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Vaughan Williams Overture:
The Wasps: LPO, VERNON HANDLEY
7.10* Delius Brigg Fair RPO/THOMAS BEECHAM
7.30 News
7.35 Bantock Overture:
The Pierrot of the Minute
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA,
NORMAN DEL MAR
7.47* Hoist Hymn to Dionysus, Op 31 No 2
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHAMBER
CHOIR; RPO'DAVID WILLCOCKS
7.56* Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma) LSO/ADRIAN BOULT. Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Handley
Unknown:
Delius Brigg Fair

Monteverdi
Dancing and Lamenting (2)
Dance Music (L'Orfeo, Acts 1, 2 and 5) ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) LAWRENCE DALE (tenor) ALAN WOODROW (tenor) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS;
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Lamento d'Arianna
CATHY BERBERIAN (soprano) VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS/
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Tirsi e Clori
PATRIZIA KWELLA (soprano)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor)
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS'
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER. Records

Contributors

Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Tenor:
Lawrence Dale
Tenor:
Alan Woodrow
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soprano:
Cathy Berberian
Unknown:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Soprano:
Patrizia Kwella
Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Soloists:
John Eliot Gardiner.

An Englishman in Paris The second of four programmes of recently-discovered works by Sir Lennox Berkeley. Devised and presented by Peter Dickinson as a tribute to the composer for his 85th birthday. MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano) ANTHONY LEGGE (piano) RICHARD ADENEY (flute) THEA KING (clarinet) WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (bassoon) SOPHIE LANGDON (violin) SHELAGH SUTHERLAND (piano) Piece for Vere Pilkington; Trois poemes de Vildrac; Piece for flute, clarinet and bassoon Lambert, Elegiac Blues Berkeley, arr Dickinson Blues (from an unpublished ballet) Berkeley Sonata No 2 Op 1, for violin and piano. BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Lennox Berkeley.
Presented By:
Peter Dickinson
Mezzo-Soprano:
Margaret Cable
Piano:
Anthony Legge
Flute:
Richard Adeney
Clarinet:
Thea King
Bassoon:
William Waterhouse
Violin:
Sophie Langdon
Piano:
Shelagh Sutherland

The fourth of six concerts live from St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol SILLITO/MILNEIFLEMING TRIO Kenneth Sillito (violin) Hamish Milne (piano) Amaryllis Fleming (cello) Haydn Piano Trio in E (H xv 28) Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 2 in c minor, Op 66 (Concert arranged by St George's 's Music Trust in association with John Player and Sons) BBC Bristol

Contributors

Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Piano:
Hamish Milne
Cello:
Amaryllis Fleming

Francesco Cilea 's four-act opera to a libretto by colautti (sung in Italian) AUSTRALIAN OPERA CHORUS ELIZABETHAN SYDNEY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE (Australian Broadcasting Corporation recording) (Joan Sutherland sings Bellini's 'Norma' next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Cilea
Conducted By:
Richard Bonynge
Unknown:
Joan Sutherland
Adriana Lecouvreur:
Joan Sutherland (sop)
Maurizio, Count of Saxony:
Anson Austin (ten)
Michonnet:
John Shaw (bar)
Princess of Bouillon:
Heather Begg (mezzo-Sop)
Prince of Bouillon:
John Wegner (bass)
Abbé of Chazeuil:
Graeme Ewer (ten)
Mile Jouvenot:
Judith Saliba (sop)
Mile Dangeville:
Jennifer Bermingham (mezzo-Sop)
Poisson:
Christopher Dawes (ten)
Quinault:
Jeffrey Black (bass)
Major-domo:
Robert Mitchell (ten)

THOMAS EDMONDS (tenor) HECTOR MCDONALD (horn) KIRSTEN WILLIAMS (violin) JANE HAZELWOOD (viola)
AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by CARL pini (violin) live from St Martin's Church Parti
Chevalier de St Georges Sinfonia concertante
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
8.40* Stephen Johnson profiles the Australian Chamber
Orchestra and meets some of the people connected with it.
9.00* Peter Sculthorpe Concerto grosso (first UK performance) Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat (K 364)

Contributors

Horn:
Hector McDonald
Violin:
Kirsten Williams
Viola:
Jane Hazelwood
Directed By:
Carl Pini
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Unknown:
Peter Sculthorpe

Anthony Gilbert introduces the third of four programmes featuring music by Australian composers
Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No 8
KRONOS QUARTET Record
Ross Edwards Laikan I AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE
Vincent Plush Bakery Hill Rising
ROBERT JOHNSON (hom) (first UK broadcast)
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation recordings)
Brian Howard Sun and Steel SOLOISTS OF AUSTRALIA directed by RONALD THOMAS (first UK broadcast) Record

Contributors

Introduces:
Anthony Gilbert
Unknown:
Peter Sculthorpe
Unknown:
Ross Edwards Laikan
Unknown:
Robert Johnson
Unknown:
Brian Howard Sun
Directed By:
Ronald Thomas

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