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A series of eight programmes
George Dyson Overture: At the Tabard Inn
RPO/DAVID WILLCOCKS anon Miri It Is while Sumer Hast
ST GEORGE'S CANZONA directed by JOHN sothcott
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (Mono: 1953) JEAN POUGNET (violin)
LPO,
ADRIAN BOULT Ireland Amberley Wild Brooks ERIC PARKIN (piano)
Elgar Woodland Interlude (Caractacus)
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA;
NORMAN DEL MAR
Bliss Pastoral: Lie Strewn the White Flocks: A Hymn to Pan; Pan's Saraband; Pan and Echo; The Naiads' Music
HOLST SINGERS
HOLST ORCHESTRA
HILARY DAVAN WETTON Records
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
George Dyson
Directed By:
John Sothcott
Directed By:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Adrian Boult
Piano:
Eric Parkin
Unknown:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Hilary Davan Wetton
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

(piano)
A series of six programmes
Mozart Sonata in F (K 376) Mono with NORBERT BRAININ (violin) (R) Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (K466)
VIENNA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA/ STEPHEN SIMON : Record Producer JOHN BECKETT

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Unknown:
Stephen Simon
Producer:
John Beckett

Palestrina Motet: Exsultate
Deo; Hymn: Tua Jesu dilectio CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE.
CAMBRIDGE/GEORGE GUEST
Beethoven Sonata in A. Op 69 MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello) SVLATOSLAV RICHTER (piano)
Khachaturian Symphony No 2 VIENNA PO/THE COMPOSER: Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Tua Jesu
Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
Beethoven Sonata

Presented by Michael Oliver Fiction and Crucifixion -
Guillaume Dufay and the 19th Century: a talk by David Fallows.
Conductors in Perspective: Richard Osborne reviews recent biographies of Arturo Toscanini , Sir Adrian Boult , Bernard Haitink and Sir Charles Mackerras.
Latent Polish Nationalism:
Jim Samson surveys the later works of Karol Szymanowski. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 00pm)

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Guillaume Dufay
Conductors:
David Fallows.
Unknown:
Richard Osborne
Unknown:
Arturo Toscanini
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Sir Charles MacKerras.
Unknown:
Jim Samson
Unknown:
Karol Szymanowski.
Producer:
Andrew Lyle

Bayreuth Festival Tristan und Isolde
Music-drama in three acts
Words and music by Wagner (sung in German)
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Act

Contributors

Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim
Young sailor/Melot, a courtier of Marke:
Graham Clark (tenor)
Isolde, an Irish princess:
Catarina Ligendza (soprano)
Brangane, her attendant:
Hanna Schwarz (mezzo-Soprano)
Kurwenal, Tristan's henchman:
Bodo Brinkmann (baritone)
Tristan, a Cornish knight:
Peter Hofmann (tenor)
Marke King of Cornwall:
Matti Salminen (bass)
Shepherd:
Helmut Pampuch (tenor)
Steersman:
Martin Egel (baritone)

Flute Quartet (1936)
Piano Quartet (first broadcasts) SEBASTIAN BELL (flute)
ANTHONY GOLDSTONE (piano) GAGLIANO STRING TRIO
Roger Garland (violin) Brian Hawkins (viola) Roger Smith (cello) BBCBristol

Contributors

Piano:
Anthony Goldstone
Piano:
Gagliano String Trio
Violin:
Roger Garland
Viola:
Brian Hawkins
Cello:
Roger Smith

A Birthday Present for a Saint by GRAEME FIFE with Edward de Souza
It was rumoured that Cecilia gave the angels lessons in vocal harmony. She was, in the words of her uncle, Fatuus, the keynote of the celestial glee club.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Fife
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Directed By:
Jeremy Mortimer

In 1687, for the annual public least of the Society of Gentlemen Lovers of Music, the text was provided by JOHN DRYDEN and set to music by Giovanni Battista Draghi. from Harmony, from Heavenly Harmony (first broadcast) TESSA BONNER (soprano) EVELYN TUBB (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) TIMOTHY WILSON (counter-tenor) ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) STEPHEN varcoe (baritone) RICHARD WISTREICH (bass) PLAYFORD CONSORT
PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, led by PAULINE NOBES directed by ROY GOODMAN

Contributors

Provided By:
John Dryden
Music By:
Giovanni Battista Draghi.
Soprano:
Tessa Bonner
Unknown:
Timothy Wilson
Directed By:
Roy Goodman

led by JAMES CLARK conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER BBC WELSH CHORUS chorusmaster JOHN HUGH THOMAS ISABELLE VAN KEULEN (violin) ELIZABETH GALE (soprano)
SARAH WALKER (mezzo-soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) direct from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Parti
Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor

Contributors

Unknown:
James Clark
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
John Hugh Thomas
Violin:
Isabelle van Keulen
Mezzo-Soprano:
Sarah Walker
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk

The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by the composer Alexander Goehr
1: The Old Warhorse
'One has the awful feeling that Shostakovich will be the last symphonic composer to break into the standard repertoire.'
(Broadcast last Wednesday on Radio (Lecture 2: Wednesday 9. 15pm Radio 'The Reith Lectures 'are printed weekly in the 'Listener'

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Goehr

Six musical complements to the Reith Lectures.
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat: ECO JEFFREY TATE
Piano Trio in F sharp minor (H XV 26): BEAUX ARTS TRIO Records
Schoenberg, arr Webern Five Orchestral Pieces. Op 16
NOMURA KEUSCHNIG PIANO DUO Schoenberg Five Orchestral Pieces, Op 16
BERLIN POi JAMES LEVINE. Record Producer STEPHEN PLAISTOW

Contributors

Unknown:
James Levine.

The Secular Music of Renaissance Italy
Academies of cultivated gentlemen were important in developing the intellectual side of the madrigal. Both Giovanni Nasco and Vincenzo Ruffo worked for one of the most famous of these, the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona. Nasco Su la fioritariva
Ruffo Su la fiorita riva
Nasco Lasciato hai morte; Vita della mia vita; Ite rime dolenti
HILLIARD ENSEMBLE directed by PAUL hillier

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Nasco
Unknown:
Vincenzo Ruffo
Directed By:
Paul Hillier

BBC Radio 3

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