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Saint-Saens Danse macabre, Op 40
PARIS ORCHESTRA/PIERRE DERVAUX
7.07* Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/
CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
7.15* Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA/
ERNEST ANSERMET
7.30 News
7.35 Goldmark Overture: In Italy, Op 49
BUDAPEST PO/ANDRAS KORODI
7.48* Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 8 (Christmas) I MUSICI
8.02* Monteverdi Zefiro toma NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) ian PARTRIDGE (tenor)
WERNER KAUFFMANN (Virginals) COLIN TiLNEY (harpsichord) EUGEN DOMBOIS (lute)
HEINRICH HAFERLAND (viola da gamba)
HANS KOCH (violone) directed by jurgen JURGENS
8.08* Martinu Frescoes of Piero della Francesca PRAGUE RSO/CHARLES MACKERRAS
Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Gluck Dance
Unknown:
Christopher Hogwood
Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Tenor:
Werner Kauffmann
Harpsichord:
Eugen Dombois
Viola:
Heinrich Haferland
Unknown:
Martinu Frescoes

Bach
Leipzig, 9 February 1727 Recitative and aria:
Der Glocken bebendes Geton ... Wie starb die Heldin so vergniigt! (Cantata No 198: Trauer-Ode)
HELEN WATTS (contralto) CONCERTO AMSTERDAM/ JURGEN JURGENS
Trio-Sonata No 6 in G (BWV 530) TON KOOPMAN (organ)
Partita No 2 in c minor (bwv 826) TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Cantata No 84: Ich bin vergniigt mit meinem Glucke
WILHELM wiedl (treble)
VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Records

Contributors

Contralto:
Helen Watts
Unknown:
Jurgen Jurgens
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Unknown:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Stig Nilsson (violin)
Aage Kvalbein (cello)
Jens Harald Bratlie (piano) Mozart Trio in B flat (K 502) Roussel Trio in E flat, Op 2
10.30* Interval Reading
10.35* Mendelssohn Trio No 2 in c minor, Op 66
(Given on 8 July in the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, aspartofthe 1987 Cheltenham Festival) BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Violin:
Stig Nilsson
Cello:
Aage Kvalbein
Piano:
Jens Harald Bratlie

NIGEL ROGERS (tenor) PAUL ROBERTS (piano)
Henri Reber Au bord du ruisseau
Victor Masse Eho!
Ernest Reyer Pourquoi ne m'aimez-vous?; Serenade
Lalo L'Aube nait
Saint-Saens La Cloche
Bizet Le Matin; La Nuit; Chanson d'Avril
Massenet Elegie; Un adieu; Declaration; A Mignonne BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Tenor:
Nigel Rogers
Piano:
Henri Reber
Unknown:
Ernest Reyer Pourquoi

The fifth of ten programmes EXON SINGERS conducted by CHRISTOPHER TOLLEY Hans Leo Hassler 0 Sacrum Convivium; 0 Domine Jesu Christe (Sacri Concentus)
Peter Cornelius Three Motets, Op 18
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Conducted By:
Christopher Tolley
Conducted By:
Hans Leo Hassler
Unknown:
Peter Cornelius

Geoffrey Smith presents the third of five programmes on the French jazz violinist
Stephane Grappelli. In 1954, Grappelli left Britain to live in Paris again, where he began to work with the younger generation of jazz musicians, including Jean-Luc Ponty. He also recorded with Joe Venuti , Stuff Smith , Gary Burton and Duke Ellington.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Violinist:
Stephane Grappelli.
Unknown:
Jean-Luc Ponty.
Unknown:
Joe Venuti
Unknown:
Stuff Smith
Unknown:
Gary Burton

Christopher Cook talks to James Roose-Evans, the director of Hugh Whitemore's play The Best of Friends which opens at London's Apollo Theatre next Wednesday.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Christopher Cook
Interviewee:
James Roose-Evans
Producer:
Ned Chaillet

by EDITH WHARTON
1 he first of three programmes compiled by DONALD BANCROFT The American novelist Edith Wharton was a close friend of Henry James and her autobiography A Backward
Glance gives some fascinating glimpses of the life of a great writer.
Producer PENNY GOLD

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith Wharton
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Unknown:
Edith Wharton
Unknown:
Henry James
Edith Wharton:
Faith Brook

A modern satyr play by ANDRE GIDE translated and adapted by PATRICK POLLARD with In disgrace for selling matches without a licence, Prometheus goes to Paris accompanied by his scrawny eagle. A smart waiter puts him in touch with a millionaire who dispenses
Pleasure and pain with godlike waywardness.
Also taking part
DAVID GARTH. NARISSA KNIGHTS and ELLEN MCINTOSH
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)

Contributors

Play By:
Andre Gide
Adapted By:
Patrick Pollard
Unknown:
David Garth.
Unknown:
Ellen McIntosh
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Prometheus:
Denis Quilley
Author:
William Eedle
Waiter:
Mark Straker
Codes:
Robin Summers
Damocles:
Brian Smith
Millionaire:
Bernard Brown
Tityrus:
Arnold Diamond
Angela:
Helena Breck
Meliboeus:
Christopher Douglas

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