMAN JABLONSKI (cello) BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by VOLKER SCHMIDT-GERTENBACH
Mendelssohn Overture: Athalie Haydn Cello Concerto in c
12.05*pm Interval Reading
12.10* Bruch Kol Nidrei
Beethoven Symphony No 2
(Given on 6 November in the Henry Wood Hall , Glasgow) BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Trabichoff
Conducted By:
Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach
Unknown:
Henry Wood Hall

Berlioz Nuit sereine; Scene d'amour (Romeo et Juliette)
WESTMINSTER CHOIR
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICCARDO MUTI Liszt Ich mochte hingehn DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
DANIEL BARENBOIM (piano) Records Symphonic poem: Hamlet ULSTER ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Die Lorelei
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano) Record Hans von Bulow Nirvana
ULSTER ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
ULSTER ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON

Contributors

Conducted By:
Riccardo Muti
Piano:
Daniel Barenboim
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson
Conducted By:
Die Lorelei
Piano:
Cyprien Katsaris
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson

The second of two programmes includes songs by Josquin, Isaac, Loyset and Compere. MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON directed by PETER AND TIMOTHY DAVIES
(Given in 1984 at the Arts Centre.
University of Warwick, as part of the Early Music Network)

Contributors

Unknown:
Timothy Davies

A comedy by MEL CALMAN and 'Tomorrow is a much better day to write than today. Every writer knows that.'
Original music composed by PETER HOWELL at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by NED CHAILLET (R)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Mel Calman
Composed By:
Peter Howell
Directed By:
Ned Chaillet
the Hero:
Richard Griffiths
the Alter Ego:
Peter Woodthorpe
Dr Wiseman:
Garard Green
Frenchman:
Eric Stovell
God:
Edward de Souza
Death:
John Church
Fiona:
Meunda Walker
Fantasy woman:
Natasha Pyne

(Selma Sedlak)
A comic opera in two acts Music by Dvorak
Text by JOSEF OTAKA VESELY (sung in Czech)
(first UK broadcast)
Dvorak's fifth opera, written in 1877, shows how the true love of two poor peasants, aided by a scheming old lady, thwarts a predatory Count and restores him to his wife.
CZECH RADIO CHORUS
CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, PRAGUE conducted by FRANTISEK VAJNAR (Czech Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Otaka Vesely
Conducted By:
Frantisek Vajnar
Martin, a rich peasant:
Karel Berman (bass)
Martin, a rich peasant:
Karel Prusa (bass)
Betuska, his daughter:
Jitka Sobehartova (soprano)
Jenik, who loves her:
Josef Kundlak (tenor)
Veruna, the cunning peasant:
Marie Vesela (contralto)
Vaclav, the son of a rich villager:
Leo Marian Vodicka (ten)
Count, attracted to Betuska:
Vaclav Zitek (baritone)
Jean, his valet, who also lusts after her:
Miroslav Kopp (ten)
Countess:
Eva Depoltova (sop)
Berta, her chamber-maid:
Bozena Effenberkova (sop)

The first of four programmes including all of Gluck's trio-sonatas
Gluck Trio-Sonata No 1 in c Giuseppe Sammartini Trio -Sonata in G minor, Op 3 No 5 Gluck Trio-Sonata No 3 in A
LONDON BAROQUE
Ingrid Seifert (violin) Richard Gwilt (violin) Charles Medlam (cello) John Toll (harpsichord) Producer JEREMY HAYES BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Sammartini Trio
Violin:
Ingrid Seifert
Violin:
Richard Gwilt
Cello:
Charles Medlam
Producer:
Jeremy Hayes

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