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Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival SNO; ALEXANDER GIBSON

7.09* Canteloube A Pretty Shepherdess (Songs of the Auvergne) KIRI TE KANAWA (soprano) ECO/JEFFREY TATE

7.13* Ravel Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit) VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY (piano)

7.19* Auric/Milhaud/Poulenc Ouverture; Marche nuptiale: Discours du General;
La Baigneuse de Trouville (Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel) PHILHARMONIA/GEOFFREY SIMON

7.30 News

7.35 Saint-Saens Symphonic poem: Phaeton PHILHARMONIA/CHARLES DUTOIT

7.44* Pierne Introduction and Variations on a popular theme ADOLPHE SAX QUARTET

7.51* Chausson Poeme, Op 25 ARTHUR GRUMIAUX (violin) ORCHESTRA OF THE CONCERTS
LAMOUREUX/MANUEL ROSENTHAL

8.07* Franck Symphonic Variations ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano) LPO/RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Gibson

^rhe second of two programmes fDebussy Symphonic suite:
Printemps
ORCHESTRE DE PARISI
DANIEL BARENBOIM
Schubert Im Fruhling (D 882) BARBARA HENDRICKS (soprano) RADU LUPU (piano)
Tchaikovsky March; April (The Seasons)
EARL WILD (piano) Ives Spring Song
ROBERTA ALEXANDER (Soprano) TAN CRONE (piano)
Dvorak Spring Song
(Poetic Tone Pictures, Op 85) RADOSLAV KVAPIL (piano) Strauss Fruhling (Four Last Songs)
LUCIA popp (soprano)
LPO/KLAUS TENNSTEDT. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim
Soprano:
Barbara Hendricks
Piano:
Radu Lupu
Soprano:
Roberta Alexander
Piano:
Radoslav Kvapil

NICHOLAS DANIEL (oboe) JULIUS DRAKE (piano)
Donizetti Sonata in F
Henri Brod Fantasia on themes from 'Lucia di Lammermoor ' Rossini Moment musicale; Andante
Chopin Variations on a theme of Rossini
Rimsky-Korsakov Hymn to the Sun (arr Daniel); Flight of the Bumble-Bee (arr Galway) BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Contributors

Oboe:
Nicholas Daniel
Piano:
Julius Drake
Unknown:
Henri Brod Fantasia
Unknown:
Lucia Di Lammermoor

led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF (violin)
Borodin Overture: Prince Igor Sibelius Rakastava
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in g minor
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A (Presented on 30 January in the Victoria Halls by Helensburgh Music Society in association with Arnold Clark Ltd) BBC Scotland

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alexander Gibson
Violin:
Geoffrey Trabichoff

The last of three programmes. Works by Corelli, Veracini and Caldara are performed by ROMANESCA: Roy Goodman (violin)
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin)
Nigel North (theorbo/archlute) Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) John Toll (harpsichord)
Series producer GRAHAM DLXON

Contributors

Violin:
Roy Goodman
Violin:
Nigel North
Cello:
Richard Tunnicliffe
Producer:
Graham Dlxon

STEPHEN FARR (organ)
CHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE directed by TIMOTHY BROWN Liszt Via Crucis
3.40* Interval Reading
3.45* Byrd Two Christmas Motets: 0 admirabile commertium;
Hodie Christus natus est Peter Maxwell Davies 0 magnum mysterium Britten Te Deum in c BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Directed By:
Timothy Brown
Directed By:
Liszt Via Crucis
Unknown:
Hodie Christus
Unknown:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Unknown:
Britten Te Deum

Woody Herman was one of the few band leaders to survive the decline in interest in the big bands at the end of the 1940s, but his third 'Herd' in the 50s was not the equal of the previous two bands. In the fourth of five programmes, John Fordham looks at the ways Herman adapted to changing tastes and at his determination to uphold standards.

Contributors

Unknown:
Woody Herman
Unknown:
John Fordham

by JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D'ARCY with 5: Fowlers' Nets
The Emperor has let loose
Colonel Jaxartes, Head of his
Secret Service, upon the history of Christianity. Jaxartes is loyal neither to the new religion nor to the old but only to his own caste, the subterranean servants of imperial power. Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN BOXER
Directed by PENNY LEICESTER

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Unknown:
Margaretta D'Arcy
Conducted By:
Stephen Boxer
Directed By:
Penny Leicester
Kybele:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Constantine:
Michael N Harbour
Hosius:
Timothy West
Jaxartes:
Sam Dastor
Fausta:
And Samantha Bond
Mary:
Angela Pleasence
John the Reader:
Geoffrey Matthews
EumolpUS:
Steve Hodson
Semiramis:
Souad Faress
Helen:
Mary Wimbush
Constantia, Constantine'ssister:
Karen Archer
Haroun:
Raad Rawi
Chief of Station:
Tony Wredden
Alpha Secundus:
David Goodland
Guard:
Anthony Jackson

(mezzo-soprano) with JULIUS DRAKE (piano) Parti 1, ...
Tippett Songs for Ariel
Michael Head Sweet Chance That Led My Steps Abroad; Ave
Maria Donald Ford A Prayer to Our Lady
Howells Come Sing and Dance;
0 My Deir Hert ; King David arrPhyllis Tate The Lark in the Clear Air
Stanford The Fairy Lough
Hamilton Harty Sea Wrack

Contributors

Piano:
Julius Drake
Unknown:
Maria Donald Ford
Unknown:
Deir Hert
Unknown:
Hamilton Harty

Britten A Charm of Lullabies, Op 41
Quilter Fairy Lullaby; Dream Valley
Ivor Gurney Blaweary J.MaynardGroverOn Counting Sheep
Copland The Little Horses
Ives The Children Hour; Rptppusg
Barber Three Songs of James Joyce. Op 10
(Given earlier this evening in Studio 1) BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
James Joyce.

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