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Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25 THE COMPOSER (piano) RPO'ADRIAN BOULT
7.23* Bach Fugue II
(Preludes and Fugues, Book 1)
SIGURD RASCHER SAXOPHONE QUARTET
7.30 News
7.35 Alfven Midsummer Watch , Op 19
STOCKHOLM PO NEEMEJARVI
7.48* Sibelius Sigh, Sedges, Sigh: The Diamond on the March Snow (Op 36) (sung in Finnish) jussi BJORLING (tenor)
ROY ALOPERA ORCHESTRA,
STOCKHOLM/NILS GREVILLIUS
7.54* Crusell Clarinet Concerto No 2 in F minor
KARL LEISTER
LAHTI SO/OSMO VANSKA
8.17* Saint-Saens Le Rouet d'Omphale
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA/
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Sigurd Rascher
Unknown:
Alfven Midsummer Watch
Unknown:
Karl Leister

Stravinsky Persephone accepts as her destiny the role of bringing love and pity to the underworld. A Christian interpretation thus becomes possible; the whole latter part of the work is a veritable Russian Easter
ROBERT CRAFT
Melodrama in three parts: Persephone
VERA ZORINA (speaker) MICHELE MOLESE (tenor)
ITHACA COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR
FORT WORTH BOYS' CHOIR
GREG SMITH SINGERS
COLUMBIA SO/THE COMPOSER Record

Contributors

Unknown:
Stravinsky Persephone
Tenor:
Michele Molese
Singers:
Greg Smith

An die Heimat; Der Abend (Op 64): Four quartets,
Op 92, for mixed voices and piano; Sehnsucht; Nachtens (Op 112)
ANDREAS ROTHKOPF (piano) STUTTGART CHAMBER CHOIR conducted by FRIEDER BERNIUS

Contributors

Piano:
Andreas Rothkopf
Conducted By:
Frieder Bernius

An Englishman in Paris
The last of four programmes of little-known and recently-discovered works written by Sir Lennox Berkeley when he was at Oxford, and in Paris in the 1920s and 30s studying with Nadia Boulanger. Devised and presented by Peter Dickinson as a tribute to the composer for his 85th birthday.
MARGARET CABLE (mezzo-soprano) ANTHONY LEGGE (piano) SARAH FRANCIS (oboe)
GRAHAM MAYGER (flute)
GORDON STEWART (piano)
Trio for flute, oboe and piano; Five Short Pieces; Lay Your
Sleeping Head, My Love: Night Covers Up the Rigid Land
Britten Night Covers Up the Rigid Land
Berkeley Three Impromptus Series producer PAUL SPICER BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Unknown:
Nadia Boulanger.
Presented By:
Peter Dickinson
Piano:
Anthony Legge
Oboe:
Sarah Francis
Piano:
Gordon Stewart
Producer:
Paul Spicer

led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by EDWARD DOWNES GARRICK OHLSSON (piano) Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in c minor
12.00* Interval Reading
12.05*pm Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) (Presented on 23April in Westmorland Hall, Kendal, Cumbria, by the Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Society in association with Provincial Insurance pic) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Orton
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Piano:
Garrick Ohlsson

live from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol ROTH QUARTET Duncan Riddell (violin) Elizabeth Turnbull (violin) Paul Robson (viola) Martin Thomas (cello) Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (Lark) Vaughan Williams String Quartet No 2 in A minor
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
St George
Unknown:
Brandon Hill
Unknown:
Roth Quartet
Violin:
Duncan Riddell
Violin:
Elizabeth Turnbull
Viola:
Paul Robson
Cello:
Martin Thomas
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

Opera in four acts Music by Verdi Libretto by PIAVA (sung in Italian) (tenor) (baritone) (bass) (soprano) (soprano) (tenor) (bass) VIENNA VOLKSOPER CHORUS SOFIA VOCAL ENSEMBLE BREGENZ FESTIVAL CHORUS VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PINCHAS STEINBERG Acts 1 and 2
3.30* Julian Budden talks about the background to Emani. (R)
3.35* Acts 3 and 4

Contributors

Bass:
Vienna Volksoper
Conducted By:
Pinchas Steinberg
Talks:
Julian Budden
Ernani, a bandit, deposed Don Juan of Aragon:
Giuliano Clannella
Don Carlo, King of Spain:
Renato Bruson
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva:
Paata Burchuladze
Donna Elvira, his ward and intended bride:
Aprile Millo
Giovanna, her duenna:
Katharina Dau
Don Riccardo, the Royal Chamberlain:
Jorge Pita
Iago, Silva's henchman:
Gabriele Monlci

NASH ENSEMBLE conducted by Lionel FRIEND with JEAN RIGBY (mezzo-soprano) live from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol Parti
Barber Summer Music, for wind quintet
George Crumb An Idyll for the Misbegotten, for flute and drums (1985)
(first UK public performance) Simon Holt Canciones

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lionel Friend
Mezzo-Soprano:
Jean Rigby
Unknown:
St George
Unknown:
Brandon Hill
Unknown:
George Crumb
Unknown:
Simon Holt

CONTINUUM
Ellen Lang (mezzo-soprano) David Krakauer (clarinet) Mia Wu (violin/viola) Cheryl Seltzer (piano) conducted by JOEL SACHS (piano) Stefan Wolpe Second Piece, for solo violin
Roberto Sierra Glosa a la sombra Robert Erickson Two Songs Virko Baley Jurassic Bird
Conlon Nancarrow Prelude and Blues: Study No 15; Sonatina, for piano duet
Virgil Thomson Two Songs of Mary Ann Moore
(first UK broadcasts except for Wolpe)

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Ellen Lang
Clarinet:
David Krakauer
Violin:
Mia Wu
Piano:
Cheryl Seltzer
Conducted By:
Joel Sachs
Piano:
Stefan Wolpe
Violin:
Roberto Sierra
Unknown:
Robert Erickson
Unknown:
Conlon Nancarrow
Unknown:
Virgil Thomson
Unknown:
Mary Ann Moore

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